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UW-Green Bay marked its 41st mid-year Commencement Dec. 18 with graduation ceremonies at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. A record 400 students were eligible to graduate. An estimated 300 donned caps and gowns to march in the ceremony.
For David C. Trost, more than four decades separated receipt of his high school diploma and graduation with a four-year college degree. The first happened in 1965. The second happened Dec. 18 when he crossed the stage to receive his UW-Green Bay bachelor’s degree at mid-year Commencement.
Neil Diboll, Class of 1978, returned to deliver the Commencement address at UW-Green Bay’s mid-year graduation ceremonies on Dec. 18.
Graduating class speaker Amii John earned her bachelor’s degree in Art with highest honors, summa cum laude. She also earned a warm ovation for her address to her fellow graduates during the Dec. 18 Commencement ceremony at UW-Green Bay.
Nearly a dozen members of the Chancellor’s Council of Trustees marched in the processional, took seats on stage, and were introduced and acknowledged for their support of UW-Green Bay in front of a graduation-day audience of nearly 2,000 at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.
Among those singled out for special recognition during UW-Green Bay mid-year Commencement was Kari M. Kropp of Pulaski, recipient of the Outstanding Student Award selected by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Alumni Association.
UW-Green Bay vocal music students under the direction of Prof. Sarah Meredith Livingston have made it a holiday tradition, in recent years, to find time for office-to-office caroling just prior to December Commencement. Their annual musical treat this year came Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 15.
