GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College will send off the Class of 2007 on May 18-19. Hon. Paul J. McNulty ’80 will serve as the Commencement speaker for the 127th ceremony at 10 a.m. May 19 outdoors on the Grove City College Quad. An evening earlier, Rear Adm. Alan T. Baker will address about 550 graduates at a 7 p.m. Baccalaureate service, also planned for the Quad. Rain location for both events is the Physical Learning Center Arena.

Prior to the Baccalaureate service, the Student Union will be rededicated and named after Ed and Lynn (Branstner) Breen, both from the Class of 1978, in honor of their $5.5 million gift announced earlier this year. The ceremony is set for 1:30 p.m. May 18. Ed Breen is chairman and chief executive officer of Tyco International Ltd., a leader in electronics; fire and security; healthcare; and engineered products and services. The couple met while attending the College.

McNulty will present “The Essence of Greatness” at Commencement. A 1980 graduate of Grove City College and the father of ’07 graduate Katy McNulty, a history major from Fairfax Station, Va., he was sworn in as deputy attorney general of the United States on March 17, 2006. Prior to his confirmation by the Senate, he served as acting deputy attorney general since November 2005.

From Sept. 14, 2001, to March 17, 2006, U.S. Attorney McNulty served the Eastern District of Virginia. Under McNulty’s leadership, the U.S. Attorney’s Office grew more than 20 percent. He made the prosecution of terrorism, gun violence, drug trafficking and corporate fraud his top priorities and successfully prosecuted many of the nation’s highest profile cases in the War on Terror, including American Taliban member John Walker Lindh, Sept. 11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and convicted spy Robert Hanssen. He also launched initiatives against gangs, cybercrime and procurement fraud.

McNulty grew up in Whitehall, Pa., and graduated from Baldwin High School in 1976 and from the Capital University School of Law in 1983. He married the former Brenda Millican, also a 1980 Grove City College graduate; they have three other children besides Katy: Annie, Joe and Corrie.

Rear Adm. Alan T. Baker, deputy chief of Navy chaplains and 16th chaplain of the United States Marine Corps, will present “Water Walker” at Baccalaureate. He is the father of ’07 graduate Rebekah “Nike” Baker, an English major from Annapolis, Md. He is the first graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the first former surface warfare officer to serve as a chaplain corps flag officer.

Baker earned his Ph.D. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and is a master training specialist as designated by the Navy Chief of Education and Training. He has an additional subspecialty in education and training management. Baker’s personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, three meritorious service medals, four Navy and Marine Corps commendation medals, two Coast Guard commendation medals, and two Navy and Marine Corps achievement medals. Besides Rebekah, Baker and his wife, Marla, have one other daughter, Hannah.

The student Commencement speaker, Virginia Larsen of Federal Way, Wash., will present “Change it Forward.” The College will bestow three honorary Doctor of Laws degrees on McNulty, Charles J. Queenan Jr., and Hans F. Sennholz, and an honorary Doctor of Divinity on Baker.