2002 Winter Commencement Video, College of Graduate Education and Research, College of Libaral Arts, College of Business and Economics, and College of Science and Mathematics

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All you need is, all you want is... Good morning and welcome to Towson University. Mr.

President, the University community is assembled for commencement. Good morning and welcome to the 137th Commencement exercise for Towson University.

Today we'd celebrate the top priority of this university, and that's the academic attainment of our students. Please remain standing and join in singing the National Anthem. We'll be LED in singing by Anna Marie Sell, a graduating theater

and English major. Well, say, can you see the little towns in the night? Through the piranhas night and when the rope as we watched move some gallons and streaming, and the Rockets, the bombs bursting

in and it brought in the night as our life was still there, our St. All the stars spangled. Please be seated.

Congratulations, graduates and welcome. The flags on display around the auditorium represent the 97 countries of students enrolled at Towson University. In addition, one of our graduates is a Native American,

a member of the Lumbee Tribe. As you can see, an educational experience at Towson University not only serves that region and the great state of Maryland, but it also reaches across our nation and around the globe.

You know, I'm often asked as I travel throughout the United States about the learning experience at American universities, and I'm always surprised that when we turn on that television, you see all the adults in the talking heads

telling us what it's really about. Well, we've taken an extra step at Towson, and we've begun to ask our students about the learning experience that they have at this university.

And I thought what I might do this morning is to share some of their observations with you. I'm a little blind, so I'm going to need a little help here. Rachel Hubbard of Frederick, MD, who's majoring in speech

pathology, described her Towson experience as meeting friends. Becoming independent, living on my own, finding my destiny, working toward goals. Jonathan Payne, a student from Rockville, MD, majoring in

business administration, wrote Growth as a leader, strong development and discovery of my values and ideas. Opportunity to meet new people and work as a team. And Allison Stobel of Laurel in Maryland, who's majoring in

psychology, says so far it's been a chance to grow and to learn about myself. However, I'm still having new experiences, so I can't really finish this answer.

I guess I'll have to get back to her later. The point of all of this is to suggest to you that while you hear about mathematics and you understand about geometry and you hear about physics and we all hear about jobs, what our

students are telling us is that the most important thing for them is to grow and develop as a whole person. And what's really beautiful, as I am new to this campus community, is that I have discovered that its founding

principal, Alexander McFadden Newell in 1866 understood the totality of the learning experience because he believed that we are grounded in the idea of learning, in the development of the whole person.

Let me read you what a little of our history says about our commitment. And I quote, it was recognized from the start that all intellectual and social expansion does not take place

within the classroom. That personality unfolds in many ways and that the process of learning is more than just a student teacher relationship. We understand the relationship between the environment and the

nature and quality of the learning experience. This is our legacy. This is who we are as a university and we at Towson University are proud of it.

Please join me in welcoming Mr. Gerard Gang, a member of the University Board of Visitors, who will bring greetings on behalf of the Board. Thank you, Doctor Perkins, and good morning.

I'm Jerry Gang. I'm a 1981 graduate, a philosophy major here at Towson, and a member of the University's Board of Visitors. For better or for worse, this year, unlike last January's

commencement, I don't have the problem of trying to work into my remarks the score of the Ravens playoff game that was going on at the time. The Towson University Board of Visitors is comprised of

business and community leaders. We advise the President of the University on important decisions and we support the work, funding and initiatives of the University.

We believe passionately in Towson University's past record of achievement, in its present focus and vitality and it's and in its extraordinary prospects for the future. And on behalf of that board, it is my great pleasure to bring

you its greetings and good wishes at this the 137th Commencement. You, the graduates, are the embodiment of Towson's mission, educating curious, interesting, talented, skilled, hard working

and well-rounded individuals who are capable of learning for their whole lives, who are capable of meeting the challenges, both personal and societal, for the future. Many of those challenges we know many more which we don't know.

I also want to greet the graduates, families and friends who are seated around here who've demonstrated so well the kind of financial, emotional and moral support that's necessary to facilitate real learning.

Third, I'd like to welcome to his very first house and commencement Towson University's new President, the former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, Doctor Mark Perkins.

Members of our Board of visitors, along with students here, faculty, alumni and others participated in an extraordinary nationwide search for Towson's new president. This incredible number and incredible quality of the

candidates that we were fortunate enough to recruit for this position and that number, that quality was testament to what Towson and its incredibly talented students and faculty have already accomplished.

And it's testament also to what Towson's future prospects are. We are so fortunate to have been able to select and recruit Dr. Perkins, someone who has the intellect, the experience, the vitality, the humanity and the vision to lead Towson to new

heights. Mark, to you and your wife, Carolyn, welcome to your first commencement. Finally, let me say to you the graduates that you may think

that you're leaving Towson, but you're not. Your association, in fact, with the university is just getting started. Today.

You'll receive your degrees, and that degree is going to be on your resume. It's going to be your credential for the rest of your life. The value to you of that credential will rise or fall

with Towson's future stature and success. So whether you want it or not, you are invested in Towson's future. By the same token, Towson University is invested in you

because its stature as a university is linked to your success, the success of future students, and the success of your fellow alumni. Towson has a continuing interest in you and your success and

well-being. So you see, you and Towson, beginning today, are inextricably bound. I hope that you'll do your part support Towson, and I know that

Towson will in turn do its part and support you. So stay involved. Please support the University and come back often. Attending alumni events here is not only satisfying and fun, but

will allow you to experience something you probably never experienced as a student. Reserved parking. So good luck graduates.

Stay in touch. You'll always be part of the family here at Towson. Thank you, Mr. Gang.

We're also fortunate to have with us a member of Towson's alumni Board, Kathleen Hope, the Shield, who will bring words of welcome from the Alumni Association. Good morning.

Thank you, Doctor Perkins. Good morning, Class of 2001. Congratulations. I bring, on behalf of the Alumni Association, our congratulations

from the 88,000 and more of us who have crossed this stage before you. More than any other group, we are probably most aware of what it took for you to get here, the hard work, dedication,

intellectual rigor, as well as the equally arduous tasks of getting registered for the right classes and finding a parking place. In any case, we salute you for your dedication and perseverance

in all of these undertakings. As alumni, we are all enriched by each other's achievements and successes. And while we range from business leaders to actors, artists to

scientists, I want to point out in one field, mine in particular, I'm an attorney. Now that we have had two appointments to state judgeships in the state of Maryland, Mary Ellen Barbera and Katie Curran

O'Malley, both proud graduates of Towson University. And I tell you this to demonstrate to you the excellence of the education that you've received here and how far it will take you, as well as how far you can take the diploma and

enhance its value to the people sitting next to you, as well as those of us graduates sitting here on the stage. It is up to you to enhance the value of that diploma that you're receiving.

So welcome to the Alumni Association. We hope that you will come and be involved and take advantage of the reserved parking, but we also help that you will work to enrich that diploma that you have and build that profound

national reputation that we're building here at Towson. Thank you, Congratulations and well done. Thank you, Kathleen. You know, I I've only been at Towson for about 6 months now,

but I'd like to try Lily. Everywhere I go, I run into someone who's either a Talsin alum, is married to a Talsin alum, works with a Talsin alum. I need to try and experiment.

I'd like you all to help me with the exception of the graduates who are graduating today. If you received your degree from Towson or if another member of your family, an aunt, an uncle, a sister or a brother or a

cousin or someone. Received a degree from Towson University. Would you stand right now, please? Everyone in the audience, anyone has any contact through their

family with Towson University graduates? You might want to look around and see how broad and wide the Towson family really is. Thank you very much.

Ladies and gentlemen, Please be seated. Associate Provost Deborah Leather will join me for the presentation of the President's Award for Distinguished Service. President's Award recognizes intellectual talent and

professional service of a member of the University's faculty, staff or administration. Would Professor Jack Fructman, Junior please join the President at the Centre podium for the presentation?

This award is given to an individual who has dedicated 20 more years of service to higher education and who has made an important contribution in higher education and the metropolitan region through teaching, scholarship, and participation

in university affairs. The award includes a check for $1000 and a commemorative silver bowl. Doctor Jack Frecklin, Junior professor of Political Science,

directs the Program in Law and American Civilization and serves as University Pre Law advisor. He served as a visiting assistant professor at Towson for several years before joining the political science faculty in

1985. He attained the rank of professor in 1995. Doctor Franklin's fields of research and teaching are American constitutional interpretation, the Supreme

Court and public policy, and the history of political thought. In these fields. Dr. Fruckman is widely published, including four books, 17

scholarly articles, 19 reviews, and 79 political commentaries. His vast and valuable service to the University includes many years on the University Senate, including a recent term as chair.

He has also served as chair of the University Governance Task Force, as a member of the University Strategic Planning Committee, the Interdisciplinary Council, and the College of Liberal Arts Promotion and Tenure Committee.

Doctor Fruckman is a member and a former vice president and president of the East Central American Society for 18th Century Studies. In addition to his reputation as a great scholar and teacher,

Doctor Fruckman is widely recognized by his peers as a model university citizen and a champion of collegiality. Personally, I first came to know Doctor Fruckman as an outstanding member of the Presidential Search Committee.

My family and I are grateful to him and the role he played in bringing us to this wonderful university. It is now my great pleasure to present to Doctor Jack Fruckman the 9th, the 2002 President's Award for Distinguished Service

to Towson University. Thank you, Doctor Perkins. I also would like to thank the Faculty Research and Development Committee and its chair, Doctor Luz when Gurion, and of course,

Towson University Foundation for this wonderful honor. And it is indeed an honor. It's more than an honor that I can really tell you because it puts me with a very small group of elite citizens of the

university of people who have been here for many, many years, and some, in fact, no longer with us. But I used to think as a political scientist that the United States Senate was an elite institution of 100 people.

Only 100 people in the entire country could belong to the US Senate. But this puts me even in a more elite institution. They are such stars, people who have preceded me on this podium

to accept this award. But it's also a humbling award. It's a humbling award because there are so many members of the faculty, the library staff, the administration who dedicate

their lives to serve the university, who do so much and who are not honored this way and do deserve it. And someday perhaps they will receive such an award. But it's it's humbling in that way.

But most of all, it is to you, the graduates of January 2002, the undergraduate and the graduate students who are now leaving us. You are why we serve the university.

You are our most precious resource. Without you, we would have nothing to do. We would have nothing to live for, for that matter, or to or to perform here.

And for that, I would like to wish you all the very best. I'd like to wish you the best of luck and above all, be safe. Thank you very much. Thank you, and congratulations, Doctor Frockman.

The University presents the honorary degree to an individual who has made a significant contribution to higher education or to a member of the community who has made a notable contribution to the University or to the welfare of the larger

community. Today, the University awards the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Mr.

President, it is my honor to present Doctor Charles Moskos for the awarding of the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. Would Professor Stanley and Clements from the honorary degree committee escort Doctor Moskos to the podium?

Since 1999, he has held the Herald H in Virginia Anderson Chair in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. The Wall Street Journal calls Doctor Moscow's the nation's

most influential military sociologist and the economist terms him the Dean of military sociologist. His research has taken him to combat units in Vietnam, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo.

President George HW Bush appointed him to the President's Commission on Women in the Military in 1992, and in 1998 the US Senate named him to the Commission on Military Training and Gender Related Issues.

Doctor Moskos advised Nelson Mandela on ways to radically integrate South Africa's post apartheid military and was cited by President Bill Clinton as the inspiration for his youth service program.

He served as a special advisor to Vice President Al Gore's International Conference on Fighting Corruption and Security Forces, and he is currently a member of the study Group of the US Commission on National Security.

The Department of Defense awarded Dr. Moskos a medal for his research in Desert Storm. He also holds the Distinguished Service Award, the US Army's highest decoration for civilian.

The governments of France and the Netherlands have decorated him for his international research on armed forces and society. He is the author of many books, more than 100 articles and

scholarly journals, and has published pieces in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic. His writings have been translated into 18 languages.

As a scholar, Doctor Moskos earned his bachelor's degree with honors from Princeton University in 1956. After military service, he attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his MA degree in

1961 and his PhD in 1963. He joined Northwestern's Department of Sociology in 1966 as a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an Annenberg Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Dr. Moskos was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the

World. It is with great personal pleasure that I confer upon Charles Moscow's, the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters, with all the rights and privileges thereunto pertain.

Ladies and gentlemen, joining me in welcoming Dr. Moscow's to the podium, Doctor Perkins Towson University. Thank you for this indeed high honor. I'm so honored here to to address the graduates today, but

I also want to thank the parents, you know, who footed so many of the bills that made today possible. It's customary in America to sort of label generations by their college age days.

What people do in their 20s is typically gives a generation, it's label. My own generation that came of age in the 1950s, for example, was called the Silent Generation.

By the way, my generation is the only generation ever to elected AUS president and I'm sure that won't be the same for your generation. The generation before mine was called the GI generation.

That is the World War Two generation which became even further honored and Tom Brokaw's famous words as the greatest generation. Well after my generation came, the baby boomers were born

following World War Two and a generation that came of age in the 1980s and early 90s was called the X generation or the ME generation. This is a time of materialism, yuppies, self-centered activity.

But then there came the question about your generation. I realized that we have people graduating here both at the bachelor's degree level and at the master's degree level. But I'm thinking largely of the generation that's now coming of

age at the college years. So what will your generation be called? I shall answer this at the end of my remarks here. But first, let's look at some of the labels that have already

been proposed for you. Some have used the term the Y generation in the sense that Y follows X in the alphabet. At the generation before he was the X generation.

Then you should be the Y generation. I don't like why, It's too anonymous. And this means those coming after you will be called the Z generation that won't go.

Some have proposed calling you the baby. Buster's generation doesn't refer to beating up babies, but rather refers to the birth rate that when you were born, there were few of you born then before or after that you came at a time

which was a low birth rate. So there are fewer of your generation than those who are older than you are younger than yourselves. I toyed with the idea of calling you the We generation as opposed

to the ME generation that came before you, but that could be interpreted as we WHEE with its implications of in sobriety. I know that unlike a certain female undergraduate at the University of Texas, the daughter of a prominent

American, your liking for margaritas as doesn't have that kind of parallel here at Towson. The term millennials has also been used to describe your generation.

That's to signify that you were coming of age at the beginning of a new Millennium. From book by Hausen Strauss. Your generation was called quote.

A new millennial service ethic is emerging. Those around the notion of collegial action support for civic institutions in the Tangible Doing of Good Deeds survey show that far more than older people, millennials would

impose an extra civic duties on themselves” And that's a theme I'll return to. But as we look at your generation, that's both good news and bad news.

The good news is that teenage pregnancy is down, crime is down, drug use is down. And unlike this more selfish ex generation, your generation has been described as more into teamwork.

But there's also bad news. Even before September 11th, the smart money was saying your generation would confront a major national crisis. And the argument goes as follows, that every 70 or so

years in American history a major crisis occurs. We had the War of Independence of the founding of the Republic in the 1770s and 80s, then the Civil War in the 1860s, the Great Depression, World War Two in the 1930s and 40s, and now

the terrorist attacks, the biggest attack on the American homeland in our country's history. But some have even suggested by the way, because of that calling you the 9/11 generation, not only because of the notation of

the September 11th terrorist attacks, but also because of the emergency that 9/11 connotates with police calls. Now before looking at what further possible names for your generation, let's turn to your own self portrayal here with

Towson. Each year the American Council of Education surveys a large sampling of entering freshmen. Towson University participates in these surveys and most of you

fill those out when you were freshmen and it's instructive. Look how you respond to these questions. Four or five years ago, 69% of you immodestly said you were above average intellectually, 75% rate.

That's probably true, right? 75% rated yourself above average and being cooperative, which is, by the way, much higher than the college freshman average across the country.

60% rated yourself above average and emotional health. I hope that percentage hasn't declined since your freshman year. On why you went to college, there are also some interesting

findings. 70% of you said to make more money. No surprise there. But more noteworthy, a slightly higher percentage, 73%, said one

of the more important reasons for going to college was to become a more cultured person. I'm sure that makes the professors on this stage very happy.

About one in three of you said you'd missed that class in high school because of oversleeping. I dread to ask what that number was here was here while you were at Towson.

None of you overslept, I'm sure. Now the civic philosophy underlying Getting back to your generation, I think your generation really harks to the notion of national service, which takes a kind of special

view of the relationship between citizen rights and citizen duties. In 1961, John F Kennedy, a member of the GI generation proclaim.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. The boomer in the X generations turned this on his head and became a variation of.

Ask what your country can do for you, but not what you can do for your country. Your generation is primed to consider a much more balanced approach to citizenship.

Ask what your country can do for you and what you can do for your country. And what makes your generation distinctive and special is that you expect more from society while expecting to do more for

society. An amazing 70% of you said in that freshman survey that you would volunteer, did some volunteer work as a high school student.

Let me close to by saying that every college cohort has some particular a new connection with the popular culture since you arrived on campus. The new rage has been the so-called reality TV shows,

right? Some of which aren't doing that well today, but anyway. But here that you are here to today shows that you are a real survivor.

You have finished The Amazing Race. It also shows you are not the weakest link. Congratulations, You are the new Greatest Generation. Thank you.

Thank you, Doctor Moskos. It's now my pleasure to introduce Christina Duchelle. Missus Duchelle is graduating from the College of Graduate Education and Research with a Master of Science in

Professional Writing. She's a teacher consultant with the Maryland Writing Project and has taught middle school and high school. Currently, Missus Duchelle teaches writing here at Towson

and works as a freelance writer. Please join me in welcoming Christina Duchelle. Thank you, President Perkins, Doctor Leather Doctor Moscow's honored guests, faculty, family and friends.

When I told a colleague that I would be speaking today, she congratulated and encouraged me. When I told her I was to speak for a thankfully short 5 minutes, I heard, oh, you can do that, you're a teacher.

As a fellow teacher, she knows that we can talk and talk and talk, but today I'm using lessons I've learned as a writer. Cut everything you can and keep it brief.

It's a great honor to speak on behalf of the university's graduating class of 2001. While each class member is different, today we have done one thing in common.

We have set difficult goals and have met them. We've struggled to meet deadlines and still produce our best work. Towson University has given us the opportunity to find our

unique voices. And on behalf of all the graduates, I have the chance today to say thank you. Thank you to fellow students who encouraged me, professors who

challenged me, and family who supported me. When I began Graduate School, I did so for a practical purpose. I needed to maintain my teaching credentials. But by the middle of that first semester, something changed.

I became a writer who found her voice. But I would never have found that voice without fellow students who read my writing and shared theirs through first drafts and 2nd and 3rd.

I would never have found my voice without teachers who heard it first and then helped me to hear it at Towson. I became courageous before a blank page and strong when I when faced with my first rejection letter from an

unimpressed literary agent. While attending Towson, I've learned many things. I learned patience and commitment from my husband, Rob, and my children, Carolyn and Steven.

They've worked hard for this degree. I learned to listen from my father, who taught me to recognize the value of stories that surround me, even my own. I learned to face my fears and write.

At Towson, we all face the challenges that came with being students. Now we leave prepared to meet new ones. To all of today's graduates, I challenge you to hear your own

voices and follow them. One of the pleasures of being a teacher is the opportunity to learn from my students. From them I've learned that we all want and need to be heard.

And that we all have something to say. 12 years ago, when I taught middle school, I walked into a classroom stocked full of outdated grammar textbooks. There were no collections of short stories, no poetry, no

novels. Language arts had been reduced to a series of tired, dusty rules that made no sense to 12 year old adolescents. So I began teaching with materials that the students

brought with them, pens and paper. As a new teacher, I introduced literature into my classroom by having students create their own. I walked into class one day with an armful of donated carpet

squares. Take these and sit where you want, I told them. Anywhere you're comfortable. Or you can move your chair beside a friend and work

together. Write whatever you like. They stared at me, thinking it was some sort of trick that teachers play.

Once I assured them that yes, I was serious and no, we wouldn't get into trouble from the principal for doing this, they gave in. They sat in corners, move their chairs, and took chances with

their writing. They were fearless and they had lots of valuable things to say. When I read my students writing a dozen years ago, I realized they had more courage than I did.

They wrote, they shared their writing, they took chances. They heard their own voices and followed them. I decided then that I would follow my students example. I urge you to do the same.

Be open to the voice you want to share with the world and share it. Don't be afraid someone will listen. To my fellow graduates in the class of 2001, Ioffer my

congratulations and wish you every success in finding and sharing your own voices. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Miss De Shield. This is one of the happiest days of the year on our campus as we

celebrate the graduates of whom we are all so proud. But there are many who share in their accomplishments. There's one special group whose contributions deserve particular recognition.

We have the finest graduating class in Maryland because Towson University has the very best faculty. Well, the faculty of the university please rise, including our emeriti faculty, and receive recognition from the

graduates. Graduates, please join me in showing our appreciation. Joining me on stage today are leaders of the University who, through their dedication expertise, enable the success of

the students. On the 1st row are the officers of the University, those responsible for facilitating our academic programs, members of the Board of Visitors, University Senate, Alumni

Association, Student Government Association and the American Association of University Professors. Will these colleagues please rise so that we may show our appreciation for your leadership?

The graduates, we all know that they're special people in your lives that helps you make the journey here today. And I'd like to ask all the mothers and fathers out in the audience of our graduates to please stand and remain

standing. Would you please rise, Mothers and fathers, hold on. How about the grandparents, great grandparents and grandchildren of our graduates?

Would you get up, please? How about the spouses and sons and daughters of the graduates? Would you also please rise, remain standing? Do we have aunts and uncles also?

All of those graduates, would you please rise turning express your appreciation to your parents and family. Thank you very much. And please be seated.

That's kind of a big deal, isn't it? Yeah, it's kind of fun. I I'd like to try one other experiment because, you know, sometimes it gets lost on us how important that what you're about

to receive really is. And I'd like the audience to again help me one more time as well as our graduates. If one or the other of your parents and for graduates, if

one of the other of your grandparents did not have the opportunity, everyone in the audience, if one or the other, your parents or one of the other, your grandparents did not have the opportunity of a four year education, Would you please

stand with me, including the people on the stage. I've come to learn in life that a picture is worth 1000 words if you'll be seated. The purpose of this is to help you understand that just a few

years ago, out of about 280 million people, only about one in four folks in the United States of America had a four year learning experience. Today it's just shy of one out of five.

America's come a great way since World War Two, and the American educational system has done a marvelous job both at K12 and in higher education. But still, that which you received today will be very,

very special. Before the most important part of the ceremony begins, I have an announcement concerning photographs. A professional photographer will take pictures of your favorite

graduate as they are greeted on the stage. Photo opportunities for family and friends will be available later. If you could limit, by the way, your applause and shouts for

your graduate out of respect for the graduate immediately following, it would be deeply appreciated. Associate Provost Deborah Leather will join me for the conferring of degrees.

Assisting us in awarding degrees will be the Deans, Doctor Avery, Doctor Beverly Leach, Dr. Gerald Intimen, Dr. Jin Gong and Doctor Howard Nixon.

Will the graduates for the master's degrees please stand? Mr. President, Madam Associate Provost, Mr. President, on the recommendation of the faculty, I have the honor

to present those students who will meet all requirements for the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Arts and Teaching, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Education, Master of Music, or Master of Science.

I am pleased to receive these candidates for graduate degrees. You've shown your determination to develop your talents and sharpen your skills. Yours is now the responsibility to apply these capabilities in

the service of humanity. By the authority vested in me by the Board of Regents in the State of Maryland, I confer upon you the recommended degree with all the rights, privileges and honors thereunto.

Pertaining congratulations will the master's candidates for the master's degree please proceed to the stage. I am Doctor Lawrence Shirley, the associate Dean of the College of Graduate Education and Research.

On the on my far right is Doctor Jin Gong, the Dean of the College. Christina Duchelle. Joyce Sikora Dorsch, Laura.

Allen, Seth Michael Barish, Charles Nelson Beale, Orlina Antoinette Brown, Christine. Marie Connor, Timothy Patrick Coyle Elizabeth Mary Del Sordo, Cindy Renee Jeppie, David Michael Hall, Daniel Hiam

Lassen, Milena Markova Koshakarova, Brenda J Yarima, Suzanne Beth Eldridge, Tracy Aretha Good Linda Ann Miller, Kelly Lynn Moore, Sherry Nicole Nicholas Lizette Mignon Truitt. Robin Don Behringer, Cheryl Antoinette Horta, Susan Marie

Jablacki, Brian J Kirby, Kimberly Lynn Lacey, Judy C Myers, Jeremy Stephen Nemkowski, Joan Elaine Predinsky, Edith M Augustine Amir Al Bashir, Beverly Jean Hancock, Adrian Hamlin, John Yolanda Morgan, Judy C Pocris, Jamie L Street.

Kristen Karina Zahl, Stacy Lynn Alexander Crit Sada Charin Tranmont, Joe Young Jew. Christine Wythera, Mingy Cara, Anne Weaver, Philippe Desjarnock, Thomas Heather, Melissa Wynne, James Edward

Dulcimer, Lorraine Annette Jennings, Kiran Kartha Henmont Sharma, Ching. Wu, Yan Huang. Boy Chi Jeff Allen Whitley Yu Wang Runjo Wu be June do well

the candidates for Bachelor S degrees please stand a richly deserved applause. Students receiving Latin honors will be announced as their names are called.

To receive a degree with honors, students must have completed 60° of undergraduate work at Towson University and achieve the appropriate quality point average cum laude, 3.4 to 3.5, for Magna cum laude, 3.55 to 3.74, and summa cum laude, the

highest honor, 3.75 to Four Point O Graduates are listed alphabetically by college and department in your program. Mr. President.

Madam Associate Provost, Mr. President, on the recommendation of the faculty, I have the great honor presenting to you those students who will meet all requirements for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of

Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music, or Bachelor of Science. I am pleased to receive these candidates by the authority vested to me by the Board of Regents in the State of Maryland.

I confer upon you a recommended degree with all the responsibilities, honors, rights and privileges thereunto pertaining. As a symbol of your new status, please now move the Mortar Board

tassel from the right to the left front quadrant of your cap. Congratulations, Graduates, please be seated. Graduate, you will follow the directions of the student faculty marshals.

Once on stage, you will shake the president's hand, proceed across the stage to receive congratulations from the Dean of your college, and then return to your seat. Congratulations.

Good morning. I'm Doctor Carl Bam, associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. It is with pride and great pleasure that I shall introduce

our graduates as they cross the stage. To my far right is Doctor Beverly Leach, Dean of the College, who will greet each graduate and offer her congratulations on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of

the College of Liberal Arts. Michelle Christine Hicks, Jillian Karen Saint Hill, Angela Vera Bateman cum Laude Amanda Lee Bradford Allison Joy Brodsky, Mary Ellen Cohen, Aaron Ben Copeland, Bridget J

Davidson, Shanika Michelle Evans, Jennifer and Phil Yaw Aaron Leanne Gardner, Mark Abraham Goldman, Jodie Lynn Kandel Bronwyn Kelly Madeo Magna cum laude. Honors College Karen Ellen Marsh, Magna cum laude.

Carolyn Brooke Noe Nicole Cherie Culay Kelly Renee Ragland, cum laude. Honors College, Elena Maria Ricaldo, Melinda Jean Schaf, Summa cum Laude, Honors College Sarah Ada, Tucker, Carrie and

Geep or Gape. Sorry, Lindsay Rose Major, David L Ronis, Shannon Marie Johnson, Christopher John Pipkin, Anthony Robert Evans, John Andrew Gustafson, cum laude.

Brian Hughes Jeffers Brian Frederick Zhang, Magna cum laude Jessica Coulson Barber Summa cum laude. Honors College Nicholas M Ferguson, Andrea Michelle Frederick, Magna cum Laude Andrea Nicole Kovaleski.

Daniel, Jared Madison, Ryan Carroll Nash, Amanda Suzanne Pierce, Adam Christopher Richardson, Carrie Beth Zimmerman, Elena Leanne Athanasatos, Michael Steven Jovel, Joshua Evan Kravitz, Eileen Mary Turner, Megan Marie

Nicolosi, David Daniel Nowak, Melissa. Rhymer, Oleem. Rios, Oleem. Rios, Tobias, Matthew Rodil, Emily Claire Kimmett, Magna cum

Laude Alyssa Kathleen Schodel, Magna cum Laude Tanya N Fur Kim, Descheryl. Collins, Christopher. John.

Gleason, Patrick. Joseph. Kasiki, Amber. Lynn, Lloyd, Robin, Ann.

Mcgillan, Mary Ann McGraw, Cecil. Hutchley, Riley, Joshua J Schaeffler, Amy Suzanne Blackwell, Ashley Megan Brown, Kirsten. Beckerman, Magna.

Come Loud Julianna Berman, Wendy Lee Buchanan, Valerie Ann Chernega, Nicholas Brooke Christiansen, Jennifer Ann Clemmer. Magna cum Laude.

Lisa Marie Como Kelly Jean Counsel Christina Marie Davis, Michelle Donovan, Katie Jean Eiswert, Sarah Rebecca Filler, cum laude. Angela Elaine Freeman, cum laude.

Brian Kent Golden, Rachel a Gal Rebecca Ellen Graves, cum Laude. Paige Andrews Gray, Amber Ashley Hayes, Lisa Forza Hewick, Charles Robert Hoffsommer. Summa cum Laude.

Denise M Holthouse. Eric Robert Kittle, Cynthia Marie Kametchik James Nathaniel Lawson, Mary Elizabeth Mcmenamy Levinson William G Lort Third Crystal Deshawn Mallette Perry W Malone, Elena Myler Joyce Louise

Moore Nichols Lindsay Gordon Pyles Adam Albin Richmond Erica Rosenbaum, Michael Scott Rosenthal Stacia Nicole Roth Erica Michelle Ryan Jenny Melissa Schwartz, Nicole Marie Ang Simone Jeffrey Allen Van Cleave Valerie Anne Vaughn

Candace Valene Walker, Melissa Marie White, Kate Ashley Whitmore Kelly Annie Wiles, Renee Belle Zizzo, Michael Craig Abel Anna Rebecca Brown Scott David Bussum Gero Bernard Carbone cum Laude.

David A Cole, Third Haley and Durbin Magna cum laude. Honors College Jeffrey Michael Freeman, Daniel Casey Grant Ben Michael Hartman, Michelle Lee Holmes, Jessica Lynn Horniman Toria Erica Hofstede, Malia Christine Johnston, Jeffrey

Benjamin Kirschner, Michael John Edward Lowston Seth John McCauley Summa cum Laude. Colleen Allison Moneymaker Jason T Myers, Joseph Michael O'Neill Junior Jessica Lee, Phoebus Keirsa and Raby Jason Scott

Shaver, Karen Grant Snowden Anthony Michael Spees, Lauren E Summers Summa cum Laude. William Carlin Wager 4. Bonnie Aaron Wasserman.

I'm sorry. Jay Yacolson. Let's see one second. Harine Jayantha De Silva.

We need another box. Douglas, Arnold. Lyons, Sally. Dolch, Lisa.

Corriveau. Snyder, Rachel Richard Gribbon, Alice. Bonner Middleton, Summa cum laude. Good morning.

I'm Sharma Palutla, the Associate Dean for the College of Business and Economics. On my far right is Doctor Albert Avery, the Dean of the College of Business and Economics.

On behalf of Dean Avery, the faculty and staff of the CBE, and myself, I would like to congratulate all graduates for a major milestone that you've accomplished. Dean Avery will be individually congratulating each student as

they walk past the stage. Keith Norman Wiesner, summa cum laude. Dualita John Allegada, Magna cum laude. Jeffrey, Michael.

Climber cum Laude. Sarita Maritza Heinlein, cum Laude. Alice Carroll, Maxwell, Jonathan Matthew Miskeman, Sergei Petrasov, Magna cum Laude.

Stacy, Elaine. Ring, Roxanna Lavette, Thomas, Neil R Alloys, Brian Allen. Appel, Deborah Jean Basham, Dolores, Lynette Branch, Summa cum Laude.

Alexis, James Belenky, Stephanie. Summer. Atkinson, Roland James Bells, Summa cum Laude. Elena Bridget Bilello, Allison Marie Cavey, Naomi Danabola

Birnbaum, Joy Murray Billings, Eugene Belbier, Craig Alexander Blinky, Junior, Giuseppe Andriano Carpentieri, Magna cum laude. Gary Lee Barnhart Junior Shannon Lynn Collie cum Laude Lisa D

Crouch, Gary Allen Crumb Kimberly Michelle Curry Kenny Dang DK Dang Eric Bertel Danielson Anthony Matthew Deserbo, Timothy John Dodson, Shelley Lynn Dorman S Jeremiah Fagan Summa Lacumude.

Adam Grant Friedberg Summa cum Laude. Honors College Melissa Marie Gagnon, Pat John Chiaglia Brian Charles Taylor Eric Dale Hall Christopher Dwayne Halsted, Jill Heather Hamilton miRNA Hamoud Put 3 Hazlina Hashim Jessica

Elise Hay Troy Bradshaw Hendricks Christopher Scott Harmony Jessica Margaret Hale, Andrew Scott Horowitz, Adam Ryan Low Christopher Michael Hurley, Myra Siona Khan, Yasuko Kaji Michael Joseph Kanjorski cum Laude.

Bryan Daniel Kessler, Christopher Wayne Kirwan Archana Kolaram Reginald James Lapierre Junior Michael J Lauer The Third Susan Marie Lenihan Paul Joseph Levay cum Laude. Katie Lynn Mccoskey, Catherine Carey Mahan Christina Gabriel

Mann, Nora Mariani, Nicole Renee Marietta Alexandra K Mavrelos, Julie Kristen McCann, Jennifer Deidre McCarty Magna cum Laude. Thomas Edmund Lewis, Aaron Michelle Mcgarrell, Jeanette Marie McCloud, Tom Loudy, Patrick Connor McMullen, Mark M

Manicheim, Leslie Christina Meredith, Anna Alexandra Mironenko, Cheryl Marie Moylan, Stephen Michael Murichu, Aaron Patricia Murray, Irene Patricia Nichols, Jamie Lynn Nisowitz. Lewis, John.

O'Donnell, Yosef Velvel, Orshan Pasha Pervizian cum Laude. Ashish Praful Patel, David Earl Patterson, Deborah Donnell Price cum Laude. Angela K Prochaska, Cindy Carmen Ramirez, Michael Robert

Richardson, Brian James Rybaki, Alison K Schwartz Fleming Granville Scott Chill One CEO Pinky Balakrishna Shah, Sarah C Schechner cum Laude. Norbert, Michael Maturon, Robert.

Douglas Sherman, Matthew John Shipley, Muhammad A Siddiq, Brian John Siegel, Jason. Bryce Siegel, Lisa Murray Skaggs cum Laude. Brian Patrick Smith, Adela, Patricia.

Smith, Christopher Allen Smith, Brian. Gack So Despina ke Sofu, Matthew. Norris, Haley, Zachary, Daniel. Spells, Melinda Shay Stafford, Melissa.

Joy Stairs, Magna cum Laude. Charles Thomas Steele Junior. Jeffrey Lawrence Stein, Tina Marie K Stone, Rebecca Suzanne Swamley.

Mark Todd Harris. Michael Anthony Nassau. Ryan Christopher Gatto. Amir Rand Tracy Eileen Watson.

Thomas Adam C Chuck Michael Phillip Torsani Allison Eileen Top Lee Curtis Trossbach Junior. Candace Nicole Tucker Magna cum Laude. Andrew Spencer Wales.

Otis Warren. Third. Jacob Liya Welborn. Ryan Allen Wetzel.

Christopher Danielle Williams, Jason Patrick Zephyr. Jennifer Noel Clark Wesley Keith Johnson 2nd Scott Roger McKnight. Hassan Iftikhar Ratur.

Timothy James Stonessifer. Michael Kevin Wiser, Sean Michael Williams, Donald Hathaway Reeve. 4th AMU.

Natalie Chengan. Good morning. I'm Doctor Katherine Denniston, Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics.

To my far right. I'd like to you to meet Doctor Gerald Intimen, the Dean of the college. On behalf of the Dean, the faculty, staff and students of

the College of Science and Mathematics, it is my great honor to present to you this morning the January 2002 graduates of our college. Steven Edward Probst, summa cum laude, Stacy Keitra Dennis

Victoria Lynn Dare, Magna cum laude. Maggie Elizabeth Di Matteo Matthew James Evans, Amy Louise Victor Don Marie Kretchmer, Lisa Marie Mccam, Kendra Tamino Mac John David Mandeville Summa cum Laude Danielle Steven Newman

Junior Marcus Edward Perry, Sonia Rodriguez, Kevin Joseph Ryan Angela Specchia Nudis, Lenny Taslim Tonya Renee Wolf Oyenda Mola Aloofa Shola Iwanai, Daniel Scott Bakandi William Bryce Claggett, Jamie Lynn Coleman Summa cum Laude.

Michael Anthony Coppa Felice Heather Michelle Dents, Matthew Jacob Freeman, Tomoyuki Fujihara, Jennifer Lynn Gazerowski, Keisha Dawn Greenridge cum Laude Janet Gutierrez, Ishatu Hassan Magna cum Laude.

Clark, Joseph. Haddock, The Third. John Kim, Joseph, Michael. Lease, Jia, Jeanine Little, Mark Dorian, Mavris, Raymond, Corey.

Mitchum, Sean. Fitzpatrick, O'Neill. Vincent, George. Peterkin, Brian O Roberts, Franklin, Corey.

Edwards, Gregory S Rogers, Brendan. William Spencer, Benjamin, James. Taylor, Charles, Jacob. Thomas, Justin.

Luke Thomas, Jeffrey Yin, Ming Say, Jason E Tyler, Muhammad Bilal Udine, Wesley Wade Warnick, Magna cum Laude. Patricia Ann, comp cum Laude. Catherine Elizabeth Luazo Serena Anne Meenan, Keto Nuboji, Magna

cum laude. Anthony, Ronald, Primata Magna cum Laude. Robert Douglas, Prowl Summa cum Laude. Mark Allen Reed, Muhammad Sidhu, Gary Sapoznik, Even Angelov,

Slavov, Robert JG Steyr Fault, Bradley, Clayton, Dutterer, Jodie Ellen Lewis, Christopher David Quinn, Tara. Ryan Anthony John Kalise, Kellyanne Fillinger, Kalika Robin Robin Howard Christine Ann Jankowski, Andrea Don Setliff

Meredith Catherine Souter, Nancy Rust Souter Junior Joshua Ryan Webster, Kristen Rebecca Ramsburg, Maria Dolores Reed, Brian Scott Jacobs, Mary Ann Wei Moon Chen Jeffrey Michael Gann. All right, congratulations and best wishes to each of you.

But I'd like everyone to join me just one more time in giving a special thanks to those who work very, very hard to make this event very special. Miss Sally Allison and other members of the event and

conference services. Mr. Dan Leonard in the president's office. Mr.

Bill ruling in the Provost office, Miss Mary Ellen Quinby of Enrollment Services, Alicia Schwartz, the University Store and other members of the Commencement planning committee, our faculty, marshals, graduates, will you join me in

expressing our appreciation for the hard work of making this a big day? You know you've received a degree today, but the truth of the matter is it's not so much important that which we have in

life, but rather that which we choose as citizens to do with it. So we charge you as graduates to go forth into the world and make a difference building upon that which you've received today.

Let the last words that we hear today be those of our graduates and our students. Speaking about the learning experience, let me share with you the words of Heidi Basserin from Virginia, majoring in deaf

studies and elementary education. She really didn't waste a lot of words to describe her Towson The experience has meant to her. She simply said, wonderful.

Sean Petit, a student from Baltimore and International Studies, said, quote, I have received a quality education at Towson. The school prepares students for professional lifestyle.

When you leave Towson, you've not only acquired book knowledge but also knowledge for life. I would ask the members of the audience and graduates remain standing until the President's party and the faculty is

recessed. Will everyone please stand and join Anna Marie Cell in the singing of God Bless America? You will find the words on page 25 of your commencement program.

God Bless America, the land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her through the night from above, from the mountains to the valley. Through the Lord, from the world to the world, the.

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