Your Post Commencement 2018 Wrap Up
by Billy Chandler
From the keynote speech you’ll want to listen to over and over again, to galleries full of images celebrating our graduates. We’ve got all your most requested content ready for you to share!
The Videos you don’t want to miss
Check out the highlights from Commencement 2018!
The powerful and inspirational keynote address by best-selling author Adriana Trigiani.
Looking for pictures? We’ve got plenty!
We added even more images to the Commencement Album and have added the School of Health Sciences Doctor of Physical Therapy Commencement. You’ll also find all of the events leading up to Commencement including Baccalaureate and Special Ceremonies including Appalachian, First Generation, Global Scholars, Lavender, Raza, and Donning of the Kente.
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Congrats class of 2018!
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Congrats class of 2018!
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Congrats class of 2018!
“You must get up, rise up, and focus and when somebody asks where you went to college, you stand tall and say- Emory & Henry- in the prosperous, life giving, music shaking, soul quaking, intellect making hills of southwest Virginia in Appalachia where America found her voice because unto these hills, through them, and over them came YOU.”
-Adriana Trigiani
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