{"id":17954,"date":"2022-01-12T18:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=17954"},"modified":"2022-01-12T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:22:04","slug":"mitchell-hamline-to-return-to-chs-field-for-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/mitchell-hamline-to-return-to-chs-field-for-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Hamline to return to CHS Field for commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17955\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17955\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17955\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/MitchellHamlineLaw-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/MitchellHamlineLaw-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/MitchellHamlineLaw-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/MitchellHamlineLaw-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/MitchellHamlineLaw-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/01\/MitchellHamlineLaw-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s 2021 commencement was the first to be held at CHS Field. (photo by Caroline Yang)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mitchell Hamline\u2019s newest graduates will once again walk the bases at St. Paul\u2019s minor league baseball stadium at the school\u2019s commencement ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The event on June 18 will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/09\/mitchell-hamline-holds-in-person-commencement-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second year<\/a> the school has hosted commencement at CHS Field. Graduates will include those who finish their studies in the spring, as well as the 83 students who graduated in fall or after the J-term.<\/p>\n<p>School leadership consulted with medical experts about the best ways to hold an event during a pandemic. There was also a town hall with students to get their input.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe felt CHS Field offered the safest option for us because it\u2019s outdoors and we can still invite more people to the ceremony while also keeping safe distances to prevent COVID-19 transmission,\u201d said Dean of Students Lynn LeMoine &#8217;11. \u201cThe St. Paul Saints were great partners last year and we look forward to working with them again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event will also be livestreamed for those who cannot or choose not to attend in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline\u2019s newest graduates will once again walk the bases at St. Paul\u2019s minor league baseball stadium at the school\u2019s commencement ceremony. The event on June 18 will be the second year the school has hosted commencement at CHS Field. Graduates will include those who finish their studies in the spring, as well as the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/mitchell-hamline-to-return-to-chs-field-for-commencement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Mitchell Hamline to return to CHS Field for commencement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5668,"featured_media":17958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[208,47,31,126,157,202],"class_list":{"0":"post-17954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"tag-chs-field","10":"tag-commencement","11":"tag-covid-19","12":"tag-event","13":"tag-lynn-lemoine","14":"tag-students","15":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}