GSAS Commencement Marshalls

Each year, six graduating students in GSAS are chosen as Commencement marshals. On the morning of Commencement these students help the GSAS deans organize the procession from the GSAS Breakfast to Harvard Yard. They walk at the head the procession, proudly carrying the banners of Dudley House and GSAS, and lead the graduating class into Tercentenary Theatre. It is a wonderful tradition and considered an honor to be chosen as commencement marshal.

Marshals are chosen by a committee of fellow graduate students on the basis of their accomplishments during graduate school, specifically their service on behalf of the graduate school and graduate student community.

Other factors are taken into account, but this is primarily an opportunity to honor those activities and services not directly related to obtaining a degree.

Four Ph.D. recipients and two Master's degree recipients are chosen as well as alternates for each position.

Each department may nominate as many of its students as it wants.  Students may also want to remind their departments that it is in fact the department which nominates commencement marshals.

Deadline
Nominations for Commencement Marshalls are due by March 21 2008 at 5 p.m. Eastern Time

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Commencement Marshalls

Nomination Procedure

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