{"480981":{"#nid":"480981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Commencement: A Look Back","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022intro-text\u0022\u003EThough Georgia Tech\u2019s first students enrolled 127 years ago, the Institute celebrates its 250th Commencement exercises this December. As the celebration approaches, we look back at Commencements through the years. In some ways much has changed, but variations on the earliest traditions remain.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETech celebrated its first Commencement on June 18, 1890, with two graduates. Prior to the ceremony, the Georgia School of Technology opened the doors of its shops to the public for students to show guests what they had been working over the course of the year. This public viewing remained part of Tech\u2019s graduation activities for many years following, and a semblance of this tradition lives on in Tech\u2019s Capstone Design Expo and other year-end presentations that take place throughout campus today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch6\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/looking-back-commencement-traditions\u0022\u003ETake a look back at Commencement from the beginning.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h6\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThough Georgia Tech\u2019s first students enrolled 127 years ago, the Institute celebrates its 250th Commencement exercises this December.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Though Georgia Tech\u2019s first students enrolled 127 years ago, the Institute celebrates its 250th Commencement exercises this December."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-11-30 14:38:06","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"480991":{"id":"480991","type":"image","title":"Commencement at Grant Field","body":null,"created":"1451937600","gmt_created":"2016-01-04 20:00:00","changed":"1475895234","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:54","alt":"Commencement at Grant Field","file":{"fid":"204204","name":"grant_field_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/grant_field_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/grant_field_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":354549,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/grant_field_2_0.jpg?itok=gxzcCOFw"}}},"media_ids":["480991"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/looking-back-commencement-traditions","title":"Commencement: Looking Back"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/","title":"Feature Stories"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6624","name":"archives"},{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"629","name":"graduation"},{"id":"1683","name":"history"},{"id":"10270","name":"living history"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.ediu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}