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FSU Spring Commencement activities scheduled
They have sent the announcements, completed the graduation checks and are officially ready for graduation this spring.
More than 3,400 Florida State University students will participate in April 28 and April 29 commencement ceremonies out of about 5,000 total graduates. FSU President T.K. Wetherell will preside at the ceremonies, which will be held at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center.
Restaurant owner and former professional football player J.T. Thomas is the featured speaker for the first commencement on Friday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. Thomas will address graduates of the colleges of Arts and Sciences; Communication; Criminology and Criminal Justice; Social Sciences; and Visual Arts, Theatre, and Dance.
Veteran television journalist and "The Greatest Generation" author Tom Brokaw will speak to graduates of FSU's colleges and schools of Business; Education; Engineering; Human Sciences; Information; Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts; Music; Nursing; and Social Work. That ceremony begins on Saturday, April 29, at 9 a.m.
In addition to the two main commencement ceremonies, FSU's Panama City Campus will have more than 215 graduates participating in a ceremony Sunday, April 30, at 1:30 p.m. at the Marina Civic Center in Panama City. That is the largest number of graduates walking in a commencement ceremony since the Panama City Campus was established in 1982. Wetherell and George DePuy, dean of the Panama City campus, will preside. Ted Spangenberg Jr., Panama City district manager for Gulf Power Company, is the featured speaker.
Other schools and colleges at FSU will hold additional graduation activities. They include the following:
• The FSU School of Nursing will hold a ceremony for four graduate students at noon on April 28 in the first floor lobby of Duxbury Hall. It also will hold a pinning ceremony at 3 p.m. that same day at First Baptist Church in Tallahassee for undergraduate commencement. Thomas W. Smith, visiting associate professor, and Sally P. Karioth, associate professor, will be the keynote speakers. They will be pinning 66 graduates who have achieved their R.N. or B.S.N. degrees.
• The FSU School of Social Work will hold its convocation at 4 p.m. on April 28 in the Oglesby Union Ballrooms on FSU's campus. More than 130 graduates will be in attendance for U.S. Rep. Allen Boyd's keynote speech.
• FSU's Air Force ROTC will commission 19 cadets at 2 p.m. on April 29 at the Student Life Building on FSU's campus.
• FSU's Army ROTC will commission 14 cadets at 2 p.m. on April 30 at Miller Hall in University Center C.
• The FSU College of Law will hold its commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. on May 6 at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center.
• The FSU College of Medicine will hold its commencement ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on May 20 in the courtyard of the College of Medicine. Myra Hurt, associate dean for research and graduate programs, will give the keynote speech. |
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