Bryn Athyn College Alumni Magazine Spring/Summer 2018 | Page 5

Class
of 2018
Graduation
Every spring, Bryn Athyn
College launches a new group
of graduates. With degrees in
hand, these young men and
women venture off into a wide
variety of directions, using
their knowledge, talents, and
passions to change the world,
once choice at a time.
Biology major
Miranda Hyatt
By Rev. Thane Glenn, Ph.D. (AA ’92)
and Dan Uber (BA ’18)
O
On May 26, 2018, Bryn Athyn
College celebrated its 141st
commencement. Our graduates
hailed from five different coun-
tries and seven different states
within the U.S. They graduated
with degrees in biology, busi-
ness, education, English, human
society, interdisciplinary studies,
mathematics, performing arts,
psychology, and religion. Many
The 47 members of the Class of 2018, 15 of whom graduated cum laude (GPA of 3.5 or more).
of our graduates had been with
us for four years; a handful joined us only last year; cation structured and enriched by the teachings of
and a couple had started seven years ago, taken time the New Church. That is, an education designed not
off, and decided to return to Bryn Athyn. Despite the only to bring to bear on their thinking the many per-
diversity of the class, they shared a fundamentally spectives of multiple disciplines, an education con-
important element in common: They all took up structed not only to help them develop critical skills
the unique challenge and privilege of a higher edu- and prepare for a career, but an education built to
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