Williams marked the start of the academic year and the accomplishments of the senior class at Convocation on Sept. 19. During the ceremony, five alumni received Bicentennial Medals: (clockwise from left) Michael F. Curtin ’86 (pictured with President Adam Falk), CEO of DC Central Kitchen, who gave the Convocation Address; Jonathan Fielding ’64, former director/health officer of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; Claudia Rankine ’86, acclaimed poet and professor; Hernando Garzon ’84, director of Kaiser Permanente Emergency Management and medical director for Relief International; and Kristin Forbes ’92, the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT.
Photos by Roman Iwasiwka