Four hundred seventy-four students, 374 undergraduate, 94 graduate, and six associate degree students, will be candidates for graduation at Viterbo’s spring commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 9 at the La Crosse Center.
Glena Temple, vice president for academic affairs, will serve as Master of Ceremonies, and Amanda Moder, a dietetics major from Rochester, Minn., will give the student address. Kathy Duerwachter ’10, alumni relations, will give the alumni welcome. President Rick Artman will confer the degrees and Kent Handel, chair of the Board of Trustees, will provide congratulatory remarks. Keith Knutson, chair of the faculty council, and fellow faculty member Rick Walters will present the candidates. The diplomas will be awarded by President Artman and Handel. Alumni board member Karen Kouba ’02 will lead the Prayer of St. Francis and Fr. Conrad Targonski, OFM, will give the benediction.
All faculty and employees are invited to participate. Faculty and other participants should line up in the lower level north side hallway (through the lobby and to the right, and down the stairs; look for the signs) no later than 1:40 p.m. There will not be secure storage for personal items, so leave handbags and other personal items hidden in your vehicle.
The same tips for graduates also apply to wearing the faculty regalia—gowns should be pressed and worn with dark slacks or hosiery and dark shoes, caps should be worn level (not tipped back), no jewelry or other adornments should be worn with the gowns, and faculty tassels are worn on the left side.
After the ceremony, the faculty will be led out after the stage party. The marshals will stop the faculty to form two lines along the edges of the aisle, so the graduates can pass between them as they exit. Faculty members are encouraged to applaud the graduates as they pass.
A Baccalaureate Mass will be held that morning at 11 a.m. in San Damiano Chapel on the Viterbo campus. Fr. Targonski will preside at the liturgy.
The nursing pinning ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 8 in the Fine Arts Center Main Theatre. The BSN Completion program pinning ceremony will be held at 8:30 a.m. May 9 in the Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. A ceremony in which master’s degree candidates receive their academic hoods will be held at 9:45 a.m. May 9 in the Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.