Slideshow: 'Looking Back: Reunions and Commencement 2014'

By the Office of Communications on June 9, 2014, noon
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As they walk out of the Commencement ceremony, Princeton University graduates hoist banners from their undergraduate residential colleges. This photo and many others showing the spirit and celebration of Reunions and graduation activities are featured in this video slideshow.

Photo by John Jameson, Office of Communications

Princeton University students, alumni and their families recently celebrated Reunions and graduation activities, filling campus with spirited displays of emotion.

This video slideshow captures some of those moments, including: performances and social gatherings; the presentation of awards to students and alumni; the grand procession of alumni known as the P-rade; the Latino, Lavender and Pan-African graduations; the ROTC officer commissioning ceremony; the interfaith Baccalaureate service featuring alumnus and deputy secretary of the Department of Labor Christopher Lu; the student-organized Class Day ceremony featuring former U.S. Vice President Al Gore; the Hooding ceremony to recognize advanced-degree recipients featuring retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Norman Augustine; and the awarding of degrees at Commencement with Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber presiding.

These and other photographs from these events are available online.

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View photos from Princeton's Reunions and graduation activities. (Video by the Office of Communications)

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