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 Mobile area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:
MASTER’S DEGREE
BUTLER — Katherine E. Hensleigh
DAPHNE — John Reese Bedsole, Meghan Kathleen Everette
GREENVILLE — Blake Stuart
JACKSON — Ashley Dan Coleman
MOBILE — Lucille Ross Fields, Alaina Myrtice Harris, Ryan Michael Kyranakis
ORANGE BEACH — Gregory Alan Hopkins Jr.
SEMMES — Justin Kyle Everette
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
ANDALUSIA — Bradley Nash Burgess, Michael Sidney Holland, Michael Shawn Wilson
BAY MINETTE — Dancy Brock Mosley
BREWTON — Calvin Avant III, William Philip Henderson, Cecile Marie Smith
CALVERT — Lance Eugene Taylor
CAMDEN — Marcus Agee Barr
CITRONELLE — Brian Sheldon Andrews
DAUPHIN ISLAND — Crystal Leigh Lavelle
DEMOPOLIS — Peter Wadkin Coleman, Elizabeth Rachael Prestwood
EIGHT MILE — Kimberly Shanavia Wiley
EVERGREEN — Shelley Elizabeth Bell
FAIRHOPE — Stephanie Summer Sanders, David Earl Sutley Jr., Terrence Joseph Thompson
FOLEY — Rebecca Lauren Reed
FRANKVILLE — Kenneth Kwahn Sleets
GEORGIANA — Bradley Scott Ballew
GREENVILLE — David Alan Corn
GROVE HILL — Emmanuel Dale Allen
HOPE HULL — Cherqueta Romeca Claiborn, Barbara Sue Saylor
JACKSON — Phillip Caldwell Adams, Melissa Lauren McLendon
MOBILE — Daniel Weatherford Aull, Thomas Fitzgerald Benton, Ashleigh Dione Chavers, Matthew Edward Clark, Scott Forsythe, Enchantra Renada Green, Sara Elizabeth Green, Shaquana Noel Harris, Joanna Brooke Hudson, Demandra Patrice Huff, Robert Blankenship Maitre, Ryan Charles Marks, Jeremy Burns McDonald, John Carl Medicus, Nancy Carmen Oppenheimer, Margaret Holland Partridge, Wayne Richard Reyner, Ralph H. Sheffield III, David Robert Steber, John Everett Stone III, Sara Nicole Strickland, Arlen Kurt Torp, Tara Revette Williams, Robert S. Wilson, Rhonda Kay Yawn
NEEDHAM — Lakeisha Johnson
PENNINGTON — Stanley Joseph Norwood
SARALAND — Ashley Nichole Walker
SPANISH FORT — Rachel Louise Faulk
SWEET WATER — Liyang Pan Riggins, Sheila A. Rodgers
THOMASVILLE — Dena Elaine Cline, Anisa Raman Patel, Roy E. Waite Jr.
Contact
Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu