UWP to celebrate 181st commencement on Dec. 13
PLATTEVILLE - The University of Wisconsin-Platteville's 181st commencement ceremonies will be conducted in the Williams Fieldhouse on the UWP campus on Saturday, Dec. 13.
The university will award a total of 480 degrees, 82 of which are master's degrees and 398 bachelor's degrees.
The first ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. and acknowledge students receiving master's degrees or graduating from the College of Business, Industry, Life Science and Agriculture.
The second ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. and include students graduating from the College of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science or from the College of Liberal Arts and Education.
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle will be the principal commencement speaker for the morning ceremony. Dr. John E. Busby, president of Affiliated Dentists, Madison, will be the commencement speaker in the afternoon.
The morning ceremony will be kicked off as commencement marshal Karen O. Bennett Allen carries the university mace and leads in the graduating students. Todd A. Faulhaber will carry the BILSA banner.
Jeremy E. Hach will serve as the senior valedictory speaker.
In addition, Chad W. Griepentrog, '93, vice president of RB Publishing Inc., in Madison; and Darin J. Pauls, '93, owner and chief executive officer of Beratung, a business consulting firm in Phoenix; will receive Outstanding Alumni awards.
The afternoon ceremony will be led by James K. Valaskey, who will carry the university mace and serve as commencement marshal. Samuel T. Straub will carry the EMS banner and Larissa J. Smage will carry the LAE banner.
Smage also will serve as the senior valedictory speaker.
The annual Underkofler Excellence in Teaching award will be presented during the afternoon ceremony to Philip J. Parker, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UWP. Parker, who earned his bachelor's, masters and doctorate degrees from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., has been on the UWP faculty since August. 1998. The award is presented annually by Alliant Energy to recognize and reward outstanding teachers at UW institutions within the company's service area.
In addition, Virginia A. Emmons, '99, executive director, Educate Tomorrow Corp., an international non-profit organization in Florida that provides educational opportunities to disadvantaged people; and Tammy J. Salmon-Stephens, '94, senior director of the Engineering Advising Office at UW-Platteville, will receive Outstanding Alumni Awards.
The song leader for both ceremonies will be Joseph R. Dalton. The UW-Platteville Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Matthew Gregg, also will perform at both ceremonies.
No tickets are required for the commencement ceremony but seating is available on a first-come first-served basis. Handicapped seating is available upon request at least one week prior to the commencement ceremony.
For more information on the UWP commencement, contact the registrar's office at (608) 342-1321.
Contact: Barbara Daus, UWP special assistant to the chancellor, (608) 342-1282, daus@uwplatt.edu Written by: Gary Achterberg, UWP Public Relations, (608) 342-1194, achterbergg@uwplatt.edu
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