After a cool and cloudy weekend, students woke up to a bright, sunny day for Smith's 125th Commencement, honoring 725 graduating seniors, including 62 Ada Comstock Scholars, as well as 55 advanced degree candidates.

The proceedings got underway with an amusing talk by Rye Zemelsky, senior class president, who concluded by encouraging the seniors to go out and make all the noise in the world and then announced that the class gift would be donated toward the Campus Center and would be celebrated via a Class of 2003 screen saver on all the computers in the center.

The highlight of the event was the conferring of honorary degrees on former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander '44; playwright, actress and professor Anna Deavere Smith; and author, storyteller, songwriter and Smith College alumna Jane Yolen '60, followed by an address by Madeleine Albright.