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Candid Photos at Commencement

Scenes from Commencement, Centenary College
May 8, 2004

Summa cum laude graduates: (left to right, back row) Robert Darwin Dayton III, Davon Wayne Ferrara, Joshua Paul Melson, Lacey Alicia Nichols , Stefan G. Nicola, Rebecca Elizabeth Pistorius, Sarah Grace Stringer, Kathryn A. Thompson, Johanna Lynn Weaver, (front row) Kate Lynn Howell, April Landry and Victoria Lynn Kintner. (Photo by Donna Bartholomew)   THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

U.S. Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La.) delivers the commencement address. (Photo by David Maroski)

THE CLASS SPEAKER

Class Speaker Katie McKay inducts her classmates into the Alumni Association. (Photo by David Maroski)

HONORARY DOCTORATES

President Kenneth L. Schwab awards honorary doctorate to Professor Eiji Tsujii of Japan, a leading Jack London scholar, as Provost Darrel Colson, Chairman William G. Anderson and Registrar Gary Young look on. (Photo by David Maroski)

Professor Tsujii bows after lengthy applause from the audience and a delegation of 12 scholars from Japan. (Photo by David Maroski)

Charles Ellis Brown, Shreveport geologist, civic leader and longtime Centenary trustee, receives the hood designating his honorary doctorate. (Photo by David Maroski)

Congressman McCrery receives the hood designating his honorary doctorate. (Photo by David Maroski)

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

Dr. Robert Bareikis, professor of German and former provost, thanks colleagues and students following the recognition of his retirement from the college and the bestowing of the title of "professor emeritus." (Photo by Donna Bartholomew)

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