TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 2,292 degrees at spring commencement exercises held Saturday, May 19, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Best-selling author and journalist Gay Talese was the featured commencement speaker, and he also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.
A 1953 UA graduate, Talese has written the books “The Kingdom and the Power,” “Honor Thy Father,” and “Unto the Sons.” Talese, who has also written for The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and Saturday Evening Post, is credited with founding the “New Journalism” movement emphasizing creativity, a narrative style, dialogue and other features often reserved for fiction.
With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 178,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. UA holds commencement ceremonies three times a year.
The following students from the Mobile area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:
JURIS DOCTOR DEGREE
ANDALUSIA-Meredith Shay Peters.
BREWTON-Adam Wayne Overstreet.
DAPHNE-Dennis Alan Sumrall.
FAIRHOPE-Sarah Lindsay Henderson.
FOLEY-Robert Milton Jackson.
GREENVILLE-Valanda Damita Lewis.
LILLIAN-Tanya Diane Hallford.
MOBILE-Jason Bernard Bauer, Barney Anderson Butler, Ross Alexander Frazer, Nicole Ellen Gautier, Benjamin Shaw Goldman, Lee Louis Hale Jr., Christopher Paul Haugen, Teresa Griffin Heinz, Clay Arnold Lanham, Evelyn Corwin McCafferty, David Cowan Rayfield, Sonya Umed Sheth, Thomas Marriott Wood, Randolph Tucker Yance.
POINT CLEAR-James Powell Meador Jr.
SARALAND-James Carroll Morris.
MASTER’S DEGREE
ANDALUSIA-Lesa Huckabaa Syler.
BAY MINETTE-Faye Darlene Bledsoe.
DAPHNE-Jimmy Deandre Jordan.
DEMOPOLIS-Yolanda Denise Monroe, Sean Michael Smith, Natalie Nicole Taylor.
FAIRHOPE-Jennifer Renee Emerson, Angela Shelby Murphree, Gretchen Seal.
GEORGIANA-Christopher Paul Raridan.
GREENVILLE-Elizabeth Wilson Watts.
JACKSON-Sheneka Maria Williams.
MILLRY-Leo Levy Leddon Jr.
MOBILE-Elizabeth Leland Cook, Sharonda Michelle Pettaway, Robert Andrew Stone.
MONROEVILLE-Michael Paul Taylor.
MONTROSE-Allison Adelaide Peters.
SEMMES-Katherine Elizabeth Haddox.
SPANISH FORT-Jennifer Denise Stephens.
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
ANDALUSIA-Courtney Kelley Bush, Tara Rexanne Goodson, Christopher Allen Jones, Amanda Blaine Sasser, Katherine Carlene Wells.
ATMORE-Scott Joyner Grissett.
BAY MINETTE-James Clifton Bradley Jr., Laura Elizabeth Penn, Joseph Shane Sharp, Allen Rigell Vick Jr.
BAYOU LA BATRE-Lindsey Horn Bosarge.
BREWTON-Khristy La’Shandra Gibson, Jack Witherspoon Hines III, Julie Lynette McGhee, Beverly Brooke Sanborn.
BUTLER-Varian Tremaine Harrison, Stephanie Suzanne Hensleigh, Jessica Denise Skelton.
CAMDEN-Japera Dayo Ross.
CITRONELLE-Samantha Lee Lewis.
COFFEEVILLE-Jeremy Douglas Parden.
DAPHNE-Jeffrey Ashton Beall, Victoria Ann Ellis, Claire Margaret Halliday, Nakeysha Emmertson Nowell.
DEMOPOLIS-Arthur Scott Evans, George Andrew Phillips, Trenekia Nannette Taylor, Ginger Leigh Whitaker.
EAST BREWTON-Edward Lawrence Busey.
EVERGREEN-Jennifer Claire Johnston, Nefeteria Richardson.
FAIRHOPE-Virginia Ann Herndon, Joseph Pettis Isbell, Ashley Gayle Manley, Daniel Trice Stabler.
FLORALA-Jason Michael Leonard, Randy Jack Taylor II.
FOLEY-Staci Ann Corley, Shawn Michael Kovalchick.
FRISCO CITY-Devin Stacey Peacock.
FULTON-Marquis Danyel Owens.
GEORGIANA-Jacqueline Latish Averett.
GREENVILLE-Douglas George Bailey, Brian Allen Johnson, Kristy Elizabeth Johnson, Shasta Dawn McCarty, Seth Autrey Newton, Jennie Vieve Poole, Meredith Ashley Stinson, Blake Stuart, Alice Sanders Williamson.
GROVE HILL-Joseph Mitford Baugh, Lakeshia Juanell Taite.
GULF SHORES-Amanda Brand Burke, Natalie Ann Daugherty, Amanda Christine Ellis, Sara Elizabeth Lee, Christopher James Steiskal.
HOPE HULL-Kerri Michelle Keith.
HYBART-Jane Calhoun Cason.
JACKSON-Andrew Cleo Furr, Thomas Marion Ott, Ashley Nicole White.
JOSEPHINE-Michael Anthony Lawson.
LINDEN-Robert Ashley Cave, William B. Gardner III, Amy Nicolle O’Donnell, Justin Brent O’Donnell.
LOXLEY-Lloyd John Keuler.
MOBILE-Kellee Renee Bivens, Kelli Danielle Blake, Erik James Byrum, Mary Beyer Davis, Ashley Rene Dodd, Takeyah Jonese Dozier, Troy Horta Fisher Jr., Michael Acker Galloway, George Howard Garner, Jennifer Marie Holt, Grover Dixon Hory Jr., Catherine Elizabeth Jones, Charles Bennett Long, Christopher Shane McClure, Symentha Milese McDonald, Lee Hallet McDonough, Robert Destin Meyer, Kimberly Chanel Montgomery, Bess Bradford Norman, Jennifer Motlow Powell, George Leatherbury Ritter, Celeste McPhillip Russell, Erin Tralyn Sanders, Kelvin Tramond Sigler, Ashley Hunter Stimpson, Yoshiya Watanabe, Shuntavia Wykemia Woods.
MONROEVILLE-Lindy Elaine Lomenick.
OPP-Charles Monroe Burgess III, Terra Suzanne Weeks.
ORANGE BEACH-Gregory Alan Hopkins Jr.
PENNINGTON-Jessica Erin Long.
POINT CLEAR-Matthew Brodbeck Ellis.
PRICHARD-Leona Watt.
REPTON-Tamika Latosha Watkins.
ROBERTSDALE-Dusty William McDaniel.
SARALAND-Jennifer Leigh Roselius.
SEMMES-Kelly Dawn Gill, John Seth Grimes.
SILVERHILL-Leda Hermecz.
ST STEPHENS-William Alston Adams.
SUMMERDALE-Amanda Nicole McKee.
THEODORE-Hoa Kim Do, Sara Elizabeth Leytham, Joseph
Todd Westover.
THOMASVILLE-Brandon Neil Cline, Jennifer Ashley Crow,
Courtney Duran Howard, Jessica Irene Stockman.
WILMER-Robert Joseph Starin Jr.
Contact
Linda Hill, (205) 348-8325