One Hundred Fifty-Third NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT June 9, 2018 Ten O’Clock in the morning Residence Hall/Recreation Center ORDER OF PROGRAM Processional* . North Central College Graduation Band FACULTY MARSHALS Mary Galvan, Chair, Department of Management and Marketing, Associate Professor of Marketing Karl Kelley, Professor of Psychology Mary Beth Ressler, Ph .D ,. Associate Professor of Education STUDENT MARSHALS Connor Bangs ’19 Kyle Lo Vecchio ’19 Upasna Barath ’19 Reese Richardson ’19 Haley Chang ’19 Alison Schneider ’19 Eric Harris-Simmons ’19 Kennedy Taylor ’19 Jordyn Kellinger ’19 Invocation* . The Rev . Eric Doolittle College Chaplain Welcome . .. Troy D . Hammond, Ph .D . President, Professor of Physics Greetings from the City of Naperville . The Honorable Steve Chirico Mayor, City of Naperville Representing the Graduates . Davonte Sanders-Funches ’18 Commencement Address . Ryan Dowd ’00, J D. Executive Director, Hesed House Recognition of Emeritus Status . Troy D . Hammond Marti Bogart, Ph D. Martha Bohrer, Ph .D . Beverly Richard Cook, Ph D. Associate Professor of Economics Professor of English Professor of Spanish Sheryl Finkle, Ph .D . Richard Guzman, Ph D. John Madormo Professor of Education Professor of English Assistant Professor of Broadcast Communication Heidi Matthews Godfrey Muganda, Ph D. John Shindler, Ph D. Professor of Kinesiology Professor of Computer Science Professor of English Presentation of Honorary Degree . Judith Brodhead Associate Professor of English Doctor of Humane Letters Ryan Dowd ’00, J D. #NCGrad2018 *Please stand - 1 - Special Presentations . Troy D . Hammond Gael D . Swing Award Harold and Eva White First Citizen of the College Award Mark A . Reid Leadership Award The Class of 2018 Gift . Deidre Ewers ’18 Presentation of Candidates for Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees . Abiódún Gòkè-Pariolá, Ph .D . Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of English Presentation of Diplomas . Troy D . Hammond Abiódún Gòkè-Pariolá James McDermet M ’92 Chair, Board of Trustees Assisted by . James W . Godo ’93 Assistant Vice President for External Affairs, Special Assistant to the President Julie Williams Registrar Concluding Remarks . James McDermet M ’92 Benediction* . Sarah Dumler ’18 ORDER OF PROGRAM Singing of the Alma Mater* . All North Central is the school we love, To her we sing this praise, And from the East and from the West You hear the voices raise . Hail! Hail! North Central Hail! Our Alma Mater true, We’ll always, always loyal be To you, to you, to you . Recessional* . North Central College Graduation Band A reception for graduates, parents, friends and members of the campus community will be held outside in Championship Plaza at the conclusion of the ceremony . In the case of inclement weather, the reception will be held in Merner Field House . *Please stand #NCGrad2018 - 2 - HONORS & AWARDS HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT Ryan Dowd ’00, J D. Executive Director, Hesed House Ryan Dowd ’00 earned a bachelor’s degree in religious studies before attending the Northern Illinois University College of Law . Upon receiving his dual J .D . and M .P .A . degree in 2003, Dowd turned down a position as an attorney to become associate director of Hesed House, a homeless shelter in Aurora, Ill . He was named executive director in 2004 . Dowd began volunteering at Hesed House at age 13 and joined the staff when he was a student at North Central College . From 2013 to 2014, Dowd served as executive director of the Center for Faith and Human Rights and then served the same role from 2014 to 2016 for Ayuda, a non-profit organization that provides services to immigrants in the Washington, D C. ., area . He returned to Hesed House as executive director in 2016 . Hesed House continues to be recognized as a national model for serving the homeless . Dowd published “The Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness: An Empathy-Driven Approach to Solving Problems, Preventing Conflict, and Serving Everyone” for the American Library Association in 2018 . He travels all over the United States training municipal organizations on proper engagement with homeless individuals . He also gave a TEDxNorthCentralCollege talk in 2015 . Dowd received the 2011 Alumni Recognition Award from North Central College . The City of Aurora designated August 27, 2013, as “Ryan Dowd Day” and U .S . Congressman Bill Foster recognized Dowd in the U .S . House of Representatives that year for his work at Hesed House . OUTSTANDING SENIOR Each year at Honors Convocation, North Central College names an Outstanding Senior. Sarah Gaither ’18 O’Fallon, Illinois Sarah Gaither ’18, a physics and environmental studies major, was named the 2018 Outstanding Student in Interdisciplinary Studies . She presented her research on photovoltaic cells at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference, the Rall Symposium for Undergraduate Research and the annual Presidents Club Dinner . Gaither was a captain on the North Central women’s soccer team and was a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma honor society for student-athletes with high academic and athletic achievement . She was co-president of the North Central College Fellowship of Christian Athletes and vice president of Green Scene, a student environmental activism organization . As a student worker in the Office of Sustainability, she was actively involved with the implementation of photovoltaic cells on three North Central College buildings, and was also a mentor for freshman student-athletes and a physics tutor for high school students . She will pursue a dual M .B .A . and master of engineering degree in energy systems at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . #NCGrad2018 - 3 - FACULTY EMERITI Marti Bogart, Ph D. Jean Clifton, Ph .D . Associate Provost and Dean of Academic Services; Associate Professor of Management Associate Professor of Economics Jean Clifton’s academic career was devoted to the success of students Marti Bogart’s talents and dedication have influenced nearly all in the human resource management program and in Enactus (Students academic functions of North Central College . Her leadership has been in Free Enterprise), a cocurricular organization that develops multiple crucial to search committees, faculty hires and evaluations, budgets projects for an annual national competition . and course scheduling . She provided a fair but firm presence for hearing complaints, petitions, probations, dismissals and appeals on Clifton joined North Central College in 2000 . In 2006, she was promoted behalf of Academic Affairs . In recent years, her keen management to associate professor of management and marketing and received and coordination of space for classrooms and offices was integral tenure . to the success of relocating dozens of faculty and departments to Clifton helped to obtain a $20,000 James S . Kemper grant to fund student the Dr . Myron Wentz Science Center, new School of Business and travel to Guatemala for the Enactus coffee import project . She traveled to Entrepreneurship and renovated Goldspohn Hall . She also provided Guatemala many times with students and became a scholar on the topic insight and leadership to the semester calendar task force as co-chair . of service learning . Before assuming her administrative duties as associate academic dean Her other area of scholarship focused on the effects of corporate in 1999 and associate provost and dean of academic services in 2015, restructuring on families, unions and employees . She established the Bogart was an esteemed teacher of economics . She came to North Student Human Resource Management organization and maintained Central College in 1982 as an instructor of economics, earned tenure close relationships with her former students . Her courses included in 1988, became associate professor in 1990, chaired the economics Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Compensation, department from 1988 to 1992, and then chaired the economics and Personnel Management and Employment Law at both the undergraduate business division from 1992 to 1998 . and graduate level . In 2018, she received the Harold R . Wilde Her teaching and service to the College have been recognized with a Distinguished Service Award for service to students . Clarence F . Dissinger Award for Distinguished Teaching (1988) and the Clifton earned her bachelor’s (1981) and master’s (1988) degrees from the Harold and Eva White First Citizen of the College award (2011) . University of Minnesota, and Ph .D . from Cornell University (1999) . She earned her bachelor’s (1978) degree from John Carroll University . She received her master’s degree from Purdue University (1980), followed by her Ph .D . in economics in 1985 . Thomas Clifton, Ph .D . Associate Professor of Management Information Systems Thomas Clifton joined North Central College in 2000, bringing expertise Martha Bohrer, Ph .D . in management information systems, quantitative methods, statistics, Professor of English operations research, econometrics and human resource management to Martha Bohrer is widely admired for her steadfast commitment to his teaching in the Division of Economics and Business, now the School of students, campus leadership and unflagging dedication to the College . Business and Entrepreneurship . In 2002 Bohrer joined the English faculty at North Central after In 2001, he was appointed coordinator of the Master of Science in pursuing private sector careers in sales and water resources planning . Management Information