Commencement - Spring 2022|Elgin Community College
Spring Commencement Exercises conducted in-person on May 21, 2022.
Spring Commencement Exercises conducted in-person on May 21, 2022.
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COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES<br />
UNIVERSITY TRANSFER DEGREES (10 a.m.)<br />
SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER.........................................................................Meghan Taylor<br />
PRELUDE ............................................................................................ Earl Clemens Wind Quintet<br />
Karsin Bader, bassoon<br />
Anna Creech, horn<br />
Gail Creighton, flute<br />
Linnea Diersen, oboe<br />
Garrett Matlock, clarinet (EYSO faculty guest performer)<br />
PROCESSIONAL....................................................................................Led by John Karnatz, MA<br />
2022 Orrin G. Thompson Teaching Excellence Award for part-time faculty<br />
Communication Studies Adjunct Faculty<br />
Themes from “Pomp and Circumstance” by Edward Elgar<br />
PATRIOTIC HYMN ................................................................... Cassandra Valdes, ECC student<br />
accompanied by Stephanie Spolum, Music Adjunct Faculty<br />
“America the Beautiful” by Samuel A. Ward and Katherine Lee Bates<br />
O beautiful for spacious skies,<br />
For amber waves of grain,<br />
For purple mountain majesties<br />
Above the fruited plain,<br />
America, America, God shed His grace on thee,<br />
And crown thy good with brotherhood<br />
From sea to shining sea.<br />
WELCOME ..............................................................................................David Sam, PhD, JD, LLM<br />
President<br />
MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD...................................................................... Jennifer Rakow, BA<br />
Chair, <strong>Community</strong> <strong>College</strong> District 509 Board of Trustees<br />
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