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A student gets a better vantage as the procession of 400 faculty, staff and dignitaries from other institutions starts along Academic Walk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Kenneth Gormley greets students and others who line Academic Walk during the processional.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bagpipers kick off the processional.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Students got free signs and t-shirts as they lined the procession route along Academic Walk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A few students were part of the processional and were cheered on by their peers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Kenneth Gormley poses for a picture with students who followed the procession to A.J. Palumbo Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Students react as their new president, Kenneth Gormley, jokes with them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kenneth Gormley and others have to pause outside A.J. Palumbo Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The people at the back of the procession, including Kenneth Gormley, come to a halt as they wait to file into A.J. Palumbo Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After waving to the crowd Kenneth Gormley flashes the peace sign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And then he goes back to waving to the crowd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Voices of Spirit performs “Crown Imperial” by William Walton with the Duquesne University Wind Ensemble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Joe Negri gets the crowd smiling as he performs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Students keep the wave going as student-soloist Michael Warren and the Duquesne University Jazz Ensemble perform Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marie Milie Jones, chairman of the board of directors of Duquesne University, laughs as she tries to hang the presidential medallion around Kenneth Gormley’s neck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Kenneth Gormley takes the stage to a standing ovation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Members of the Duquesne University Wind Ensemble and Voices of Spirit perform.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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President Kenneth Gormley and faculty senate president Anne Burrows watch the crowd as Michael Warren’s performs the crowd-pleasing song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Professors Lenisa Joseph, left, and Michele Moohr really get into “Happy.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kenneth Gormley greets soloist Michael Warren, who performed Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Duquesne University president Charles Dougherty acknowledges the crowd after current president Kenneth Gormley presented him with a replica of the presidential medallion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Kenneth Gormley was inaugurated at the 13th president of Duquesne University on Thursday, September 22, 2016. The inauguration began with a procession of faculty, staff dignitaries and students along Academic Walk and ended with the ceremony at A.J. Palumbo Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[27],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/SlideshowOnly_20160922rldGormley02.jpg?fit=2600%2C1735&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}