Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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NTERHATIONAL students participated in both the all and spring ceremonies. Some had their families ith them to celebrate while others had plans to eturn home to find jobs. PRESIDENT Herb. Reinhard addressed the students, AITING to enter Button Auditorium, many faculty, and audience at the spring ceremony. embers of Morehead's faculty and staff talk among Students received their degree under a hot sun on ne another. May 17 Ray Bradley

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Graduation John Flavell Graduation is a goal long-looked forward to by every incoming freshman. For those with stamina and perseverance it can be achieved, and for 600 seniors it was achieved on May 17, 1986. Two-thirds of the nearly 600 candidates for graduate and undergraduate degrees participated in the second outdoor commencement in MSU's history. What had only been a dream before had become a reality. The years of preparation - the exams, research papers, speeches, etc., are finally over at this culmination of endless semesters of hard work and dedication. Graduation is the stepping stone from quality education to career achievement. Many graduates will enter the job market immediately, while others will choose to further their education pursuing their masteris or doctoral degree. Whatever the choice made, the ceremony that catapulted each new graduate toward their next goal will not be forgotten. At the second ever winter graduation, seniors left their alma mater to pursue their vision of success. Graduating a semester early or a semester late, these seniors were given their chance to shine at a graduation ceremony just for them, without waiting for the traditional May commencement. ALL SMILES. Tracey Dunn seems to be just as proud of Morehead State as he is of his home in England. Dunn was a member of the tennis team while he attended MSU.

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The Class of 1986 entered a crowded Jayne Stadium to strains of Pomp and Circumstance by Elgar directed by Mr. Larry Keenan. Under a hot sun, the graduates received their diplomas on Saturday, May 17, 1986. Commencement addresses were given by the Honorable Louie B. Nunn, Board of Regents Chairman; Mr. Richard A. Hall, Stu- dent Representative; and Dr. Herb. F. Reinhard Jr., President of M80 to cheering graduates and their relatives and friends. After the presentation and conferring of degrees, the graduates were inducted into the Alumni Association by Dr. David Bolt, Presi- dent of the MSU Alumni Association, Inc. The seniors had crossed a bridge in their lives from being a student at MSU to becom- ing an alumni of that same institution. They had been shaped academically, mentally, socially, and professionally and were ready to embark upon a new life, but never forgetting the old symbolized in the Alma Mater. HAPPY? Not Janice Towles! She's elated about the fact that she graduated from Morehead State. Janice was a member of the Lady Eagle basketball team. Photos by Ray Bradley Graduation A CROWDED yard could be seen after the winter ceremonies in front of Button Auditorium. Students, friends. family and faculty gathered to congratulate the new graduates.