| May 2012 |
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Sheila L. Hauck M'97 D'11
(Graduate Studies Ceremony)
Executive Director of Professional Practice, Oncology, and Palliative Care, St. Mary's Medical Center |
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Valerie A. McKinney M'05
(College of Business Ceremony)
Global Serialization Operations for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc. |
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Joycelyn Winnecke '82
(College of Liberal Arts Ceremony)
Vice President and Associate Editor, Chicago Tribune |
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J. Wayne Meriwether M'08
(College of Nursing and Health Professions Ceremony)
Chief Operation Officer, Methodist Hospital |
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Joey Barnett '81
(College of Science, Engineering, and Education Ceremony)
Professor of Pharmacology, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology; Vice Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University |
December
2011 |
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Barbara A. Davis
USI Old National Bank Distinguished Professor (2011) |
May
2011 |
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J. Brad Ellsworth '81
President of Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana - North |
December
2010 |
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Brian L. McGuire
USI Integra Bank Distinguished Professor (2010) |
May
2010 |
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Robert C. Roeder '71
Principal and Senior Human Capital Consultant, Mercer, Inc. |
December
2009 |
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Dr. Kevin J. Valadares
USI Integra Bank Distinguished Professor (2009) |
May
2009 |
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Dr. H. Ray Hoops
President, University of Southern Indiana |
December
2008 |
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Dr. Sherry B. Darrell
USI Integra Bank Distinguished Professor (2008) |
May
2008 |
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Sherrianne M. Standley
Vice President emeritus of Advancement, University of Southern Indiana |
December
2007 |
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Dr. Paul Doss
USI Integra Distinguished Professor (2007) |
May
2007 |
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Jean LemMon
Award-winning journalist and entrepreneur |
May
2006 |
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Martha Lamkin
President and CEO of Lumina Foundation for Education |
May
2005 |
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Charles C. Huppert
Businessman and War Hero |
May
2004 |
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Melissa S. May
Indiana Court of Appeals, attorney and judge |
May
2003 |
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Joseph E. Kernan
Lt. Governor, state of Indiana |
May
2002 |
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Edward G. Boehne
Retired President and CEO Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
May
2001 |
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Helen Thomas
Author and Hearst Newspaper Columnist |
May
2000 |
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Dr. David Hamburg
President emeritus of Carnegie Foundation |
May
1999 |
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Frank McDonald II
Mayor of Evansville and USI alumni |
May
1998 |
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H. Lee Cooper
Chairman of the Board CNB Bancchares, Inc. |
May
1997 |
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Ann M. Stack
Publisher Emeritus of Arts Indiana Magazine |
May
1996 |
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Evan Bayh
Governor, state of Indiana |
May
1995 |
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Randall T. Shepard
Evansville native and Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court |
May
1994 |
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Gordon St. Angelo
Program Officer for Community Development at the Lilly Endowment |
May
1993 |
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Larraine R. Matusak
Leadership Scholar, W.K. Kellogg Foundation |
May
1992 |
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George B. Weathersby
Educator and Business Executive; former Chairman of Indiana Commission for Higher Education |
May
1991 |
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John J. Pruis
Educator and Business Executive; Chairman of the Board of Incorporators for a Separate State Univeristy in Southwestern Indiana |
May
1990 |
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Judith G. Clabes
Editor of The Kentucky Post |
May
1989 |
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Lee. H. Hamilton
Former Chairman of the Mead Johnson Company |
May
1988 |
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Ernestine M. Raclin
Chairman of the Board of First Source Corporation and First Source Bank, South Bend, Indiana |
May
1987 |
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James Thomas Morris
President, Lilly Endowment, Inc. of Indianapolis |
May
1986 |
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Robert Dunkerson Orr
Governor, state of Indiana; Native of Evansville |
May
1985 |
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William Knowlton Zinsser
Author and Editor of the Book-of-the-Month Club |
May
1984 |
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Beurt Richard SerVaas
Chairman of the Board, Curtis Publishing Company; President, SerVaas, Inc. |
May
1983 |
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Reverend Francis Raymond Shea
Archbishop of Evansville Catholic Diocese |
May
1982 |
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John Massie Mutz
Lt. Governor, state of Indiana; Former State Senator |
May
1981 |
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James R. Harris
Administrator of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining; Former State Senator |
May
1980 |
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Wynetka Ann Reynolds
Provost, Ohio State University |
May
1979 |
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William Robert Burleigh
Former editor of The Evansville Press; Editor of The Cincinnati Post |
May
1978 |
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Russell G. Lloyd
Mayor, city of Evansville |
May
1977 |
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Virgil Alfred Clift
Professor Emeritus, New York University; Editor, Encyclopedia of Black America |
May
1976 |
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No Speaker. |
May
1975 |
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Alan Carson Rankin
President, Indiana State University |
May
1974 |
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Sylvia Fidd Porter
Author and nationally syndicated columnist |
May
1973 |
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Robert Dunkerson Orr
Educator and Chairman, History and Psychology, Evansville, Indiana Schools (retired) |
June
1972 |
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Richard Green Lugar
Mayor, Indianapolis, Indiana |
June
1971 |
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Peter Parker Muirhead
Executive Deputy Commissioner of Education Department of Health Education and Welfare |
April
1970 |
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No Speaker. |