2016 FALL SEMESTER UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY Friday, December 16, 2016 1:00 p.m. Halenbeck Hall Gymnasium St. Cloud State University MACE BEARER THOMAS HERGERT, Learning Resources Services Faculty Association President FACULTY LINE LEADERS KATE MOONEY, Professor Accounting STEVEN MOONEY, Professor Finance, Insurance and Real Estate MARSHALS STACY MARTIG, Associate Professor Department of Academic Support WILLIAM LEPKOWSKI, Associate Professor Community Psychology, Counseling & Family Therapy DAVID WALL, Professor Geography and Planning BALASUBRAMANIAN KASI, Professor Environmental & Technological Studies TRACY ORE, Professor Sociology MERTON THOMPSON, Professor Information Media JO ANN ASQUITH, Professor Marketing STEVEN MCCULLAR, Assistant Professor Educational Leadership and Higher Education ANNOUNCER PAM SECKLIN, Professor Communication Studies UNIVERSITY MARION JUDISH, Professor CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR Music SONG LEADERS JONATHAN W. RYDBERG RYAN B. SWANSON TYREQUE B. LONG Department of Music Students SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER LANORA JOHNSON Student Disability Services 2 P ROGRAM Ashish Vaidya, Interim President Daniel Gregory, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Matthew Andrew, Vice President for University Advancement Tammy McGee, Vice President for Finance and Administration Wanda Overland, Vice President for Student Life and Development PRE-CEREMONY MUSIC “THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER” by John Stafford Smith UNIVERSITY “THEME TO DOWNTON ABBEY” by John Lund CHAMBER ORCHESTRA “SIMPLE SYMPHONY, MOVEMENT I” by Benjamin Britten *PROCESSIONAL MUSIC “THEMES FROM POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE MARCHES NO. 1 AND NO. 4” by Edward Elgar UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FACULTY GREETINGS ELIZABETH VALENCIA-BORGERT Center for Continuing Studies INTRODUCTIONS WANDA OVERLAND, Vice President for Student Life and Development WELCOME ASHISH VAIDYA, Interim President GREETINGS FROM MnSCU ALEX CIRILLO, Trustee Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees GREETINGS FROM DAVID A. KLEIS, ‘89 CITY OF ST. CLOUD Mayor COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BAILEY LAPOINT, Class of 2016 School of the Arts PRESENTATION OF THE DANIEL GREGORY, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs GRADUATING CLASS ADEL ALI, Interim Dean, College of Science & Engineering DALE BUSKE, Interim Associate Dean, School of Computing, Engineering & Environment KING BANAIAN, Dean, School of Public Affairs GLENN DAVIS, Interim Assistant Provost for University College MONICA DEVERS, Dean, School of Health & Human Services DAVID HARRIS, Dean, Herberger Business School STEVEN HOOVER, Interim Dean, School of Education LATHA RAMAKRISHNAN, Interim Dean, School of Graduate Studies & Associate Provost of Research and Sponsored Programs MARK SPRINGER, Dean, College of Liberal Arts RAYMOND PHILIPPOT, Associate Dean, School of the Arts KEITH EWING, Interim Dean, Learning Resources CONFERRING OF DEGREES ASHISH VAIDYA, Interim President ALUMNI ASSOCIATION REMARKS TERRI MISCHE, Executive Director St. Cloud State University Alumni Association *MUSIC “UNIVERSITY HYMN” by Harvey Waugh and UNIVERSITY (Words are found in the back of the program.) Amy Dale, emeriti professors CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and Audience CLOSING WANDA OVERLAND, Vice President for Student Life and Development *RECESSIONAL MUSIC “SINFONIA RUSTICANA, MOVEMENTS 1 AND II” by Antonio Vivaldi UNIVERSITY “AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL” by Samuel Ward CHAMBER ORCHESTRA *Audience please stand 3 ROSA ISABEL CHRISTIANSON ANANTA RAJ PANDEY G RADUATES International Falls Blaine AMY LYNN DINKEL-VAN VALKENBURG DUSTIN DAVID REVERMANN Long Prairie Willmar KARAH ANN HAWKINSON RODOLFO JOSE QUERALES Coon Rapids Longwood, Florida KRISTIN J. HENDERSON NIMAH SAEED Doctor of Education Monticello St. Cloud JUDY LEE BEATON ALYSSA GRACE KILBOURN YI SHENG Morris Cedar Falls, Iowa China BETH JEAN BERGREN-MANN PHILLIP ANDREW KLOPFENSTEIN ERIC STALBOERGER Sartell Chesterfield, Missouri Cold Spring AMY BETH DENNESON STEPHANIE MARIE LEMMER JASON C. SWANSON Minneapolis Buffalo MELISSA JOY TELLINGHUISEN MELISSA JOY LEWIS JESSICA WADE-FERRELL Milaca Minnetonka St. Cloud JESSICA ELISE TYE JOAN MARY LU JIAQI ZHAI Byron St. Cloud Sanya, Hainan Province, China ABDULMAJEED HADI MADKHALI MING ZHU Executive Masters in Jazan, Saudi Arabia Fengcheng City, China Engineering Management ANDREW SIMON MCNEIL DAVID WAYNE BRAUCH Shakopee Master of Engineering Hewitt FREDRICK THOMAS MILLER Management Santa Rosa, California BENJAMIN WELLINGTON COOK GNANA SUNNY ANTONY Woodbury EDLE BILE SANWA Bloomington St. Cloud KIMBERLY GANZEL AKHILA ARRAMREDDY Centerville LUCAS ALLEN WILKENS Minneapolis Lakeville PRAKASH HEGDE SANDEEP REDDY BASIREDDY Plymouth DOUCHI YANG Sun Prairie, Wisconsin GUSTAVO E. HERNANDEZ ELILY GIRMA DAFFA Otsego Addis Ababa, Ethiopia CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL KAMINSKI Master of Business SAI KOWSHIK DANDAVATHI North Branch Administration SURENDRA KOLLURU DANIEL LEE BACKES RAJA SEKHAR REDDY DUMPA Avon Minneapolis TODD GAYLORD LANGMADE JAMES MICHAEL BELL CHEN KWANG FONG Wayzata Hoover, Alabama ANDREW ALEXANDER LE JENNIFER M. CASTLE MEHER GUNDAVARUM Minnetonka Baxter Warangal, India JUSTIN R. MEAGHER ALEXANDER DAVID COULTER NIKHIL KARELLA Golden Valley St. Cloud Hyderabad, India SHIVA PRAKASH MOOSAI JAMES ALLEN COX VARA LAKSHMI KARI New Hope Sartell India JOSEPH NGAIMA YUNKE FU MITHILESH REDDY KARUKA Monticello China SUTHARSAN RAJAN NICHOLAS KILEY GRANOWSKI SAIVIJAYARAM CHOWDARY KARUTURI Mounds View St. Joseph Tanuku, India SUJAN SHRESTHA XUAN HUANG NARAYANA MURTHY KASIBHOTLA Apple Valley China St. Cloud GURINDER PAL SINGH BAO SY TIEN LE SAILESH KODALI Plymouth Burnsville SASA SUBIC FEIYING LI ROHILA MALGARI Eden Prairie Changji, China THINH THANH NGUYEN SAQIB BURHAN MATTO Master of Arts Hanoi, Vietnam Mankato MARTINA ABAT NATHAN FRANKEN NODLAND HARINI MUPPIDI Niksic, Montenegro Minneapolis Hanamkonda, Telangana, India MICHAEL JOHN ARMSTRONG MATTHEW LOUIS OLDING RAKESH MUPPIDI Brainerd Bloomington JOSHUA KYLE CHASE BERNARD JOSEPH OMANN PRANAY PAPISHETTY St. Stephen Hyderabad, India To prepare programs in advance, this listing contains names of students who submitted an application to graduate to the Office of Records and Registration by the published deadline for this semester. This list may have inaccuracies and omissions. Graduation and receipt of honors are validated by the student’s permanent records which are kept by the Office of Records and Registration. In addition, this program is not a list of registered commencement ceremony participants or an official list of graduates or honors. The presentation of diplomas does not follow the student order as printed in this program. 4 SNIGDHA PAVULURI TYLER JAMES BLOM WEI HUI Paterson, New Jersey Cloquet Rizhao, Shandong, China RAGHAVENDRA SANTOSH POGARU NAGA SANDEEP SINGH BONDILI JOSHUA S. IHRKE Visakhapatnam, India Becker ROHITH REDDY POREDDY BROCK WILLIAM CASH NAZIA ISLAM Hyderabad, India St. Cloud BARKHA RAJPUT CELINA AMY COTTLE LEA LYNN JACQUEMART Vadnais Heights Ramsey PRAVEEN KUMAR RAMINI MEGAN KATHLEEN COX THOMAS A. JANSSEN Hyderabad, India Summersville, West Virginia Cold Spring PRITHVI RAJU SARIPALLI AARON JACOB CROSS YOORA JEON Hyderabad, India St. Cloud Daegu, Korea TATIANA SEMENOVA JESSICA MARIE DAUW ALICIA MARIE JOB Maple Grove Sauk Rapids Otsego VITTAL SAI SRIMATTIRUMALA NICHOLAS CHRISTIAN DECHENE CHARLES BENJAMIN KANGAS Hyderabad, India Maple Lake St. Cloud SHASHANK SUROJU SONIA DIAZ DE LEON DAVID JOHN KAPPELHOFF Minneapolis Minneapolis SUSHMA VELIMENETI MEGAN ELIZABETH DICKEY SAKSHI KAPUR Nalgonda,Telangana, India Maple Grove Jaipur PRANAV VISHNUMOLAKALA JENNIFER MARIE DILLON ASHISH KASTURY Arden Hills SAI KUMAR YARABATI JILLIAN PATRICIA DOHERTY SIZI M. KAWALAWU Srikakulam, India Lino Lakes Brooklyn Park MEGAN JO DOLAN MARIAMA CIRE KEBE Master of Science Sauk Rapids JENNIFER L. DOLNEY ASHTON OTTO ADANK AUSTIN DAVIS KEITH Vadnais Heights Kasson Prior Lake MARIE S. ERICKSON MHD REDWAN ALBOUGHA BRIAN PATRICK KEMMY St. Cloud Syria Sauk Rapids DAVID E. FELKEY DEBORAH A. ALLEN KRISTEN NICOLE KISSNER Corcoran Robbinsdale Parker, Colorado JOLENE MARIE FITCH REDWAN AHMED ALWARD EDLIRA KOSTALLARI Fort Ripley Sanaa, Yemen Pogradec, Albania KEVIN JOHN FITZPATRICK ALYSSA R. ANDERSON VICTORIA JAY KRAEMER Sauk Rapids CORY A. FRANSON SHEILA MARIE ANDERSON Elk River JEFFREY M. KRAFT Jacksonville, Florida Dubuque, Iowa KATIE MARIE GARBACZ IVON RAJ ANTHONY Princeton JASON LEE KUHLMAN Plymouth White Bear Lake CONNOR MICHAEL GRIGGS JACOB JAMES APLAND Eagan CAROL ELIZABETH KUHN Circle Pines Marty BRITTANY CAROLE GOTZINGER KAITLYN ELIZABETH BADEN Winona SANJESH KUMAR Sauk Rapids Charlotte, North Carolina KORI JILL GUZA DANIELLE BAILEY Marshall TYLER ROSS LABONNE Champlin St. Cloud MIRANDA BETHANY HADA BLAKE H. BARNES BRANDON M. LADOUX Eden Prairie Grand Rapids LINDSEY JAYNE BARTHOLDI MARY ELIZABETH HALBUR CHING CHRISTY LAI Zimmerman Ames, Iowa Hong Kong SANTOSH BASNET DANIEL GEORGE HALONEN YIN HAN QUINCY LAU St. Cloud St. Cloud Hong Kong JENNIFER MARIE BEALS LUKE THOMAS HAMILTON RYAN EMERSON LETTICE Lansdale, Pennsylvania Brainerd Fullerton, California BRENDA J. BEBEAU ELIZABETH ANNA HARRI-DENNIS CAPRI ANN LOEGERING Blaine Big Lake IAN ROBERT BERNICK CHUE HER KA YING LO Big Lake Brooklyn Park Hong Kong ASKIA NASIR BILAL VICTORIA L. HICKENBOTHAM JESSICA LYNN LOES Columbia, Missouri St. Paul Plymouth To prepare programs in advance, this listing contains names of students who submitted an application to graduate to the Office of Records and Registration by the published deadline for this semester. This list may