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Show GRADUATION 5 9 t f 1 i 4 f 0b 'Xu? iTi d ff t fl 4 t S I !&f fK I f u ' ;s . I B- J r&if I i i s fris r i t i I ? 1 CHRISTIAN ANDERSON STAFF REPORTER Commencement is a celebration of students, this year it is Westminsters 141 commencement ceremony to date. Approximately 859 students will walk across the stage robe and cap clad, 548 bachelor and 311 master degrees. The Class of 2016 represents 37 states and 31 different countries, Ages range from 19 to 60 years old. The class is made up of 487 females and 372 males. The top three graduating majors are nursing, psychology and followed by public health. At this years commencement there are multiple honorary degree recipients, faculty awards and honoree commencement speaker. Meet the award winners and speakers in the short biographies below. Charlayne Hunter-Gau- lt was chosen Charlayne Hunter-Gau- lt as the celebrity speaker for commencement, but she will also be an honoree at the ceremony. She will be receiving the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Hunter-Gau- lt is an 'journalist, author and award-winnin- g civil rights activist womwho was the first African-American to enroll and attend the University of Georgia. Charlayne has written four books, has been written for New York Times, NPR, PBS and CNN, and has even won a few Emmy and Peabody Awards. an Helen Hu Helen Hu, computer science professor, will receive the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Bill and Vieve Gore Endowment Trust. Hu has been teaching computer science at Westminster for 12 years. She said she loves teaching small classes and trying out new teaching approaches to improve student learning. Christine Seifert Seifert has been featured on programs such as NBC Nightly News and The Today Show and has been featured in Bitch magazine. Richard Badenhausen professor and director of the Honors program, will receive the Manford A. and June Shaw Faculty Publication Prize for his essay Trauma and Violence in the Waste Land. Badenhausen is in charge of the Honors program and holds the Kim T. Adamson chair at Westminster. He has shown a passion for raising awareness of social issues across the spectrum. Badenhausen previously won the Gore Excellence in Teaching Award at the 2014 commencement and the Shaw Publication Prize forT. S. Eliot and the Art of CollabRichard Badenhausen, Christine Seifert, associate professor of communication, will be awarded the Man-for- d oration (Cambridge UP, 2005.) A. and June Shaw Faculty Publication James Lee Prize for her two most recent books: VirJames Lee, Utah local, will be awarded ginity in Young Adult Literature After the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Lee served a total of 31 years in the Twilight, an academic analysis published military, and as a Brigadier General in the by Scarecrow Press (Rowland & Littlefield) and Whoppers: Historys Most Utah National Guard, he commanded all Outrageous Lies and Liars, a young adult artillery units in Utah. Lee not only has experience on the nonfiction published by Zest (Houghlin, battlefield, but also has experience in ad Mifflin, Harcourt). vancing women in legal professions. Lee was the first male to win the prestigious Dorothy Merrill Brothers Award for the advancement of women in the legal profession. Robert M. Graham Robert Bob Graham, Utah local, will receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Graham had a successful career as a tax partner with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte and Touche). Of his life,'he has said, If I could do it all over again, I would do exactly what 28-ye- ar I have done. James R. Clark James R. Clark, who has served on Westminsters Board of Trustees for 12 years, will be awarded the degree of Doc- tor of Humane Letters. Clark is a retired corporate executive and former interim dean of the Bill & Vieve Gore School of Business at Westminster. Clark has provided pro bono consulting to Ballet West, Habitat for Humanity and Pacific School of Religion, and he has consulted with the San Francisco |