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April 14, 2010
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Morningside College will present two honorary degrees in addition to approximately 460 graduate and undergraduate degrees at its 112th spring commencement exercises on Saturday, May 8, at 2 p.m. on the campus lawn in front of the Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Learning Center.
Morningside will present honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees to Douglas E. Palmer of Sioux City, president of Tegra Corporation and former chair of the Morningside College Board of Directors, and Scott Bennett of Urbana, Ill., a library space planning consultant and former librarian for Yale University.
Palmer and Bennett also will be the featured speakers at the commencement ceremony.
Baccalaureate service will be held Friday, May 7, at 5 p.m. in Grace United Methodist Church, 1735 Morningside Avenue. Dr. Tony R. Nester, senior pastor of Grace United Methodist Church and a member of Morningside’s board of directors, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Baccalaureate and commencement ceremonies are open to the public.
Palmer is receiving an honorary degree in recognition of his service to Morningside College and the Sioux City community. He was a member of the Morningside College Board of Directors from 1993 to 2007 and served as chair of the board from 2002 to 2004. Palmer also has served on the boards for Boys Club of Sioux City, Siouxland Foundation, Siouxland Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Siouxland, Tax Research Conference, Sioux City Mariners Youth Swim Club and the Sioux City Art Center. In addition, he served as chair of the Sioux City Schools Facility Review Committee from 1994 to 1996, chair of the Schools Now Ballot Committee from 1997 to 1998 and a member of the Building Oversight Committee from 1998 to 2004.
Morningside is recognizing Bennett for his work in helping to plan the renovation of the college’s library and his library space planning collaborations with colleges and universities throughout the United States and several foreign countries. He served as university librarian for Yale University from 1994 to 2001. Bennett also has worked as the Sheridan Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.; assistant university librarian for collection management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.; instructor, assistant and associate professor of library administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and a Woodrow Wilson teaching intern at St. Paul’s College in Lawrence, Va.
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