Tom Slayton is Sterling College Commencement Speaker
Will Receive Honorary Degree

Craftsbury Common, VT - Sterling College celebrates its ninth baccalaureate commencement at 4:00 pm on Saturday, May 17, 2008, on the lawn of the College's Brown Library. Thomas Slayton, author and commentator, will provide the commencement address. During the ceremony, the College will confer on Slayton an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

Thomas Slayton is editor emeritus of Vermont Life magazine, where he was editor-in-chief for twenty one years. He is past president of the International Regional Magazine Association, and a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio. Slayton has authored several books about Vermont perspectives, but his most recent is Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails and Shores of Wild New England.

Retiring Center for Northern Studies professor Steve Young will also be honored at commencement. Dr. Young is a botanist who studied at the University of Alaska, Harvard and Ohio State before settling in Wolcott, Vermont. He established the CNS in 1971 and later helped it become an integral part of Sterling College, where it inspired the Circumpolar Studies major. Sterling College is a private liberal arts college and New England's only federally-recognized work-service-learning college. It offers degree programs in Conservation Ecology, Sustainable Agriculture, Circumpolar Studies, Outdoor Education & Leadership and Self-Designed Studies.

The Sterling College commencement will begin with a traditional walk of faculty and alumni-to-be to the tune of Highland bagpipes, at 4:00 pm. In case of rain, ceremonies will be held in Dunbar Hall.

View the 2008 commencement and graduation schedule of events.