Piedmont College will mark Spring Commencement Week at the Athens and Demorest campuses May 2–5, 2018, with events and ceremonies for 372 new graduates.
The celebration will include two Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 5, with undergraduates entering the Johnny Mize Athletic Center in Demorest at 10 a.m. and graduate students collecting their diplomas at 2 p.m. (Due to event space limitations, tickets will be required for guest admission to the Mize Center for the 10 a.m. undergraduate Commencement.)
President James F. Mellichamp and Board Chairman Thomas A. “Gus” Arrendale III will present diplomas to 204 undergraduates receiving Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees. At the second ceremony, 168 graduates will receive advanced degrees, including Master of Business Administration, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Education Specialist, and Doctor of Education degrees.
Commencement week also will include special pinning ceremonies at the Demorest and Athens campuses for graduates of Piedmont’s R.H. Daniel School of Nursing and Health Sciences at 6 p.m., May 2 and May 3 respectively.
On Friday, May 4, the graduating seniors will gather in the Chapel at the Demorest campus at 5 p.m. for the annual Baccalaureate service. The speaker will be the Rev. Kaji Spellman Douša, Senior Pastor at The Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City. The Baccalaureate service will be followed by a dinner in the Student Commons for graduates and their families and the annual Senior Student-Athlete Award Ceremony at 7:30 p.m. in the Swanson Center, sponsored by the Piedmont College P-Club.
On Saturday, the speaker for the undergraduate Commencement ceremony will be Dr. Erika James, Dean, John H. Harland Goizueta Business School at Emory University. At the graduate Commencement ceremony, the speaker will be Piedmont Alumni Dr. Tommy Welch, Principal at Meadow Creek High School in Atlanta and 2018 Georgia High School Principal of the Year. In 2005, Welch earned an Ed.S (Educational Specialist Degree) from Piedmont.
For more information about Commencement week, visit www.piedmont.edu/commencement.
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