2006: By the numbers
Number of graduates:
1,015 | Undergraduates |
147 | Graduate School, Reynolda Campus |
34 | Graduate School, Bowman Gray Campus |
178 | School of Law |
299 | Babcock Graduate School of Management |
97 | School of Medicine |
47 | Physician Assistant Program |
32 | Divinity School |
4 | Number of graduates in first graduating class, 1839 |
1 | Number of graduates in 1843 |
20 | Number of graduates in the Divinity School’s first graduating class, in 2002 |
Honorary degrees:
4 | Number of honorary degrees awarded |
11 | Number of honorary degrees awarded in 1934, the most ever |
1849 | Year first honorary degree was awarded, to Wake Forest founder and first president Samuel Wait |
Other information:
10,000 | Number of chairs set up on Hearn Plaza |
50′ x 100′ | Size of striped tent |
48 | Number of man-hours to set-up tent |
1989 | Year a rain and wind storm knocked down the tent the night before Graduation; the program proceeded on schedule, without a tent |
3 | Number of times rain has forced Commencement inside (1991, 1983, 1973) |
1 | Number of times Commencement has been held off campus (1991, Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum) |
1966 | First year Commencement was held on the Quad (from 1957 to 1965 Commencement was held in Wait Chapel) |
3 hrs | Approximate length of Commencement ceremony |
2 hrs | Length of Commencement speech delivered in 1858 by Solomon Sampson Satchwell |
10,500 | Number of printed programs |
1 | Number of graduates accidentally left out of last year’s program |
5 | Number of programs reprinted with that graduates’ name included |
36 | Consecutive years Sun Printing Company of Winston-Salem has printed the Commencement program |
47 | Number of University police and security officers on duty during Commencement |
18 | Number of Winston-Salem police officers and Forsyth County sheriff deputies on duty |
18 | Number of contract security officers on duty |
14 | Number of paramedics on hand |
8,500 | Number of bottles of water distributed in 1993, when temperatures soared to the high 90s during the ceremony |
52°F | Temperature during the ceremony in 1999 (plus a cool, rainy mist) |
1987 | Last class to graduate under the elms before the last of the diseased elm trees were removed and replaced with ash trees. |
- 2006: Speaker: Mark Warner
- 2006: President Hatch
- 2006: Press release
- 2006: Retiring faculty
- 2006: Honorary degrees
- 2006: Honors and awards
- 2006: Senior oration: Leonhardt
- 2006: Senior oration: Lobashevsky
- 2006: Senior oration: Savic
- 2006: Commencement Photos
- 2006: Baccalaureate Photos
- 2006: Time-lapse video
- 2006: By the numbers
- 2006: Programs