Location: Commencement 2006 » By the numbers
By the numbers
Number of graduates:
1,015 |
Undergraduates |
147 |
Graduate School, Reynolda Campus |
34 |
Graduate School, Bowman Gray Campus |
178 |
School of Law |
299 |
Babcock Graduate School of Management |
97 |
School of Medicine |
47 |
Physician Assistant Program |
32 |
Divinity School |
4 |
Number of graduates in first graduating class, 1839 |
1 |
Number of graduates in 1843 |
20 |
Number of graduates in the Divinity School's first graduating class, in 2002 |
Honorary degrees:
4 |
Number of honorary degrees awarded |
11 |
Number of honorary degrees awarded in 1934, the most ever |
1849 |
Year first honorary degree was awarded, to Wake Forest founder and first president Samuel Wait |
10,000 |
Number of chairs set up on Hearn Plaza |
50' x 100' |
Size of stripped tent |
48 |
Number of man-hours to set-up tent |
1989 |
Year a rain and wind storm knocked down the tent the night before Graduation; the program proceeded on schedule, without a tent |
3 |
Number of times rain has forced Commencement inside (1991, 1983, 1973) |
1 |
Number of times Commencement has been held off campus (1991, Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum) |
1966 |
First year Commencement was held on the Quad (from 1957 to 1965
Commencement was held in Wait Chapel) |
3 hrs |
Approximate length of Commencement ceremony |
2 hrs |
Length of Commencement speech delivered in 1858 by Solomon Sampson Satchwell |
10,500 |
Number of printed programs |
1 |
Number of graduates accidentally left out of last year's program |
5 |
Number of programs reprinted with that graduates' name included |
36 |
Consecutive years Sun Printing Company of Winston-Salem has printed the Commencement program |
47 |
Number of University police and security officers on duty during Commencement |
18 |
Number of Winston-Salem police officers and Forsyth County sheriff deputies on duty |
18 |
Number of contract security officers on duty |
14 |
Number of paramedics on hand |
8,500 |
Number of bottles of water distributed in 1993, when temperatures soared to the high 90s during the ceremony |
52°F |
Temperature during the ceremony in 1999 (plus a cool, rainy mist) |
1987 |
Last class to graduate under the elms before the last of the diseased elm trees were removed and replaced with ash trees. |
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