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Commencement Speakers
May, 1967 Dean Carl M. Frasure
May, 1969 Congressman
Ken Hechler,
May, 1970 - Dr. F.L.
May 1971 - Dr. William P. Turner, Director of Academic Affairs, West Virginia Board of Regents
May 1972 Dr. Robert
Stauffer, president,
May 1973 - Dr. Merrill
Patterson, academic dean emeritus,
May 1974 - Dr. Joseph Semrow, Executive Director, North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
May 1975 - Senator
Robert C. Byrd,
June 1975 - James McCartney, WV Secretary of State
May 1976 Student
Speakers: Candi Kirby and
June 1976 Rev. Elaine
Buker, Associate Minister,
May 1977 Dr. Ben Morton, Chancellor, West Virginia Board of Regents
June 1977 Sister
Asunta Damron, Administrative Vice President and Director of Nursing,
May 1978 Jim Braxton, professional football player, Buffalo Bills
May 1979 Dr. Byron McClenney, President, Parkersburg Community College
May 1980 Thomas Sullivan, President, Walker-Parkersburg Division of Textron Inc.
May 1981 Gretchen Lewis, Commissioner, WV Workmens Compensation Fund
May 1982 Dr. Eldon Miller, President, Parkersburg Community College
May 1983
May, 1984 Michel McIntosh, M.D., Class of 1971
May 1985 Dr. Samuel A. Harford, Professor Emeritus, Parkersburg Community College
May 1986 Niki Wenger,
May 1987 Dr. Thomas Cole Jr., Chancellor, West Virginia Board of Regents
May 1988 Dr. James Rowley, President, West Virginia College of Graduate Studies
May 1989 Senator Keith Burdette, WV State Senate
May 1990 David
Hardesty Jr., Chairman,
May 1991 Richard Adams, Member, University of West Virginia Board of Trustees
May 1992 Dr. Charles Manning, Chancellor, University of West Virginia Board of Trustees
May 1993 Deborah Seldomridge, 1993 West Virginia State Teacher of the Year
May 1994 Dr. Barbara Harmon-Schamberger, West Virginia Secretary of Education and the Arts
May 1995 Dr. Neil
Bucklew, President,
May 1996 Dr. Bernard
Allen, Professor of History and Philosophy, WVU Parkersburg
May 1997 David C, Hardesty Jr., President, West Virginia University
December 1997 Ron Atkinson, Professor/Chair, Social Sciences Division, WVU Parkersburg
May 1998 Phyllis Arnold, Member, University of WV Board of Trustees
December 1998 Judith
Osbourne, Professor of Nursing, WVU Parkersburg
May 1999 David Ice,
Cabinet Secretary, WV Department of Education and the Arts
December 1999 Dr. Eldon Miller, President, WVU Parkersburg
May 2000
- Dr. Gerald Lang, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
and Research, WVU
December 2000 Roger Allen, Professor of Speech, WVU Parkersburg
May 2001 Dr. Erik Bitterbaum, President, WVU Parkersburg
December 2001 Kay Goodwin, Cabinet Secretary, WV Department of Education and the Arts
May 2002 Jimmy Colombo, Mayor
of
December 2002 Lewis Rutherford,
Professor of Speech
May 2003 - Keith Burdette, Senior Assistant for Policy and Legislative Issues to WV Governor Bob Wise
December 2003 Wes Bargeloh, Professor of Chemistry, WVU Parkersburg
May 2004 Ragina Copeland, Professor of English, WVU Parkersburg
December 2004 Dottie Bibbee, Professor of Journalism, WVU Parkersburg
May 2005 Dr. Marie Foster Gnage, President, WVU Parkersburg
December 2005 Major General Allen E. Tackett, Adjutant General, West Virginia National Guard
May 2006 Emily Lamb, Professor of English and Reading, WVU Parkersburg
December 2006 Pamela Tanner Boll, Academy-Award winning producer; philanthropist
May 2007 Joseph Badgley, Executive Dean of Academic Affairs, WVU Parkersburg
December 2007 Jeannette Walls, WV native and award-winning author of The Glass Castle
May 2008 - Robert H. Foglesong, Retired U.S. Air Force Four-Star General; Founder, Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation
December 2008 - Betty Ireland, West Virginia Secretary of State
May 2009 - Bray Cary, President/CEO, West Virginia Media
December 2009 - David C. Hardesty, Jr., President Emeritus, West Virginia University; Professor of Law, WVU
May 2010 - Richard M. Adams Jr., President of United National Bank, Inc.; Executive Vice President of United Bankshares, Inc.
December 2010 - Earl Ray Tomblin, Governor, West Virginia
May 2011 - Admiral T. Joseph Lopez, retired U.S. Navy
