The selection of Commencement processional college banner carriers and degree candidate readers for the Spring 2005 Commencement at Winona State University is complete.
The students honored as college banner carriers are the highest academic ranking juniors in each of WSU's five colleges. The selected students carry the banners of their respective colleges during the Commencement ceremonies. The highest-ranking junior overall carries the Winona State University banner.
The banner bearers will lead nearly 1000 spring 2005 graduates in the processional for WSU's Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 6, at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., at McCown Gymnasium in Memorial Hall.
Sooi Yong Lo, a nursing major from Hong Kong, China, will lead the Commencement processional with the WSU banner during the morning ceremony for graduates of the Colleges of Business and Liberal Arts.
Erin Friedrich, a nursing major from Pine Island, Minn., will carry the WSU banner during the afternoon ceremony for graduates of the Colleges of Education, Nursing and Health Sciences and Science and Engineering.
Also serving as college banner carriers are Emily Brenner, a business administration student from Roscoe, Ill., College of Business banner; Lisa Eggebrecht, an elementary/middle school education student from Wausau, Wis., College of Education banner; Laura Noll, an English student from White Bear Lake, Minn., College of Liberal Arts banner; Lindsay Claeys, a nursing student from Ghent, Minn., College of Nursing and Health Sciences banner; Amanda Shields, a geoscience student from Winona, Minn., College of Science and Engineering banner.
Students chosen to introduce the degree candidates at Commencement are Rebecca Bishop, a theater and English student from Niles, Ill., and Denise Ruemping, a theater student from Byron, Minn. These students were selected for the honor by faculty in the WSU Theatre and Dance Department.
This is the 151st Commencement at WSU since it was founded in 1858 as the first public teacher training institution west of the Mississippi River.
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