2025 Memorial Day Ceremony

The Memorial Day Ceremony honors our Gold Star Aggies, those 136 students who lost their lives in military service from World War I to the present.

We’ll begin the event at 12noon with a lemonade bar. The formal program will follow shortly thereafter and includes remarks from Chancellor Gary May, a keynote from Professor Emeritus Arthur B. Dublin, and a ceremonial reading of the names of the Gold Star Aggies.

Program 

• Welcome: ASUCD President Gaius Ilupeju
• Color Guard: UC Davis Army ROTC
• National Anthem: Dr. Ebony Lewis
• Pledge of Allegiance: UC Davis Army ROTC
• Presentation of the Wreath: Greg Stanford, Air Force veteran and Jordan Samson, Coast Guard/Air Force veteran
• Memorial Day Proclamation: Roberto Herrera, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Services, and a UCD Alumni
• Welcome Speech: Chancellor Gary May
• Keynote Speaker: Arthur B Dublin, Professor Emeritus Department of Radiology UCD Health and Navy veteran
• Reading of the Gold Star Aggie Names: Catherine Mai, Dalen Huynh, Jake Moffat Amber Warnke, Audrey Marrero, Denzel Martinez, Leslie Ramirez, Jose Rod
• Taps: Ethan Negus
• Closing Sentiment: ASUCD President Gaius Ilupeju

For more information on the event please read the Dateline article about the 2024 ceremony. You may also visit The Golden Memory Book—an online archive of the 136 names that appear in the physical Golden Memory Book that resides in the Memorial Union on the UC Davis main campus.