{"id":220,"date":"2021-03-01T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2021-03-14T00:39:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T00:39:37","slug":"opening-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/before-1980\/opening-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/oc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/oc.jpg 960w, https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/oc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/oc-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first convocation ceremony of the year and occurs on the first day of the academic year. During this ceremony, the dean&#8217;s list is announced, honors students are recognized and school year updates are given. A guest speaker then gives a convocation address. This tradition began in 1978, but was predated by mandatory chapel services which started in 1867. This tradition is also associated with the Bubble Brigade, because this is one of the few events where seniors blow bubbles during chapel ceremonies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening Convocation: Unknown Creator. \u201cUS Senator Amy Klobuchar.\u201d September 14th, 2015. <em>Carleton College Website<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carleton.edu\/news\/stories\/opening-convocation-features-us-senator-klobuchar\/\">https:\/\/www.carleton.edu\/news\/stories\/opening-convocation-features-us-senator-klobuchar\/<\/a>. Accessed March 3rd, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Information:<\/strong> \u201cCarleton Traditions | Student Activities | Carleton College.\u201d n.d. Accessed March 3, 2021.<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.carleton.edu\/campus\/campact\/traditions\/\"> https:\/\/apps.carleton.edu\/campus\/campact\/traditions\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis is the first convocation ceremony of the year and occurs on the first day of the academic year. During this ceremony, the dean&#8217;s list is announced, honors students are recognized and school year updates are given. A guest speaker then gives a convocation address. This tradition began in 1978, but was predated by mandatory&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/before-1980\/opening-convocation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Opening Convocation&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-1980","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu\/carleton-traditions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}