Grace College To Honor Graduates In Commencement Ceremony
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WINONA LAKE – Grace College and Seminary’s annual commencement ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center. The commencement ceremony this year will honor 603 graduates, including some August and December graduates. Each year, Grace’s senior class elects a faculty member to deliver the commencement address. This year, Mike Yocum was chosen. Yocum is associate professor of communication and the program director of the communication department; he also directs the theatre program at Grace. The invocation will be given by Dr. Larry D. Edwards, senior pastor of Grace Brethren Church of West Kittanning, Penn. Dr. William J. Katip, president of Grace College, will lead the institutional welcome, followed by a hymn, “A Mighty Fortress.” Two students will speak. Student Body President Evan Kilgore will give the student greeting, while Daniel J. Rosenberg Jr., representing the seminary and graduate student body, will give the family recognition. Dr. John R. Lillis, executive vice president of academic affairs; Dr. James E. Swanson, vice president of academic and student affairs; and Dr. Jeffrey A. Gill, vice president and dean of seminary and school of ministry studies, will present honors recognitions. Lillis, Gill, and Steven T. Carlson, registrar, will present the graduates and Katip will confer the degrees. Commencement will conclude with a hymn, “Grace Greater than our Sin,” and a benediction by Rev. Wayne G. Kurtycz, pastor of Northridge Church in Brighton, Mich., followed by the recessional. The brass ensemble will be conducted by Martin Carey-Becker. The Lancer Chorus will be directed by Thomas C. Hall. For more information about commencement, call the Grace College Registrar’s Office at 574-372-5100, Ext. 6414, or email registrar@grace.edu
