Graduating students in academic regalia sit before the commencement stage during San Francisco State University’s June 1980 graduation ceremony. In the foreground, rows of black mortarboards fill the frame, while a speaker addresses the audience from the podium beneath the university seal. The stage is decorated with greenery and large floral arrangements, framed by vertical purple and gold panels reflecting university colors. Faculty and university officials are seated behind the speaker as the ceremony proceeds. This photograph captures the formal atmosphere and scale of SFSU’s outdoor commencement exercises in 1980.
