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550 GRADUATES SAYING GOODBYE MAY 19-20 |
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May 05, 2006
GROVE CITY, Pa. – About 550 graduates will say goodbye to Grove City College at Baccalaureate and Commencement ceremonies on May 19-20. The Rev. Dr. M. Craig Barnes will address students at Baccalaureate at 7 p.m. May 19 and Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen will serve as the 2006 Commencement speaker at 10 a.m. May 20.
Both ceremonies, weather permitting, are scheduled to be outdoors on the Quad between Harbison Chapel and Crawford Hall. Location in the case of inclement weather will be the Arena of the Physical Learning Center.
Also speaking at Commencement will be senior Allan Edwards of Greensburg, Pa., who was chosen as the 2006 Student Commencement Speaker. On campus,
Baccalaureate speaker Craig Barnes graduated from The King’s College and Princeton Seminary and received a Ph.D. in the History of Christianity from the University of Chicago. In 1981, he was ordained into the Presbyterian Church and has served parishes in Colorado, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. In the fall of 2002, he became the Robert Meneilly Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and subsequently began his service as the installed pastor of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church in November 2003.
Commencement speaker Mike Mullen graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968. He received a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
Mullen has served in Allied, Joint and Navy positions, overseas and in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. At sea, he served as commanding officer of the USS Noxubee, USS Goldsborough and USS Yorktown. Ashore, Mullen served as company officer and executive assistant to the Commandant of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. He also served in the Bureau of Naval Personnel and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Mullen’s most recent operational assignment was as a commander in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe. Based in Naples, Italy, he had operational responsibility for NATO missions in the Balkans, Iraq and the Mediterranean. Mullen became the 28th Chief of Naval Operations on July 22, 2005.
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