2020 Knox College Commencement

KNOX COLLEGE CLASS OF 2020 COMMENCEMENT GALESBURG, ILLINOIS

KNOX COLLEGE

THE 175TH COMMENCEMENT

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2021 1:00 P.M. GALESBURG, ILLINOIS

GRAND MARSHAL TODD HEIDT

FACULTY MARSHAL JONATHAN POWERS

COLLEGE MARSHAL DANIEL CONG BIEN

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THE KNOX HYMN HAIL TO ALMA MATER 1. HAIL TO ALMA MATER, FLING HER BANNER HIGH! SING THE SONGS OF COLLEGE DAYS, SONGS OF DAYS GONE BY. REFRAIN: FOR THE LONG, LONG ROAD TO ALMA MATER IS THE ROAD THAT CALLS US HOME O’ER HILLS AND PLAINS,

BY LAKES AND LANES, OUR WOODLANDS, OUR CORNFIELDS, OUR COUNTRY, OUR HOME. 2. IN THE QUIET HOURS, OF THE STARRY NIGHT, DREAM THE DREAMS OF COLLEGE DAYS, MEM’RIES BURNING BRIGHT. (REFRAIN) 3. HAIL TO ALMA MATER, LET OUR VOICES RING! HAIL TO KNOX ALL GLORIOUS, UNTO THEE WE SING. (REFRAIN)

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CLASS OF 2020 BACHELOR OF ARTS OLUWASEGUN ADETAYO ADEFIOYE ~ Lagos, Nigeria ..............................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Philosophy KAITLYN MARIE AGRESS ~ Cum Laude ~ Crystal Lake ..........CREATIVE WRITING; CLASSICS ALYSSA AHLERT ~ Cum Laude ~ Naperville..........................................................

CLASSICS AND ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES; Minor in Creative Writing MUHAMMAD AHMAD ~ Fort Collins, Colorado....................................ECONOMICS; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT LYDIA MARIE ALLEN ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago ...........................................BIOLOGY; SELF-DESIGNED MAJOR IN PUBLIC HEALTH HYAA ALMAKKY ~ Chicago .............................................................STUDIO ART; Minor in Psychology TEHREEM ANWAR ~ Cum Laude ~ Rolling Meadows ......................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Integrative Business and Management KIANA CELSA ARANGO ~ Chicago .........................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Psychology STEPHANIE ARIAS ~ Chicago............................................................STUDIO ART; Minor in Chinese LEAH CHRISTINE ASPINWALL ~ Cum Laude ~ Camas, Washington....................BIOLOGY; Minor in Classics-Latin RYAN JOSEPH ATCHLEY ~ Galesburg ..........................................POLITICAL SCIENCE; Minor in Educational Studies JOSEPH MICHAEL AUGER ~ Rye, New Hampshire..................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Business and Management GABRIELLE LINDA AVILÉS ~ Montgomery ...........................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Philosophy HEATHER RENEE BABCOCK ~ Peoria ...................................ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ELEANOR ROSE BAIRD ~ Cum Laude ~ La Grange ........................................ MUSIC; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology JIAMU BAO ~ Nanjing, People’s Repub. of China................................ASIAN STUDIES; Minor in Business and Management JEREMY ETHAN BARNES ~ Chicago............................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Film Studies EMILIE ROSE BARRETT ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Saint Louis, Missouri .................HISTORY; Minor in Greek and Roman Culture MEREDITH VIVIAN BECK ~ Cum Laude ~ Grand Rapids, Michigan .............ART HISTORY; Self-Designed Minor in Museum Studies SAMUEL AIDAN BEEM ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ State College, Pennsylvania .....................

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; MUSIC SHANTISWARUP BEHERA ~ Cum Laude ~ Greenfield, Wisconsin .................................

INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Psychology; Minor in Economics ELIZABETH MARIE BELL ~ Grayslake..................................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Business and Management KENNA ROSE BELL ~ Cum Laude ~ Des Moines, Iowa...............ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Anthropology and Sociology SYDNEY BLAINE BIEBER ~ Saint Charles....................................ENGLISH LITERATURE; Minor in Psychology; Minor in Creative Writing

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JADA M. BISHOP ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Clear Lake, Minnesota ..................... HISTORY; Minor in Archaeology; Minor in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies KYRAN MEA BLISSETT ~ Galesburg ................................................ASIAN STUDIES; Minor in Computer Science DANARRIA M. BOBO ~ Bellwood........................EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies HUNTER PATRICK BOLGER ~ Hartland, Wisconsin......................... CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in English Literature MIKAELA A. BONNICI ~ San Anselmo, California ............ECONOMICS; POLITICAL SCIENCE TALIA ELEANOR BOSSINGHAM ~ Cum Laude ~ Clinton, Wisconsin...................BIOLOGY; Integrative Business and Management RAVIE FAUVETTE BOUNGOU ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Peoria ........................................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Educational Policy; Minor in Dance Studies SYLVIA FAITH BOWEN-BAILEY ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Duluth, Minnesota .....................

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Minor in Chinese JAYNEE ELISE BOWKER ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Dahinda ............................................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - SECONDARY; ENGLISH LITERATURE MALLORY BOYCHUK ~ Cum Laude ~ Stillwater, Minnesota ..............................MUSIC; Self-Designed Minor in German Cultural Studies CASEY LINNEA BRAYNDICK ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Des Plaines ..................................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Dance Studies RAHSHAE LATRICE BURNETT ~ Chicago............................AFRICANA STUDIES; HISTORY CRISTINA CAMPOS ~ Galesburg .............................................................SPANISH; Minor in Educational Studies KIRA TESS CARNEY ~ Indianapolis, Indiana ...................GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES; CREATIVE WRITING KOBE JOVAN CARREÑO ~ Cotati, California .......INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Economics SARAH DORÉE CARTER ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Nederland, Colorado....CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Religious Studies; Minor in Educational Studies SEAN MICHAEL ANTHONY CASELLI ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Lakemoor................HISTORY; Minor in Creative Writing NATASHA ELAINE CAUDILL ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago ........................AMERICAN STUDIES; Minor in Educational Policy SILVIA CHAVEZ ~ Galesburg ...........................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology SOKHUNTHIA CHENG ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Madison, Wisconsin ...............................

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Social Service; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies ZACHARY ALEXANDER CIRONE ~ Cum Laude ~ Peoria ....................................MUSIC; Minor in Philosophy HARPER LEE HELLENGA COLCLASURE ~ Cum Laude ~ Galesburg ................................

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Minor in Political Science; Minor in Religious Studies MIA LUCY COLETTO ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Psychology JAMES CLARENCE COOK ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Chicago ........CREATIVE WRITING; HISTORY KATHRYN ELIZABETH COSEGLIA ~ Willowbrook...... EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Studio Art

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EMMA LOUISE CULLNAN ~ Chicago .......................................... CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor in Journalism ALEXANDER JAMES CUMMINGS IV ~ Cum Laude ~ Dunlap ........................... BIOLOGY NICOLE ELIZABETH D’ALTERIO ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Chicago .................................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in German; Self-Designed Minor in Composition and Rhetoric YASMINE DAVILA ~ Cum Laude ~ Lemont ...................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies MARGARET MARY DECKER ~ Cum Laude ~ Maryland Heights, Missouri..............MUSIC; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology ELIZABETH ELLEN DEHLIN ~ Viroqua, Wisconsin ........................................HISTORY; Self-Designed Minor in History Education COLTON JOHN DENTON ~ Little Rock, Arkansas ............................POLITICAL SCIENCE; Minor in German; Minor in Music JAMES HARRY DINASO ~ Conroe, Texas ..................................................HISTORY; Minor in Educational Studies; Self-Designed Minor in Coaching DANA EMMALEE DOMBROWSKI ~ Brookfield............................................GERMAN; Self-Designed Minor in Publishing; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies THOMAS ELLIOTT DRISCOLL ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Milwaukee, Wisconsin.....ECONOMICS; Minor in Political Science JASSMINE EJ EFTERNAVN ~ Cum Laude ~ Virum, Denmark .......................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Neuroscience JACOB EDWARD EISELE ~ Farmville, Virginia..................................GERMAN; HISTORY IBRAHIM HESHAM IBRAHIM HU ELABD ~ Al Qahira, Egypt ....................................

INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGMENT; Minor in Economics ANASTASIA MARIEE ELLISON ~ Galesburg.................................................SPANISH; Minor in Environmental Studies MELODY ENG ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago..............INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Chinese; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology JUDITH ESPINOZA ~ East Elmhurst, New York.....................INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology AMN FAROOQ ~ Lahore, Pakistan ..............ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; ECONOMICS MAKENNA DOROTHY FARSHTCHI ~ Freeport ...............................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Greek and Roman Culture SYDNEY CONNOR FOLGER ~ Cum Laude ~ Grayslake ..............INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Minor in Educational Policy MADELINE ROSE FRANKLIN ~ Chicago........................................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Japanese FARID FREYHA ~ Santa Rosa, California .......... INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Psychology JASMINE FRISON ~ Houston, Texas......................AFRICANA STUDIES; CREATIVE WRITING ATSUHIRO FUKUDA ~ Forest Park .....................................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Music CARMEN ALICIA GARCIA ~ Baytown, Texas..............................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Political Science ALEKSANDRA ANNA GICALA ~ Cum Laude ~ Worth ...............INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CARLIN NAOMI GILBERT ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Boulder, Colorado.............................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Social Service

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JELANI JACK GIVENS II ~ Berkeley .........................................................PHYSICS; Minor in Philosophy TRAVIS MITCHELL GOEDEN ~ Cum Laude ~ Appleton, Wisconsin ........POLITICAL SCIENCE; Minor in Music; Minor in Economics SACHIKA GOEL ~ Cum Laude ~ Ambala City, India ..................................STUDIO ART; Minor in English Literature MISHA ZAHID GONDAL ~ Lahore, Pakistan ........................INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Minor in Social Service PHELIPE PEREIRA GRASKE ~ Cum Laude ~ Geneva ..................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Business and Management ZEBULUN ISREAL GREEN JR. ~ Chicago.............................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology FERNANDO GUERRERO ~ Long Beach, California ........................................SPANISH; Minor in Theatre - Playwriting SASHA ARIELLE GURZAKOVIC ~ Chicago ....................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Journalism TRISTAN WAYNE HANNAH ~ Chicago ................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Africana Studies GABRIELA ISABEL HARRIS ~ Roscoe ..........................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Design SARAH M. HENDERSON ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Denver, Colorado...................GERMAN; Minor in Physics; Minor in Statistics BRENDA LETICIA HERNÁNDEZ LIMÓN ~ Oak Lawn................................................

INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Economics; Minor in Psychology JESSICA NICOLE HICKEY ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Rochelle .........................................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Spanish; Minor in Religious Studies KATHERINE RENEE HINRICHS ~ Glenview................................................HISTORY; Minor in Creative Writing KYLIE LINH HOANG ~ Cum Laude ~ Sandy, Oregon.....................................HISTORY; Minor in Environmental Studies; Self-Designed Minor in Museum Studies MARI LARISSA HOCKETT ~ Hanover Park ...................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Japanese FRANZISKA CASWELL HOFHANSEL ~ Cum Laude ~ Providence, Rhode Island .................

CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Computer Science; Minor in English Literature GRAHAM FARLEY HOLMES ~ Galesburg......................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in English Literature ELIZABETH M. HUERTA ~ Cum Laude ~ Elgin............................................HISTORY; Minor in Spanish; Minor in Political Science KYRA C. AVILA HUFFMAN ~ Sacramento, California ...............ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Minor in Biology ZANE HARRISON HUFFMAN ~ Cum Laude ~ Phoenix, Arizona....................ECONOMICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE SHAPRICE HUNT ~ Chicago....................................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Educational Studies; Minor in Social Service RAFAELLO VINCENS UY IBRADO ~ Cum Laude ~ Oak Lawn .....................BIOCHEMISTRY; Minor in Computer Science; Minor in Health Studies DALTON PAUL JAMES ~ Tuscola .........................................ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Minor in Business and Management

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NICHOLAS JOHN JANULIS ~ Cum Laude ~ Arlington Heights ..........................HISTORY; Minor in Philosophy SEQUENA CYLENSEHIA JARRETT ~ Chicago ...................GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES; Minor in Health Studies; Minor in Spanish MUSADDIQ JAVED ~ Cum Laude ~ Lahore, Pakistan .......................COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT AISLING ROSE JENNINGS ~ Austin, Texas.............................................PSYCHOLOGY; Self-Designed Minor in Somatic Practice GEORGE KOH JENSEN ~ River Forest..........................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in English Literature; Minor in Religious Studies MINGDONG JIA ~ Minneapolis, Minnesota.........................INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Minor in Economics RUNSHA JIANG ~ Cum Laude ~ Zhoushan, People’s Repub. of China ...........................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - SECONDARY; SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION ARTURO JIMENEZ JR. ~ Chicago.............................................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Japanese VAN EVERETT JOHNSON III ~ Milwaukee, Wisconsin ..................................THEATRE; Minor in Africana Studies LILA KUMARI JOHNSON ~ Galesburg .................................................STUDIO ART; Minor in Latin American Studies LUCAS RYAN JOHNSON ~ Kankakee .......................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Environmental Studies SA RANG KANG ~ Cum Laude ~ Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea......................PHYSICS MEGAN LYN KANVIK ~ Cum Laude ~ Beach Park ..................................PSYCHOLOGY; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT AARON JONATHAN KAPINOS ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Saint Paul, Minnesota ....................

INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Self-Designed Minor in Composition and Rhetoric CHIHIRO KAWAKAMI ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Tokyo, Japan...........INTERNATIONAL STUDIES; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor in Spanish ASHLEY KERLEY ~ Macomb............................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Creative Writing WALEED SAJJAD KHAN ~ Chicago ..............................MODERN LANGUAGES - FRENCH; Minor in Art History; Minor in International Relations SOO JIN KIM ~ Champaign ...............................EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology SAMUEL CORDAY KLINGHER ~ Saugatuck, Michigan .......................POLITICAL SCIENCE; Minor in Environmental Studies JORDEN BINKLEY KNIZE ~ Chicago .............ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; CREATIVE WRITING KAZUKI KOJIMA ~ Cum Laude ~ Kanagawa, Japan ..................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Chinese; Minor in Business and Management NATALIE ANNE KOWALSKI KROGULL ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Fayetteville, Arkansas............

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - SECONDARY; CREATIVE WRITING NATALIE ROSE LAIRD ~ Chicago....................................................NEUROSCIENCE; Minor in Creative Writing AMBER LINDSEY LANE-BORTELL ~ Cum Laude ~ San Rafael, California ........................

CREATIVE WRITING; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES QUADRIL TEMITOPE LAWAL ~ Lagos, Nigeria .....INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Economics CHI THI NHA LE ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam............PHILOSOPHY; Minor in English Literature

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SOO JIN LEA ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Libertyville ............................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in English Literature; Minor in Film Studies ANDREW LEDEZMA ~ Fullerton, California ......................................NEUROSCIENCE; Minor in Spanish EMILY YOLETTE LEWIS ~ Crosby, Texas....................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Educational Policy AUGUST GORDON LINDBERG ~ Saint Paul, Minnesota .............................ECONOMICS; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology LIUBOV MIKHAILOVNA LIUBVINA ~ Moscow, Russia....................STUDIO ART; BIOLOGY TREVAN EDWARD LOWTHARP ~ Rockford................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Chemistry LESLIE STEPHANY MACIAS ~ Kewanee.......................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; POLITICAL SCIENCE AHMED ALAM MAHSUD ~ Islamabad, Pakistan .....................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Business and Management; Minor in Spanish DAVID WESLEY MANN ~ Saratoga Springs, New York ......................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Business and Management YU MAO ~ Yichang, People’s Repub. of China .......................FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS; Minor in Studio Art GILBERTO ANGELO MARTINEZ ~ Loves Park ............................................ THEATRE; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology STEPHANIE MARTINEZ-CALDERON ~ Chicago .......................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Business and Management; Minor in Spanish ELLA FRANCES MCCLAIN ~ Cum Laude ~ Galesburg ................................ECONOMICS; Self-Designed Minor in Indigenous Feminisim SANTIAGO MEDINA ~ Chicago.......................INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Economics JUN MIN ~ Cum Laude ~ Buffalo Grove...............................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Japanese MAEVE KATHLEEN MINDELL ~ Chicago ......................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in History NIJAE NAOMI MINTER ~ Denver, Colorado......................................NEUROSCIENCE; Minor in Psychology SHUBHAM MOITRA ~ Mumbai, India .................................................ECONOMICS; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ARJUN CHRISTOPHER MOORE ~ Chicago .........................................ASIAN STUDIES; Minor in French TESSA LYN MOORE ~ Mt Olive ......................INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Creative Writing MICHAEL SEAY MORROW ~ Cum Laude ~ Flossmoor....................................PHYSICS; Minor in Mathematics BAILEY ELIZABETH MORSE ~ Glendale, Arizona......................INTERNATIONAL STUDIES; Minor in Spanish FIONA JEAN MUNRO ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Urbana........................CREATIVE WRITING; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MARISOL MURILLO ~ Chicago ........................................................ STUDIO ART; Minor in Computer Science JENNIFER MAEVE MURPHY ~ Cum Laude ~ Saint Louis, Missouri...........CLASSICS-GREEK; CLASSICS-LATIN JOHN R. MUTH ~ Cum Laude ~ Galesburg....................................CREATIVE WRITING

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SHAYAN NADEEM ~ Oak Lawn ...........................EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Educational Policy HANNAH CHRISTIN-MARIE NELSON ~ Cum Laude ~ Onalaska, Wisconsin ....................

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Japanese JACOB LEWIS NEWCOMB ~ Monmouth......................................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in German AN LY NGUYEN ~ Cum Laude ~ Hanoi, Vietnam ...........................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Studio Art DINH QUANG ANH NGUYEN ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Hanoi, Vietnam.............ECONOMICS; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT TUAN DUY NGUYEN ~ Cum Laude ~ Hanoi, Vietnam .............................. ECONOMICS; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT SARAH DANIELLE NICHOLS ~ Lakewood, Colorado.................ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Minor in Studio Art DANIELLE CHAT NICKAF ~ Lugbe, Nigeria .........................INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Minor in Business and Management; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology MAIA SIERRA NOBLE ~ Galesburg .......................EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Religious Studies SARAH EMILY NOEL ~ Bolingbrook ..................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Studio Art CATHERINE MARIE O’BRIEN ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Barrington..............CLASSICS-LATIN; EDUCATIONAL STUDIES-CONTENT AREA GWENDOLYN MARY O’CONNELL ~ Chicago .................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Film Studies DEBORA ORTIZ LUSTGARTEN ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Quito, Ecuador............ECONOMICS; Minor in Statistics; Minor in Business and Management KARTIK SUDHIR PATEL ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Cleveland Heights, Ohio.......................

BIOCHEMISTRY; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ZOE CLAIRE PEARCE ~ Stockton ...............................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Film Studies NIAMH HANNAH PEMBERTON ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Shawnee, Kansas ...............MUSIC; POLITICAL SCIENCE TESLIN BAKER PENOYER ~ Macomb ...........................................POLITICAL SCIENCE; Minor in Social Service MOLLY BETH PETTY ~ Mount Olive .................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology PAULA ELAINE PIERCE ~ Cum Laude ~ Valrico, Florida..............................STUDIO ART; Minor in Arts Administration COURTNEY SKY PLETCHER ~ Cum Laude ~ Fox Lake ..........................FRENCH; HISTORY KARLA ELIZABETH POBLANO ~ Berwyn .............................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Social Service ETHAN JAMES PODWOJSKI ~ Cum Laude ~ Rio..........EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - SECONDARY; HISTORY JACLYN WAN RU POLIT ~ Lake In The Hills..................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Political Science; Minor in Psychology GLORIA PONCE ~ Chicago...............................................................STUDIO ART; Minor in Theatre - Design and Tech KIMBERLY ADAMS POST ~ Loveland, Ohio.................................................SPANISH ANGEL AGUSTIN RAMIREZ ~ Berkeley .............INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Economics

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TAYLOR CAYNE RANDLE ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Springfield ...............POLITICAL SCIENCE; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT GARRETT DUKE RAU ~ Abbotsford, Wisconsin .........EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - SECONDARY; CHEMISTRY ANDREW JAMES RECKER ~ Huntingburg, Indiana .................. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Minor in Physics KYLE REEDY ~ Cum Laude ~ Galesburg.............INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Psychology ALYSSA TAYLOR REID ~ Canton .....................INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Psychology; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology MANUEL ALEJANDRO REYTHER ~ Burbank...........................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Business and Management KARA ADRIANA RIVERA ~ Addison............................GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES; Minor in Social Service OLIVER JAMES RIVERA-DREW ~ Washington, District of Columbia ............. STUDIO ART JOCELYN RODRIGUEZ ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago .......................................STUDIO ART; Minor in Design ABIGAIL ROMO ~ Chicago ...................................ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; BIOLOGY LOUISE C. ROSSITER ~ Minneapolis, Minnesota .....................................STUDIO ART; Minor in Environmental Studies; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology DERYK JACOB RUPLE ~ Winthrop Harbor ...............EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - SECONDARY; Self-Designed Minor in Social Work in Sports MARGARET ELIZABETH RUSWICK ~ Evanston...............................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in English Literature ROSALYNN SIMONE RUTKOWSKI ~ Cum Laude ~ Ann Arbor, Michigan..........................

CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Studio Art BENJAMIN JAY RUTTER ~ Portland, Oregon.................................AMERICAN STUDIES; Minor in Environmental Studies; Minor in English Literature LEAH MARLENE RYMER ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Galesburg .......INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology ODESSA JEWELL FRANK SAGLI ~ Cum Laude ~ Portland, Oregon.................STUDIO ART; Minor in Design MIKAYLA JORDAN SANTORELLI ~ Elk Grove Village ................................STUDIO ART; Minor in Psychology OMAR SANTOYO ~ Chicago .................................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in French KATERINA JOY SASIETA ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Carrollton................................MUSIC; Minor in Peace and Justice Studies JARED N. SCHWARZ ~ Glen Ellyn .............................................POLITICAL SCIENCE; Minor in Business and Management JYOTSNA RATHNAM SEESALA ~ Chicago .....................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Biology; Minor in Chemistry BRADY LEE SEMBER ~ Saint Charles ................INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Economics; Minor in Educational Policy XIN SHU ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Beijing, People’s Repub. of China..............ART HISTORY; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology KOBE WILLIAM SHUTTER ~ Kankakee..............INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Economics HUNTER HOFFMANN SMITH ~ Galesburg ...........................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Film Studies

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ISAIAH COLE SMITH ~ Cum Laude ~ Muscatine, Iowa ...........................................

SELF-DESIGNED MAJOR IN COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology KATANA ELIZABETH SMITH ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Chicago ...............CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Spanish SARAH ELYSE SMITH ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Maryville, Missouri .......................MUSIC; Minor in Computer Science SOLEIL MAGDELENA SMITH ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago................ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; POLITICAL SCIENCE ELLIS BLAYNE STATON ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Independence, Missouri ...............SPANISH; Minor in Educational Studies; Minor in Social Service CASSANDRA LINDSAY STEAR ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Roscoe ......................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology ZOYA IHAREVNA STEPANENKO ~ Vernon Hills .....................................BIOCHEMISTRY; Minor in Psychology PATRICK CHARLES STEPPAN ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Chicago..............COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Art History; Minor in Design PARKER LAUREN STOCKSDALE ~ Elgin ........................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in History; Minor in Japanese ALLISON ROSE STOUT ~ Royal Oak, Michigan ..........................................THEATRE; Minor in Creative Writing TIMOTHY JOSEPH STOUT ~ Florissant, Missouri ...........ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Japanese JAMES ALVIN LEE STRATTON ~ Cum Laude ~ Cordova ..................................HISTORY; Minor in Religious Studies SANJANA SULTANA ~ Alexandria, Virginia............................................ ECONOMICS; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT JANIE-LEE ROSE SUTHERD ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Springfield .........................HISTORY; Self-Designed Minor in Native American Studies; Minor in German JAZMIN K. SYLVERS ~ Skokie ...................................................POLITICAL SCIENCE; Minor in Music KHIZAR TARIQ ~ Sialkot, Pakistan .....................................................ECONOMICS; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT IREIN ANN THOMAS ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Morton Grove ......................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Neuroscience; Minor in Religious Studies ERIC MATTHEW THOMPSON ~ Cum Laude ~ Galesburg ...........................................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology MARIAM TSINTSADZE ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Tbilisi, Georgia .....................ECONOMICS; Integrative Business and Management TEHREEM TUFAIL ~ Karachi, Pakistan ................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Studio Art RYANN NICOLE TUFFIELD ~ Glenview.........................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Theatre - Playwriting; Minor in Japanese PATRICIA EILEEN TURNER ~ San Diego, California.........ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Psychology; Minor in Social Service THEODORE ALEXANDER TURNER ~ Cum Laude ~ Saint Louis, Missouri.........................

CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Psychology; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies EMILY ROSE UNGER ~ Davenport, Iowa ...................................................SPANISH; Minor in Business and Management

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DIANELL ALANA VEGA ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Chicago ............................PSYCHOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY ANDREW EDWARD VELOZ ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago..................................PHILOSOPHY; Minor in Political Science ANTHONY WARFORD ~ Cum Laude ~ Salina, Kansas ...............................................

INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in History MAX LIAM WARREN ~ Buffalo Grove........................................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Business and Management NIKYRA ALEXIS WASHINGTON ~ Cum Laude ~ Galesburg .........................................

EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Africana Studies; Minor in Spanish JACOB MICHAEL WERTZ ~ Spring Valley...........INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Creative Writing KATHERINE GRACE WHITE ~ Indianapolis, Indiana .....................................GERMAN; Minor in Religious Studies EMILY AUTUMN WHITTEN ~ Plano ............................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Journalism LIAM TIMOTHY WHOLIHAN ~ Annapolis, Maryland........PSYCHOLOGY; CREATIVE WRITING JULIAN MALIK WICKS ~ Bellwood ..........................................ENGLISH LITERATURE; Minor in Educational Studies JOEL DAVID YU WILLISON ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago .....................................THEATRE; Minor in Creative Writing CLAIRE IRENE KRETZMA WISNIEWSKI ~ Washington Island, Wisconsin.........................

CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Environmental Studies; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology CONNOR KLYN WOOD ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Carlyle ....................ENGLISH LITERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES MELISSA LYNN WOOD ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Columbia, Maryland..................BIOLOGY; Minor in Spanish WALTER ALBERT WOOD ~ Marquette Heights.....................................BIOCHEMISTRY; Minor in French GAO YEE YANG ~ Maplewood, Minnesota ...................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies; Minor in Social Service HAOQIAO YE ~ Chicago ................INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS ERIN NAYEON YU ~ Seoul, Repub. of Korea .............................................THEATRE; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT MUHAMMAD ZULQARNAIN ZAFAR ~ Port Arthur, Texas ......................... ECONOMICS; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT NOAH ZAND ~ Cum Laude ~ Lisle......................EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; ARON ANDERSON ZHENG ~ Minneapolis, Minnesota ...............FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS; Minor in Business and Management

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CLASS OF 2020 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE RASSEN ACHARYA ~ New Castle, Deleware...............................................PHYSICS; Minor in Economics SHOGO AKIYAMA ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Gardena, California ...........COMPUTER SCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY SHALANA IRENE ATWELL ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Geneseo ......................NEUROSCIENCE; Minor in Psychology KENDRA LORRAINE BATES ~ Blue Island..................................................BIOLOGY; Self-Designed Minor in Race and Culture KASSANDRA M. CARLSON-DAKES ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Madison, Wisconsin.....BIOLOGY; Minor in Environmental Studies FAZLEY SHEBAZ CHOWDHURY ~ Chittagong, Bangladesh ................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Economics ARTHUR TU DAI ~ Guangzhou, People’s Repub. of China.....................NEUROSCIENCE; Minor in Computer Science; Minor in Japanese SHIFA DANDIA ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Karachi, Pakistan .........................MATHEMATICS; Minor in Studio Art; Minor in Economics KEVIN DE CASTRO ~ Cum Laude ~ Aurora, Colorado .....................COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT BRYAN DIAZ ~ Chicago .....................................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Biochemistry; Minor in Spanish BENJAMIN EUGENE DOLEZAL ~ Cum Laude ~ Columbia, Missouri ...................BIOLOGY; Minor in Environmental Studies PETER CHAMBERLAIN DRISCOLL ~ Saint Louis, Missouri...............................PHYSICS; Minor in Astronomy; Minor in Computer Science MICHELLE CAITLIN DUDLEY ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Sunnyvale, California ....................

COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Political Science KHANH LINH DUONG ~ Cum Laude ~ Garden Grove, California ...............PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Statistics NATHAN R. ERRAMPALLI ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Bourbonnais .................NEUROSCIENCE; Minor in Chinese AUDREY M. FISHER ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Galesburg .................................. PHYSICS; Minor in Philosophy; Minor in Mathematics PHILIP ENTRIKIN GRIFFIN ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Edwardsville ..........PHYSICS; CHEMISTRY ALEXANDER STANTON HEGG ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ East Lansing, Michigan.....CHEMISTRY; Minor in Spanish; Minor in Biochemistry ALLEN JACOB IRVINE ~ Naperville ..................................................BIOCHEMISTRY; Minor in Economics; Minor in Chemistry LATRESA SHON JAMES ~ Chicago ..........................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Environmental Studies JINI VARUGHESE JOHN ~ Cum Laude ~ Glenview........................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Chemistry NREPESH JOSHI ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Kathmandu, Nepal .............................PHYSICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE MUHAMMAD MUSA KHAN ~ Overland Park, Kansas ....................COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT

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MICHAELA MARSTELLER KOWALEWSKI ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Ogden, Utah..................

NEUROSCIENCE; Minor in Health Studies; Minor in Biochemistry GRACE ANABEL LADUCA ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Quincy, Massachusetts ............BIOLOGY; Minor in Spanish; Minor in Environmental Studies FREDERICK PAUL LEHMAN ~ Madison, Wisconsin .........................CHEMISTRY; GERMAN JARRELYN NATASHA MCCALL ~ Lonoke, Arkansas ......................................PHYSICS; Minor in Chemistry SHERRY YILING MEI ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago............................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Health Studies; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology JENNA PEARL MILLIGAN ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Saint Paul, Minnesota .......MATHEMATICS; Minor in Business and Management; Minor in Statistics DIEGO MORONES ~ San Diego, California ...............................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Business and Management NEHA V. MOTWANI ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago..............................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Health Studies; Minor in Biochemistry ARSALAN BIN NAJEEB ~ Cum Laude ~ Lahore, Pakistan ..................COMPUTER SCIENCE; INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT SAMANTHA NICHOLS ~ Waimea, Hawaii..................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Health Studies; Minor in Anthropology and Sociology WILLIAM BERNDT PARKINSON ~ Cum Laude ~ Glencoe .................................PHYSICS ANNIE E. PETERSON ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Iowa City, Iowa.........................CHEMISTRY; Minor in Spanish; Minor in Educational Policy ZURI NEWBY PETERSON ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Littleton, Colorado .................BIOLOGY; ART HISTORY ANDREW J. PONCE ~ Normal...............................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Business and Management BRENDAN MICHAEL POWERS ~ Bourbonnais ............................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Psychology NAFISA RAHMAN ~ Los Angeles, California .............................PSYCHOLOGY; BIOLOGY ANTHONY MICHAEL REYES ~ Alpha ..........................................COMPUTER SCIENCE LIZEMARIÉ MICHELLE ROBBERTSE ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Jamestown, Saint Helena .........

NEUROSCIENCE; BIOCHEMISTRY ABIGAIL VIRGINIA ROBILLARD ~ Libertyville ............BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE LAURENTINO SANCHEZ JR. ~ Chicago ......................................................PHYSICS; Minor in Astronomy; Minor in Mathematics ADITYA SIDDHARTH ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Pittsburg, California ....................BIOLOGY; Minor in Chemistry JARED SEBASTIAN SMITH ~ Cum Laude ~ Seneca, Wisconsin .......................CHEMISTRY; Minor in German LAURA SNYDER ~ Wataga....................................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Health Studies JUAN MANUEL SOTO ~ Chicago.............................................................PHYSICS; Minor in Economics ALYSSA BETH STETKEVYCH ~ Lansing .....................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Spanish CAMILLE TAFLINGER ~ Alpha ................................................................BIOLOGY ISABEL TEMOSIHUE ~ Chicago..............................................PSYCHOLOGY; BIOLOGY ABIGAIL JEAN THILLMAN ~ Green Bay, Wisconsin ...................................CHEMISTRY; Minor in English Literature; Minor in Spanish

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MINH TRANG TRAN ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Austin, Texas .................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Biology CONNOR RAYMOND WEEKS ~ Cum Laude ~ Loveland, Ohio.............COMPUTER SCIENCE; MATHEMATICS MONIKA FAFI WOLDEGIORGIS ~ Woodridge, Virginia ...........................NEUROSCIENCE JUSTON WAIPUNAOKALANI WOODARD ~ Oak Lawn....................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Psychology CHE KIMANI WOODSON ~ Naperville ....................................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Biochemistry NATHAN LLOYD WRIGHT ~ Urbana ........................ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; BIOLOGY ALEXANDRIA JADE YEE ~ Cum Laude ~ Columbus, Ohio ..............................BIOLOGY; Minor in Psychology; Minor in Biochemistry

MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2019 WHO HAVE RECEIVED DEGREES SUBSEQUENT TO JUNE 2019 BACHELOR OF ARTS MIKAYLA DIANE ANDERSON ~ Galesburg ................................................HISTORY; Minor in Art History ADEE ATHIYAMAN ~ Summa Cum Laude ~ Macomb ..............................BIOCHEMISTRY; Minor in Chemistry KAILEY DAWN BRUNS ~ Cum Laude ~ Wheaton .......EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in English Literature BREIANA JAMICE BUCKLES ~ Overland Park, Kansas ......................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Africana Studies; Minor in Film Studies SHOSHANA CELINE CARGES ~ Ewa Beach, Hawaii ......................................BIOLOGY; Minor in Psychology DIEGO CARMONA ARRIAGA ~ Chicago ................................................... Spanish; Minor in Educational Policy SARAH CHOI ~ Princeton, New Jersey ......................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Religious Studies EDWARD CALVIN FREEMAN ~ Chicago ........MUSIC; EDUCATIONAL STUDIES-CONTENT AREA ALEXANDER CARLO GALLO ~ Glen Ellyn ...............EDUCATIONAL STUDIES - ELEMENTARY; Minor in Music ELENA-MARIA IATROPOULOU-BANNAT ~ Cum Laude ~ Deutschland, Germany..............

BIOLOGY; Minor in Studio Art; Minor in Economics DEJA JENAE JENKINS ~ Galesburg .............................................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Psychology ALEC WILLIAM JORDAN ~ Spring Grove ..............................ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; Minor in Business and Management PEIBULUNANA TAMARABRAKAE KOROYE ~ Madison, Wisconsin .........CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies

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ALAYNA RENE LUCAS ~ Galesburg ...........................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Social Service ALYSSA LARYN MAIN ~ Galesburg ..................INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; Minor in Psychology INGA EWA MAZUR ~ Cary.............................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Business and Management; Minor in Studio Art DIANNA RENAE MEDIC ~ Cum Laude ~ Lombard...........................CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Theatre - Performance CHIDINMA TOBECHUKWU OGUEJIOFOR ~ Silver Spring, Maryland..................BIOLOGY; Minor in Africana Studies WIRUN PUBPANON ~ Cum Laude ~ Bangkok, Thailand .....................CREATIVE WRITING; ENGLISH LITERATURE NIMAY RAVI ~ Oak Park .......................................ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY; Minor in Social Service; Minor in Educational Policy ELAINE MARIE RITTER ~ Saint Louis, Missouri ............................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Biology YVETTE RODRIGUEZ ~ Rancho Cucamonga, California...........................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Educational Policy; Minor in Social Service PAUL WILLIAM SANDERS ~ Milan ......................................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Educational Policy ASLIK SARKISIAN ~ Sun Valley, California ............................................ECONOMICS; Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies; Self-Designed Minor in Middle Eastern Studies SARAH JANE SCHIERBEEK ~ Skokie...................................................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Studio Art KAELIE MAE SEATTER ~ Cum Laude ~ Chicago ......................................STUDIO ART; Educational Studies-Content Area GAIGE SPENCER ~ Magna Cum Laude ~ Peoria ..............................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Political Science LAURA ELIZABETH TAPLEY ~ Cum Laude ~ San Antonio, Texas............CREATIVE WRITING; Minor in Computer Science EVERETT NOWAK THOMPSON ~ Mount Vernon, Iowa ...................................HISTORY; Minor in Environmental Studies TATIANA RENATE TOPOLUK ~ Cum Laude ~ Rockford, Minnesota ......................MUSIC; EDUCATIONAL STUDIES-CONTENT AREA KATRINA SHERIE WHITE ~ West Chicago .....................GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES; Minor in Latin American Studies YUE ZHANG ~ Guangzhou City, People’s Repub. of China.......................PSYCHOLOGY; Minor in Japanese

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MOMIN ZAHID ~ Cum Laude ~ Schaumburg ...............................COMPUTER SCIENCE; Minor in Economics

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ELECTED TO PHI BETA KAPPA CLASS OF 2020 EMILIE ROSE BARRETT

DINH-QUANG-ANH NGUYEN

SAMUEL AIDAN BEEM

CATHERINE MARIE O’BRIEN

SYLVIA FAITH BOWEN-BAILEY

DEBORA ORTIZ LUSTGARTEN

CASEY LINNEA BRAYNDICK

KARTIK S. PATEL

SARAH DOREE CARTER

NIAMH HANNAH PEMBERTON

SEAN MICHAEL-ANTHONY CASELLI

ANNIE E. PETERSON

SOKHUNTHIA CHENG

ZURI NEWBY PETERSON

NICOLE ELIZABETH D’ALTERIO*

TAYLOR CAYNE RANDLE

SHIFA DANDIA

LIZEMARIE MICHELLE ROBBERTSE

MICHELLE CAITLIN DUDLEY*

ADITYA SIDDHARTH

NATHAN R. ERRAMPALLI

KATANA ELIZABETH SMITH

AUDREY M. FISHER

SARAH ELYSE SMITH*

PHILIP ENTRIKIN GRIFFIN

CASSANDRA LINDSAY STEAR

ALEXANDER STANTON HEGG

JANIE-LEE ROSE SUTHERD*

SARAH M. HENDERSON*

IREIN ANN THOMAS

AARON JONATHAN KAPINOS

MINH-TRANG TRAN

NATALIE ANNE KOWALSKI KROGULL

MARIAM TSINTSADZE

CHI THI-NHA LE

CONNOR KLYN WOOD

SOO JIN LEA

MELISSA LYNN WOOD

JENNA P. MILLIGAN *Elected as Juniors

CLASS OF 2021 MARION OPAL FRANK ISAAC S. HUGHES ALEXIS LAUREL SMITH AKIHIRO WAKAYAMA

SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS PRESIDENT ................................................Courtney Sky Pletcher SECRETARY ......................................................Amanda Espinosa

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COLLEGE HONORS, 2019-2020 BIOLOGY TALIA ELEANOR BOSSINGHAM – Assessing the Relationship Between Horse Personality, Behavior, and Coloration ADITYA SIDDHARTH – Detection of Environmental CRISPRs by a PCR Assay that Targets Conserved Repeats MELISSA LYNN WOOD – Investigating the Mechanism of Longevity for Age-2 Mutant Caenorhabditis elegans

CHEMISTRY ADEE ATHIYAMAN – Synthesis and Characterization of Heteroleptic Copper Dimers Generated from Tetrakis(3-phenylpropionate) dicopper(II) Precursor ALEXANDER STANTON HEGG – Toward the Isolation of Reduced Iron Hydrosilylation Catalysts

COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC AARON JONATHAN KAPINOS – Narrative Confusion and the Development of Student Agency

CREATIVE WRITING JOHN R. MUTH – The Pleiades MARGARET ELIZABETH RUSWICK – Lake Town: A Collection of Short Stories

CREATIVE WRITING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE FRANZISKA CASWELL HOFHANSEL – ‘A Correct Animal’: Interrogating Gendered Computation Through Digital Narrative

CREATIVE WRITING AND ENGLISH MIA LUCY COLETTO – Fiction Collection: “Fragile Creatures”

DATA SCIENCE CONNOR RAYMOND WEEKS – Predicting College Success Through Machine Learning

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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SOLEIL MAGDELENA SMITH – Love, Rage, and No Going Back: Extinction Rebellion and Developing New Methodologies of Activism Within European Direct Action Environmental Movements

HISTORY JADA M. BISHOP – Interrogating the Hermetic Tradition: Imperialism, Religion, and Power in Ancient Egypt

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SYDNEY CONNOR FOLGER – Communist Legacies and Education: Gender Inequality in Education in Post-Communist Countries

MATHEMATICS JENNA PEARL MILLIGAN – Algebraic Methods in Probability and Statistics

MUSIC ZACHARY ALEXANDER CIRONE – Schubert’s Piano Sonata Developments and Early Romantic Form

PSYCHOLOGY KHANH-LINH DUONG – The Effects of Race and Friendship Affiliation on Occupational Perceptions JASSMINE EJ EFTERNAVN – Tripping on Positive Emotions: The Role of Awe and Self-Compassion in Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy

THEATRE: DIRECTING JOEL DAVID YU WILLISON – Death of a Salesman: A Paper Analysis and Staging Project Framed by Post WWII Tropes of American Masculinity

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SCHOLARLY DISTINCTIONS, PRIZES AND AWARDS TO GRADUATING SENIORS COLLEGE MARSHALL ...............................................................Shayan Nadeem ACS DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD ...........................................Alexander Stanton Hegg ACS ILLINOIS HEARTLAND LOCAL SECTION COLLEGIATE SCHOLASTIC AWARD ..................................Alexander Stanton Hegg Annie E. Peterson ACS DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD ...........................................Alexander Stanton Hegg ACS DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD ..............................................Philip Entrikin Griffin HELEN RUDD ARNOLD PRIZE ................................................Waleed Sajjad Khan HOWELL ATWOOD AWARD ......................................................Dianell Alana Vega Kenna Rose Bell Samuel Aidan Beem Sokhunthia Cheng Shaprice Hunt DR. DIANA BECK SENIOR HONOR AWARD ...................................Danarria M. Bobo Garrett Duke Rau BEVERLY BENDER SCHOLAR IN ART .......................................Zuri Newby Peterson DONALD L. BENEDICT STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD...................Laurentino Sanchez Jr. EVELYN BIELEFELDT AWARD .............................................Jarrelyn Natasha McCall DON C. M. BRACKER MEMORIAL AWARD IN ATHLETICS .................Deryk Jacob Ruple WILLIAM E. BRADY PRIZE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE ......................Connor Klyn Wood JOHN W. BURGESS PRIZE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE .........................Taylor Cayne Randle CLARK MILLS CARR PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS ..........................Philip Entrikin Griffin GENERAL CHEMISTRY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ................................Annie E. Peterson Jared Sebastian Smith Melissa Lynn Wood SALLY COLEMAN PRIZE IN SPANISH LITERATURE ............................Ellis Blayne Staton COLTON PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC PERFORMANCE ......Gilberto Angelo Martinez AUDREY COLLET-CONARD PRIZE ........................................Katana Elizabeth Smith DAVENPORT LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION .......................Franziska Caswell Hofhansel Graham Farley Holmes Katana Elizabeth Smith Margaret Elizabeth Ruswick DAVENPORT LITERARY AWARD IN NON-FICTION .....................Liam Timothy Wholihan Margaret Elizabeth Ruswick Mia Lucy Coletto DAVENPORT LITERARY AWARD IN PLAYWRITING ............................Deja Jenae Jenkins Fiona Jean Munro DAVENPORT LITERARY AWARD IN POETRY ..................................George Koh Jensen George Koh Jensen James Clarence Cook Katana Elizabeth Smith LAWRENCE L. DEMOTT PRIZE ..............................................Nathan Lloyd Wright DENNIS E. DONHAM PRIZE IN HISTORY ..................................James Clarence Cook DAVID ‘BURNEY’ DUNN AWARD FOR STUDENT FIELD RESEARCH ................................Kassandra M. Carlson-Dakes Zuri Newby Peterson NINA MARIE EDWARDS MEMORIAL AWARD .................................Mia Lucy Coletto FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE ...........................................Janie-Lee Rose Sutherd Michelle Caitlin Dudley

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WILLIAM FERN RESEARCH AWARD IN HONOR OF JEANNE ZEMEK BOHN ....................................Emilie Rose Barrett WILLIAM FERN RESEARCH AWARD IN HONOR OF THALIA MANGANARI PAPAVAS ......................Jennifer Maeve Murphy WILLIAM FERN RESEARCH AWARD IN HONOR OF THEODORE YELICH ....................................Janie-Lee Rose Sutherd James Alvin Lee Stratton STEVE FLOYD MEMORIAL AWARD .......................................Soleil Magdelena Smith DESMOND FORTES ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PRIZE..................Soleil Magdelena Smith Sylvia Faith Bowen-Bailey E. INMAN FOX PRIZE ........................................................Zuri Newby Peterson RUTH LOCKWOOD GOODSILL PRIZE ...........................................Sarah Elyse Smith PHILIP HARING AND JOHN HOUSTON AWARD ...........................Shantiswarup Behera Arsalan-Bin Najeeb ROBERT STEVENS HARPER PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY SENIOR RESEARCH POSTER .........Dianell Alana Vega Inga Ewa Mazur Yue Zhang ROBERT STEVENS HARPER PRIZE FOR GRADUATE STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY ............................Cassandra Lindsay Stear Dianell Alana Vega Jassmine Ej Efternavn LELAND HARRIS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY ...Alexander Stanton Hegg PEARL HARRIS AWARD.......................................................Taylor Cayne Randle ELIZABETH HAYWOOD ENGLISH RESEARCH AWARD ..............................Sachika Goel Sydney Blaine Bieber JOHN W. HILDING PRIZE ...................................................Kobe William Shutter JOHN HOFSAS PRIZE IN DANCE .........................................Casey Linnea Brayndick HUNTER TROPHY ............................................................Kobe William Shutter SYLVIA & IRWIN JAFFE MEMORIAL PRIZE .................Michaela Marsteller Kowalewski Debora Lustgarten Ortiz Neha V. Motwani CLARENCE HUBERT JOHNSON AWARD .........................................Sarah Elyse Smith VINTON C. JOHNSON PRIZE ..............................................Thomas Elliott Driscoll JAMES AND HELEN HUNTINGTON JOHNSTON PRIZE .......................Arsalan-Bin Najeeb Sarah M. Henderson VICTORIA LEGNER JUNOD PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS ......................Jenna Pearl Milligan K-CLUB AWARD .............................................................Kobe William Shutter Michaela Marsteller Kowalewski LINDA ELIZABETH KARGER AWARD IN THE THEATRE ARTS ............Joel David Yu Willison KNAUSS STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD FOR THE LINCOLN STUDIES CENTER ..................................Courtney Sky Pletcher Emilie Rose Barrett Natasha Elaine Caudill HARLEY KNOSHER FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR ..................Jarrelyn Natasha McCall Jenna Pearl Milligan HARLEY KNOSHER MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR ......................Phelipe Pereira Graske LAWRENCE PRIZE IN GREEK ............................................Catherine Marie O’Brien LAWRENCE PRIZE IN LATIN.............................................Catherine Marie O’Brien Jennifer Maeve Murphy THE LINCOLN ACADEMY STUDENT LAUREATE .............................Sarah M. Henderson LILLY LINDAHL PRIZE IN GERMAN ......................................Frederick Paul Lehman Sarah M. Henderson DAVID LOWRY JAZZ AWARD ....................................................Allen Jacob Irvine

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ROBERT R. MARINER FAMILY RESEARCH AWARD............................Audrey M. Fisher Michael Seay Morrow Peter Chamberlain Driscoll JEAN BLOOMQUIST MCBATH MEMORIAL PRODUCTION AWARD IN STUDIO THEATRE ...........................Joel David Yu Willison MERRITT H. MOORE PRIZE IN PHILOSOPHY ....................................Chi Thi-Nha Le GEORGE MOREL MEMORIAL PRIZE IN MUSIC ...............................Sarah Elyse Smith Travis Mitchell Goeden Zachary Alexander Cirone HERMANN R. MUELDER PRIZE ...........................................Natasha Elaine Caudill GLENN M. NAGEL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD IN CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY ..................................Frederick Paul Lehman Kartik Sudhir Patel LASZLO J. NEMETH MEMORIAL RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP AWARD ................................. Talia Eleanor Bossingham William Berndt Parkinson INN-SIANG OOI PRIZE .............................................Kassandra M. Carlson-Dakes OUTSTANDING SENIOR AWARD ..................................................Ravie F. Boungou PAUL’S PRIZE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ...........................................Minh-Trang Tran ALVAH PETERSON BIOLOGY PRIZE ............................................Jini Varughese John Melissa Lynn Wood ISAAC O. PETERSON STUDIO AWARD.................................Odessa Jewell-Frank Sagli JANET GREIG POST PRIZE IN MUSIC ........................................Samuel Aidan Beem JEFF SANDBURG MENTAL TOUGHNESS AWARD ...............................Annie E. Peterson THE SCRIPPS PRIZE ....................................................................John R. Muth ROBERT F. SEIBERT PRIZE ...................................................Leah Marlene Rymer PROCTOR FENN SHERWIN SHORT STORY AWARD ......................Graham Farley Holmes Margaret Elizabeth Ruswick PROCTOR FENN SHERWIN PRIZE IN FRESHMAN WRITING ......................Jada M. Bishop Katana Elizabeth Smith LORRAINE SMITH PRIZE IN ENGLISH ........................................Connor Klyn Wood LORRAINE SMITH PRIZE IN FRENCH ..........................................Ellis Blayne Staton SMITH PRIZE IN PHYSICS ........................................................Audrey M. Fisher Philip Entrikin Griffin DOROTHY INNESS STANFORD AWARD .......................................Emilie Rose Barrett STROBEN ENTREPRENEUR FUND ...............................................Mariam Tsintsadze Minh-Trang Tran LUCILE SUDBURY PRIZE........................................................Eleanor Rose Baird Zachary Alexander Cirone RUSSELL P. SUTTON PRIZE IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ................Alexander Stanton Hegg Lizemarie Michelle Robbertse Melissa Lynn Wood SZOLD PRIZE IN HISTORY ...........................................................Jada M. Bishop CHARLES & ARVILLA TIMME FELLOWSHIP AWARD .........................Mariam Tsintsadze DEAN TREVOR MEMORIAL AWARD ..............................................Andrew J. Ponce VAN CLUTE PRIZE ......................................................Gilberto Angelo Martinez Erin Nayeon Yu EDITH POWERS VAN DYKE MEMORIAL AWARD IN PSYCHOLOGY ..........Irein Ann Thomas Jassmine Ej Efternavn JOHN C. WEIGEL PRIZE.......................................................Sarah M. Henderson BEVERLY K. WHITE & FRIENDS CREATIVE WRITING PRIZE ..........Katana Elizabeth Smith Mia Lucy Coletto Soo Jin Lea HOWARD A. WILSON PRIZE ...................................................Connor Klyn Wood DEAN DEBORAH WING AWARD .........................................Michelle Caitlin Dudley YOUNG AWARD IN PAINTING ...................................................Louise C. Rossiter

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KNOX COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2019-2020 CHAIR OF THE BOARD CHARLES F. SMITH ’84

Attorney and Partner Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom Chicago, Illinois

VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD LAURA M. ROSENE ’90

Vice President Human Resources, Retired Upper Arlington, Ohio

CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC AFFAIRS KEITH E. MASKUS ’76

Arts & Sciences Professor of Distinction University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, Colorado

CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID EUGENE A. PROCKNOW ’76 Historian Consulting Partner, Retired Deloitte LLP Washington, D.C.

CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON ADVANCEMENT SUSAN HAERR ZUCKER ’78 Vice President and General Counsel, Retired City Real Estate Incorporated Chicago, Illinois

CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON CAMPUS LIFE AND ATHLETICS TONY ETZ ’83 Agent Creative Artists Agency Los Angeles, California

CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE JANICE V. SHARRY ’73 Attorney and Partner Haynes and Boone, LLP Dallas, Texas

CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON FINANCE PATRICK ST. A. LYN ’84

Executive Vice President Head of Marketing and Relationship Management Mellon Investments Corporation Boston, Massachusetts

CHAIR, COMMITTEE ON TRUSTEES JOSEPH C. BASTIAN ’67 Owner and CEO, Retired Panera Bread Franchise Chapel Hill, North Carolina

PRESIDENT OF KNOX COLLEGE Teresa L. Amott Galesburg, Illinois

BARBARA A. BAIRD ’73

Horace White Professor of Chemistry Cornell University Ithaca, New York

DOUGLAS L. BAYER ’66

President Douglas and Maria Bayer Foundation Bellevue, Washington

NYERERE K. BILLUPS SR. ’99

Director PMO Development Operations Pharmacyclics, LLC Sunnyvale, California

VALERIE JO BLEVINS ’86

Of Counsel Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP Kansas City, Missouri

NANCY B. CARLIN ’72 Retired Naples, Florida

CAROL BOVARD CRAIG ’89 Founder and CEO Craig Technologies Merritt Island, Florida

CELINDA KIMBERLY DAVIS ’15 Graduate Mentor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Illinois

DEBORAH S. DEGRAFF ’80 Professor of Economics Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine

TONY ETZ ’83

Agent Creative Artists Agency Los Angeles, California

DAVID P. FRIDOVICH ’74

Lieutenant General United States Army, Retired President Fridovich Group, LLC Rio Verde, Arizona

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DONALD F. HARMON ’88

DANIEL J. SPAULDING ’99

ELZELIEN HARTOG ’66

ADAM G. VITALE

Senator Illinois General Assembly Oak Park, Illinois Director of Interagency Collaboratives, Retired Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut Ridgefield, Connecticut

JOHN T. LAWLER ’88

Vice President, Strategy Ford Motor Company Dearborn, Michigan

KEITH Y. LEE ’94

Chief Executive Officer Feenix Venture Partners New York, New York

ROBERT C. LONG ’75

Shareholder Littler Mendelson P.C. New York, New York

DAVID S. MITCHELL ’83

Portfolio Manager William Blair & Company, LLC Chicago, Illinois

LAURENCE J. MSALL ’84 President The Civic Federation Chicago, Illinois

AMY E. OLSON

EVP - Marketing and Sales BankFinancial NA Downers Grove, Illinois

DEREK F. PAPP ’01

Sports Medicine Physician Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute Key Largo, Florida

SUSAN C. PLOMIN ’86

Birmingham, Michigan

JAMES R. POTTER ’63

Attorney and President Londrigan, Potter, and Randle, P.C. Springfield, Illinois

JULIE K. RADEMAKER ’83

Partner Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum & Nagelberg, LLP Chicago, Illinois

TINO H. SCHULER ’87

Chief Executive Officer Schuler Educational Consulting Jacksonville, Florida

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Chief People Officer Zillow Group Seattle, Washington

President G & M Distributors, Inc. Galesburg, Illinois

GERALD F. VOVIS ’65

President and Chief Executive Officer Vovis Enterprises and Executive-in-Residence Connecticut Innovations Cheshire, Connecticut

R. KYLE WINNING ’83

Managing Director 3G Capital Advisors Little Rock, Arkansas

EMERITUS TRUSTEES THOMAS L. ANDERSON ’66 President, Retired HemaSource, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana

LAUREL J. ANDREW ’86

Director and Treasurer Andrew Family Foundation Orland Park, Illinois

HAROLD D. BIBB ’62

Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Zoology, Retired University of Rhode Island Kingston, Rhode Island

SUSAN A. BLEW ’75

Executive Consulting and Technology Berkeley, California

SANDRA E. FRUM ’70

President Village of Northbrook Northbrook, Illinois

JOSEPH B. GLOSSBERG

Senior Partner Gofen & Glossberg, Inc. Chicago, Illinois

PATRICK F. GRAHAM ’62

Vice President, Retired The Gillette Company Alexandria, Virginia

MARY MULLINS HINZ ’58

President, Retired F. Thomas Heller, Inc. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

GARY L. JACOBSON ’77

President and Chief Financial Officer Sinclair Research Center, LLC Auxvasse, Missouri

ROBERT J. JAMIESON ’65 Journalist New York, New York

JAMES M. KILTS ’70

Founding Partner Centerview Capital Former Chairman, President and CEO The Gillette Company Greenwich, Connecticut

CHAIR EMERITA JANET M. KORAN ’71

General Counsel, Retired YMCA of the USA St. Petersburg, Florida

STEVEN P. LUETGER ’75

Senior Managing Director, Retired Mesirow Financial Chicago, Illinois

DAN M. MARTIN ’61

Managing Director, Retired Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center Washington, D.C.

JOE A. MASTERSON ’65

Chairman Masterson Foods, Inc. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

CHAIR EMERITUS RICHARD V. RIDDELL ’72

Senior Vice President and Secretary to the Board of Trustees Duke University Durham, North Carolina

CHAIR EMERITA DIANE S. ROSENBERG ’63

Chair of the Board, Retired Olson Rug Company Riverwoods, Illinois

DAVID A. SCHULZ ’74

Director, Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic Clinical Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow Yale Law School New Haven, Connecticut

ROBERT J. SPARKS ’56

President, Retired United Federal Savings Bank Galesburg, Illinois

FAY B. STEVENSON-SMITH ’64

Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Retired Wilton, Connecticut

CAROLINE HAMBLIN TUCKER ’53 Teacher, Retired PRIME Mechanicsville, Virginia

RALPH WALTER ’69

Visiting Fellow Kellogg College Oxford, United Kingdom

GEORGE J. MATKOV JR. ’64 Of Counsel Ford Harrison LLP Chicago, Illinois

CHAIR EMERITUS DUSHAN PETROVICH ’74

President, Retired William Wrigley, Jr. Company Downers Grove, Illinois

JOHN D. PODESTA ’71

Chairman Washington Center for Equitable Growth Washington, D.C.

THOMAS V. REILLY ’68

Putnam Investments, Retired Boston, MA and London UK Dover, Massachusetts

HONORARY TRUSTEES RICHARD HENKE ’56

Physician, Retired Pathology Consultant Rolling Hills, California

MARY KENT KNIGHT ’60

Data Processing Technician, Retired Northern Trust Company Lake Forest, Illinois

CHAIR EMERITUS MORTON W. WEIR ’55

Chancellor Emeritus and Emeritus Professor of Psychology The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Illinois

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ACADEMIC REGALIA The regalia worn by participants in today’s academic procession have their origins in the garb worn by scholars in the first European universities in the 12th century, most of which held theological charters. The robes were similar to clerical cassocks, and capes and hoods were worn for warmth in the unheated stone buildings of the time. At the Council of Oxford in 1222, England’s archbishop Stephen Langton required all clergy to wear the cappa clausa, a closed, flowing gown. Nearby Oxford and Cambridge Universities adopted the same style, which was brought to the United States by the colonists. By the late 19th century, different styles of academic gowns were adopted by various American institutions. This led to an 1895 conference at Columbia University to standardize academic regalia. The Intercollegiate Bureau Code, established after the 1895 conference, has guided academic regalia ever since, supported by sponsorship from the American Council on Education in 1932.

Most of the gowns in today’s procession are doctoral robes, with bellshaped sleeves, velvet panels down the front and around the neck of the gown, and three velvet bars on each sleeve. During the 20th century, many universities departed from the prescribed black robe. Among those colors today are the crimson of Harvard, blue of Yale, black with orange of Princeton, and maroon of The University of Chicago, among others. Many members of the Knox College Board of Trustees choose to wear special Knox gowns of purple and gold.

The hood is another medieval relic. Each hood is lined with the official colors of the institution conferring the degree, and the lining is worn exposed. The hood is trimmed with the color indicating the branch of learning to which the degree pertains. Most of the hood trim in today’s procession is dark blue, indicating the large number of Ph.D.s, or “Doctor of Philosophy” degrees. Other trim colors include violet (journalism); white (arts, letters, humanities); and purple (business).

Caps awarded by American universities are either the mortar board (the Oxford tradition) or the beret-like “softcap” (the Cambridge tradition).

Some universities outside the United States have unique styles of caps.

Adapted from the University of Idaho Faculty Handbook and from “Academic Costumes and Regalia” by Dr. Stephen E. Lunce. Used with permission.

The accessories to the graduates’ Commencement regalia signify four distinct honors. Gold stoles signify Latin honors from the College.

Graduates wearing gold and silver cords have been initiated into Mortar Board, a national honor society. Those wearing gold and white cords have been initiated into Order of Omega, an honor society for members of Greek organizations. Knotted together gold and purple cords signify the student has completed College Honors.

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THE COLLEGE SEAL The Knox College Seal, in its present form, dates from 1937, the year of the College’s centennial. It was designed by artist Ralph Fletcher Seymour and is a refinement of earlier designs. Oval in shape, it has in its center a stylized lighted torch superimposed on an open book, both symbols of learning. The book bears the word Veritas (Latin for “Truth”), and the symbols are wreathed in laurel leaves, the Roman symbol of honor. Around the outer rim of the seal are the College’s name in Latin, Collegium Knoxense, and the date of its founding, 1837, in Roman numerals.

This is the College’s fifth seal.

The first two, dating from approximately 1838 and 1857, were round, with the College’s name and location surrounding an image of an open book.

The third seal, also round, was designed in 1887 by Robert J. Finley, a graduate of that year. It introduced all the elements of the current seal, plus an outer ring of pine branches. The fourth seal was adopted in 1903 from an 1890s design by Finley’s brother, John Huston Finley, Class of 1887, the College’s seventh president. Carrying forward most of the elements of its predecessor, the fifth seal reconfigured them for the first time into the familiar oval shape we see today.

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PLATFORM PARTY TONY ETZ Chair of the Board of Trustees C. ANDREW MCGADNEY President of the College MICHAEL A. SCHNEIDER Provost and Dean of the College TODD HEIDT Associate Professor of Modern Languages JONATHAN POWERS Assistant Professor of Economics

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