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 Huntsville area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:
DOCTORAL DEGREE
HUNTSVILLE — James George Chambers IV, Sally Maiden Hershberger, Qingjun Zheng
SCOTTSBORO — Linda Carol Allen
MASTER’S DEGREE
ALBERTVILLE — Alana Darlene Bonds, Andy Paul Cornelius
ARAB — David Nelson Hall
ATHENS — Kristi Hipps Bowers, Kimberly Arleen Mason
DECATUR — Jennifer Rebecca Blackwood, Nancy Conner Julich, Carroll Christopher Parsons, William T. Thistle II
GRANT — Amy Leigh Paetz, Keith Greggory Stanfield
HARTSELLE — David C. Robinson
HUNTSVILLE — Janice Wilder Chandler, Vicki Linn Durr, Aaron Joshua Gudgen, Ann Lafferty Lee, Lorraine Evelyn Powelson, Jennifer Ashley Rockwell, Larry J. Selby, Kerri L. Wellendorf
LACEYS SPRING — Robert Lewis Elliott Jr.
MADISON — Holly Paige Garstang, Julie Winchester Hosier, Jennifer Hines Tate
MERIDIANVILLE — Diane S. Beutjer
OWENS CROSSROADS — Jeremy Ray Carter
PISGAH — Bartley Ryan Raulston
SCOTTSBORO — Sonja Melinda Blancett
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
ALBERTVILLE — Nicholas Michael Bynum, Frances Catherine Hughes, Brandy Kay Williamson
ATHENS — Erin Lynne Fry, Ashley Hudson, Jennifer Lou Yarbrough
BOAZ — Joy Leanne Guest, Julie Deanne Guest, Phillip G. Thompson
BRIDGEPORT — Chad Howard Reed
DECATUR — Karen Ashley Goens, Tiffany Sheree Markham, Matthew Ryan Musick, Michael Brandon Price, Heather Marion Schacht, Katherine Lee Vogel, Joseph Adam Watson
EVA — Andrea Marie Holcomb
FALKVILLE — Jeremy Lloyd Fite
GUNTERSVILLE — Allison Altom, James Ryan Boggus, Meredith Lee Potts
HAMPTON COVE — Brad David Murphree
HARVEST — Tamela Latrice Jones, Matthew James Magathan
HUNTSVILLE — Meghan Michelle Archer, Buford Jason Bagwell, David Clinton Beavers, London D. Blackburn Jr., Joshua Kane Cancel, Kedric Matthew Clark, Amy Jean Cline, Ian Michael Connell, Elizabeth Jane Davis, Joel Richard Dineen, Dixie Donn Elrod, Tanya Lakisha Fitchard, Matthew Christopher Hardy, Amy Lynn Harris, Megan Lin Harris, William Michael Hill Jr., Andrea Rae Jacks, Andrew David McMakin, Trent Jennings Mitchell, Jonathan Ashley Owen, Daniel Wesley Patterson, Strelitzia Reginae Smith, Deidre Selene Stalnaker, Kimberly Joyce Stanley, Matthew Charles Supko, Leslie Luise Wisner, Michele Leigh Yarbrough
LESTER — James Heath Birdsong
MADISON — Leslie Anna Atnip, Ashley Nichole Bains, Brian Lee Ferguson, Jeffrey John Jones, Allison Kay Kurts, John Bowen Strange Jr.
SCOTTSBORO — William Landon Bohannon, Bonnie Kay Devers, Zachary Bryant Holt, Erica Lynn Kirkland, Andrew Larry Thompson
SECTION — Holly Suzette Williams
SOMERVILLE — Joshua Andrew Holland
TRINITY — Hunter Lee Royer
Contact
Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu