Information for Processional Participants

The following information applies to those marching in the processional. Ceremony processional participants include Caltech faculty, trustees, and student representatives and delegates from other institutions and learned societies.

Dress

Processional participants should be dressed in academic regalia.

Caltech faculty, Distinguished Alumni Award recipients, and members of the Alumni Association board of directors received instructions to order regalia through the Caltech Store by August 28, to ensure the timely arrival of other universities' hoods.

University delegates are expected to bring their own regalia.

Rental caps, gowns, tassels, and hoods can be picked up at the Caltech Store (inside the Hameetman Center) between Monday, October 19, and Wednesday, October 28. On inauguration day, please pick up your regalia in your designated robing area between 8 and 9:30 a.m.

Following the ceremony, rental regalia needs to be returned to the appropriate robing area or the Caltech Store.

Robing and Marshaling

Participants in the processional will robe and line up in the following areas:

• Group 1: Distinguished Alumni + Alumni Board:
  • Robing area: Dabney Lounge
  • Marshaling area: Covered walkway South of Parsons-Gates
• Group 2: Academic Institutions and Learned Society Delegates
  • Robing area: Buwalda Conference Room (Arms)
  • Marshaling area: Covered walkway North of Linde Hall
• Group 3: Students
  • Robing area: Dabney Gardens
  • Marshaling area: Dabney Gardens
• Group 4: Faculty and Division Chairs
  • Robing area: Dabney Gardens
  • Marshaling area: Dabney Gardens
• Group 5: Nobel and Crafoord Laureates
  • Robing area: Dabney Lounge
  • Marshaling area: Covered walkway South of Dabney Hall
• Group 6: Platform Party
  • Robing area: Athenaeum
  • Marshaling area: Caltech Hall

Staff will be available to help with robing and coordinate the assembly of the academic procession.

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Caltech Store staff will be available to help with robing.

Following the ceremony, rental regalia needs to be returned to the appropriate marshaling area or the Caltech Store.

Caltech staff will be present to coordinate the assembly of the academic procession.

Processional

Each processional participant should be in cap and gown, prepared to march, no later than 9:30 a.m. on October 29. The Inauguration Ceremony begins promptly at 10 a.m.

Delegates march in chronological order according to the founding dates of their respective institutions. The marching order will be posted in the marshaling area. The marshals for the delegates will lead them through the academic procession and to seats in the delegate area.

Please be aware that we will be livestreaming and recording the entire Inauguration Ceremony. Participants seated on the platform may be visible in the livestream.

End of Ceremony

Following the alma mater, the recessional march will begin. The platform party will march out first, with other participants following from the front of the seating area to the back.