TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 1,000 degrees at summer commencement ceremonies held Monday, Aug. 11, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Thomas C. Hubbard, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and a 1965 UA graduate, was the featured speaker. During the ceremony Hubbard was given an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Also during the ceremony, Gloria Narramore Moody, a longtime patron of the arts, received the Julia and Henry Tutwiler Award, UA’s most prestigious award for volunteer service.
With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 186,000 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 Florence area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:
MASTER’S DEGREE
ATHENS — Kristi Hipps Bowers, Kimberly Arleen Mason
FLORENCE — Chapple Leigh Goodwin, Gary Wayne Shannon
MUSCLE SHOALS — Crystal Ann Sorrelle
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
ATHENS — Erin Lynne Fry, Ashley Hudson, Jennifer Lou Yarbrough
CHEROKEE — Tiffani Larnelle Fuqua
COURTLAND — Monique Sharae Grant
FLORENCE — Gabriel Seth Davis, Benjamin Wilson Grover, James Wesley Johnson, Heather Deanna Lawson, Michael Andrew Myrick, Jill Elizabeth Sealy, John Ashley Towns
HILLSBORO — Reginald Tavares Reynolds
KILLEN — John Casey Goodwin, Jessica Brooke Mays, Linda Nicole Watson, Charles Jason Wilson
LESTER — James Heath Birdsong
MUSCLE SHOALS — Anton Lamar Young
RED BAY — Brandon Scott Elliott, Barry Chadwick Wright
SHEFFIELD — Marianne Leigh
TUSCUMBIA — Jason Presley Jeffreys, Ashley Rae Willingham, Olivia Catherine Wooten
Contact
Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu