Norwich University will celebrate commencement and commissioning with ceremonies on Saturday and Sunday, May 10-11, in Shapiro Field House. Both events are free and open to the public. At 2 pm Saturday, former National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander will address roughly 500 students matriculating from 33 undergraduate programs and one master’s program. This is the largest graduating class since President Richard Schneider became Norwich’s 23rd president in July 1992.
At 9 a.m. Sunday, during a joint services commissioning ceremony, graduating future officers will hear remarks from one of their own. Lt. Gen. Bruce A. Litchfield ’81, commander of the Air Force Sustainment Center, returns to The Hill as this year’s speaker, and will address 126 students commissioning into four branches of the military. The new officers will receive their second lieutenant or ensign bars, and their first salutes.
Here are anticipated commission numbers:
Army: 81
Air Force: 18
Navy: 17
Marine: 10
Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army and is the oldest private military college in the United States of America. Norwich is one of our nation's six senior military colleges and the birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu