University of Pennsylvania Convocation 2011

On the evening before the first day of classes, the newest students got a chance to participate in their first University tradition — Convocation, the ceremonial welcome into the Penn academic community.

Nearly 2,500 freshman and 129 transfer students attended the ceremony, the first time the Class of 2015 marched as a group.

Convocation is considered one bookend of their life at Penn. The class will march together for Hey Day in their junior year, and they will walk together the final time as a class at Commencement four years from now.

Dressed in academic robes, the procession of administrators, deans, faculty and alumni entered the Palestra, as the Penn Band played "Pomp and Circumstance."

Usually held outdoors on College Green, the ceremony was moved indoors to the Palestra because of rain.

President Amy Gutmann gave the students their first University test by asking them to show their school spirit by cheering after she called out the names of the four undergraduate schools. "College of Arts and Sciences!" "Nursing!" "Engineering!" "Wharton!"

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[GreenmeGo]

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