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About 340 graduates will participate in Commencement on Saturday, May 3, at 9:30 a.m. on Thorrington Field with 162 earning honors. More than 70 Golden Warriors, who graduated in 1975, will march in the procession to celebrate their 50th reunion. About 40 nursing graduates, representing the fifth cohort of the Westmont Downtown | Grotenhuis Nursing program, will participate in the event two days after their pinning ceremony on Thursday, May 1, at 4 p.m. in Montecito Covenant Church. Commencement will be closed to the general public and livestreamed at westmont.edu/commencement.
Beloved professor and alumnus Jim Taylor ’78, who retires this year after more than three decades of teaching philosophy at Westmont, delivers the address.