We're going to keep going ...

Feedback on our 'Prince' at Reunions blog has been overwhelmingly positive and, based on your requests, we've opted to keep going through Graduation.

Our staff and, in particular, our soon-to-be-graduated managing editor emeritus David Baumgarten '06 will continue blogging on this site through Commencement ceremonies on Tuesday, June 6. Today you'll find information on Baccalaureate and tomorrow on Class Day, where former President Bill Clinton will speak.

As always, we welcome your thoughts on this effort. Please do get in touch (edit0r@dailyprincetonian.com)

-- Chan Sethi '07, Editor-in-chief

Baccalaureate

The alums have gone home, but the festivities continue here on campus. Graduation events kicked off this afternoon with Baccalaureate at the University Chapel, which meant it was time to don my cap & gown (tassel on the left, for now). I'm sure the University will be posting some official photos later, but here in 'Prince' blogland, we present photojournalism from a different perspective: an '06er taking part in the ceremony ...

While family members found their seats outside the Chapel for the simulcast, seniors lined up from East Pyne to West College before the procession in.

University trustees and administrators lined up, too. The man wearing red in the picture: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist '74, a trustee -- and father of Harrison Frist '06. No word on whether he laughed at Baccalaureate speaker David Sedaris' joke that "the Harvard or Yale class dummy might turn out to be President one day" (paraphrasing here).

Once the processing finally began, seniors marched through the simulcast site as parents elbowed each other for a clean angle to take a picture as their sons and daughters passed by.

Inside the Chapel, the seniors filed into their seats as -- surprise! -- those ubiquitous Asian-inspired paper thingies flew over head. Because it clearly wouldn't be a University event without the flying paper thingies. Speakers during the service included President Tilghman and about a dozen students, as well as keynote speaker David Sedaris, a noted humorist. His address -- a hilarious story about his (imagined) time at Princeton and his parents' reaction to his career choices -- was extremely well-received by students and parents alike. The biggest complaint: it was roughly 87 degrees inside the Chapel -- and those robes we were wearing weren't exactly summerweight.

After the ceremony, seniors processed back out and through the East Pyne arch...as parents continued snapping away.

Seniors and family members reunited in McCosh Courtyard for strawberries and lemonade and -- wait for it -- more pictures.

-- David Baumgarten '06, Managing editor emeritus