TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 1,100 degrees at commencement ceremonies held Saturday, Dec. 18, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Millard Fuller, founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, was the featured speaker. Fuller, an alumnus of the UA School of Law, also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the ceremony. Approximately 1,100 degrees were conferred.
With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 191,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. UA holds commencement ceremonies three times a year.
The following students from the Florence area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:
DOCTORAL DEGREE
ATHENS — Michael Edward Stovall
MASTER’S DEGREE
CHEROKEE — Neal McCoy Hughes
FLORENCE — Lora Allyn Barfield, Lydia Marie Seabol
MUSCLE SHOALS — Deidra Reid Brewer, Teresa Anne Colvin, Dayna Dewberry Willis
TOWN CREEK — Melanie Lynette Green
TUSCUMBIA — Chanda Lynn Matthews
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
ATHENS — Myra Carissa Green, Joshua Miller Magnusson, Tiffany Dianne Poole, Alison Lynn Robison
CHEROKEE — Jeffery P. Trapp
ELKMONT — Matthew Wyn Smith
FLORENCE — Sara Elizabeth Allgood, Michael Todd Gann, James Paul Hewett, Gary Lamar Jester, Jessica Lee Lovelace, Michael Joseph Mauter, Joseph Heath Parnell, Casey L. Stanford, Sarah E. Wickwire
MOULTON — Joseph L. Dutton, James Kevin England, Freda Joyce Rojem, Timothy Joe Taylor
MUSCLE SHOALS — Mandy Kay Edwards, Adam Donald Flournoy, Daniel H. Nelms, April Danielle Pitts
PHIL CAMPBELL — Billy Benjamin Pierce
ROGERSVILLE — Gabriel Neal Belue
TANNER — Melanie R. Bridgeforth
TOWN CREEK — Scott O. Harrison, Bradford Edwin Hutto
Contact
Linda Hill, UA Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu