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May 5, 2008 - Baccalaureate and Commencement scheduled at Hastings College
Hastings College’s 122nd Baccalaureate and Commencement are scheduled for May 16 and 17. Baccalaureate will take place at 6 p.m., Friday, May 16, at First Presbyterian Church, 621 N. Lincoln Ave., and Commencement will be held Saturday, May 17, at 10 a.m., in Lynn Farrell Arena, Osborne Family Sports Complex, 800 E. 12 St.
Undergraduate degrees will be awarded to 230 seniors, and 11 Master of Arts in Teaching degrees will be conferred.
The Rev. Dr. William Nottage-Tacey, senior pastor and head of staff, at First Presbyterian Church, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon.
Darrel Lloyd, professor emeritus of English at Hastings College, will be the Commencement speaker.
Receiving an honorary degree will be Kenneth Morrison, Hastings, Neb., former trustee of Hastings College from 1981-1999. He will receive a Doctor of Business Administration degree.
Lloyd had an impressive 36-year career at Hastings College as a professor of English and chair of the English department for seven years. During his tenure, he received the Alpha Chi Outstanding Faculty Award three times, was selected four times to present an Invited Faculty Lecture, and served four times as president of the faculty senate. He was chosen for the Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, and, upon retirement in 2000, was granted an honorary Doctor of Literature degree.
A scholar of Irish literature, Lloyd specialized in 19th and 20th century British literature, literature of American minorities and novels of Charles Dickens. Lloyd is a writer, whose short stories, poems and essays have been published in numerous journals and periodicals, and his plays have been performed at Hastings College.
A native of Maywood, Neb., Lloyd graduated from North Platte High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Kearney State College. He taught in Arnold and Gothenburg, then for three years was head of the English department at Hastings Public Schools. Lloyd received a master of arts degree at the University of Wyoming. He also, completed additional graduate work at the University of Arkansas, the University of Wisconsin and at the Humanities Institute in Dublin, Ireland.
From Osmond, Neb., Nottage-Tacey graduated cum laude in 1972 from Hastings College majoring in history and English. In 1975, he graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco Theological Seminary with an emphasis in church history/historical theology. He was ordained by the Niobrara Presbytery in Northeast Nebraska the summer of 1975.
Nottage-Tacey has been a member of the Hastings College Board of Trustees since 1999, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the college in 2004.
Morrison is managing partner of Morrison Enterprises and several related companies headquartered in Hastings, Neb. An 18-year member of the Hastings College Board of Trustees, Morrison was elected an honorary member after retiring in 1999.
The college is naming its new building the Morrison-Reeves Science Center in honor of Morrison and Dr. Thomas Reeves, college president from 1985 to 1995. Morrison provided a leadership gift to complete the Osborne Family Sports Complex, and the college recognized Morrison and his late spouse, Marjorie, by naming areas of the Daugherty Conference Center and the Gray Center for Communication Arts in their honor.
Morrison is a member of the college’s Pro Rege Society and in 1991, received the Hastings College President’s Award.
A native of Roxbury, Kan., Morrison attended McPherson College.
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May 5, 2008 - Baccalaureate and Commencement scheduled at Hastings College
Hastings College’s 122nd Baccalaureate and Commencement are scheduled for May 16 and 17. Baccalaureate will take place at 6 p.m., Friday, May 16, at First Presbyterian Church, 621 N. Lincoln Ave., and Commencement will be held Saturday, May 17, at 10 a.m., in Lynn Farrell Arena, Osborne Family Sports Complex, 800 E. 12 St.
Undergraduate degrees will be awarded to 230 seniors, and 11 Master of Arts in Teaching degrees will be conferred.
The Rev. Dr. William Nottage-Tacey, senior pastor and head of staff, at First Presbyterian Church, will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon.
Darrel Lloyd, professor emeritus of English at Hastings College, will be the Commencement speaker.
Receiving an honorary degree will be Kenneth Morrison, Hastings, Neb., former trustee of Hastings College from 1981-1999. He will receive a Doctor of Business Administration degree.
Lloyd had an impressive 36-year career at Hastings College as a professor of English and chair of the English department for seven years. During his tenure, he received the Alpha Chi Outstanding Faculty Award three times, was selected four times to present an Invited Faculty Lecture, and served four times as president of the faculty senate. He was chosen for the Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, and, upon retirement in 2000, was granted an honorary Doctor of Literature degree.
A scholar of Irish literature, Lloyd specialized in 19th and 20th century British literature, literature of American minorities and novels of Charles Dickens. Lloyd is a writer, whose short stories, poems and essays have been published in numerous journals and periodicals, and his plays have been performed at Hastings College.
A native of Maywood, Neb., Lloyd graduated from North Platte High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Kearney State College. He taught in Arnold and Gothenburg, then for three years was head of the English department at Hastings Public Schools. Lloyd received a master of arts degree at the University of Wyoming. He also, completed additional graduate work at the University of Arkansas, the University of Wisconsin and at the Humanities Institute in Dublin, Ireland.
From Osmond, Neb., Nottage-Tacey graduated cum laude in 1972 from Hastings College majoring in history and English. In 1975, he graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco Theological Seminary with an emphasis in church history/historical theology. He was ordained by the Niobrara Presbytery in Northeast Nebraska the summer of 1975.
Nottage-Tacey has been a member of the Hastings College Board of Trustees since 1999, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the college in 2004.
Morrison is managing partner of Morrison Enterprises and several related companies headquartered in Hastings, Neb. An 18-year member of the Hastings College Board of Trustees, Morrison was elected an honorary member after retiring in 1999.
The college is naming its new building the Morrison-Reeves Science Center in honor of Morrison and Dr. Thomas Reeves, college president from 1985 to 1995. Morrison provided a leadership gift to complete the Osborne Family Sports Complex, and the college recognized Morrison and his late spouse, Marjorie, by naming areas of the Daugherty Conference Center and the Gray Center for Communication Arts in their honor.
Morrison is a member of the college’s Pro Rege Society and in 1991, received the Hastings College President’s Award.
A native of Roxbury, Kan., Morrison attended McPherson College.
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