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St. Cloud State University theRepository at St. Cloud State Commencement Programs University Archives 5-22-1998 Commencement Program [Spring 1998] St. Cloud State University Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/commpro Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation St. Cloud State University, "Commencement Program [Spring 1998]" (1998). Commencement Programs. 213. https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/commpro/213 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at theRepository at St. Cloud State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Commencement Programs by an authorized administrator of theRepository at St. Cloud State. For more information, please contact [email protected]. COMMENCEMENT SPRING QUARTER Friday, May Twenty-second Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-eight Ten-thirty a.m. National Hockey Center St. Cloud State University ST. «:LOUD STATE UNIVERSITY A tradition of excellence and opportunity Commencement marks of students in years to come would commemo rate through this ceremony the academic and renewal of SCSU tradition practical knowledge they had gained to prepare of excellence and opportunity them for a career and for life. They would be reminded of the issues they had explored and 1871 graduate Alfretta Van Valkenberg, a mem the opinions they had formulated. They would ber of the Third Normal School's (later St. celebrate the friends they had met from differ Cloud State University) first class, recalled ent backgrounds and diverse cultures. Today's years later the vivid memory and dramatic im graduates are the latest to benefit from the tra pact of her commencement: "I felt all of life dition of excellence and opportunity that Al was open to me and I could tread (life's) paths fretta Van Valkenberg and all those in between with a firm and reliant tread." discovered at the Third Normal School and its The environment on this campus has later incarnations, St. Cloud Teachers College, changed significantly since Alfretta received her St. Cloud State College and St. Cloud State diploma. But the one-building teacher training University. school where Alfretta received her higher edu For Alfretta and her peers, becoming a cation has something important in common teacher was the only option. Now this highly with the comprehensive, sprawling university accredited university offers 70 undergraduate on the Mississippi that has earned a national and 3 7 graduate programs in a wide variety of reputation for excellence: It continues to arm career fields. While the campus has evolved students with the knowledge, experiences and into five colleges plus graduate and continuing skills to transform their lives. It continues to studies programs and enrollment has grown to provide an atmosphere where learning from the more than 14,000, St. Cloud State remains a past enriches planning for the future. There place where students come to be transformed. truly is a tradition of excellence and opportuni Then and now students receive an affordable, ty for all St. Cloud State students. high-quality education -- and a bridge to a pro The Third Normal School's first principal, Ira fession. Then and now students gain the confi Moore, and the State Normal Board displayed dence to "tread (life's) paths with a firm and re the foresight and progressive spirit that remains liant tread," as Alfretta so aptly wrote in her evident on this campus today Those first lead tribute. ers started building "a nucleus of a library that At this commencement we salute Alfretta will in time meet all the needs of the large in and all the graduates who followed -- especially stitution this is destined to become." Today's those we gather to pay tribute to today state and university leaders recently secured for Whether they are the first in their families to tomorrow's students a $32.5 million library cross the commencement stage or are becoming that will be the hub of the St. Cloud State Uni one of an increasing number of second or versity as it enters the 21st century. third-generation SCSU alumni to benefit from St. Cloud State's tradition of excellence and op Sharing a proud tradition portunity, all share this once-in-a-lifetime ac With that first commencement, which took complishment with the families and friends place 12 7 years ago in a small church building whose support helped bring them to this day that still stands south of Coborn's on Fifth Av enue, a proud tradition was begun. Thousands Excellence and OPPORTUNITY MACE BEARER JAMES C. PEHLER, Associate Professor Learning Resources and Technology Services FACULTY LINE LEADERS GARRY G. ANDERSON, Professor Earth Sciences STEVEN P MOONEY, Professor Finance, Insurance and Real Estate MARSHALS BRUCE A. BUSTA, Professor Accounting LELAND E. DAVIS, Assistant Professor Sociology and Anthropology RODNEY G. DOBEY, Professor Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sport Science LUTHER I. ROTTO, Associate Professor Learning Resources and Technology Services ANNETTE SCHOENBERGER, Professor Computer Science MARY S. WEISE, Associate Professor Communication Disorders ANNOUNCERS BASSEY A. EYO, Professor Speech Communication ERIKA VORA, Professor Speech Communicati.on HOODERS STEPHEN R. FULLER, Professor Music JAN L HINTZ, Associate Professor Teacher Development DON L HOFSOMMER, Professor History RONA J . KARASIK, Assistant Professor Community Studies ST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY PATRICIA DeBENEDETTO, Conductor SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE Instructor of Music SONG LEADER MABETH S. GYLLSTROM, Professor Music SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER KATHERINE UNTERBURGER 2 PROGRAM BRUCE F GRUBE, presiding Suzanne R. Williams, Vice President for Academic Affairs Eugene A. Gilchrist, Vice President for Administrative Affairs Lee E. Bird, Vice President for Student Life and Development Shawn A. Teal, Executive Director for University Relations and Foundation *PROCESSIONAL MUSIC "MARCH" from Second Suite in F (For Military Band), Op. 28 No. 2 Symphonic Wind Ensemble By Gustav Holst WELCOME BRUCE F GRUBE, President *MUSIC "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL" Symphonic Wind Ensemble By Samuel A. Ward and Audience (Words are found in the back of the program.) COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS LLOYD DANIEL, State Representative Missouri House of Representatives MUSIC "HOBBITS" from Symphony No. 1, The Lord of the Rings Symphonic Wind Ensemble By Johan de Meij RECOGNITION OF DOCTORAL DARRELL R. LEWIS,Interim Chair, Department of Educational Policy DEGREE CANDIDATES and Administration, University of Minnesota PRESENTATION OF THE SUZANNE R. WILLIAMS, Vice President for Academic Affairs GRADUATING CLASS DENNIS L. NUNES, Dean, Graduate and Continuing Studies JAMES M. KELLY, Dean, College of Business JOANE W McKAY, Dean, College of Education ROLAND H. SPECHT-JARVIS, Dean, College of Fine Arts and Humanities A.I. MUSAH, Dean, College of Science and Engineering RICHARD D. LEWIS, Interim Dean, College of Social Sciences KRISTI M. TORNQUIST, Dean, Learning Resources and Technology Services CONFERRING OF DEGREES BRUCE F GRUBE, President ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SHAWN A. TEAL, Executive Director for REMARKS University Relations and Foundation *MUSIC "UNIVERSITY HYMN" Symphonic Wind Ensemble By Harvey Waugh and Amy Dale, Professors Emeriti and Audience Arranged by Professor Emeritus Roger L. Barrett (Words are found in the back of the program.) CLOSING REMARKS BRUCE F GRUBE, President *RECESSIONAL MUSIC "ARSENAL CONCERT MARCH" Symphonic Wind Ensemble By Jan Van der Roost *Audience please stand 3 GRADUATE SCHOOL NATHALIE M. LEWIS Master of Business English Adviser: Donna Gorrell Administration St. Cloud PUI HONG ANG XIAODONG LI Adviser: Wayne R. Wells Biology Pontian, Malaysia Ed.D. Collaborative Adviser: Timothy J. Schuh DERRICK TU JEE CHEAH Program in Educational Plymouth Adviser: Wayne R. Wells Leadership, University of KIRK]. MANN Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia English: STEPHANIE MARIE PASCH CLARK Minnesota/St. Cloud Rhetoric and Applied Writing Adviser: Wayne R. Wells State University Adviser: Rex L. Veeder White Bear Lake KENNETH MARTIN BLATTNER New York Mills GARY J. FEIST SCSU Adviser: Charles Moore LISA LEE NUEHRING Adviser: Wayne R. Wells St. Cloud History Edgeley CHRISTINE DAVIS INKSTER Adviser: Edward Gambill NANCY LYNN FISCHER SCSU Adviser: Alice Thomas Little Falls Adviser: Wayne R. Wells St. Cloud DAVID ALAN OMERSA St. Cloud History MASAKI GOTO Adviser: Don L. Hofsommer Adviser: Wayne R. Wells Master of Arts Gilbert Tustin, California STEVEN BENJAMIN AN_DERSON CHRISTOPHER MCPHERSON OVESON MARK GRAHAM HEIN English English Adviser: Wayne R. Wells Adviser: Steven F Klepetar Adviser: Steven F Klepetar Fridley Granite Falls Monticello MICHAEL BRIAN HILTNER LINDA JEAN BONG REGINA ANN PALIS Adviser: Wayne R. Wells Biology Special Studies: Teaching English St. Cloud Adviser: Standley E. Lewis As A Second Language MICHAL DOMINIK HOPPE Burnsville Adviser: James H . Robinson Adviser: Wayne R. Wells FLORELA SENCidN SANCHEZ BUCK Bloomington , Eagan Art RODNEY W PEDERSON HSIEN-CHIA HUANG Adviser: Don D. Bruno English: Teaching English Adviser: Wayne R. Wells Brunswick As A Second Language Hopkins TODD ALAN FRANCEEN Adviser: James H . Robinson SCOTT DANIEL IMDIEKE Biology· St. Cloud Adviser: Wayne R. Wells Ecology & Natural Resources CHRISTOPHER KYLE PIERRET Sauk Centre Adviser: Neal J. Voelz Biology· Columbia Heights MICHAEL JOHN JENDRO I Microbiology Adviser: Wayne R. Wells TIMOTHY C. FROHRIP Adviser: Timothy J. Schuh St. Cloud English Yankton, South Dakota Adviser: Caesarea Abartis JASON E. JOHNSTON PAULETTE