A record Commencement, in photos
Spring Commencement 2010 took place Saturday afternoon, May 15, at UW-Green Bay in front of a record crowd of about 4,800 at the Kress Events Center. The largest graduating class ever, 850 students, pushed...
Daily Archive: May 15, 2010
Chancellor's Award for Kendle
At UW-Green Bay’s spring2010 commencement on May 15, Paul Kendle of Green Bay was presented with the Chancellor’s Award, the University’s highest community honor.
Student speaker: Generation Y can be great
Nicholas J. Vlies, chosen to be the graduating class speaker at Saturday’s spring 2010 commencement ceremony, challenged his classmates to step up and solve some of the great problems that confront the world.
Commencement 2010 sets indoor record
A gathering estimated at 4,800 people packed the Kress Events Center for UW-Green Bay’s spring 2010 commencement on Saturday, May 15.
Twice as nice: Twins graduate together
Beth and Amanda Rodenhauser of Pardeeville are twins. Twin recipients of their May 2010 bachelor’s degrees in Education. Twin recipients of summa cum laude, or highest, academic honors. Twin recipients of prestigious Chancellor’s Medallions...
‘Turn the tide of negativism,’ alumnus tells grads
The largest graduation class in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay received a slice of practical philosophy Saturday’s spring commencement ceremony: Stay positive. Steven Taylor, a 1979 Business Administration graduate who has...
Taylor gets laugh with 'growth since college' props
Steven Taylor, class of ’79, was first recruited to UW-Green Bay as a college basketball player. In his commencement address to the May 2010 graduating class, he alluded to a first-rate academic experience and...
Big curtain makes commencement debut
Something different about the staging of May 2010 Commencement — something about the look of the Kress Events Center — but you can’t quite put your finger on it? Maybe, just maybe, it was...
For Commencement flags, a baker's dozen
As could be expected with a record graduating class, there was also an impressive display of international and tribal flags representing nations of origin as identified by members of UW-Green Bay’s May 2010 class....
Teammates at graduation, too
The UW-Green Bay men’s basketball team had quite a graduation day, too. Collecting their diplomas on Saturday were Phoenix players Jon Anderson (summa cum laude, Business Administration; Ryan Tillema (Business Administration); Patrick Nelson (Business...
