Tulane Graduates 2,500 New Orleans Style

May 20, 2005

Michael Strecker
Phone: (504) 865-5210

mstreck@tulane.edu

WHAT: Tulane University Commencement   

WHEN: May 21, 9:30 a.m.   

WHERE: Louisiana Superdome   

WHO: Approximately 2,500 graduates and faculty in full academic regalia, thousands of friends and family, best-selling author and keynote speaker Michael Lewis, Dr. Michael White's Original Liberty Jazz Band, jazz great Wanda Rouzan, honorary degree recipients Ellen Gilchrist and AIDS researcher David D. Ho, herald trumpets, a balloon drop, confetti cannons and a traditional New Orleans second-line procession.