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Graduation Opens Sesquicentennial Year
by Rachel Dudley
Commencement exercises for the class of 2006 will mark the beginning of the 150th year for Mars Hill College. About 130 students are expected to graduate on Saturday, May 6.
The ceremony will start at 9:30 a.m. in Meares Stadium. In case of rain, it will be held in Moore Auditorium.
The two students selected to address the class are Brian Danforth and Caty Carpenter. Danforth is a business major and Carpenter is a sociology major.
Doris Bentley, a representative of the class of 1956, the 50th year class, is expected to give a speech recognizing the college's sesquicentennial. Bentley is the widow of the late President Fred Bentley who led the college from 1966-1996.
Music for the ceremony will include the Mars Hill College Brass Quintet performing the prelude, processional and recessional. The seniors of the Mars Hill College Choir will perform "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need," and Laura Nell Dubuisson and Chelsea Gaddy will sing a duet. Laura Jackson will give the invocation.
President Dan Lunsford will confer an honorary degree on Jack and Carolyn Ferguson, who have made a significant gift toward construction of the new Ferguson Math and Science Center. A ground-breaking ceremony for the new building will be held right after the graduation ceremonies.
The Baccalaureate religious service will be on Friday, May 5 at 4:00 p.m. in Moore Auditorium. This will be a service of worship. Families, friends, and the college community are invited to gather together and celebrate. Sabrina Shook, a magna cum laude elementary education major, will speak. Chris Spurrier, a psychology major, will give the invocation. Dr. Robert Melvin, professor emeritus (retired) of religion, will address the class.
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