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Undergraduates Cross the Stage During 2022 Commencement Ceremony

In times of strife, it’s important to focus on the present.

That was the message shared by Chancellor Jeremy Haefner and commencement speaker David Von Drehle as more than 1,000 undergraduate students were conferred degrees Saturday at the Ritchie Center.

Haefner touched on the challenges faced by the Class of 2022, whose time at the University of Denver was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Your college experience was interrupted and, in some ways shaped by that which shall not be named,” Haefner says with laughs from the crowd. “But you persevered and we’re incredibly proud of you.”

Haefner welcomed 2022 graduates, as well as the Class of 1972, which was honored before the commencement ceremony. He also conferred an honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree to Von Drehle (BA ’83), who was a Boettcher Scholar at DU and a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his master’s degree.

After his education, Von Drehle worked ....

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