Fall commencement at Northwestern Oklahoma State University will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8, in Percefull Fieldhouse.
Supreme Court Attorney and Northwestern alumna Judith Ridgeway will deliver the commencement address. Ridgeway graduated from Northwestern with two Bachelor of Science degrees in psychology and sociology in 1970. As a student, she sang with the campus singers. She also enjoyed campus walks with professor of botany Dr. Anna Fisher or learning about Shakespeare and London from professor of English Dr. Julia Sparger.
Upon graduation from Northwestern, Ridgeway earned a Juris Doctorate in Law from the University of Oklahoma in 1975 and began her 40-year career as an attorney.
Ridgeway uses her decades of private practice law experience in criminal, bankruptcy, divorces, child custody, and family dispute cases in lectures on how to stay married, children’s rights, family disputes, conflict management, open adoption, life after divorce, addiction and the family and personality profiling. She also taught classes and hosted lectures at the University of Oklahoma from 1993 to 2005.
Music will be provided by the Northwestern brass quintet. A reception honoring the graduates will immediately follow the ceremony in the Student Center Commons area.
Seventy-four students are candidates to receive bachelor’s degrees with 12 graduating with honors. Students with cumulative grade point averages between 3.70 and 3.79 are designated cum laude, those with GPAs between 3.80-3.89 are magna cum laude and those above 3.90 are summa cum laude.
Fourteen candidates will receive master’s degrees – one will receive a Master of Arts in American Studies, five will receive Master of Counseling Psychology degrees, six will receive Master of Education degrees and two will receive a Master of Science in General Psychology.
A live stream of the fall commencement can be found at: www.YouTube.com/NWOSURangers.
Master’s graduates, their degrees and their hometowns are as follows:
MASTER OF ARTS IN AMERICAN STUDIES
KANSAS
HARDTNER – Andrea Amanda Lynn Corr
MASTER OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
OKLAHOMA
ENID – Rhema Abercrombie; Christopher Black; Klaire Kallas
PERRY – Dawson Maxwell
TONKAWA – Emma Kate Reynolds
MASTER OF EDUCATION
OKLAHOMA
ALVA – Danielle Faye Budy, adult education management and administration
CANTON – Cara Schultz, reading specialist
WOODWARD – Kaitlyn Rose Mattingly, adult education management and administration
FLORIDA
JACKSONVILLE – Riley Walker, adult education management and administration
MASSACHUSETTS
BREWSTER – Daniel Campbell, adult education management and administration
MISSOURI
KANSAS CITY – Ja’Ron Burks, adult education management and administration
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
OKLAHOMA
ALVA – Taylor Phillips
CANADA
CALEDON, ONTARIO – Carla Briscoe
Bachelor’s graduates, their degrees and their hometowns, beginning with the honored graduates, are as follows:
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
OKLAHOMA
ALVA – Delaney Elizabeth Lambert, Bachelor of Arts in English education
DRUMMOND – Hannah G. Appleton, Bachelor of Science in health and sports science education
ENID – Matthew Lee Carpenter, Bachelor of Science in agriculture; Adriana M. Quezada, Bachelor of Science in psychology
PIEDMONT – Gracie I. Myatt, Bachelor of Science in biology
PRAGUE – Elizabeth Denney, Bachelor of Science in health and sports science education
WAYNOKA – Sagelyn Chanielle Budy, Bachelor of Science in agriculture
ILLNOIS
WAUKEGAN – Azucena Rivera Martinez, Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
OKLAHOMA
NASH – Ella R. Ayers, Bachelor of Business Administration
CUM LAUDE
OKLAHOMA
HOLDENVILLE – Emily M. Smith, Bachelor of Music in Education in vocal music
WAYNOKA – Mattie Ann Pitts, Bachelor of Science in Education in elementary education
NEPAL
KATHMANDU – Pemba Sherpa, Bachelor of Science in computer science
BACHELOR OF ARTS
OKLAHOMA
ALVA – Destiny Marie Miller, general studies
CLEVELAND – Heather Negelein, English
ELGIN – Dalton B. Landers, general studies
ENID – Victoria Joylynn Bolar, general studies
GUYMON – Itzy Lozano, general studies
MEDFORD – Derek Douglas Sinor, general studies
PONCA CITY – Robert L. James, sociology
CALIFORNIA
RIDGECREST – Samantha Nicole Farris, general studies
TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO – DaRaun T. Clark, general studies
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN EDUCATION
ENID – Elizabeth Bee, English
WOODWARD – Elizabeth Christine Terbush, social science
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
OKLAHOMA
BEAVER – Janessa Viola Davis-O’Reilly, accounting
CHOCTAW – Avery Ruth Clark
ENID – Jaime Lopez; Stephanie Salcedo, accounting
HELENA – Kenneth Dee Shannon
PONCA CITY – Ashton Layne Jones; Katherine D. Wallen
STILLWATER – Douglas Wilson Griffith II
WOOWARD – Nydia Evelyn Fraire, accounting; John Michael Landry Wilcox
ARIZONA
SCOTTSDALE – Paul F. Sachen
MICHIGAN
LANSING – Isaiah Kellum
TEXAS
HOUSTON – Chase Davidson
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
OKLAHOMA
ALVA – Travis Scott Riley, health and sports science education
BLACKWELL – Ashley Marie Ailey, psychology; Madison Kay Dollarhide, psychology
BLANCHARD – Patricia L. Boeckman, psychology
CHEROKEE – Shelby Lynn Porter, criminal justice
ENID – Angie Grace Horner, psychology; Colby Jarnagin, health and sports science education; Kaci A. Pembrook, biology
ERICK – Timothy B. North, computer science
FREEDOM – Mikala Marie Salinas, computer science
PONCA CITY – Lyla Alyn Murie, biology
SHATTUCK – Beatriz Angeli Dacudao Penaflor, psychology
WOODWARD – William N. Hillyer Jr., health and sports science education
IDAHO
EMMETT – Lacey Renee Geiger, health and sports science education
KANSAS
KINCAID – Julianna Sprague, agriculture
OLATHE – Mason Myers, health and sports science education
PRATT – Riley Prosser, health and sports science education
LOUISIANA
TALLULAH – Asia Monae Hicks, health and sports science education
NEBRASKA
ELKHORN – Taylor Rae Songster, biology
HASTINGS – Jacob Shaw, agriculture
SOUTH CAROLINA
LANDRUM – Terrel Kade Stokes, agriculture
TEXAS
ARLINGTON – David Alejandro Salas, health and sports science education
CANTON – Brianisha Marie Rolling, health and sports science education
PERRYTON – Cayden Brown, computer science
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION
OKLAHOMA
BLACKWELL – Worthy Shepherd, health and sports science education
ENID – Katelynn Milam, early childhood education; Vanessa Pacheco, elementary education
HOOKER – Halea Renay Locke, early childhood education
MEDFORD – Kaycee Jean Evans, early childhood education
PONCA CITY – Trinity M. Soutter, agriculture education
SEILING – Rylee Manning, elementary education
SHARON – Emilee Batman, elementary education
TONKAWA – Regan C. Hacker, elementary education
VICI – Kayla Carroll, elementary education; Madalyn Nicole Halderman, elementary education
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY – Deborah Marie Jobes
STILLWATER – Kacie Platt
WAUKOMIS – Megan Nicole Moulder
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