Students shine at December graduation
| December 10, 2020 |
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By Genevieve Buthod
The School of Communication gathered virtually Dec. 9 to celebrate the graduation of 30 students for the mid-term commencement.
SOC staff and faculty, some of whom donned their regalia, attended and cheered for the students, while friends and family from different cities and time zones joined through Zoom.
After a welcome from Dean Hong Cheng, Faculty Staff Chaplain Chris Murphy led the students in prayer, “in the hope that their intellect, talent, and leadership will be used to improve this world.” He reminded students that graduation is a time of ending, but that it is also a time of beginning.
The first student speaker, Alexis Douge, inspired the audience by boldly rejecting the idea that success is in any way related to material wealth, and instead saying that, “success is about intellectual wealth, and how you use it to make the world a better place.” She went on to quote James Baldwin, whose words, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” helped to drive home her point that, “it is our responsibility to be active in that change.”
The second student speaker, Luke Scaletta, made sure his fellow students knew, “Our experience at Loyola is not defined by this pandemic...It doesn’t feel like a great time to leave the world of school, but the world desperately needs your talents.”
The guest speaker for this year’s fall commencement was Holly Harnisch, Director of Brand Marketing at The New York Times and a Loyola SOC alumna (’09). She told students that when they face a daunting challenge, “when your gut says, ‘This is going to be really hard’—that’s your gut saying, ‘Let’s do this.’ And when that happens, you’re going to need your support system. And I believe I am looking at them virtually right now.”
And to conclude the ceremony, Assistant Dean Lauren Sanchez read the names of the graduates.
The graduates and their degrees are as follows:
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Carina Jo Anderson
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FDMD-BASOC
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Tyler Kenneth Bodda
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FDMD-BASOC
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Carla Leonor Buenrostro
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CMUN-BASOC
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Kelly Annabelle Cooke
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ADPR-BASOC
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Mariko C Dennis
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CMUN-BASOC
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Tess Catherine Donelon
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CMUN-BASOC
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Alexis E Douge
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ADPR-BASOC
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Mary K Ellis
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CMUN-BASOC
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Ariel Barbara Fusz
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CMUN-BASOC
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Diana Guliyeva
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ADPR-BASOC
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Kendall Ann Herbert
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ADPR-BASOC
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Baher M. Hussein
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MJRN-BASOC
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Jessica Alexandra Kelley
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CMUN-BASOC
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Elizabeth Louise Kidd
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CMUN-BASOC
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Anne King
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CMUN-BASOC
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Stella Marie Krueger
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ADPR-BASOC
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Declan Christopher Lyons
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CMUN-BASOC
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Marguerite Rose Michaud
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MJRN-BASOC
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Brooke Hannah Moore
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ADPR-BASOC
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Emily L Morris
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CMUN-BASOC
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Finisha O'Quinn
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DMST-MC
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Dhruvi Rashminbhai Patel
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ADPR-BASOC
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Brian Nicholas Powers
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FDMD-BASOC
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Paul Lawrence Quinn
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DMST-MC
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Gabriela Rojas
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ADPR-BASOC
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Jenna Catherine Ross
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ADPR-BASOC
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Luke Manning Scaletta
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ADPR-BASOC
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Emma Therese Stokes
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MJRN-BASOC
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Allison Grace Tallman
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CMUN-BASOC
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Alexis Elizabeth Tiller
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GSCM-MS
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Amy Tran
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ADPR-BASOC
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Vishal Varma
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ADPR-BASOC
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Andrew J. Weigel
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ADPR-BASOC
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Emma Patricia Whaley
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ADPR-BASOC
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Yong S. Won
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MJRN-BASOC
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Ashley Wright
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MJRN-BASOC
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Martina Alice Steel Zornig
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ADPR-BASOC
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If you missed the event, but would like access to the recording of the day, please contact SOC Events Coordinator Genevieve Buthod at gbuthod@luc.edu.