Lorene Cary, whose memoir, “Black Ice,” is this year’s summer reading for first-year Bluffton University students, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, Aug. 27, as Bluffton welcomes the class of 2017 at its annual opening convocation.
With faculty in regalia looking on, about 290 new first-year and transfer students will be introduced during the ceremony, which begins at 10:45 a.m. in Founders Hall.