Commencement

Order Your Copy of the 2010 Senior DVD Today!

The Senior DVD produced annually by PSPA is a treasured keepsake for PA seniors and their parents. As in year's past, this year's DVD will contain video footage of the 2010 Commencement ceremony as well as the 2010 prom. But it will also include much more...student interviews and spotlights as well as video footage from such events as Grasshopper Night and Andover/Exeter Day. To download your order form, click here.

Commencement Weekend kicks off on Friday evening with a Senior-Faculty Reception followed by a Senior-Faculty Convocation and Banquet. Saturday features a range of activities including a buffet dinner and a Baccalaureate Service, which may be attended by family members. The Commencement Ceremony itself is held on Sunday.

In a time-honored Andover tradition, the ceremony kicks off with a graduation procession of faculty and students that is led by the stirring sounds of the Clan MacPherson Pipes and Drums of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Boys wear suit coats and ties; girls wear white dresses, and each carries a red rose. Following speeches by the school's student body president and Head of School Barbara Landis Chase, the graduating members of the class move to the Armillary Sphere on the school’s Great Lawn on the west side of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library where they stand in a giant circle for the distribution of their diplomas.

To view photos, videos, and news about past Commencements, visit the Commencement Archive page.