During an investiture ceremony on Friday, Nov. 3, George Washington University President Ellen M. Granberg will assume formal leadership and be inaugurated as the university's 19th president, partaking in a tradition previous heads of the institution have taken. The ceremony is a formal recognition of the power and influence being granted to a leader.
Take a look back at ceremonies through years, including an #OnlyatGW moment when John F. Kennedy was awarded the first honorary degree of his presidency of the United States at the inauguration of GW's 13th president, Thomas Henry Carrol, in May 1961.
