Photos and gifts for graduates and parents
The Campus Store and a number of partnering businesses offer special memorabilia for Calvin graduates and their parents.
Photos - A professional photographer will take a photograph of each graduate as he or she shakes hands with provost Claudia Beversluis or Board of Trustees chair Scott Spoelhof. Grads and families may order prints from GradPix.com.
Caps and gowns - The campus events office provides these for all graduates with no charge (unless grads fail to return them). Grads are measured for their cap and gown during Senior Salute. The gowns must be returned to Hoogenboom 204 by 5 p.m. on Commencement Saturday; caps and tassels may be kept.
Flowers (Details not confirmed; order form pending)
Celebrate your graduate with a bouquet from Crescent Floral and the Calvin campus store. You can pre-order or pick up three different arrangements: a spring bouquet ($25), one dozen roses ($35) or a half-dozen roses ($25). Tax is already included on all prices. Bouquets can be ordered online in advance via Crescent Floral and can be picked up at the flower station near the main (south) entrance to the Van Noord Arena on Commencement Saturday from 12:30 to 4:30.
Graduation announcements - Calvin's standard graduation announcemnts with double envelopes and name cards
Frames and other gifts from the Campus Store
Commencement DVD - The college will be producing a DVD of the entire commencement ceremony ($15).
Class Rings - Order at Senior Salute with the Jostens representative; a $50 deposit is required, or order rings anytime online via the Campus Store and Jostens.
Calvin College Nursing Pin - Have a child graduating from the BSN program? The nursing department offers a nursing pin designed by and for Calvin alumni nurses.
