Join us as the entire Landing School community celebrates the achievements of our graduating students as they prepare to enter the marine industry. The Academic Showcase offers a chance to tour the shops, view finished student projects and design portfolios, and connect with students and faculty. The Commencement Ceremony celebrates our graduates with remarks from our commencement speaker, curator and maritime historian Margherita M. Desy. Please note: Due to limited capacity and parking, Commencement is reserved for students and their invited guests.

Academic Showcase

9:00 – 9:45 AM

Light refreshments will be servers while guests:

• Tour the school and shop spaces

• View finished student projects

• Explore design portfolios

• See project boats and technical builds

• Engage with students and faculty

Commencement Ceremony

10:00 AM

Celebrate our graduates with remarks from our commencement speaker, curator and maritime historian Margherita M. Desy.

Commencement Speaker

Margherita M. Desy is a curator and historian of New England maritime and early U.S. Navy histories. She is employed by the Naval History & Heritage Command Detachment Boston as the historian for USS Constitution. Desy has previously worked for Historic New England, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Hartford, and spent 20 years at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. She also taught for fourteen years in the Museum Studies Program in Tufts University’s Graduate and Professional Studies Department.

Desy holds a B.A. in History and Art History from the College of the Holy Cross, an M.A. in American Civilization from The George Washington University, and has studied at Sotheby’s Institute in London. She has been published in scholarly and popular journals and has served as a script advisor and on-camera historian for several PBS television shows and documentaries broadcast in the U.S. and Europe.