Staff will give you a card showing your line-up number. It is essential that candidates remain in their assigned position at all times if they are to have their name read in order when called by their dean to cross the stage. Rise when faculty process. Hats are replaced after the invocation. The address follows.
Candidates ascend the steps in order and wait on the top step until their name is read.
A marshal will direct graduates into the proper row. The president signals the graduates to be seated. Minister gives benediction. Graduates and faculty remain standing. Presidential party exits first, then the faculty, and then the graduates.