May 1, 2024
Contact Anthony Slaby at 608-796-3042 or aaslaby@viterbo.edu
VITERBO UNIVERSITY SPRING COMMENCEMENT AT THE LA CROSSE CENTER MAY 11
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Four hundred forty-eight students, 305 undergraduate, 107 master’s degree, and 36 doctorate degree students, will be candidates for graduation at Viterbo University’s Spring Commencement Ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 11 at the La Crosse Center.
Tonya Wagner, vice president for academic affairs and institutional effectiveness, will serve as Master of Ceremonies. Sarah Peterson, a nursing major from Tomah, will give the undergraduate student address and Master of Science in Nursing student Allison Stader will deliver the graduate student address. Nursing student Cadet Keyton Solberg will take the Oath of Office from Lt. Col. Brian Knutson, professor of military science.
Viterbo President Rick Trietley will confer the degrees and Tonya Wagner, Rick Walters, executive artistic director of the Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and Maria Morgan Bathke, associate professor of nutrition and dietetics, will present the candidates. The diplomas will be awarded by President Trietley and Board of Trustees Chair John McHugh.
Kathy Duerwachter, director of alumni engagement, will lead the Prayer of St. Francis, Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmán, vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion, will provide the invocation, and university chaplain Fr. Conrad Targonski, OFM, will give the benediction.
Receiving the title of faculty emeritus will be professors Nancy Allen, music, Frank Ludwig, theatre and music theatre, and Debra Murray, director of counselor education programs.
Viterbo Distinguished Professor of Servant Leadership Tom Thibodeau will be presented with a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree.
A Baccalaureate Mass will be held that morning at 10 a.m. in San Damiano Chapel on the Viterbo campus. Fr. Targonski will preside at the liturgy. The Nursing Pinning Ceremony will be at 6 p.m. Friday, May 10 in the Fine Arts Center Main Theatre. A Sending and Blessing Ceremony will take place at 8 p.m. May 10 in San Damiano Chapel.
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