What does my Yale diploma say?

Question

This sounds completely ridiculous but I just got my Master's degree in the mail and it is completely in latin (I think)...i was a biologist! What does it say?

Here is a pic of a Bachelor's degree http://www.loojie.com/personal/academia/index3.html

For a few months I didn't even realize it was the actual diploma. Pitiful!

Answer 1

The President and Fellows of Yale University in New Haven in the State of Connecticut send everlasting greetings in the Lord to all to whom this document shall come. We, the President and Fellows of this University, admit Julie C. a candidate for first academic honors, to the degree and title of Bachelor of Liberal Arts and we confer upon her all rights, privileges and insignia pertaining to the honor. In testimony of that fact the seal of the University has been impressed upon this document and we, the President and the Secretary, have signed it on the 27 day of May in the year of Our Lord 1996 and the 295th year of Yale University.

Answer 2

Yale Diploma

Answer 3

It's taking a while to look up the words (my vocabulary sucks but I know my Latin grammar), so this is as far as I got:

President (referring to Richard Levin; see below his signature) and companions (maybe friends?) of Yale University, in New Haven in the republic of Connecticut, ...

If you want, e-mail me [TDPookie1 at gmail dot com] the picture and I'll finish later. Sorry I can't do more; it's time to do my actual school work. ;o)