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Belén Yudess ’25 and Abbie Oh Arroyo ’25

epeters — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:52:42 +0000

Good evening, everybody and thank you for joining us for this extraordinary occasion! Today is the first time a handful of you will walk across a real stage to receive your diploma instead of grabbing it out of the car window of your mom’s Subaru or receiving it in the mail right on time for […]

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Nava Mau PO’14

epeters — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:26:24 +0000

It’s an indescribable feeling to be back here in Claremont. You know, I’ve been on a whirlwind in just the past ten days. But, you know, let alone the past year and it kind of feels like coming home. I spent four incredible years here as a student at Pomona. And as you know, to […]

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Ella Lehavi ’24

crobles — Mon, 20 May 2024 22:47:23 +0000

Can you guys believe that 4 years of my life and thousands of dollars in tuition lead up to this moment, and all we got out of it was a ridiculous hat? Anyways, there’s something I’ve been thinking about. Each 5C has their own identity. What about us? Scripps’ only real identity within the 5C’s […]

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Kelly McCreary 2023

cbatz — Mon, 15 May 2023 23:24:14 +0000

Thank you to President Marcus-Newhall, Trustees, faculty, and distinguished guests. First and foremost, I’d like to add my voice to the chorus of congratulations to the Class of 2023! It is a tremendous honor to be here with such an impressive group of graduates. Congratulations as well to the families, biological and chosen, that have […]

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Ishi Gupta ’23 and Elaine Yang ’23

crobles — Mon, 15 May 2023 22:44:24 +0000

“Forging a New Path in Community” Good afternoon family, friends, faculty, and loved ones. My name is Ishi, and my name is Elaine. And welcome to Commencement for the Class of 2023. Thank you all for coming on this beautiful day to see our class graduate! (Elaine) I’d like to take a minute and recognize […]

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Salle Yoo ’92

rwarecki — Tue, 24 May 2022 17:38:37 +0000

A video of the Commencement ceremonies for the Classes of 2020 and 2021, including Salle Yoo’s speech, is available here. Good Morning. I’d like to thank President Amy Marcus-Newhall, the faculty and staff of ��TV, my board chair Lynne Thompson, Class of ‘72, and most importantly, the students of the Class of 2021, for […]

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Clare Cannon ’08

rwarecki — Tue, 24 May 2022 16:46:51 +0000

I am so excited to be with you today. I am honored and grateful to be a guest on the lands of the Tongva people. I am honored and humbled to be here to celebrate with you, your family, friends and loved ones all that you have achieved as you embark on the next leg […]

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Andrea Ritchie

rwarecki — Wed, 18 May 2022 16:31:17 +0000

“Which Future(s) Will You Create” Andrea J. Ritchie ��TV Commencement: May 14, 2022 Thank you President Marcus-Newhall, esteemed Trustees, Deans, Faculty, staff, Class Presidents, and students of ��TV. It is my tremendous honor to have been invited by the Class of 2022 to be your Commencement speaker today, and to have served as […]

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Poppy MacDonald ’97

cbatz — Sat, 18 May 2019 21:09:42 +0000

Good afternoon. These speeches generally open with a long list of acknowledgments–and for good reason, because there’s something very special happening today, and no one here had less to do with it than I did. So before I say anything else, please let me say, President Tiedens, distinguished faculty, distinguished family, parents, friends, and, most […]

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President Lara Tiedens

cbatz — Sat, 18 May 2019 20:17:13 +0000

Seek Friends, not Enemies. Yep, seek Friends. Don’t seek enemies. This may seem obvious, or even odd advice. After all, who would have told you to seek enemies? Many years ago, when you were sent off to school, no one said, “Well, I hope you make some enemies.” For those of you who had family […]

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

��TV — Tue, 29 May 2018 16:14:03 +0000

Greetings Class of 2018 and to all who help you be that! Or as they say in South Africa: All Protocols observed! I am so very honored to be here for so many reasons, not least to remember with you your departed classmate, Tatissa Zunguze. , now an Ancestor. And like all Ancestors, I know […]

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Leslie Moreno

��TV — Tue, 29 May 2018 16:07:05 +0000

Bienvenidos familiares, compaÃ±eras, y amigos, First, I would like to recognize that we are on sacred Tongva land, and on this land today, we are celebrating a moment in our lives that we have long anticipated with excitement and fear. For many of us, this day has been one that was awaited alongside family […]

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Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code

��TV — Tue, 09 May 2017 19:17:40 +0000

Graduates, deans, parents, and guests: thank you so much for inviting me to share this day with you. I know it’s traditional for a commencement speaker to start off with a joke about which bar everyone’s going to afterward, or the best burger joint on campus, but anyone who knows me knows that I am […]

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Vivian Wei-Zhou Zhang

��TV — Tue, 09 May 2017 19:05:44 +0000

Dear friends, family, and family of friends: Today, we’re celebrating this moment in our journeys, and we’re celebrating the journeys that have brought us to this moment. It’s my honor to share with you some thoughts from the road.Our first semester here, Scripps publicly launched its “We Want More” fundraising campaign. I remember the black […]

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Madeleine Albright, 64th U.S. Secretary of State

��TV — Sun, 15 May 2016 01:20:48 +0000

...You will embark on a new stage in your lives â€“ meeting different people, traveling far and wide, and experiencing life as you never have before.You will be able to face the future with confidence because the skills and values you developed here at Scripps will go along with you.This means you are as well-equipped as any young people could be to continue your search for truth in an uncertain and often confusing world.

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