{"id":39021,"date":"2025-08-19T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39021"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:37:30","slug":"furman-summer-commencement-celebrates-graduating-paladins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-summer-commencement-celebrates-graduating-paladins\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman summer commencement celebrates graduating Paladins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each of the graduates gathered on Aug. 16 at Furman University\u2019s Hartness Pavilion walked their own paths to the annual summer commencement ceremony.<\/p>\n

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Furman President Elizabeth Davis addresses the graduates who received their degrees at Furman\u2019s Summer Commencement ceremony Aug. 16. Photo by Owen Withycombe, Furman University.<\/p><\/div>\n

Though the intimate ceremony<\/a> isn\u2019t as large a production as the spring ceremony, Dean of Faculty Jeremy Cass \u201900<\/a> told friends and family it\u2019s a chance to \u201creflect on the pathway of your graduate; where they\u2019ve been, what they\u2019ve accomplished and where they\u2019re off to next.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some graduates finished their studies early and graduated during the summer \u2013 when the campus quietly bakes in the heat \u2013 to get a head-start on their futures.<\/p>\n

Other graduates faced struggles that brought about unexpected academic delays. Some pursued majors that required more time, or they changed majors during their studies, or they were student athletes who needed a summer semester to balance their rigorous academic and athletic schedules.<\/p>\n

No matter the road they took, their education was \u201cabout setting you up for an enriching lifetime of curious inquiry, careful and productive reflection and deep appreciation for the world around you,\u201d Cass said.<\/p>\n

Furman President Elizabeth Davis said each obstacle the graduates faced along the way \u201cmade you more resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt taught you how to deal with ambiguity and with challenges you couldn\u2019t have imagined,\u201d she said. \u201cIt strengthened you and developed traits that are needed now more than ever in our complex society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Some of Furman\u2019s 18 summer graduates gathered on Aug. 16 for the summer commencement ceremony in Hartness Pavilion. Photo by Owen Withycombe, Furman University.<\/p><\/div>\n

Students graduating with a bachelor of arts degree were: Maria Naseem Ali, Olivia Sage DeVore, Joseph Aloysius Graham, Alyssa Belle Hildenbrandt, Isabella Mary Kelly (Cum Laude), Henry Fletcher Kleppel, Jillian Ann Knopf (Summa Cum Laude), Tommy Tai Lai, Alexandra Nieves Lanning, Davis J. Molner, Emilyanne Grace Shelley and Mateo Montalvo Vidal Nabergoy.<\/p>\n

Students graduating with a bachelor of science degree were: Thomas Antonio Dawkins-Smith, Edith Lydia Erkens, Livia Fontana (Summa Cum Laude), Thomas Michael Kusinsky, John Wickware Martin and Chloe Ann Reynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean of Faculty Jeremy Cass \u201900 reflected on each graduate\u2019s pathway through college and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":39018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-commencement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39024,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39021\/revisions\/39024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}