2008 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES December 13, 2008 Order of the 2008 Fall Commencement Exercises Processional Evansville Brass Quintet, Pomp and Circumstance, Edward Elgar, Composer Grand Marshal Thomas M. Rivers, Professor of English and Director of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program Marshals Jennifer A. Briggs, Associate Registrar Linda L. Cleek, Associate Dean of Extended Services Sandy K. Farmer, Registrar Pamela F. Hopson, Director of Multicultural Center Nancy L. Johnson, Director of Alumni and Volunteer Services Eric H. Otto, Director of Admission Tracy Sinn, Assistant Registrar Lee Ann Wambach, Academic Programs Coordinator/Advisor Andrew J. Zellers, Assistant Registrar Welcome and Introductions H. Ray Hoops, President Reflection William C. Henderson, Assistant Dean of the College of Business; Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems The Commencement Address Sherry B. Darrell, Professor of English; 2008 Integra Bank Distinguished Professor Conferral of Degrees H. Ray Hoops, President Assisted by Linda L. M. Bennett, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Presentation of Graduates John L. Deem, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Master Degrees Graduate Studies H. Ray Hoops, President Awarding of Hoods Peggy Harrel, Director of Graduate Studies Baccalaureate Degrees College of Business Mohammed F. Khayum, Dean, Professor of Economics Bower-Suhrheinrich College of Education and Human Services Julie H. Edmister, Dean, Professor of Education Extended Services M. Edward Jones, Dean, Extended Services College of Liberal Arts David M. Glassman, Dean, Professor of Anthropology College of Nursing and Health Professions Nadine A. Coudret, Dean, Professor of Nursing Pott College of Science and Engineering Scott A. Gordon, Dean, Professor of Biology Associate Degrees Linda L. M. Bennett, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Recessional Evansville Brass Quintet Dr. Sherry B. Darrell Will Bring Commencement Address Today’s commenc ement speaker is In addition to having edited books, Dr. Sherry Bevins Darrell, professor of journals, and other publications, English and director of Humanities. Dr. Darrell wrote a number of She received the 2008 Integra Bank published papers and has presented Distinguished Professor Award, more than 60 papers at regional recognizing significant achievement and national conferences. She was in teaching, scholarship, and service founding sponsor of the Indiana at the University of Southern Iota chapter of Alpha Chi national Indiana. This semester she teaches academic honor society and is a her last courses and will retire in current member of the American June after a sabbatical. Philological Association, the Shakespeare Association After earning the Doctor of of America, and the College Philosophy degree at George English Association. Peabody College for Teachers (Vanderbilt University), Dr. Darrell Dr. Darrell has participated joined the University in 1975 as actively in Evansville and a part-time assistant professor of Dr. Sherry Bevins Darrell Owensboro, serving on a number English and became a full-time of community-organization boards faculty member in 1978. She was presentation drafts for faculty, and volunteering to write and promoted to associate professor in administrators, and representatives teach at some of these same 1986 and to full professor in 1993. of community organizations. organizations. She has taught In 2005, she became director of an adult Sunday School class at the interdisciplinary Humanities During more than three decades of Trinity United Methodist Church program. She has taught a variety service, Dr. Darrell has significantly for 25 years. of literature and composition influenced the development of courses, including Shakespeare, University ceremonial traditions. The University is proud to Milton, Greek tragedy, freshman As the first to propose that USI celebrate the work of Dr. Darrell rhetoric, and advanced composition recognize an outstanding graduating and her significant impact in the as well as Humanities. senior, she devised the selection classroom, on campus, and in process for the President’s Medal, the community. Dr. Darrell’s contributions to the highest honor given a graduating the University extend beyond the senior at Commencement. classroom. For more than 25 years she organized and led annual trips Dr. Darrell served on the committee to the Stratford Shakespeare that planned the University’s first Festival in Canada. And she has inauguration when H. Ray Hoops led tours of literary and historical became USI’s second president. sites in England, Scotland, France, Drawing on knowledge of academic Italy, and Greece. Considered a tradition from her study of history, “teacher of teachers” as well as a literature, language, and the teacher of students, Dr. Darrell has practices of early churches and served on many faculty committees universities, she suggested the and mentored junior and adjunct elements in the presidential seal, faculty members. Widely regarded which now serves as the University for her writing expertise, she seal, and Dr. Darrell coordinated frequently edits manuscripts and the investiture ceremony. University of Southern Indiana Candidates for Degrees Class of 2008 10 a.m. Ceremony This printed list of candidates for degrees does not include late changes. Master Degrees MASTER OF BUSINESS MASTER OF HEALTH Jennifer Lynn Ellis, Danville, Illinois ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION Nursing Education Leslie Ann Gray, Westfield Trina Ann Archer, Clinton, Tennessee James P. Bosley, Georgetown Nursing Management and Leadership Blair R. Brown, Evansville Deborah A. Bruner, Paoli Karen Higdon, Louisville, Kentucky Nicholas M. Buchanan, Mount Vernon Justin Burton, Bloomington Nursing Management and Leadership Andrew J. Cherry, Evansville Sara E. Butterworth, Owensboro, Kentucky Bruce R. Williams, Spurgeon Constantin Donea, Evansville Barbara L. Cash, Evansville Nursing Management and Leadership Matthew Robert Duncan, Henderson, Kentucky Kimberly L. Field, Oakland City Kristin Leann Yosanovich, Christopher, Illinois Jill Ann Fischer, Evansville James Hiatt, Greenwood Nursing Education Ashley Maria Flamion, Holland Tiffany P. Horn, Evansville Pamela S. Hight, Evansville Callie S. Hubbert, Evansville Angela Dawn Jones, Evansville Sandee E. McMillen, Evansville MASTER OF SCIENCE IN Dena Rachelle Kamman-Kramer, Huntingburg John W. Meriwether, Henderson, Kentucky OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY Paul A. Nielson, Newburgh Mary Frances Edwards, Evansville Ryan T. Ripperton, Evansville MASTER OF SCIENCE College of Business Luke B. Smith, Evansville IN NURSING Matthew R. Sponn, Evansville Emily P. Dexter, Madisonville, Kentucky Caitlin Miranda Talley, Carmi, Illinois Nursing Management and Leadership Michael R. Williams, Evansville Audra Michele Douglas, Newburgh Yantao Zhu, Evansville Nursing Management and Leadership Post-Baccalaureate Certificates College of Business Charles W. Pride, Newburgh Kevin Michael Shelley, Evansville Professional Accountancy Professional Accountancy Baccalaureate Degrees College of Business BACHELOR OF ARTS Kelli J. Becher, Evansville Nicholas J. Frazer, Evansville Business Administration and Marketing Finance Michael B. Beaven, Indianapolis Jeremy Daniel Blankenberger, Haubstadt Adam Michael Gillespie, Whiteland Marketing Business Administration Management Jessica Lynn Bellian, Greenwood James Richard Bogard, Evansville April M. Green, Owensboro, Kentucky Marketing Management Business Administration Chelsea A. Garringer, Ridgeville Arrick M. Briles, Evansville Matthew L. Guth, Evansville Computer Information Systems Business Administration Accounting and Professional Services Samuel Bradley Greene, Georgetown Kimberly A. Brown, Evansville and Finance Accounting and Professional Services Finance Matthew L. Halbig, Evansville Tyler D. Holl, Evansville Jarett D. Buck, Evansville Accounting and Professional Services, Marketing Finance magna cum laude Lauren Nicole Ingle, Evansville Schuyler P. Buttrum, Evansville Cameron Douglas Harris, Greenfield Accounting and Professional Services Business Administration Business Administration and Finance, magna cum laude Debra Ann Clayborn, Boonville Jessica Marie Hass, Evansville Ahmet Karaagac, Evansville Business Administration, magna cum laude Marketing Marketing Aaron Lee Coleman, Winslow Zachary Alan Herrmann, Evansville Brandon James Ladley, Evansville Marketing, magna cum laude Economics Accounting and Professional Services Nahum Carl Cook, Noblesville Blake Alan Hilliard, Olney, Illinois Jacey N. Riggs, Evansville Accounting and Professional Services Marketing Marketing and Psychology Jacob George Cottingham, South Bend Daisuke Hishida, Evansville Joseph Tyler Robbins, Paoli Accounting and Professional Services Marketing and Mathematics, magna cum laude Management Erin M. Cox, Washington Hieu Trung Ho, Evansville Emily K. Smith, Crawfordsville Accounting and Professional Services Accounting and Professional Services Finance Blaine L. Craft, Knox Scott Thomas Hohler, Jasper Kathleen Elise Stoltenberg, Indianapolis Marketing Business Administration Marketing Rebecca Anne Crummley, Mount Carmel, Illinois Gregory Mark Horn, II, Plainfield Matthew F. Youngs, Evansville Accounting and Professional Services and Finance Management Business Administration Nicholas S. Davidson, Chrisney Adam Robert House, Wadesville BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Business Administration, cum laude Finance and Mathematics Melissa A. Dewig, Haubstadt Michael J. Hubbard, Crawfordsville Hatem M. Abouelnadar,