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2013
Friday, May 3
Consecration, 8:00 pm
Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church
Saturday, May 4
Baccalaureate, 11:15 am
Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church
Sunday, May 5
Commencement, 10:00 am
DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
7600 Flower Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912 • www.wau.edu
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Graduation Events
Listed in order of occurrence
Edyth T. James Department of Nursing Department of Education
Pinning Ceremony Teachers’ Dedication Service
Wednesday, May 1, 7:00-9:00 pm Saturday, May 4, 3:30-4:30 pm
May 2013
Sligo Church Memorial Chapel
Dear WAU Graduate: Reception follows in Sligo Church Atrium Reception follows

2013 Graduating Class Rehearsal Dinner Department of Religion
Congratulations on your academic accomplishment! You have demonstrated to the learning
Thursday, May 2, 5:30-6:45 pm Senior Dedication
community that you are competent in a major field of study and that you understand the
Atrium, Sligo Church Saturday, May 4, 4:00-6:00 pm
relationship of your particular discipline to the needs of society. As you leave the Gateway to Richards Hall Chapel
Service, demonstrate the Christian vision of excellence and service to your community. Continue to Department of English All Theology, Religion and Philosophy BA
& Modern Languages and MA in Religion graduates, their families,
be committed to a belief and value system that results in responsible moral choices and the care of
Senior Symposium faculty, staff, and administration are invited
the body, mind, and spirit.
Friday, May 3, 1:00-3:00 pm to the Service of Dedication. Awards will
Richards Hall Chapel also be presented to our distinguished
The purpose of the Washington Adventist University experience is not only for you to earn a Reception follows students.
Reception follows
degree, but to prepare you for service and to make a positive difference in the world. Your earned
WAU Honors Program
degree is not designed to elevate you above others, but to horizontally connect you with others in
Senior Dedication Service Department of Respiratory Care
more meaningful ways. Make every interaction with people an opportunity to leave them feeling Friday, May 3, 5:00-6:30 pm Pinning Ceremony
a little better. Become a hero by submitting yourself to the needs of others. Class of 2013, put your Sligo Church Atrium Saturday, May 4, 6:00-8:30 pm
Reception follows Halcyon Hall, Worship Room
degree to work by serving your world: your every act of service makes a difference!
Reception and light refreshments to follow
WAU Alumni Association
You are now a distinguished alumnus of Washington Adventist University and a lifelong partner in Induction and Ceremony President's Reception
the mission of WAU. Prepare to contribute to the continued growth of your University. Friday, May 3, 6:30-7:30 pm Saturday, May 4, 6:30-8:30 pm
Morrison Hall Chapel The Votow House
All graduates and their families are invited Graduates, faculty, staff and their families
Congratulations, and may the love of God, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of
Reception follows are invited.
the Holy Spirit be your support throughout life’s journey!
Department of Communication
& Journalism
Commencement Celebration
Friday, May 3, 6:00-7:00 pm
Weymouth Spence, Ed.D., R.T. Wilkinson Hall, Room 408
President Reception follows
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2013
OUR MISSION
Washington Adventist University is a learning community committed to the
Seventh-day Adventist Christian vision of excellence and service. This cosmopolitan institution
challenges students to seize the opportunities for learning in the nation’s capital, in order to
become moral leaders in communities throughout the world.
Class Aim
Live on Purpose
Class Motto
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction
John F. Kennedy
Class Scripture
Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately,
not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),
Making the very most of the time [buying up each opportunity], because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding
and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:15-17 AMP
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Consecration
Friday, May 3, 8:00 pm
Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church
Prelude Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654 Johann Sebastian Bach
(Adorn Yourself, Dear Soul)
Enigma Variations, Nimrod Edward Elgar
Joel Martinson
The congregation is requested to remain seated
for the Processional
Processional Trumpet Tune John Stanley
Please stand for the Invocation
invocation Cedric Rayshawn Parker, Graduate
Please join in singing
Hymn Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee No. 12
Hymn of Joy
Please be seated
Scripture reading Matthew 7:13-14
Sarah Elizabeth Quimby, Graduate (English)
Olubukunola Osinupebi-Alao, Graduate (Yoruba)
Ashley Coral Rivera, Graduate (Spanish)
Musical Selection Piano Sonata in C Minor K. 457, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Molto Allegro
Jonathan Ryan Keplinger, piano, Graduate
Welcome William Jackson, Vice President
Marketing and Recruitment

Musical Selection The Beatitudes Albert Hay Malotte
Emelie Manuella Pla, soprano, Graduate
Mark Di Pinto, piano
Tribute Andrea Crystal Campbell, Class Vice President
Melanie Consuelo Bowen, Class Secretary
Musical Selection If I Can Help Somebody Alma Androzzo
Gregory Daniel, tenor
Daniel Lau, piano
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introduction of Speaker Ramone Griffith, Graduate
Consecration Address “The Narrow Gate” Gary Wimbish, Pastor
Columbia Community Center, SDA
Class Pastor’s response Ralph Vieux
Please stand and join in singing the Hymn of Consecration
Hymn of Consecration God of Grace and God of Glory No. 607
Westminster Abbey
Please remain standing for the Litany of Consecration
Litany of Consecration Sarai Shaina Wright, Graduate
Sheila Wright, Parent
Deborah Brown, Associate Professor, English
Leader: Lord, we have each been given a vision of our potential. We now present this class to you in
this time of crisis and opportunity. Help them to use their abilities wisely.
Graduates: We accept the vision and the challenge to partake in the life of service. We recognize
that we are gifted differently, not because we should be separate or alienated from each other. We
are different, precisely in order to realize our need for each other.
Faculty/Staff/Administration: We have guided, nurtured, and shaped you during your years at
Washington Adventist University. As you leave, we pray for your continued progress to serve in
families and corporations, in businesses and schools, in hospitals and houses of worship—teaching,
ministering, healing, working for justice and equality.
Parents: Lord, may they use their talents for the good of humanity—knowing that their maturity
will be judged by how well they are able to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to cherish
one another, to seek the greater good of one another.
Leader: Forgive us Lord for having treated with disdain the weak, the poor, the unemployed, the
“failures.”
Graduates: Forgive us for not showing compassion and care, for making power and money the gods
at whose altars we have bowed our knees.
Continued ➣
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Consecration
continued Friday, May 3, 8:00 pm
Faculty/Staff/Administration: Lord, give us all the courage to acknowledge our inadequacies and to
rely on You for strength to act justly.
Graduates: Give us wisdom to understand and to act, to use our diverse talents faithfully—not for
personal advancement but for ministering to our fractured homes and communities.
Congregation: Give them good judgment to be models of authentic living so others can learn of your
love. Protect them from the gods of power, gold, and greed.
Graduates: As we leave the protection and support of this campus environment, give us your
strength and wisdom to face our new world.
All: Do not be afraid; God has promised to be with you. Lord, give them the audacious compassion
to be the humble servants this world needs.
Leader: Lord, help the graduates to always keep the vision in their view, to have the calling in their
hearts to live a life of service.
Graduates: Lord, with our varied gifts and abilities, we accept this charge and present ourselves to
be consecrated for active service to humanity.
Joan A. Francis
Benediction Kenzer N’Nakelzer Herbert
Graduate
Please be seated for the Recessional
recessional Marche Heroique Herbert Brewer
Postlude Maestoso Felix Mendelssohn
Mark Willey, organ
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Sabbath School
Sabbath, May 4, 10:00 am
Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church
Prelude Morning Has Broken Arr. Larry Smith
Hymn Come, Thou Almighty King No. 71
Italian Hymn
Welcome Melanie Consuelo Bowen, Class Secretary
Opening Prayer Brandon E. White, Graduate
Sabbath School Offering Nkula Goma, Graduate
Offertory Happy the Home Where God Is There Arr. Alice Jordan
Musical Selection Take My Life and Let It Be Arr. Michael Patterson
Jonathan Ryan Keplinger, Michael Samuel Patterson,
Christopher Price, piano, Graduates
Lesson Study Panel Convener: Zdravko Plantak
Professor and Chair, Religion
Panelists: Ralph Vieux, Class Pastor
and Graduates Nathalie Rodriguez,
Robert Lemos Machado, William Lee Cheatham IV,
Joel Abdiel Mercado, Sharon Vanessa Castillo

Closing Prayer Krista Laverne Byrd, Graduate
Postlude Praise God, from Whom All Johann Christian Bach
Blessings Flow
Debby Szasz, organ
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Baccalaureate
Sabbath, May 4, 11:15 am
Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church
Prelude Sinfonia in D Major Giuseppe Torelli
The congregation is requested to remain seated
for the Processional
Processional Coronation March “Crown Imperial” William Walton
Welcome and Church Life Charles Tapp, Senior Pastor
Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church
Jean Warden
Vice President, Student Life
Call to Worship Virletta Bryant
Associate Professor, Social Work
Please stand for the Invocation
invocation Jasline Moreno
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Please join in singing the Hymn of Praise
Hymn of Praise Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise No. 21
St. Denio
Please be seated
Anthem Canticle of Praise Hal Hopson
Call to Prayer Thy Perfect Love John Rutter
Prayer Gaspar Colón
Professor, Religion & Theology
Prayer response A Choral Amen John Rutter
invitation to Give Curtis Kenyatta Roberts
Class Treasurer
Offertory Concerto for Piano No. 2 in D Minor, Felix Mendelssohn
Adagio Molto Sostenuto
Christopher Price, Graduate
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introduction of Speaker Weymouth Spence, President
Scripture reading Ephesians 5:15 Kia Victoria Baker, Graduate
Anthem The Lord Is My Shepherd, Alleluia Adolphus Hailstork
Ramone Wendell Griffith, tenor, Graduate
Sermon “Just Do It” Dan Jackson, President
North American Division, SDA
Please stand and join in singing the Hymn of Dedication
Hymn of Dedication Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah No. 538
Cwm Rhondda
Benediction Bernard Winchester Jr.
SGPS Graduate
Benediction response The Lord Bless You and Keep You John Rutter
Please be seated for the Recessional
recessional Athalie: March of the Priests Felix Mendelssohn
Postlude Mlada, Procession of the Nobles Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Columbia Collegiate Chorale of Washington Adventist University
James Bingham, director
New England Youth Ensemble of Washington Adventist University
Preston Hawes, director
James Bingham, organ
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COMMENCEMENT VENUE
2013
DAR Constitution Hall
For the second time in the history of Washington Adventist
University, Commencement is held at the DAR (Daughters of
the American Revolution) Constitution Hall, a National Historic
Landmark. For more information, directions, and transportation
alternatives, visit www.dar.org.
• Ground was broken for DAR Constitution Hall on June 22,
1928. That same year the cornerstone was laid by Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge, using the same trowel George Washington used to lay
the cornerstone at the Capital in 1793.
• Mrs. Herbert Hoover was the guest speaker at the formal dedi-
cation on April 19, 1929.
• The first musical event in the hall was on November 2, 1929
and featured Anna Case, Efrem Zimbalist, Sophie Braslau, and
Hans Barth.
• Every president since Calvin Coolidge has attended events at
DAR Constitution Hall.
• The National Symphony Orchestra was founded at the Hall in
1930 and called it home for 41 years.
• The National Geographic Film Series was presented at the Hall
for over 40 years.
• Until the 1950s, the Hall had a glass ceiling and a view of the stars.
• During World War II, the DAR loaned their complex of buildings
to the Red Cross to support the war effort.
• Each year, over 600,000 people pass through the doors of DAR,
Washington, DC’s largest concert hall.
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