{"id":49988,"date":"2022-05-23T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=49988"},"modified":"2022-06-06T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:31:15","slug":"busth-hosts-first-in-person-may-convocation-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/busth-hosts-first-in-person-may-convocation-since-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSTH Hosts First In-Person May Convocation Since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49990\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/STH_Commencement2022_4314-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"wp-image-49990 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/STH_Commencement2022_4314-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/STH_Commencement2022_4314-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/STH_Commencement2022_4314-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/STH_Commencement2022_4314-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/STH_Commencement2022_4314-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston University School of Theology Class of 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, May 21, 2022, the Boston University School of Theology held its first in-person spring convocation ceremony since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Friends and families of the graduates gathered in Marsh Chapel for the hooding and diploma ceremony, and many more were able to watch live online.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49995\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-477x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"636\" class=\"wp-image-49995 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-1000x1334.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/files\/2022\/05\/Dean-Pak-Welcome-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dean Pak welcomes the Class of 2022 and their friends and family to the convocation service on Saturday, May 21, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is <em>good<\/em> to be in this place,\u201d welcomed Dean Sujin Pak, as the congregation applauded. \u201cI welcome each of you for this joyous occasion as we celebrate the achievements of the 2022 graduates. A special welcome to family and friends, partners and mentors who have come near and far. This is your celebration, too. For you have provided the love, the faith, [and] the support of holding cherished hopes for this day for your graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 21, 2022, the Boston University School of Theology held its first in-person spring convocation ceremony since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Friends and families of the graduates gathered in Marsh Chapel for the hooding and diploma ceremony, and many more were able to watch live online. \u201cIt is good to be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,203],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49988"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50070,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49988\/revisions\/50070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}