MoWest to hold Winter Commencement ceremony this Saturday
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — A new batch of Griffon graduates will soon receive their long-awaited diplomas.
Missouri Western State University confer degrees to 172 undergraduates — 51 of them with honors — and 32 graduates during their Winter Commencement ceremony. Eleven states are represented in the graduating class in addition to Missouri. Graduates also came from five foreign countries.
Lee Tieman, managing partner of Tieman, Spencer and Hicks and Chair of the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors, will be the keynote guest speaker. Student representative and Faucett native Patty Lashbrook, an applied communications and journalism major, will also give a speech.
The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, in the MWSU Fieldhouse in the M.O. Looney Complex. Doors open to guests at 10:15 a.m. The public is welcome to attend. A brief reception will follow.
Nursing students will also be celebrated during a pinning ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Fulkerson Center.
