Inside Iowa State
Dec. 1, 1995


Undergraduate, Graduate Ceremonies Dec. 15-16

by Anne Dolan
An estimated 1,575 students will graduate during fall 
commencement events the weekend of Dec. 15-16.

About 1,225 students will receive bachelor's degrees during a 
2 p.m. ceremony Saturday, Dec. 16, in Hilton Coliseum. 
Richard Stanley, a 1955 graduate of the College of 
Engineering and chairman of Stanley Consultants Inc. in 
Muscatine, will give the commencement address. 

An expected 350 students will receive master's or Ph.D. 
diplomas during a graduate ceremony at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 
15, in C. Y. Stephens Auditorium. William Lord, an Anson 
Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, will give the 
address.

Saturday morning of graduation weekend is reserved for 
optional college receptions and convocations. Associate 
registrar Herman Richtsmeier said the college deans have 
asked that the new scheduling plan, piloted last fall and 
spring, be continued for the 1995-96 year. (For a complete 
list of college events, see Calendars: Graduation.)

Also continued this fall are Saturday luncheons prior to the 
undergraduate commencement ceremony. A luncheon for graduates 
of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be held from 
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Maple Willow Larch dining hall.

Tickets are $9 ($5 for children ages 3 to 10) and available 
in the LAS College Relations Office, 251 Catt.

A luncheon for the graduates and guests from all other 
colleges will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the 
second floor of Scheman. Tickets cost $10 and are available 
through the Student Alumni Association, Alumni Suite, 
Memorial Union.

Stanley received bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering 
and electrical engineering from Iowa State, and a master's 
degree in sanitary engineering from the University of Iowa.

Stanley is vice chairman of the board of HON Industries Inc. 
and president of The Stanley Foundation, a private foundation 
that conducts policy and education programs that promote 
peace with justice and freedom.

Lord received the bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in electrical 
engineering from the University of Nottingham, England. 

He has held the Palmer Chair in electrical engineering and 
served as an associate director of the Center for 
Nondestructive Evaluation since he arrived at Iowa State in 
1988. 

He also served on the faculty at the University of Tennessee, 
Knoxville; Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, N.Y.; and 
Colorado State University.
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