Opening Convocation 2025
2025-08-26 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Chapel Field, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Marking the start of the new academic year, the theme for Opening Convocation 2025 is Storytelling and Empathy.
Leah Dyjak, Associate Professor of Film, Media, and Communications, will deliver the keynote address, Hope in the Dark.
Members of the Class of 2026 should gather in the courtyard between Watson and Meneeley at 5 p.m. to line up for the procession. Faculty will meet the college marshalls at the access road between Mary Lyon and Watson in regalia at 4:45 p.m.

Program
Opening Remarks
Michaele Whelan
President
Land Acknowledgement and Invocation
Amanda J.G. Napior
Assistant Director for Religious & Spiritual Life

See invocation round below
Welcome
Michaele Whelan
President
Wheaton Anthem (Verses 1 and 3): A Song for the Sesquicentennial
Led by George Lane ’26
Greetings
Darnell Parker
Vice President for Student Affairs
Elizabeth McKinley ‘26
President, Student Government Association
Jonathan Millen
Provost
Convocation Address: Hope in the Dark
Leah Dyjak
Associate Professor of Film and Photography
Wheaton Anthem (Verses 4 and 5): A Song for the Sesquicentennial
Led by George Lane ‘26

Invocation Round
Come, Come, Whoever You Are
by Lynn Ungar
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again, come.
