4/30/2003
Contact: K.E. Schwab --
724-738-2199; e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
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NOTE: COMMENCEMENT HAS BEEN
MOVED INDOORS TO MORROW FIELD HOUSE!!!!!!
Ceremony to include 30 Doctor of PT Graduates
--
900 TO GRADUATE AT SRU’S 114th
COMMENCEMENT MAY 10; DR. CLARIE SETTLEMIRE TO
SPEAK
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Dr. Clarie Settlemire, Slippery Rock
University professor emerita of history and respected expert on
Egyptian history, will address more than 900 graduates, including
30 doctor of physical therapy degree recipients, when the
university celebrates its 114-th commencement at 11 a.m. May
10.
The
ceremony will be held in N. Kerr Thompson Stadium. (In the event of
inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved to Morrow Field
House.)
Interim
President Robert Smith will preside as the university awards more
than 775 undergraduate diplomas. The university will present 88
master’s degrees and graduation hoods will be placed on the
graduating physical therapy doctoral students by Interim Provost
William F. Williams.
Settlemire,
best known on campus for her passion for Egyptology and whose
classes on the subject were always filled to capacity, inspired
students to continue their studies outside of class, including a
summer program in 1995 to England where students studied Egyptian
artifact held by the British Museum and heard from eminent
Egyptologists. She retired last June after 34 years at
SRU.
Twice
a Fulbright seminar participant, Settlemire was among those meeting
with government officials and heads of various educational
agencies, including then Prime Minister Indira
Ghandi.
While
at SRU, Dr. Settlemire also taught “Ancient and Medieval
World History,” “20th-Century World
History,” “Europe to 1815,” “History of
Greece and Rome” and “History and the Bible,”
along with graduate courses on the “Culture of Greece”
and “Ancient Near-East History.” She remains active in
the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, the Biblical
Archeology Society of Pittsburgh and the Society for the Study of
Biblical Literature. Next fall, she will teach in SRU’s
Institute for Learning in Retirement, a community of mature
learners.
She
received the President’s Award for Outstanding Publication in
1985 for her article “The Answers Lie Below,” and in
1996, received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service
as part of Academic Honors Convocation.
Music
will be provided by Stephen Hawk, associate professor of music, and
Kathryn D. Miler, guest organist. The national anthem will be
presented by a student quartet, including Michael Sypien of
Rochester, N.Y., Kit Keiper of Beaver Falls, Mark Erickson of
Ambridge, and Michael Semancik of Fredericktown. Graduating senior
Alyssa Strouse, a music major from Frenchtown, N.J., will lead the
alma mater, and the new graduates will be inducted into the SRU
Alumni Association.
The
SRU Alumni Association will host a pre-commencement continental
breakfast opening at 9 a.m. in the Russell Wright Alumni House open
to graduating seniors and their guests, and a post-commencement
reception for all commencement participants will follow the
ceremony in the University Union.
Prior
to commencement, SRU’s award-winning Army ROTC Program will
commission nine cadets as second lieutenants at ceremonies set for
9 a.m., in Strain Behavioral Science Building Auditorium. Receiving
commissions will beMichael Braden of Lock Haven,
Rebecca Carnahan, Portland Mills, Joshua Christy, Mercer,
Christopher Green, New Castle, James Herman, Beaver Falls, Michael
Martin, West Mifflin, Frank Razzano, Wampum, Adam Renner,
Waterford, and Robert Tarr, Franklin.
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