5/22/2015
The 116th spring commencement at Northwestern Oklahoma State University was held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, May 9, at Ranger Field.
Two hundred twenty-one students were candidates to receive bachelor’s degrees, 15 will receive Master of Education degrees, eight will receive Master of Counseling Psychology degrees, and two will receive Master of Arts in American Studies degrees.
Forty-one of those receiving bachelor’s degrees will graduate with honors. Students with cumulative grade point averages between 3.70 and 3.79 are designated cum laude, those with GPAs between 3.80-3.89 are magna cum laude and those above 3.90 are summa cum laude.
Those local honor graduates, their degrees and their hometowns are as follows:
SUMMA CUM LAUDE — PONCA CITY – Michael Degan, Bachelor of Science in psychology.
MAGNA CUM LAUDE — NEWKIRK – Paige Wells, Bachelor of Science in psychology; PONCA CITY – Christopher Satterfield, Bachelor of Science in chemistry.
CUM LAUDE — MEDFORD – Nathan Kilian, Bachelor of Science in mathematics; PONCA CITY –Kara Polito and Kim Scholey, Bachelor of Science in psychology.
MASTER OF EDUCATION — RED ROCK – Julie Sulins, reading specialist.
MASTER OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY — NEWKIRK – Kyrie Crippen, Kayla Johnston; PONCA CITY – Adriana Dickson.
BACHELOR OF ARTS — PONCA CITY – Jessica O’Brien, general studies.
BACHELOR OF ARTS EDUCATION — BLACKWELL – Cash Anthony, social science.
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION — PONCA CITY – Brenton Carney, Amanda Montenegro, Lilly Younge, Brent Goldsmith; POND CREEK – Alanna Morris.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE — BLACKWELL – Teniah Puza, psychology; PONCA CITY – Timothy Cockrum, psychology; Jeremy Gory, criminal justice-law enforcement; Julia Hays and Chandra Kimble, both psychology; RALSTON – James Hadlock, Jr., agriculture; TONKAWA – Dustin Lindsey, agriculture; Nancy Reyes and Sage Wojcik, both psychology; WINFIELD, Kan. – Connie Miller, psychology.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE EDUCATION — BLACKWELL – Morgan Wolfe, elementary education; PONCA CITY – Derra Bishop and Irene Payan-Sanchez, both early childhood education; Denise Tyson, elementary and special education.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING — PONCA CITY – Jermaine Bell; POND CREEK – Audrey Buss; SHIDLER – Loren Quiram.