About 320 first-year students and a record-setting 70 transfers arrived at Westmont for Orientation Aug. 25-28 for the start of the fall semester.

Families moved their students into residence halls throughout the day Aug. 25, greeted personally by President Gayle D. Beebe at the entrance of campus.

The Service of Commitment, a formal ceremony with robed professors, welcomed students to the Westmont community in Murchison Gym.

Bagpipe fanfare, a longstanding Westmont tradition, led new students on their First Walk through the Formal Gardens to Kerrwood Lawn, anticipating their Last Walk that occurs at Commencement from Kerrwood to Carr Field.