Colorado State University Announces Commencement Activities
Friday, May 8, 1998
FORT COLLINS--Colorado State University will present
diplomas to 2,757 spring graduates at an all-university ceremony
May 15 and individual college ceremonies May 15 and 16.
Former Middle East hostages Tom Sutherland and Terry
Anderson will give the keynote address at the all-university
commencement ceremony, scheduled for 3 p.m. May 15 at Moby Arena.
Sutherland, an emeritus professor at Colorado State who in 1991
returned from six years of captivity to a hero's welcome in Fort
Collins, and Anderson, former Associated Press bureau chief and
best-selling author who was held captive for seven years, will
speak about each individual's ability to effect real change in
the world around them.
The ceremony will include remarks and conferral of degrees
by Colorado State President
Albert C. Yates. In addition, all doctoral candidates will be
hooded and recognized. Diplomas will be given to 2,146
undergraduates, 413 graduate students, 124 professional
veterinary medicine students and 74 doctoral students will
receive diplomas. Twenty-nine students will graduate summa cum
laude, 68 students magna cum laude and 129 students cum laude.
In addition to the all-university commencement ceremony,
individual convocation ceremonies for each of the eight colleges
also are scheduled for May 15 and 16. Following is a list of
graduation speakers, starting times and locations for each
college ceremony.
May 15
Professional Veterinary Medicine--speaker: Dr. Anthony Frank,
professor and department head of the pathology department at
Colorado State; 7 p.m., Moby Arena.
ROTC Commissioning--speaker: Brigadier General Brian A. Arnold; 7
p.m., Lory Student Center Theatre.
May 16
Engineering--speaker: Fort Collins Mayor Ann Azari; 9 a.m.,
Equine Teaching and Research Center, 701 S. Overland Trail.
Natural Sciences--speaker: Steven W. Horn, dean of agriculture at
the University of Wyoming and Colorado State alumnus; 9 a.m.,
Moby Arena.
Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences--speaker: Dr. James
Collins, professor of microbiology at Colorado State and head of
the virology section of the diagnostic laboratory at the
Veterinary Teaching Hospital; 9 a.m., Lory Student Center
Ballroom.
Business--speaker: Colorado state Sen. Tom Norton; 1 p.m., Equine
Teaching and Research Center, 701 S. Overland Trail.
Liberal Arts--speaker: Dennis D. Phillips, associate professor in
the department of speech communication at Colorado State; 1 p.m.,
Moby Arena.
Natural Resources--speaker: Richard D. Laven, professor in the
department of forest sciences at Colorado State; 1 p.m., Lory
Student Center Ballroom.
Agricultural Sciences--speaker: Robert G. Zimbelman, executive
vice-president for the Federation of Animal Science Societies; 5
p.m., Equine Teaching and Research Center, 701 S. Overland Trail.
Applied Human Sciences--speaker: David L. MacPhee, associate
professor in the department of human development and family
studies at Colorado State; 5 p.m., Moby Arena.
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