MoWest to celebrate graduate achievements during Winter Commencement

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) -- Missouri Western State University will celebrate the achievements of 204 graduates during its Winter Commencement ceremony.

The public is invited to attend the ceremony at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, in the MWSU Fieldhouse in the M.O. Looney Complex. Doors open to guests at 10:15 a.m.

The university will confer 172 undergraduate degrees, 51 of them with honors and 32 graduate degrees this semester.

Graduates come from Missouri and 11 other states, as well as five foreign countries.

The ceremony will feature graduates from the College of Science and Health, General Studies, the College of Business and Professional Studies and the College of Liberal Arts.

A brief reception, sponsored by the Missouri Western Alumni Association, will follow the ceremony in the Looney practice gym.

Lee Tieman, the managing partner of Tieman, Spencer and Hicks, as well as the Chair of the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors, will be the guest speaker for commencement.

Patty Lashbrook is the student representative who will speak at the ceremony. Lashbrook is an applied communications and journalism major from Faucett, Missouri.

In addition to the ceremony, nursing graduates will also receive a pin, symbolic of their training and new profession, at a pinning ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Fulkerson Center.