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Venezuela's Debt Gets a Boost After Cabinet Reshuffle
Venezuela's debt got another breather on Monday after President Nicolas Maduro signaled he might loosen the straight-jacket constricting the oil-rich country's economy.
Mr. Maduro, who was inaugurated Friday following a narrow win in a snap election to replace his deceased mentor, strongman Hugo Chavez, took his first step toward a potential economic policy shift Sunday with a cabinet reshuffle. He returned central bank chief Nelson Merentes to head Venezuela's finance ministry, effectively demoting Jorge Giordani, a trained electrical engineer turned leftist urban planning academic who had long served Mr. Chavez, most recently as both planning and finance minister.
"The Monk," as Mr. Giordani has been known for his statist ideology and austere demeanor, has been one of the principal drivers of Venezuela's web of price and strict foreign exchange controls.
"Mr. Merentes's appointment suggests that there will probably be more flexibility in terms of foreign exchange policy, and potentially in other areas, though political constraints will likely continue to limit the degree to which Mr. Maduro can be more moderate in economic policy," political risk consultant Eurasia Group said.
Heavy pressure on Venezuela's debt in the aftermath of Mr. Maduro tight electoral victory-he won with a margin of less than two percentage points amid allegations of widespread irregularities—eased late last week after his allies in the electoral agency acceded to opposition demands for a recount, defusing a tense political climate.
The market also liked what it saw in the cabinet reshuffle, with the country's 2023 dollar bonds inching up to 94.87 bid to yield 9.812% Monday from Friday's 94.39, yielding 9.892%, according to Markit. The cost of credit insurance also ebbed, to 773 basis points, from 783 basis points in the last session.
But investors shouldn't get too sanguine about the outlook for Venezuela's debt, which more than doubled during Mr. Chavez's 14 years in power, with Mr. Giordani clearly favoring domestic debt over foreign debt issuance. That could change under Mr. Merentes, who previously served as finance minister under Mr. Chavez.
Even following a recent 32% devaluation in Venezuela's official exchange rate to VEF6.3 a dollar, the "Strong Bolivar" is trading around four times the official level in the black market. The foreign exchange controls have a created a severe dearth of dollars available for imports into an economy that must import some 70% of what it consumes, driving shortages of everything from food to intermediate goods in many of the country's badly atrophied industrial sectors.
Scarcity has also been a prime contributor to inflation that's expected to run upwards of 30% this year. A number of economists expect the economy to slip into recession in 2013.
"We concede that a large issuance of U.S. dollar external bonds to the local corporate sector—similar to deals that were done in 2007-09—could be the most effective way to quickly bring down a black market rate that exploded higher in 4Q12 and has continued to hover well over USD/VEF 20 since the turn of the year," J.P. Morganid in a note.
Barclaysid it expects $6 billion in issuance this year, split evenly between sovereign sales and those of the state-oil company.
Mr. Merentes is also expected to "fully support" the implementation of a new, alternate official foreign exchange supply system that should allow the government to sell dollars at a weaker rate, which would also help it to lower its budget deficit, Barclays noted.
But nothing will be easy. Unwinding the distortions afflicting Venezuela's economy will come with heavy trade-offs. Lifting the price controls or selling dollars at weaker bolivar exchanges rates will fuel the already high inflation. Reducing heavy subsidies of food, fuel, housing, health care and other things risks social unrest, which won't be easy for a new president without his predecessor's charisma and much of a mandate.
Oil prices are likely Mr. Maduro's, and Venezuela's, greatest vulnerability. Any further ebbing in crude prices would badly hurt a country that depends on oil for more than a third of its gross domestic product, about three-fifths of its public spending and more than 90% of export receipts.
If oil prices continue to recede, so should the price of Venezuela's debt.


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The Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant
The Necklace Suffering Quotes
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She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let them make a match for her with a little clerk in the Department of Education. (1)
The opening line of the story makes it sound as if Mathilde is almost fated to be unhappy. It's only chance – being born into one family and not another – that prevents her from living the kind of life she so wants to lead. Naturally, she's attractive and charming, and if she were born into a rich family rather than an average one, she'd have the life she wanted. Something that's a result of luck – what family she's born into – becomes a fate fore her, because it restricts the possibilities for the rest of her life.
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She suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury. She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs. All these things, which another woman of her caste would not even have noticed, tortured her and made her indignant. The sight of the little girl from Brittany who did her humble housework awoke in her desolated regrets and distracted dreams. (3)
Mathilde is unhappy locked up in her house, just being there makes her suffer. She finds it oppressive. Her only method of coping with it is to live in a dream world. The question is, does Mathilde just suffer because she's excessively greedy? Or does she suffer because her life is boring and meaningless?

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On April 29-May 2, approximately 63 Fulbright students representing more than 47 countries will convene in Washington, D.C. at a Fulbright Enrichment Seminar hosted by the U.S. Department of State to explore social entrepreneurship as a model to address shared challenges in the areas of environmental sustainability, public health, education and economic and social equity.
Fulbright Enrichment Seminar participants, studying at institutions throughout the United States, will contribute their global perspectives as academically gifted and socially engaged individuals to a variety of activities designed to stimulate discussion on social entrepreneurship. Fulbrighters will hear from leading social entrepreneurs, including keynote speaker Diana Wells, President of Ashoka, as well as U.S. Government officials, private and non-profit sector leaders, and members of the academic community about best strategies to apply entrepreneurial principles and business models to solve social problems. Through community outreach programs and student-led activities, they will discover how social entrepreneurs impact communities in the U.S. and specifically in the Washington, D.C. area. Finally, they will work with their peers to explore how social entrepreneurship principles, structures and resources can be applied in their home countries.
The four-day seminar will be held at the Hyatt Regency Washington - Capitol Hill, at 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW. The Fulbright students will meet with Washington area social entrepreneurship experts who are taking part in an interactive panel discussion, "Social Entrepreneurship: From Vision to Action" on Friday, April 30, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Later than afternoon, the Fulbrighters will take part in community service projects throughout Washington. These events are open to the press. Press should RSVP to Deborah Gardner, Halstead Communications at (212) 734-2190 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
More than 1,800 new Fulbright foreign students enter U.S. academic programs each year. For 2009-10, 274 Fulbright foreign students are attending Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland colleges and universities and 114 U.S. students from area institutions are studying and conducting research in other countries through Fulbright fellowships. Fulbrighters bring their own cultural diversity and perspective to enrich the communities they live in. Fulbright foreign students are among the 37,323 international students studying in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland – a cumulative increase of 22.3% from the previous year.
Interviews with D.C. area Fulbright foreign students can be arranged upon request.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Government. For more information please visit http://fulbright.state.gov/.
Press Contacts:
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Halstead Communications
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Glossary of study terms
Associate Degree of Arts, Business and Sciences
A recognised post-secondary, two-year full-time (or part-time equivalent) qualification specifically designed for students who would benefit from supported entry to tertiary study.
Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR)
The overall percentile ranking for students in their final year of secondary school in Australia which reflects the individual's performance compared to other students in the same year.
Bachelor's degree
An undergraduate degree course that is usually the first degree undertaken at university (e.g. Bachelor of Science).
Clearly-in ATAR
The minimum ATAR most school-leaver applicants need to achieve to be offered a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) in a particular course.
Cloud (online) study
Cloud (online) courses, or courses offered by distance education, are the same as campus courses; the only difference is that rather than attend classes in person, students study away from campus using a variety of other methods, including online technologies, study guides, reading lists and audiovisual materials. The dominant mode of delivery is through the University's online environment. There may or may not be compulsory contact hours online. In some units, students may be required to attend an event such as an exam or an assessment at a designated physical site.
Combined course (or double degree)
An approved combination of courses in complementary areas, undertaken simultaneously, which leads to two awards (e.g. Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws) in a shorter timeframe than it would take to complete the degrees separately.
Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
A university place for which the government pays a proportion of the tuition costs. CSP students can pay up-front and receive a discount (if eligible) or use HECS-HELP (if eligible) to defer the payment of their portion.
Credit for prior learning (credit transfer or advanced standing)
Credit granted towards a Deakin course for relevant approved study, experience or work satisfactorily completed at the University or elsewhere. There are two aspects to credit for prior learning:
- credit transfer, in which credit is transferred to a student's Deakin award program from completed or partly completed studies undertaken at other accredited institutions
- credit for prior learning (CPL), in which credit is granted on the basis of knowledge and skills acquired through uncredentialed learning.
Credit point
A measure of workload at Deakin, a full-time study load is normally 4 credit points per trimester, although 3 credit points per trimester is also considered full-time.
An organisational division within a university (e.g. the Faculty of Arts and Education).
Higher Education Contribution Scheme-Higher Education Loan Program (HECS-HELP)
A loan scheme to help eligible Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) students pay their tuition costs. Repayments are made through the Australian taxation system once annual income exceeds the minimum threshold for repayment.
Pathway program
An alternative entry option for people who may not meet academic entry or English language requirements. Students can study through one of our pathway institutions and apply to Deakin on successful completion of these programs.
A postgraduate qualification refers to courses of study beyond bachelor's level, including graduate certificates, graduate diplomas, master's and higher degrees. Eligibility for entry to a postgraduate course normally requires a completed undergraduate degree.
The VCE subjects or other requirements that school leavers must complete to be eligible to be selected for an undergraduate course. This information is listed in the VTAC Guide and in VICTER publications.
Special Entry Access Schemes (SEAS)
An umbrella program, run by VTAC, for special-entry schemes conducted by participating tertiary institutions (including Deakin) for entry to undergraduate courses. Applications for Deakin Access and Equity Scholarships are also processed through SEAS.
Student Amenities Higher Education Loan Program (SA-HELP)
A loan program for eligible students to defer all or part of the cost of the Student Services and Amenities Fee.
Student Services and Amenities Fee
A fee for services and amenities of a non-academic nature, such as sporting and recreational activities, employment and career advice, childcare, financial advice and food services; see Student Services and Amenities Fee.
Study Assist
An Australian Government website that provides information about eligibility and types of financial assistance for tertiary students; see studyassist.gov.au.
Study score
A score of between 0 and 50 that shows how a VCE student performed in a particular subject compared to other students in the same year. It is calculated from the student's results in assessments and examinations in that study.
Three study periods during the teaching year (as opposed to having two study periods using a semester system). Deakin has three trimesters, and each trimester runs for 11 weeks. Study in trimester 3 is not compulsory - it just provides another option for study; full-time student load is two trimesters of study.
- Trimester 1 runs from 9 March 2015 to 19 June 2015
- Trimester 2 runs from 13 July 2015 to 23 October 2015
- Trimester 3 (2015 – 2016) runs from 9 November 2015 to 19 February 2016
Someone studying for their first degree in a given discipline.
Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC)
A centralised admissions centre for most undergraduate university and TAFE courses.
Victorian Tertiary Entrance Requirements (VICTER)
A VTAC publication, published each year, listing the prerequisites and requirements students must complete to qualify for courses at Victorian tertiary institutions; see www.vtac.edu.au.
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The lawyer for the family of a Valdosta teen found dead inside gym mats, plans to ask a judge to order a coroner inquest.
17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found dead back in January.
Investigators with the Lowndes County Sheriff's office concluded Johnson's death to be an accident.
Johnson's family believes his death was murder.
Attorney Benjamin Crump says he believes a coroner's inquest would support the family's belief.


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The Law Applied.
Three simple words. But, for our clients, these three words carry significance. At Barclay Damon, we're not just attorneys who practice law - we apply the law to find the answers, solve our clients' challenges and maximize the opportunities for our clients to succeed. When you hire Barclay Damon, you are hiring confidence. The confidence of working with knowledgeable, responsive, experienced and proactive professional attorneys focused on delivering you results.
To us, that's the law applied.
For Service
We understand our part - we work for you. As your success goes, so goes the success of our firm. Our clients receive our full, focused attention and we work as an integral part of the team. We know that when you need us, your top priorities are our top priorities. We're on your timeline and we don't stop until we achieve a successful outcome. That's the law applied.
For Value
To deliver for our clients, we assembled our team of 275 attorneys across 33 specialized practice areas in twelve strategically located offices. We seek the extraordinary legal talent and the specialized experience that our clients need to win. Our diverse practice areas deliver the services that each client needs and many of our clients work with us across multiple legal disciplines. Our strategic office locations allow us to connect extraordinary legal talent with the needs of our clients, oftentimes passing along a lower cost structure for the services we provide.
Extraordinary talent, practice area excellence and strategic locations…that is a unique combination that maximizes value for each and every client. It all adds up to a law firm dedicated to understanding and contributing to the success of our clients. That's the law applied.
For Experience
From multi-national Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and high net worth individuals, we deliver success for a diverse client base. In fact, we've become a market leader in numerous industries and practice areas. Commercial litigation, energy, intellectual property, regulatory, torts & insurance, project development, corporate law, tax and finance are among the many areas we've developed a strong client following. Barclay Damon's diverse client base delivers a significant advantage for all of our clients. Why? Because, in applying the law, experience counts. We'll make that experience count for you. That's the law applied.
For Results
We are business ready attorneys, and that means we find innovative ways for our clients to succeed. Our clients want to know what they can do to accomplish their goals, not what they can't do. They don't want volumes of case theory or legal philosophy that can lead to decision making paralysis. They want clear answers and sage counsel that drive sound business decisions and significant progress. That's what we deliver - every day, for every case and for every client. That's the law applied.
At Barclay Damon, we're a firm with a long history of success, a clear focus on the future and, above all, an unwavering commitment to the success of our clients.
Value. Service. Experience. Results. For you. That's the law applied.
Firm News
- Best Lawyers in America Selects 45 from Barclay Damon
- Beth Ann Bivona Honored With Girl Scouts Of WNY Women Of Distinction Award
- Sixty-Eight Barclay Damon Attorneys Featured in 2016 List Of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- One year after merging, Barclay Damon, LLP is poised for growth in Boston.


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Under IPO Spotlight, Twitter Refreshes Its Apps
Twitter on Wednesday released a fresh version of its iPhone and iPad mobile apps, making minor improvements that it says will make the short-messaging service easier to use.
Though incremental, the changes are notable as Twitter seeks to make the service more accessible in a bid to maintain growth momentum ahead of a closely watched IPO that is expected to take place in the coming months.
Twitter's latest version adds to the parade of app updates to accompany the grand release of Apple sleeker-looking iOS 7. Many of the improved features center around coordinating better with Apple's mobile features. For example, users can find out what's trending on Twitter through the service's music station on iTunes radio. Apple's Siri speech-command assistant can now peruse Twitter to help users unearth relevant tweets about certain topics or people.
Otherwise, the changes are incremental, especially in the way users navigate the service. The four buttons at the bottom–Home, Connect, Discover, and Me–are still alive and well.
While Wednesday's upgrade isn't as radical as some expected (at least for now), it suggests Twitter is moving towards making its service more mainstream.
At last official count in December, Twitter said it has more than 200 million monthly active users, or roughly one-fifth of the number users who log into Facebook at least once a month. One of Twitter's perpetual challenges has been to figure out a way to get curious neophytes to stick with the service.
The new app is available on the iPhone and iPad.


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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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WebMD Answers
The hallmark symptom of heat stroke is a core body temperature above 105F. But fainting may be the first sign.
Other symptoms may include:
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C-Murder Ft Rudye – Keep It Hood
November 8, 2012 | Music, Rap/Hip Hop
Here is a new record by C-Murder, who is currently incarcerated, featuring Rudye called 'Keep It Hood'. This is taken from DJ Smallz's upcoming mixtape "This That Southern Smoke Vol 1″ hosted by Turk.
Listen and download the track below.
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Do technical reports become published papers?
- Previous Article
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Since World War II the technical report has come to occupy a position of considerable importance among media in which results of scientific research first appear. The estimated 50 000 or more documents of this kind which are issued each year—particularly by laboratories engaged in defense‐related research—constitute the first appearance in print of much of the newest and most important scientific information being developed today. Almost half of these reports carry no security classification. Yet, for the most part they are not covered by the standard abstracting and indexing services. This is partly because the enormous complexity of the scientific report picture would make systematic coverage very difficult and partly because it would be almost impossible to assure readers of the abstracts of access to the parent reports.
When the study discussed here was conducted, both authors were associated with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Dwight Gray has since joined the National Science Foundation, while Staffan Rosenborg is still with the Library of Congress.


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Government Meetings
Port of Long Beach Board of Harbor Commission: 1 p.m. Monday; Harbor Department Administration Building, 925 Harbor Plaza in Long Beach; www.polb.com. Agenda includes discussion of the Pier G redevelopment project.
Bellflower Planning Commission meeting: 7 p.m. Monday; City Council Chambers, 16600 Civic Center Drive; bellflower.org
Oversight Board for Dissolved Bellflower Redevelopment Agency Meeting: 3:30 p.m. Tuesday; City Council Chambers, 16600 Civic Center Drive; bellflower.org
ABC Unified School Board Meeting: 7 p.m, Tuesday; District Board Room, 16700 Norwalk Blvd.; www.abcusd.k12.ca.us/
Norwalk City Council meeting: 6 p.m. Tuesday; City Hall Council Chambers, 12700 Norwalk Blvd.; www.ci.norwalk.ca.us
Signal Hill City Council Meeting: 7 p.m., Tuesday; City Hall Council Chamber, 2175 Cherry Ave.; http://www.cityofsignalhill.org/
Paramount City Council Meeting: 6 p.m., Tuesday; City Hall, 16400 Colorado Ave.; http://www.paramountcity.com/.


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When business productivity is vital, the right enterprise instant messenger becomes critical.
If you are a constant user of instant messaging, it is important to keep your coworkers updated who you regularly talk to via IM chat when you are going to be away from the office. This can usually be done via away message; however it can help save electricity and is more environmentally friendly if you turn off your computer when you will be gone for more than a day.
Of course, this can't always be done. Some professionals need to access their desktop computer remotely, so it needs to be turned on in order to access files from another location outside the office. When this is the case, and your instant messenger is running, it is important to make sure that you have your away message set so no one tries to IM you when you are not actually at your desk.
Away messages also give other users a good idea of your current status and when you will be back in the office or at your desk. For instance, a status message like, "In Topeka for the day at meetings. Back this afternoon at 3pm" will let other users know where you are and when you will return.
These types of status messages keep everyone in the loop.
Did you know that Brosix is a great free skype alternative? It's true! Brosix is a good option for individuals, freelancers, business...
As the first official day of Autumn (or Fall, as it is now more commonly known) was this past Saturday...


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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
by William Shakespeare
Countess Olivia Timeline and Summary
- 1.1.1: We learn that Olivia has sent word to Orsino that she's not interested in marriage – she's too busy mourning the death of her brother, which will go on for seven years.
- 1.5.1: Olivia pretends to be mad at her hired fool, Feste, but allows him to cheer her up by insulting her. Olivia tells Malvolio that he's a jerk if he doesn't love Feste.
- 1.5.32: Olivia meets with "Cesario" and bags on Orsino's lame attempts at love poetry, but finds herself smitten with the messenger.
- 1.5.48: Olivia sends "Cesario" a ring (by way of Malvolio) to let the page know she's in love with "him."
- 3.1.1: Olivia meets with "Cesario" in her garden and professes her love. Her seduction attempt fails.
- 3.4.15: Olivia thinks Malvolio has lost his mind when he capers around her place in yellow stockings and speaks nonsense.
- 3.4.18: Olivia tries again to seduce "Cesario," who rejects her. She gives "Cesario" a piece of jewelry with her tiny portrait painted on it.
- 4.1.1: Olivia interrupts a fight between Toby and Sebastian, who she believes is "Cesario."
- 4.1.3: Olivia seduces Sebastian, thinking he's "Cesario."
- 4.3.1: Olivia brings a priest to her garden and proposes to Sebastian (who she still believes is "Cesario." They run off to get hitched.
- 5.1.1: Olivia yells at "Cesario" for being a neglectful husband so soon after their marriage vows.
- 5.1.7: Olivia thinks her husband is in love with Duke Orsino when "Cesario" chases after the Duke.
- 5.1.16: Olivia is psyched when Sebastian shows up and she realizes that she has married Viola's twin brother and not "Cesario."
- 5.1.27: Olivia learns that Maria and Toby have been playing a joke on Malvolio. She explains to Malvolio that she never wrote him a love letter. When Malvolio runs off and swears revenge, Olivia is the only one to express regret for what has happened to her steward. Still, she parties with the others because she's newly married and Viola is engaged.


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Some of the nation's foremost authorities on nuclear energy will be at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory today and tomorrow for a Nuclear Energy Institute industry fact-finding mission. Participants will be briefed on some of the latest ORNL research — including advanced simulations for extended reactor operations and materials aging.
NEI members and representatives from universities and industry will have a chance to meet ORNL scientists and tour some of the nation's premier facilities, including the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors. They will also tour the Spallation Neutron Source, the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and the High Flux Isotope Reactor. Also on the agenda is a visit to Watts Bar Nuclear Plant and the historic Graphite Reactor.
"These meetings are invaluable to ensure scientists, engineers, academia and policymakers work together to take full advantage of the nation's considerable talents and resources," said Leslie Barbour, NEI's director of Federal Programs-Appropriations. "With its rich history and impressive capabilities in nuclear energy, ORNL provides the perfect backdrop for this annual meeting."
Since its early days as part of the Manhattan Project, ORNL has been a leader in nuclear science and technology. Today, the breadth of the laboratory's nuclear expertise extends from fission and fusion energy to medical isotopes and from advanced modeling and simulation to nuclear nonproliferation.
ORNL's Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate has a staff of about 500 and an annual budget of $450 million. More than half the staff hold advanced degrees in fields related to nuclear science and engineering.
The Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate is led by Alan Icenhour, associate lab director and an adjunct professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee.
UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Department of Energy's Office of Science. DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of the time, a release stated.
For more information, visit science.energy.gov.
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Commencement Speakers
Past Speakers
2016 Spring Commencement Speakers
Carrie Hessler-Radelet
Director, Peace Corps
Carrie Hessler-Radelet is the 19th director of the Peace Corps, a position she has held since June 2014.
Prior to that, she served as the agency's acting director and deputy director from 2010–14. A member of a four-generation Peace Corps family, Hessler-Radelet began her career in international development as a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa (1981–83), teaching secondary school with her husband, Steve Radelet. She went on to spend more than two decades working in public health, focusing on HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health.
During her time at the Peace Corps, Hessler-Radelet has led historic reforms to modernize and strengthen the agency to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. She spearheaded sweeping efforts to revitalize the volunteer recruitment, application, and selection process, resulting in record-breaking application numbers in 2015. She has also been instrumental in forging innovative strategic partnerships, such as Let Girls Learn, a powerful whole-of-government collaboration with First Lady Michelle Obama to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world, and the Global Health Service Partnership, which sends physicians and nurses to teach in developing countries.
During her tenure, she has championed the health and safety of Volunteers, leading initiatives to dramatically improve Volunteer support and risk reduction, and overseeing the implementation of the 2011 Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act.
Previously, she served as vice president and director of the Washington, D.C., office of John Snow Inc., a global public-health organization, overseeing health programs in more than 85 countries. She was also actively involved in establishing the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and served as a primary author of PEPFAR's first strategic plan.
Hessler-Radelet holds a master of science in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a bachelor of arts in political science from Boston University. She and her husband have two children.
John Andrew (Drew) Markel
BS degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
"If you're the smartest person in the room, find a better room," is one of Drew Markel's favorite quotes.
After five years on campus and achieving a tremendous amount of success, Markel has stayed humble, making the most of his time at Michigan Tech, or "Nerdvana", as he warmly refers to it.
He is graduating with BS degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. This summer, he will start working in Family Care products at Kimberly Clark in Neenah, Wisconsin, supporting the machines that create Kleenex. He will also marry his fiancé, Jessica Montgomery, who will be working at Kimberly Clark as well.
While on campus, Markel has balanced his studies with participation in a myriad of activities and organizations including serving as an Orientation Team Leader (OTL), working in Residence Life as both an RA and PA, playing percussion in the Pep Band for all five years, including serving as vice president for two years, being in Mu Beta Psi: the National Honorary Musical Fraternity, and Tau Beta Pi: the Engineering Honor Society, and working as a telecounselor, and in the Opie Library.
Markel credits a number of people at Tech as being instrumental to his success including his fiancé, parents, Professor Jaclyn Johnson in the mechanical engineering-engineering department, as well the good friends he did homework with late into the night. He also credits his grandfather for inspiring his drive to learn something new, whenever and wherever possible.
Even with great opportunities on the horizon, Markel admits there are things he will miss.
"I think the people. When I first came to Tech, I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did," he says. "It's winter all the time, and it's in the middle of nowhere. But it creates a really nice bond between people that I've come to thoroughly appreciate."
When asked about what helps him be successful, Markel said if you're not the smartest or the best at what you're doing, be willing to work hard.
"I've thrown myself at whatever challenges I've faced. I'm just your average kid, probably about the geekiest person you'll meet, and I'm okay with it."
2015 Midyear Commencement Speakers
Townsend H. Porter Jr.
BS Electrical Engineering 1968
Tom received a degree in electrical engineering from Michigan Tech in 1968 and joined IBM in Rochester, Minnesota that same year as a logic and analog circuit designer.
While working as an engineer at IBM, he was responsible for approximately 20 inventions including the 3.5-inch floppy disk and IBM's first digital modem. In 1978, IBM offered him an engineering management position in magnetic storage components, where he eventually became the director of disk drive development with responsibility for IBM's two hard drive development.
After 27 years Tom left IBM to found the High Performance Storage Group for Western Digital Corporation, where he was vice president of engineering. Tom grew the organization to 400 employees and a billion dollars in revenue over the ensuing 3 years.
In 1997 Tom joined Seagate Technology, as the chief technological officer and executive vice president of product development. During his tenure at Seagate, he merged the company's six worldwide product design centers into three, established a 200-person Seagate Research Center dedicated to the development of advanced storage technologies, and established a product and manufacturing platform strategy that dramatically reduced product and engineering costs.
After retiring from Seagate in 2004, Tom bought a 20-acre vineyard in Napa Valley where he designed and built a 17,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art winery—underground. Today the winery produces 3,000 cases of premium Napa Valley wines each year.
Tom was inducted into the Michigan Tech Electrical and Computer Engineering Academy in 2007.
Three years ago, Tom formed a consulting company, Synergy Synthesis LLC, to provide consulting services to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is currently consulting in technology portfolio management, advanced product development, and organizational and business development.
Porter and his wife have a family foundation that has helped build a children's home in Tanzania, supports an LBGT teen group in Sarasota, Fla., and aids troubled kids in Boston. In addition, the foundation has been a benefactor to the Mayo Clinic and Michigan Tech.
Ellie Furmanski
BS Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering 2015
An Eden Prairie, Minnesota, native, Ellie Furmanski graduates today having double-majored in biomedical and mechanical engineering, also earning a minor in international Spanish. She will be joining Boston Scientific—where she was an intern last summer—as a supplier quality engineer starting in February.
"First and foremost I have to credit my parents," Ellie says when asked how she got to where she is today. "They raised me to be a strong, independent, and motivated individual, and for that I am forever grateful."
She credits Jeffrey Allen, Jaclyn Johnson, and Radheshyam Tewari in mechanical engineering and Rupak Rajachar in biomedical engineering for their knowledge and guidance through coursework and senior design. "I'd like to thank my professors and classmates for challenging me and teaching me more about the world than what can be discovered in a textbook," she says while reflecting on the classroom experience.
Many of her memories come from beyond the classroom, though: she cites Winter Carnival, broomball, hockey games, bonfires at Breakers, and the Northern Lights as things she'll always carry with her, along with her study abroad experience in Spain and plenty of late nights playing cribbage and euchre with friends.
She addresses her fellow graduates as our student speaker today, but she has advice for future students as well. "Don't be afraid," she says. "Don't be afraid to take a class, to raise your hand, to join a student org, to get involved in research, to try something new—to be yourself. You will be successful and learn so much more about yourself and the world around you when fear is not a barrier."
2015 Spring Commencement Speakers
Susan E. Skochelak, MD, MPH
Dr. Susan Skochelak serves as Group Vice President for Medical Education at the American Medical Association (AMA) and directs the AMA's Center for Transforming Medical Education. She developed and leads the AMA's Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative working to promote innovation that better aligns physician training with the changing needs of our health care system.
Skochelak received her bachelor's and master's degree in biological sciences from Michigan Technological University and received her MD degree from the University of Michigan. She obtained a Master's of Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she trained as a resident physician in family medicine and preventive medicine. She completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars fellowship while at Chapel Hill.
A nationally recognized authority in medical education, Skochelak pioneered new models for community based and interdisciplinary medical education. She initiated new programs in rural, urban, global, and public health. Skochelak developed and leads the AMA Learning Environment Study, a longitudinal cohort study on medical student characteristics and the medical education learning environment with more than 4,600 student subjects at 28 US and Canadian medical schools.
Skochelak was previously the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She has served as the director of Wisconsin Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC) System, the chairperson of the Consortium for Primary Care in Wisconsin and as a member of the governor's Rural Health Development Council.
Actively involved in medical education research, Skochelak has been the principal investigator for more than $18 million in grant awards from the NIH, the US Department of Health and Human Services and from private foundations.
Student Speaker—Kyle Yarusso
It's about getting out there and doing it.
That sums up Kyle Yarusso's time—and approach—as a student at Michigan Tech. The Lake Elmo, MN, native is completing his BS in Applied Ecology and Environmental Science today. His coursework has done plenty to get him out there, and that's been the biggest advantage to getting his degree from Tech: the bevy of forests, parks, and protected areas in the region have been perfect classrooms.
Yarusso has stayed connected to campus life, as well. As an Undergraduate Student Government (USG) representative, he has been in tune with the student body and what people are talking about on campus.
With a strong belief in the value of student organizations, he helped start a student chapter of Forest Guild—the first student chapter of this professional society. The club focuses on ecology and sustainable forestry practices.
In addition, Yarusso has held a number of positions at the University, including as a research assistant and with residential life. He was most recently the resident assistant for Treehouse, the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science learning community.
After graduation, Yarusso will serve as a Centennial Volunteer Ambassador with the Student Conservation Association, a non-profit that inspires lifelong stewardship of the environment. Yarusso will work directly with the National Park Service, coordinating volunteer service events, engaging the community with their natural surroundings, and helping others appreciate the environment.
Down the road, Yarusso plans to attend graduate school, studying the human dimensions of environmentalism and conservation. When asked about his time in Houghton, he said, "It has been an amazing experience. I have grown to better understand myself, others, and the environment. I couldn't have asked for a better four years."
2014 Midyear Commencement Speakers
Dale F. Elliott
President and CEO, FCM Advisory Group, Ltd.
Dale F. Elliott has had a long association with Michigan Tech, with seven members of his immediate family having earned degrees here. Dale received a Master's in Business Administration from Tech in 1979, after earning his bachelor's degree from Michigan State. He was also a member of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity during his time at Michigan Tech.
Dale Elliott joined Brunswick Corporation after graduation as an advanced management trainee. After completion, he secured a position in product management, combining his knowledge of manufacturing with sales and marketing. He then spent eleven years with Emerson Electric, starting with the Dremel division as marketing manager. He was promoted to general manager of Dremel and selected to be vice president of marketing for the S-B power tool business, a joint venture between Emerson and Robert Bosch GmbH.
Elliott assumed the presidency of the industrial and power tool business at Snap-on Tools Inc. in 1995. Over the next several years his responsibility was greatly expanded as the company implemented an aggressive acquisition program. He was named chairman, president, and CEO of Snap-on Tools in 2001, and over the next three years developed the strategy and tactical plans that set the stage for their future growth and profitability.
After retiring from Snap-on, Dale became president of American Standard's global bath and kitchen business, with 56 manufacturing locations around the world and more than 26,000 employees.
Currently, Elliott is president and CEO of FCM Advisory Group, Ltd. a business consulting company he founded in 2007. He has focused his efforts on a process called Full Circle Management, which ensures that the activities of an organization are aligned with company strategic goals and objectives.
Elliott has been on the School of Business and Economics National Advisory Board and is a Michigan Tech Fund Life Trustee, having served from 1996 to 2006 and again from 2009 to 2013. He was chairman of the finance and audit committee and served on the investment committee. He has continued his association with the University on the President's Advancement Council. Elliott has maintained a strong commitment to youth technical education and has worked with SkillsUSA on their National Board of Directors and as chairman of the Youth Development Foundation.
Dale and his wife Judy have two grown daughters and split their time between Traverse City and Marco Island, Florida.
Student Speaker—Melissa Mack
Growing up in Dearborn, Michigan, Melissa Mack knew that she wanted to get ahead and be someplace special for her education and in her career. Her road to Michigan Tech began with Summer Youth Programs, having enrolled in Women in Engineering during high school. It wasn't just the program, though, that struck Melissa: it was what could come next. "It opened up my eyes to career opportunities in engineering, and how Tech, with its strong academic reputation and company connections, could get me there," she explains.
Once officially a Husky, Melissa took advantage of the opportunities on campus to explore and learn. She was a member of the Nordic Ski Club—also serving as president—as well as the Copper Country Cycling Club, and La Peña, the on-campus Spanish conversation hour. The last came with her minor in International Spanish, having studied abroad in San Sebastian, Spain. "Through my study abroad experience, I improved my Spanish, gained insight into other cultures as well as my own, and became the rare Husky to get PE credit for surfing."
Majoring in Biomedical Engineering, Melissa interned with General Motors, working in their Anthropomorphic Test Device Lab in Milford. For the layperson, this means she was working on developing more effective crash test dummies and preparing them for tests. She plans to continue work in automotive safety in her career, but graduate studies will come first: she is enrolling for a master's in mechanical engineering.
Asked how she feels stepping into the next phase of her life, Melissa feels ready for whatever adventures come her way. "Through my experiences in the classroom and the support of the Tech community, I am prepared for my career. Tech has also given me opportunities I could not have had just anywhere, whether it was trying new activities—like telemark skiing—or sharing meals and culture with international friends."
It won't be long before Melissa does leave Houghton, bearing multiple degrees, and goes out to improve transportation safety for all of us. What will she take with her when that day comes? "I'll most remember how instead of just trying to survive the winters, we throw Winter Carnival and play broomball; that's just one example of how Huskies embrace their uniqueness and make the most of opportunities."
2014 Spring Commencement Speakers
Leland D. Melvin
Leland D. Melvin, former NASA astronaut and associate administrator for education, was responsible for the development and implementation of the agency's education programs, strengthening involvement and awareness of the agency's scientific goals and missions. He inspired interest in STEM through NASA's unique mission, workforce, facilities, research, and innovations.
Melvin began his NASA career in 1989 as an aerospace research engineer at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He entered NASA's astronaut corps in 1998 and served as a mission specialist, operating the robotic arm on two space shuttle missions to the International Space Station: STS-122 in 2008 and STS-129 in 2009.
He serves on the White House National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education, or CoSTEM. CoSTEM coordinates STEM education and programs for all federal agencies, encourages the teaching of innovation and entrepreneurship, and develops and implements a five-year STEM education strategy for all federal agencies. He was the US representative on the International Space Education Board, a collaboration in space education between NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the Centre National d'Études Spatiales.
Melvin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Richmond, where he excelled as a wide receiver. He was an NCAA Division I Academic All American and was inducted into the University of Richmond Athletic Hall of Fame. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1986, also spending time with the Dallas Cowboys and Toronto Argonauts. After injuries sidelined his football career, he returned to academia and earned his Master of Science degree in Materials Science Engineering from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He holds honorary doctorates from Centre College, St Paul's College, and Campbellsville University.
Student Speaker—Collin Doerr-Newton
Hailing from Lansing, Collin Doerr-Newton plans on making plenty of noise. But this sound design major, in the midst of following his dreams, has consistently supported his peers and served others, helping their voices be heard, too.
As the 2013 recipient of the Percy Julian Award, Collin was recognized for promoting diversity and cultural understanding. This honor was earned through not only his work as a student supervisor in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, but also by serving as an academic success coach, teaching assistant, and peer mentor for the Wahtera Center for Student Success.
In addition, Collin's involvement with WMTU and the Society of African American Men, as well as work as a resident assistant for Housing and Residential Life, demonstrate a focus beyond his own dreams and a desire to help others achieve success.
On a path to graduate school and working in the recording industry, Collin has already completed internships with Harvest Creative Services in Lansing and DigiTrax Entertainment in Knoxville, Tennessee.
What will Collin remember most from his time at Tech? "Having an opportunity to meet and work with so many great people," he says. With plenty more opportunities ahead, Collin's is a voice that will be heard.
2013 Midyear Commencement Speakers
Scott Usitalo
Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy
As president of Kimberly-Clark's North American Family Care division, Scott Usitalo oversees many of the world's preeminent brands, including Scott, Viva, and Kleenex. Since joining Kimberly-Clark in 2008, he led the global resurgence of several of the Fortune 150 company paper products, not only through sound marketing, financial, and production management, but also through a deep commitment to the world's consumers. "Bringing essentials to their daily lives is front and center of what I love to do," he says.
It's an approach he learned at a young age. When he was about twelve years old, Usitalo began working at the family gas station in South Range, where customer service was paramount. Three years later, he convinced his parents to open an auto body shop. The money he made fixing cars enabled him to fulfill his dream of attending Michigan Technological University. There, Usitalo earned a bachelor's degree in engineering, nurtured his love of the arts, and served as president of Blue Key.
After graduating in 1981, Usitalo joined Procter & Gamble as an engineer in its Cheboygan paper plant and quickly rose through the ranks. Within ten years, he was assuming responsibilities in marketing as well as production and in 1997 helped earn the company an "Effie" advertising award. By 2004, he had spearheaded a successful global drive to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Procter & Gamble's worldwide marketing efforts.
Usitalo was then recruited to help transform the greater Cincinnati area into a center for tourism, and in 2005 he became the founding president of the CincinnatiUSA Regional Tourism Network. By mobilizing government, business, and media, he implemented a strategy that resulted in healthy growth for the region's hospitality industry.
Usitalo was introduced to Kimberly-Clark while working as a strategist with global innovation firm Seed Strategy. Within a year, he became a permanent part of the Kimberly-Clark team in a global marketing capacity. While Usitalo derives great satisfaction from his multi-national company work, he has not lost his enthusiasm for hands-on projects. In his spare time, he restores classic muscle and sports cars. He has eight in his collection.
Usitalo attributes his success in part to skills honed during his years at Michigan Tech: logical thinking arising from the study of engineering and leadership qualities learned in organizations like Blue Key. Underlying it all were the experiences of his youth, when he learned to treat everyone who walked through the door with respect. "My approaches to business and people were clearly born in that body shop," he said.
Student Speaker—Felicia Nip
Originally hailing from Woodhaven, Michigan, Felicia Nip is wrapping up a distinctive undergraduate career today with her BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Her path to Michigan Tech began with Women in Engineering, a part of Tech's Summer Youth Programs. Between that experience and being invited to the Leading Scholars Competition, Tech was soon at the top of her college list.
"My parents disliked the idea of going 600 miles away to a tiny engineering school," she says. "They just didn't know the magic of being a Husky—the adventure, the innovation, the ability to find something you love, do it, and be recognized as an individual."
Then she got to Tech, she found that opportunities abounded not only in her studies, but also to get that extra edge. Between volunteering at Portage Health—where she had the chance to shadow a physician once a week—and being a first responder for the Michigan Tech EMS team, she's one step ahead on her way to medical school.
While focusing on microscopic details in her studies, Felicia has lived the Tech experience to the fullest. She is on the executive board of the Honors Institute and is a member of the Pre-Health Association and Phi Sigma, the Biological Sciences Honor Society. She worked in the Applied Chemical and Morphological Analysis Laboratory, received a SURF award (summer undergraduate research fellowship), and was named the 2013 Winter Carnival Queen.
2013 Spring Commencement Speakers
David Barnes
Program Director, Strategy and Emerging Internet Technologies
David Barnes is a program director in IBM's Emerging Technologies group and the lead technology evangelist at IBM. As a self-described nonconformist working in one of the world's largest technology companies, Barnes has spent more than two decades traveling the world to evangelize the virtues of new and emerging technologies and their potential effects on society. Always looking for ways to share his passion for leading-edge technology, he has been mentoring interns at the IBM Extreme Blue innovation lab for nearly ten years. He takes great joy in helping college students develop their skills and revels in their energetic, creative approaches to emerging technology.
Barnes was born in Traverse City and raised in Bridgman, a small farming community in southern Michigan. His father ran a radio and television business, and from grade school on he was immersed in electronics, learning to work with an oscilloscope at the age of eight. Those early skills landed him a job as an IBM field engineer when he was nineteen.
He had a love for the job—carrying a toolbox and oscilloscope while fixing mainframe computers—but it wasn't until he was asked to give a presentation on a new IBM product to a customer executive that he found his passion. Looking back, he remembers how the experience "made me tingle, and things were never the same." Before long, Barnes was bombarded with requests to speak to larger and larger audiences, and he soon became IBM's first technology evangelist.
As technology evolved, so did Barnes. He began his journey with the introduction of the IBM PC, helped pioneer the World Wide Web when he declared on television in 1995 that "the Internet is not just some pie-in-the-sky kind of thing," achieved patents in voice recognition and natural language understanding, and is now a lead spokesperson for IBM's Watson. The supercomputer gained fame for its championship performance on the quiz show Jeopardy!; IBM is now applying its unparalleled computing power in an even more challenging arena: medical diagnosis and treatment.
Over the last twenty-five years, Barnes has traveled to nearly forty countries, presenting to audiences ranging from executives to developers to heads of state, appearing on radio and television shows around the world, and becoming a member of the Screen Actors Guild while starring in a series of IBM TV commercials titled "The Warped World of David Barnes."
Through all of this, his love for technology has only grown. Barnes geeks-out for gadgets and street photography and enjoys hacking at code whenever he can find the time.
Student Speaker—Katherine Price
From Brighton, Michigan, Katherine Price is an environmental engineering graduate, and she is leaving Michigan Tech after being heavily involved on and off campus. She also has maintained a GPA of nearly 4.0.
She had Michigan Tech in her blood from birth: her grandparents, Sherwood and Marion Price, taught at Michigan Tech, and her father, Ken, is an alumnus.
Her Women in Engineering experience in high school helped her decide on environmental engineering, she says. Price has been a summer intern twice with General Motors, in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and Hamtramck, Michigan. She has been involved with a Senior Design project: "Designing a Micro Hydroelectric Power System" (including a visit to a remote village in Panama).
Price has also been a teaching assistant for a first-year student success course, an Orientation Team Leader, a coach in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Learning Center, and an Admissions tour guide.
Her extracurricular involvement includes the Society of Women Engineers, Women's Soccer Club, Young Women Leaders Program, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Blue Key Honor Society, Society of Environmental Engineers, Innovative Create Engage Leadership Society, Homecoming Court Representative, and Superior Wind Symphony.
2012 Midyear Commencement Speakers
Dr. Arden L. Bement Jr.
Director of the Global Policy Research Institute
Purdue University
Arden Bement embodies the scholar famously described in The Canterbury Tales, for "gladly would he learn, and gladly teach."
His career spans industry, government, and academia. Bement is now the director of the Global Policy Research Institute at Purdue University, where he can satisfy his desire to teach while addressing issues of worldwide significance. He first came to Purdue in 1993 as the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Engineering and later became head of the School of Nuclear Engineering. He left the university in 2001 to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology and in 2004 was named director of the National Science Foundation, a position he held until 2010.
Bement is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on the US National Commission for UNESCO and as the vice chair of the Commission's Natural Sciences and Engineering Committee. Bement is also a retired lieutenant colonel of the US Army Corps of Engineers.
After earning a doctorate in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, he held R&D positions with General Electric and Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories. In 1970 he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty as a professor of nuclear materials. He then accepted a position in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency before being appointed deputy under-secretary for research and engineering by the US Department of Defense. In 1980 he became a vice president at TRW Inc., where he served for thirteen years before joining the Purdue faculty.
Bement's winding career path was a deliberate and natural choice for someone both committed to lifelong learning and dedicated to the betterment of humanity. As he says, "I have always wanted to stay on the steep end of the learning curve."
Student Speaker—Justin T. Jones
Justin T. Jones was raised in the Keweenaw and graduated from the Copper Country Christian School in 2008, enrolling in Michigan Tech that fall.
While at Tech, he has been a member of the Cin/Optic Communication and Media Enterprise for four years. Through the Enterprise, he worked with filmmaker Suzanne Jurva '82 on Yoopera!, a documentary chronicling the commission and Houghton premier of the original opera Rockland and how the performance was promoted by a local community art project called "Storylines."
In April, Jones and fellow student Andrew Benda had a short film entitled Ouroboro make the finals in the Hint Fiction Film competition at the Vail Film Festival.
This summer, Jones worked for Summer Youth Programs as an event photographer and instructor. He is currently working for Mind Trekkers as a videographer and editor, and he has worked for University Marketing and Communications as a graphic designer. Jones has also worked in the Humanities Digital Media Zone as a lab consultant since 2009.
Today he is receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication, Culture, and Media.
2012 Spring Commencement Speaker
Martha N. Sullivan
Martha N. Sullivan, who earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1985, has steadily ascended the corporate ladder.
She was named president of Sensata Technologies in 2010, in addition to her role as chief operating officer and director of several of Sensata's operating subsidiaries. Previously she was executive vice president and chief operating officer, a position she had held since Sensata was purchased by Bain Capital from Texas Instruments in 2006.
Martha joined Texas Instruments in 1984 and held various management positions, including vice president of Sensor Products from 1997 to 2006. During her tenure, Sensor experienced ten consecutive years of growth.
Sensata Technologies is one of the world's leading suppliers of sensing, electrical protection, control, and power management solutions. The company, with revenues of $1.8 billion, has manufacturing and technology development centers in eleven countries and employs 11,500 people.
Martha has been involved at Kettering University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and she is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers.
She has also been a speaker and panelist for a range of industrial and academic gatherings, including the Ernst and Young China Business Roundtable and the Morgan Stanley Executive Women's Conference. She was the keynote speaker in 2004 at RPI's "Design Your Future Day." In 2011, she took part in a panel on entrepreneurship at Michigan Tech. She is a volunteer for Odyssey of the Mind, a national academic program for youth from kindergarten to college.
Since her graduation from Michigan Tech, Martha has maintained a close relationship with the University. She is a member of the Presidential Council of Alumnae, has been inducted into the Academy of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and serves on Michigan Tech's Generations of Discovery Campaign, which strives to raise $200 million to enable Michigan Tech to realize its goal of being an institution of world-class stature. Martha's extensive work in Europe and Asia helps inform that vision.
She and her spouse, Michael, have two children and live in Westport Point, Massachusetts.
2011 Midyear Commencement Speaker
Chang K. Park
Chang Park is an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a social activist, and a visionary. He is the president and CEO of Universal Remote Control Inc., headquartered in Harrison, New York, a world leader in technology, innovation, and quality.
Born and raised in Korea, he came to the US as a teenager, alone, to pursue an education. He soon developed an interest in mathematics—the only language he could understand in his new homeland. As a high school student, he won a New York State mathematics award, a hint of what was to come.
Mr. Park enrolled at Michigan Tech and graduated in 1973 with dual degrees in electrical engineering and engineering administration. In his first job after graduation, he worked for an engineering consulting firm in Philadelphia, designing and reviewing mass transit systems, including the Washington Metro System, the BART System in San Francisco, and the Northeast Corridor between Boston and New York.
He went on to earn a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, then joined JP Morgan in New York, working in international finance. His eight years working in the corporate world and his early life in Korea laid the groundwork for Mr. Park's entrepreneurial spirit. The business he started in his sister's garage also provided jobs for youths in an impoverished area in Korea. He steadily expanded the business, and he has been developing and marketing remote controls and home automation products for more than twenty years.
He chairs the Chang K. Park Foundation, an organization that supports human rights, the elimination of poverty and hunger, the implementation of political reform, and economic justice.
He is a member of the national governing board of Common Cause, a public interest group in Washington, DC, that operates thirty-five state chapters promoting ethics and reform in government. He also is a member of the board at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.
2011 Spring Commencement Speaker
Mr. Norman R. Augustine
Former Chairman, Lockheed Martin, and Former Undersecretary of the Army
Norman Augustine has been a leader of industry, a devoted servant of government and society, and a visionary.
His reputation and stature as a businessman and engineer led to his being named chair of a committee, formed by The National Academies, which in 2005 presented to Congress a report titled, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future." The document analyzed America's strengths and weaknesses in science, technology, engineering and math—the STEM fields—and outlined what the US needs to do "to compete in this rough and tumble global environment."
Mr. Augustine started his industrial career in 1958 at Douglas Aircraft Company. He became CEO and chairman of both Martin Marietta Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. He retired in 1997. He began his government service in 1965 in the office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1973, he became assistant secretary of the Army; in 1975, he became undersecretary of the Army; and he later became acting secretary of the Army.
Mr. Augustine has headed the National Academy of Engineering, the Association of the United States Army, the Aerospace Industries Association, the Defense Science Board, the American Red Cross, and the Boy Scouts of America.
Other government service includes membership on the advisory board of the Department of Homeland Security and on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
He also is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Affairs. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Explorers Club.
His work has taken him to more than 100 countries, and he has stood on both the North and South Poles of the Earth. His achievements and recognitions have been equally extensive.
He has received the National Medal of Technology from the President of the United States and the Distinguished Public Service Award from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has received the Department of Defense's highest civilian decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal, five times. He is author or coauthor of four books about military policy; the pitfalls that confront business managers; ethical standards in business; and how Shakespeare informs sound, successful leadership.
He has been singled out by "Who's Who in America"—and by the Library of Congress as one of "Fifty Great Americans" on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of "Who's Who."
A native of Colorado, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees, magna cum laude, in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University, where he taught for two years after retiring.
2010 Midyear Commencement Speaker
US Rep. Bart Stupak
Bart Stupak's working life has been devoted to public service.
He was elected in 1992 to represent Michigan's First Congressional District in the US House of Representatives and will retire in January. Prior to national office, he was a member of the Michigan State Legislature, a police officer in Escanaba, Michigan, and a member of the Michigan State Police.
Mr. Stupak lives in Menominee, Michigan. He earned an associate's degree from Northwestern Michigan Community College in 1972, a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Saginaw Valley State University in 1977, and a doctor of law degree from Thomas Cooley Law School.
Mr. Stupak was a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and, as the ranking democrat, chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. He spearheaded investigations of child pornography, cyber security, food and drug safety, the insurance industry, and vehicle safety.
Health care for Americans has been a priority ever since elected to Congress, when he pledged not to accept the insurance that members of Congress receive until all Americans could have access to that same quality health care. He kept that promise. A signature priority for Mr. Stupak was protecting the Great Lakes. He led the international effort to ban the sale and diversion of the Great Lakes and was the first elected official to oppose the drilling for oil and gas beneath the Great Lakes. He also successfully opposed the proposal to dump partially treated waste into the waterways.
His experience as a police officer allowed him to take a leadership role on law enforcement issues. He founded and cochaired the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus, a bipartisan organization that provides the law enforcement community with an avenue to participate in the legislative process.
He also has been a leader in homeland security, in particular programs to train and equip local law enforcement officers and other first responders, as well as facilitate communication across jurisdictions during emergency and potential terrorist situations.
Because his district was positioned on the northern border, Mr. Stupak was cochair of the Congressional Northern Border Caucus. In that work, he advocated border security and cross-border trade. He has been singled out by the Canadian/American Border Trade Alliance for his contributions and leadership. Congressional leaders have cited Mr. Stupak for his sense of justice and fair play, knowledge of congressional procedures, and his inclination to rise above partisanship.
He has been an effective champion of Upper Michigan, a devoted public servant, and a person of high regard.
2010 Spring Commencement Speaker
Dr. Raymond L. Smith
Melvin Calvin Medal of Distinction
Ray Smith, a native of Maine who now lives in Arizona, was the sixth president of Michigan Tech, serving from 1965 to 1979.
Under his leadership, the institution grew in size and stature. A man of ambition and vision, Smith's abiding guide was, "We must not be afraid to move ahead."
Smith earned a bachelor's degree in mining engineering from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1943. He served in the US Army from 1943 to 1946, then taught at the University of Alaska from 1946 to 1949. He returned to school and earned both a master's and doctorate in metallurgical and materials engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 and 1953, respectively.
For the next six years, he worked at the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories. In 1959, he came to Michigan Tech as professor and department chair of metallurgy, and, later, coordinator of research. Six years later, he was president. During his tenure, ten major buildings were constructed. (The Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Building is named after him.) As well, he excelled in legislative affairs, founded Tech's current fundraising unit, and promoted research.
Smith has received honorary doctorates from Michigan Tech, Northern Michigan University, Western Michigan University, and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He also has been honored by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Alaska.
He is a fellow of both the American Society of Metals and the Metallurgical Society, and he has been recognized as a national authority on minerals and metals. His research led to the development of some of the purest iron in the world.
Smith has served on several national engineering boards and commissions. His associations include Michigan's Council of Postsecondary Education; the Argonne National Laboratory; Michigan's Solar Energy Research Institute; and the American Academy of Transportation.
In his retirement, Smith and some friends locate hazardous mining sites in Arizona. They pinpoint the location, record data on the environment and wildlife, and erect safety signs. Smith says the group shares a "love of the desert and the never-ending quest for minerals."
Such passion always informed his leadership at Michigan Tech, and we welcome him back.
2009 Midyear Commencement
George J. Butvilas
George Butvilas is president and CEO of Quincy Hill Advisors, which provides financial institution consulting services to the banking community and the FDIC. Mr. Butvilas has over thirty-five years of banking experience. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc. (the largest bank holding company headquartered in Michigan). As well, he is on the bank's Executive Committee and is chair of the Risk Management Committee. He previously served as vice chair and director of Republic Bancorp, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Butvilas served as president and chief executive officer of D&N Bank from 1990 to 1999, at which time it merged with Republic Bancorp. Prior to coming to the Keweenaw, he spent seventeen years in banking in the Chicago metro area.
Mr. Butvilas has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Tech Fund since 1997. He currently serves as chair. In 2002, President Bush appointed him to the Board of Directors of the Veterans Corporation in Washington DC, where he served as chair and director. In 2005, he received the Michigan Tech Honorary Alumni Award. He is a member of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science Honor Academy and is the former chair of the School's Advisory Board. He also is a member of the School of Business and Economics Honor Academy and has served as chair of the School's Applied Portfolio Management Program, Michigan Tech's student investment initiative. He is currently a director of the Michigan Tech Golf Course Advisory Board. In addition, he served as chair of the Houghton/Hancock Local Development Authority, which established the Michigan Tech Enterprise SmartZone.
Mr. Butvilas has been involved in numerous other civic and philanthropic activities, including the Better Government Association of Chicago, the Calumet Theatre, Omega House, Pine Mountain Music Festival, the Michigan Tech Campaign Committee, and many others.
Mr. Butvilas is a 1967 graduate of the US Naval Academy and is a Vietnam veteran. He received his MBA from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1974 and taught in the MBA program there as an adjunct assistant professor for seventeen years. He graduated from the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business in 1987.
2009 Spring Commencement Speaker
Otha Thornton
Otha Thornton is a native of Georgia who completed the Army's Officer Candidate School in 1990. He is presidential communications officer and director of human resources at the White House Communications Agency.
He has had numerous postings in military intelligence and human resources. From 1999 to 2002, he was a recruiter, public affairs officer, and assistant professor of military science at Michigan Tech, where he earned a master's degree in rhetoric and technical communication in 2001. He also earned a bachelor's degree in urban studies from Morehouse College in 1989.
Thornton has been to seven military schools and has received many awards for exceptional service.
He is married to the former Caryn Dukes of Atlanta, Georgia; they have two children.
Thornton received Michigan Tech's Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2003; was named the Scout Leader of the Year by the Hiawathaland Council in 2002; and the Parting of the Water Faculty Service Award from the Tech chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa in 2001.
2008 Midyear Commencement Speaker
Susann Blake Nordrum
Susann Blake Nordrum has taken a Michigan Tech education and fashioned a career as an international leader who confronts one of humankind's most compelling challenges—climate change.
Nordrum graduated summa cum laude in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. She is facilities team manager at Chevron Energy Technology Company in Richmond, California.
She began her career at Chevron as a process engineer. For the past ten years she has worked on the issue of climate change. Currently, Nordrum manages greenhouse gas mitigation for the company's refining, production, and power-generation facilities in California as the state prepares to implement a program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. She expects the endeavor will become a global model.
The mitigation effort results from her extensive work on how to inventory greenhouse gas emissions. In developing that process, she became a company leader with Chevron; a national leader with the American Petroleum Institute; and an international leader with the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association.
Her work and stature resulted in her being chosen to serve on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where she was one of the lead authors to update the UN's 2006 guidelines for developing national greenhouse gas inventories.
For this work, the IPCC group shared, along with former Vice President Al Gore, the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, which cited the group for compiling and disseminating information about man-made climate change to lay the groundwork for informed policy making.
The prize recognized not just IPCC directors, but the leading contributors as well, including Nordrum, who was the co-author of the chapter on carbon dioxide capture and storage and the lead author of another chapter on the "fugitive emissions" produced when making petroleum products.
Nordrum says that the use of fossil fuels to meet the world's energy needs is a contributor to an increase in greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere. There is a widespread view that this increase is leading to climate change, with adverse effects on the environment. The work of the IPCC helped inform the world that climate change and greenhouse gases may pose serious problems, and it will take intensive collaboration to solve them.
Nordrum has moved from measuring the problem to working on these solutions. Her goal is simply "to help facilities and regulators come to agreement on the most cost-effective means to provide necessary energy in a climate-friendly manner." The work draws on her keen interest in both "environmental stewardship" and "developing new technologies."
2008 Spring Commencement Speaker
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI)
US Senator Carl Levin has served Detroit, Michigan, and America for more than forty years.
A native of the Motor City, he studied at Swarthmore College and Harvard University, where he earned a law degree.
He practiced and taught law for five years until he was appointed an assistant attorney general of Michigan in 1964.
His political career began in 1969, when he won election to the Detroit City Council. In 1978 he was elected to the US Senate and has been reelected four times.
He is chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee; co-chair of the Senate's Great Lakes Task Force; chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; and a member of both the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
He was honored with the Department of the Navy's Distinguished Service Award in 2003; the National Guard Association's Harry S. Truman Award in 2004; the government of Poland's Commander's Cross in 2007; and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's Four Freedoms Medal in 2007./p>
Levin has been a champion for both Michigan and the nation in advancing the economy, consumer protection, the environment, corporate reform, national security, and education.
In particular, he has worked to strengthen America's industrial economy; to open global markets to American goods; to protect the Great Lakes; to improve medical care for troops and veterans; to establish credit-card reform; to eliminate excessive speculation in the energy industry; to curb abusive tax shelters; and to support education, from preschool to college.
Levin is the senior senator from Michigan. He was born in 1934. He and his wife Barbara married in 1961. They have three daughters.
2007 Midyear Commencement Speaker
Dr. Bhakta B. Rath
Dr. Bhakta B. Rath, class of '58, is an internationally recognized scientist who has had a stellar career in national security and in defense initiatives worldwide.
Dr. Rath is senior executive at the US Department of Defense. He is head of the Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate and associate director of research at the Naval Research Laboratory.
He is responsible for a wide array of inquiry, including the planning, supervision, and administration of all basic and applied research in the structure of matter, condensed-matter physics, chemistry, electronics, materials science, plasma physics, computational physics, fluid dynamics, and biomolecular science and technology. He oversees a staff of 720 scientists, engineers, support personnel, postdoctoral fellows, visiting professors, and students. The directorate manages over three hundred research projects with an annual budget of $280 million.
Following his undergraduate studies in India, Dr. Rath earned a master's in metallurgical and materials engineering from Michigan Tech. He earned his PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1961. He joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1976. He has served as the principal engineer in solving a number of technical problems of national importance, ranging from the structural integrity of fighter aircraft to protecting soldiers against IEDs. He has created, among others, a Center for BioMolecular Science and Engineering, a Center for Safety and Survivability, a Center for Computational Materials Science, and the Institute of Nanoscience.
Dr. Rath is a prolific author, a prominent scholar, an award-winning researcher, and a speaker worldwide. He serves on several government agencies, is involved with seven universities, and is a member of five technical societies.
He has been a leader nationally and internationally in developing collaborations among academia, industry, and research laboratories. He also promotes science, engineering, and mathematics education in high schools in the US and abroad.
His many awards include election to Michigan Tech's Academy of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (1998). He also has been honored by The American Society of Materials, the Naval Research Laboratory, the Department of Defense, and numerous professional and scholarly organizations.
2007 Spring Commencement Speaker
Dr. Josephine K. "Jody" Olsen
Josephine "Jody" Olsen has spent much of her life and career serving the world through the Peace Corps, America's outreach to promote service, global peace, and friendship.
As the deputy director of the agency, Olsen supports several initiatives, including strengthening the recruitment of older volunteers, measuring the impact of the Peace Corps around the world, and helping other countries promote volunteerism among their own populations.
Olsen started her career with the Peace Corps as a volunteer from 1966–68 in Tunisia, teaching English and developing community health programs. In 1979, she was named the country director for Togo, where she managed programs focused on education, health, and agriculture in the West African nation. From 1981–84, she served as regional director in North Africa, the Near East, Asia, and the Pacific. As chief of staff from 1989–1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, she helped to expand the agency's work to twenty-five new countries.
Olsen then served as senior vice president of the Academy for Educational Development, a large international organization, and served as the executive director for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the agency responsible for managing the Fulbright Senior Scholar Program.
President George W. Bush appointed Olsen deputy director of the Peace Corps in 2002. She was confirmed by the US Senate.
Olsen earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Utah and a master's degree in social work and a doctoral degree in education from the University of Maryland, where she founded and directed the Center on Aging.
2006 Midyear Commencement Speaker
John Soyring
John A. Soyring, a native son of Upper Michigan, has a large presence in a preeminent business. He is Vice President of Global Solutions and Software at IBM Corporation, the world's top provider of computer products and services. John provides global business leadership for a multi-billion-dollar annual revenue portion of the IBM software business. He has comprehensive responsibilities, providing leadership for strategy, research and development, marketing and sales, business development, product support, and services.
John previously was Vice President and Senior Executive for IBM Software Services and Support, which is a global business unit with the mission of developing and delivering professional services for IBM's clients and business partners.
During his long career with IBM, John also has held a variety of technical, professional, managerial, and executive positions for wide-ranging services, including several worldwide software initiatives.
John, who is from Marquette, Michigan, joined IBM in 1976 after graduating from Michigan Tech with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. He later completed graduate studies in the fields of computer science, electrical engineering, and business administration at the University of Minnesota and at State University of New York.
As a Tech student, John served as a resident assistant for two years, was a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical engineering honor society, and was recognized as a student leader by the Scott Paper Company Foundation.
As an alumnus, he serves on Tech's Electrical Engineering Academy and the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board.
2006 Spring Commencement Speaker
Susan Brechting Kiehl
Susan Brechting Kiehl, a native of Spring Lake, Michigan, has worked at Lockheed Martin Corp. for nearly twenty-two years, having joined the firm (then General Dynamics) in 1984.
Lockheed Martin is an advanced technology company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and employs 135,000 people worldwide. Kiehl works for the firm's Aeronautics Co. in Fort Worth, Texas.
Kiehl joined Lockheed Martin as a metallurgical engineer. She became engineering chief, then an engineering manager, and moved into business development and served as both a manager and director.
In 2001, she was selected for Lockheed Martin's Senior Leadership Development Program and, in 2002, its Executive Leadership Development Program.
She now leads the company's Greece F-16 Programs, an initiative that supplies thirty F-16 fighter jets to that government. Kiehl is responsible for the design, construction, and delivery of the aircraft, called Fighting Falcons, as part of a U.S. government program. The project extends through 2009. Kiehl leads a twelve-person team.
In 1983, she earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Michigan Tech. She also has an MBA in Engineering Management from the University of Dallas.
Kiehl remains an active Michigan Tech alumna. She serves on the Industrial Advisory Board of the College of Engineering and is a member of the Presidential Council of Alumnae.
Kiehl's family has many ties to Michigan Tech. Her grandfather, Gilly Boyd, taught at Tech; her father, Frank Brechting, earned two bachelor's degrees and a master's degree from Tech; and her brother, Frank, also graduated from Tech.
Kiehl is involved in church activities and Alzheimer's work. She runs marathons and relishes what she calls "the joys of children." She and her husband, Brad, have three, Sam, Lilli, and Isabelle. The family resides in Fort Worth.
2000-2003 Commencement Speakers
2003 Midyear Commencement
Ms. Julie A. Fream—Class of 1983
2003 Spring Commencement
Gary E. Andreson—Class of 1967
2002 Midyear Commencement
Senator Donald Koivisto
2002 Spring Commencement
Dr. Charlie Chu-Chuan—Class of '67 & '71
2001 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Kenneth E. Rowe—Class of 1952
2001 Spring Commencement
John D. Opie—Class of 1961
2000 Midyear Commencement
James A. Mack—Class of 1959
2000 Spring Commencement
Dr. Robert D. Carnahan—Class of 1953
1990-1999 Commencement Speakers
1999 Midyear Commencement
Senator John J. H. Schwarz, M.D.
1999 Spring Commencement
James A. Klungness—Class of 1949
1998 Midyear Commencement
William J. Ivey
1998 Spring Commencement
Philip Lader
1997 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Jerry Linenger
1997 Spring Commencement
M. Thomas Moore
1996 Midyear Commencement
Richard J. Robbins—Class 1956
1996 Spring Commencement
Albert A. Matthews—Class of 1936
1995 Midyear Commencement
David L. House—Class of 1965
1995 Spring Commencement
Dawn Marie Zarling—Class of 1995
1994 Midyear Commencement
William C. Verrette—Class of 1961
1994 Spring Commencement
Dr. Martha E. Sloan
1993 Midyear Commencement
Eric Mittelstadt
1993 Spring Commencement
John O. Vartan—Class of 1970
1992 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar
1992 Spring Commencement
Dr. Charles M. Vest
1991 Midyear Commencement
Octavio Lacombe—Class of 1949
1991 Spring Commencement
Lewis N. Dodak
1990 Midyear Commencement
Joseph M. Warren—Class of 1959
1990 Spring Commencement
Donald E. Peterson
1980-1989 Commencement Speakers
1989 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Jeanette G. Grasselli
1989 Spring Commencement
Rosa Louise Parks
1988 Midyear Commencement
Helen O. Petrauskas
1988 Spring Commencement
Dr. Herber A. Simon
1987 Midyear Commencement
John D. Opie—Class of 1961
1987 Spring Commencement
Dr. David W. Adamany
1986 Midyear Commencement
Julius J. Harwood
1986 Spring Commencement
F. James McDonald
1985 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Gordon E. Moore
1985 Spring Commencement
Forrest N. Shumway
1984 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Louis Robinson
1984 Spring Commencement
Dr. George A. Keyworth II
1983 Midyear Commencement
Major General Oscar C. Decker, Jr.
1983 Spring Commencement
Dr. Robert A. Frosch
1982 Midyear Commencement
The Honarable Governor William G. Milliken
1982 Spring Commencement
Dr. William N. Hubbard
1981 Midyear Commencement
Thomas J. Rentenbach
1981 Spring Commencement
Dr. Melvin Calvin—Class of 1931
1980 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Raymond L. Smith
1980 Spring Commencement
Dr. Harold T. Shapiro
1970-1979 Commencement Speakers
1979 Midyear Commencement
Harold S. Jensen—Class of 1952
1979 Spring Commencement
Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt
1978 Midyear Commencement
Nathan E. Promisel
1978 Spring Commencement
Alice E. Hennessey
1977 Midyear Commencement
Charles C. Huston—Class of 1930
1977 Spring Commencement
Dr. Heinrich Mandel
1976 Midyear Commencement
Dr. W. Dale Compton
Spring 1976
Dr. Ivar Giaever
1975 Midyear Commencement
Charles C. Gates
1975 Spring Commencement
Norma Pace
1974 Midyear Commencement
Chester O. Ensign
1974 Spring Commencement
Soichiro Honda
1973 Midyear Commencement
Dr. Kenneth J. Shouldice
1973 August Commencement
Kemmons Wilson
1973 June Commencement
Walter J. Hickel
1973 March Commencement
Dr. Donald K. Slayton
1972 December Commencement
William Veeser—Class of 1949
1972 August Commencement
F. John McMulkin—Class of 1937
1972 June Commencement
Dr. Daniel P. Moynihan
1972 March Commencement
James A. Black
1971 December Commencement
Herman Gundlach
1971 August Commencement
Adrian Kantrowitz. M.D.
1971 June Commencement
Eric Hoffer
1971 March Commencement
Julius J. Harwood
1970 December Commencement
Russell F. Hoyer
1970 August Commencement
Dr. Martin J. Caserio
1970 June Commencement
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg
1970 March Commencement
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1962-1969 Commencement Speakers
1969 December Commencement
Dr. James A. Kent
1969 August Commencement
James K. Richardson
1969 June Commencement
Chauncey W. Cook
1968 December Commencement
Dr. Donald G. Yerg
1968 August Commencement
Jack G. Real
1968 June Commencement
Robben W. Fleming
1967 December Commencement
R. C. Cole
1967 August Commencement
Dr. Karl V. Lindell
1967 June Commencement
Carl G. Hogberg
1966 December Commencement
Ralph J. Jalkanen
1966 August Commencement
Dr. Walter R. Hibbard
1966 June Commencement
Charles B. Branch
1965 December Commencement
Carl A. Moyer, M.D.
1965 August Commencement
Donald K. Slayton
1965 June Commencement
Dr. John H. Hollomon
1964 August Commencement
H. Stuart Harrison
1964 June Commencement
Semon E. Knudsen
1963 August Commencement
Robert R. Gilruth
1963 June Commencement
Brig. Gen. Oran O. Price
1962 August Commencement
Edwin T. Williams
1962 June Commencement
Philip A. Hart


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Maximum Security Hasp #802 for trailer and van doors. The difference between
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