Newton —   Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann, president of Hebrew College, will deliver the commencement address at Hebrew College’s 84th graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 31, at 10 a.m.

Ten rabbis will be ordained as the second graduating class of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, along with three cantors, members of the third graduating class of the Cantor-Educator Program. In addition, 39 graduates will receive master’s degrees and certificates. Cantorial graduate Sharon Citrin MJEd’09, CEP’09, will be the class valedictorian.

President Lehmann will award honorary degrees to Nancy Falchuk, National President of Hadassah, and alumnus Dr. Michael Fishbane BJEd’64, Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Hebrew College’s highest academic honor, the Dr. Benjamin J. Shevach Memorial Award for distinguished achievement in Jewish educational leadership, will be awarded to Devora Steinmetz, founder of Beit Rabban Day School in New York City.

The Louis Hillson Memorial Award for distinguished leadership in and commitment to Jewish education will be given to alumna Cheryl Aronson P’80, Combined Jewish Philanthropies Vice President for Israel and Education.

Prozdor, the College’s supplementary high school, will graduate 134 students. In addition, 203 Me’ah graduates from Greater Boston sites will receive certificates for completing the intensive, two year adult learning program. Twenty-five Me’ah graduates from the mid-Atlantic region will receive certificates in local ceremonies this spring. The 212 Me’ah graduates from the northeast region will receive certificates on May 17 in a ceremony held in New York City.

A Jewish innovator who has devoted his career to pluralistic Jewish education, Rabbi Lehmann became the eighth president of Hebrew College on July 1, 2008. For the past decade, he served as founding headmaster of Gann Academy — The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston.

He was also founding director of BIMA — the Berkshire Institute for Music and Arts, and has created and led training programs for Jewish day school professionals sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. A frequent lecturer on Jewish education, he has published numerous journal articles on Jewish education and has contributed several chapters in books on religious education.

All commencement ceremonies will be held at Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill. Main commencement exercises will begin at 10 a.m. Separate ceremonies throughout the day will be conducted for the cantorial ordination, Me’ah graduation, rabbinical ordination and Prozdor Hebrew High School graduation.

A complete schedule and directions are available at http://www.hebrewcollege.edu/commencement.