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10 a.m. CeremonyCollege of Social SciencesCollege of Business and Public AdministrationEd Specialist/Masters Hooder: Dr. Susan RubyAssociate Professor, PsychologyEd Specialist Reader: Dr. Nick JacksonChair, PsychologyMasters Hooder: Dr. Sharon BowlandAssociate Professor, Social WorkMasters Hooder: Dr. Deb SvobodaAssistant Professor, Social WorkMasters Reader: Dr. Nick JacksonChair, PsychologyMasters Reader: Dr. J. William T. YoungsProfessor, HistoryBaccalaureate Reader: Dr. Ed ByrnesProfessor, Social WorkBaccalaureate Reader: Dr. Deanna TrellaProgram Director, Children’s StudiesGonfalon Carrier: Kevin MurphyMaster of Social WorkMasters Hooder: Dr. Dean KieferAssociate Professor and Chair, Finance and MarketingMasters Hooder: Dr. Ning LiAssociate Professor, MPA ProgramMasters Reader: Dr. Robert ZinkeProfessor and Director, MPA ProgramMasters Reader: Dr. Patricia Nemetz-MillsProfessor and Chair, ManagementBaccalaureate Reader: Dr. Dean KieferAssociate Professor and Chair, Finance and MarketingBaccalaureate Reader: Dr. Kelley CullenAssistant Professor, EconomicsGonfalon Carrier: Jace R. HochwaltMaster of Public Administration & Urban and Regional PlanningUniversity CollegeGonfalon Carrier:Mr. Mitchell ShafferMBA2 p.m. CeremonyCollege of Health Science& Public HealthCollege of Science, Technology,Engineering & MathematicsCollege of Arts,Letters & EducationDoctoral Hooder:Dr. Dan AntonProfessor, Physical TherapyDoctoral Reader:Dr. Meryl GershProfessor, Physical TherapyBaccalaureate Reader:Dr. Anna TresidderAssistant Professor, Health ServicesAdministrationGonfalon Carrier:Mr. Evan PartonDoctor of Physical TherapyMasters Hooder:Dr. Carol TaylorAssociate Professor, Computer ScienceMasters Hooder:Dr. Rebecca BrownProfessor, BiologyMasters Reader:Dr. Robin O’QuinnAssociate Professor, BiologyMasters Reader:Dr. Frank LynchAssistant Professor, MathematicsBaccalaureate Reader:Dr. Robin O’QuinnAssociate Professor, BiologyBaccalaureate Reader:Dr. Frank LynchAssistant Professor, MathematicsGonfalon Carrier:Chantilly HigbeeMaster of Science, BiologyMasters Hooder:Dr. Jody GravesProfessor, MusicMasters Hooder:Dr. Jeremy JostadAssistant Professor, Physical Education,Health & RecreationMasters Reader:Dr. LaVona L. ReevesProfessor, EnglishMasters Reader:Dr. Lance PotterAssistant Professor, EducationBaccalaureate Reader:Dr. Christina ValeoAssociate Professor, EnglishBaccalaureate Reader:Dr. Ann Van WigAssistant Professor, EducationGonfalon Carrier:Mr. Bryan FosterMaster of Science, Physical EducationUniversity CollegeGonfalon Carrier:Mr. Joseph KershBiology13

Description of DegreesAwardedUndergraduate DegreesBABABBAEBCSBFABMBSBSNBachelor of ArtsBachelor of Arts in Business AdministrationBachelor of Arts in EducationBachelor of Computer ScienceBachelor of Fine ArtsBachelor of MusicBachelor of ScienceBachelor of Science in NursingGraduate DegreesEDSMAMBAMEdMFAMOTMPAMSMSWMURPEducational SpecialistMaster of ArtsMaster of Business AdministrationMaster of EducationMaster of Fine ArtsMaster of Occupational TherapyMaster of Public AdministrationMaster of ScienceMaster of Social WorkMaster of Urban and Regional PlanningDoctorate DegreesDPTDoctor of Physical TherapyAlma MaterAll hail to Eastern Washington,Thy colors red and white!You stand as a symbol,Of our strength and might!All hail to Eastern Washington,A leader brave and true!We sing the praise of college days,All hail to you!– George W. LotzenhiserEWU Fight SongGo, Eagles, GoPut all you have in every play.We’ll let you knowThat we are with you all the way.So then it’s fight, Eagles, fight.Show us the fight we’d like to see.Red and white just fight, fight, fightAnd Eagles will win the VICTORY.14Graduation with AcademicHonorsUndergraduate students who have demonstrated exceptionalacademic performance are honored in the commencementprogram listing.Summa Cum Laude: Seniors who have a cumulativegrade point average of 3.90-4.00-Gold Honors Cord.Magna Cum Laude: Seniors who have a grade pointaverage of 3.70-3.89-Silver Honors Cord.Cum Laude: Seniors who have a grade point average of3.50-3.69-Red and White Honors Cord.University Honors: Seniors who completed specialcourse work requirements through the Honors ProgramPurple Honors Cord.University MaceThe tradition of a ceremonial mace for academic institutionsgoes back to medieval times. Adapted in form from theancient battle weapon used by knights, the ceremonial macesymbolized the authority of regal personages, city or shireruling bodies and chief officers of chartered institutions.Originally representing vested authority during all officialmeetings, it eventually came to be connected mainly withformal ceremonies. In academic institutions, this is usuallyin conjunction with an academic procession, where the maceis carried at the head of the line of march or just before theplatform party.The form of the ceremonial mace has remained fairlyconsistent over the centuries. Design often reflects the periodof creation, especially in the elaboration of ornamentation.Gold, silver and dark wood are traditional materials.Eastern’s mace, commissioned as a gift during thecentennial year to the university by former and presentmembers of the EWU Board of Trustees, was created byartist-craftsman Clifford Gaynard after a region-wide designcompetition. Its planished silver head in flowing cuplikeform carries the university seal. The dark rosewood shaft withupper and medial gold-plated bosses is gently curved into theterminal silver cap at the bottom.Although the modern design departs from the traditionalstraight and elaborately ornamented pattern, it retains a fulleffect of balance, dignity and decorum, while capturing theflowing lines typical of the eastern Washington landscape.A permanent display case for the Eastern WashingtonUniversity mace is located in the Office of the President.

Academic RegaliaThe regalia worn for formal academic ceremonies suchas commencements are patterned after the gowns andhoods worn regularly in the Middle Ages by scholars forwarmth in unheated buildings and as distinguishing dressdenoting their place in society.A great variety of designs and colors developed overthe years in the costumes worn at different universities.Since 1895 in the United States, a uniform intercollegiatecode of style and colors has been adhered to by mostinstitutions.In accordance with this code, most academic gownsare black, although some universities permit othersolid colors. Occasionally, the robe color may indicatea professional distinction, such as deep purple for lawor scarlet for ecclesiastical honors. Adaptations of theacademic costume for high schools have sometimes usedcolors other than black for purely decorative purposes.Sometimes a distinguishing device on the robe or capindicates an individual honor or a special occasion.The baccalaureate gown is of simple cut with full,somewhat pointed sleeves. The front is closed and oftenno hood is worn with this gown. The mortar board headcovering originated in ancient Greece, symbolizing thecommitment of the scholar to a life of building. It haseither a plain black tassel or one of a color indicating thesubject area of the degree. The custom of shifting thecap’s tassel from right to left at the time of awarding thedegree is used in lieu of investing each candidate with thebachelor’s hood.The master’s gown is similar to the bachelor’s gown,except that the sleeves are fuller, cut square with a halfcircle at the bottom and sometimes worn with the armsthrough a horizontal slit at elbow level.The doctoral robe is ampler in cut with a full bellshaped sleeve, velvet panel edging in the front and threevelvet stripes on each sleeve. The velvet trim may be blackor in the color appropriate to the degree. The mortarboard tassel for the doctorate is gold. Some Americanand many foreign universities use cap forms other thanthe mortar board, ranging from a soft velvet beret tomore elaborate fringed styles, each of which has its ownhistorical tradition.Hoods worn over the gowns have a velvet edging,usually in a color indicating the specific degree and alining which is partially turned out to show the colors ofthe college or university which granted the degree.Some of the colors used for tassels andvelvet panels to designate the degree are:Arts and Letters WhiteBusiness DrabDentistry LilacEconomics CopperEducation Light BlueEngineering OrangeFine Arts, Architectureand Urban and Regional Planning BrownJournalism CrimsonLaw PurpleLibrary Science LemonMusic PinkNursing ApricotPhilosophy Dark BluePhysical Education Sage GreenPhysical Therapy TealPublic Administration Peacock BluePublic Health Salmon PinkSciences Golden YellowSocial Work CitronSpeech Silver GrayTheology Scarlet15

EWU Brass EnsembleAndy PlamondonTrumpet, DirectorTaylor SmithTrumpetNathan JamesTrumpetKimberly SnowHornMathew PetersonTromboneBen PriceTubaSelected Vocalists from the EWU ChoirsJessica StradlingSopranoKristina VakulichSopranoVyacheslay BilousTenorDouglas GadeTenorSvetlana BilousAltoMarissa WendtAltoRyan GunnBassTristan ThompsonBassStudent Commencement Speakers10 a.m. Ceremony2 p.m. CeremonyTabitha OrmaecheaLindsey RichardsonTabitha Ormaechea grew upin Spokane, raised by a singlemother who instilled theimportance of a strong workethic in order to succeed inlife. Following high school,she spent the next seven yearstraveling and living all over theworld. Today, she is graduatingin the top 2 percent of herclass with a bachelor’s degree ininternational affairs and a minorin anthropology. Throughouther academic career, she has concentrated on environmentalconcerns, with a particular interest in water resources. Duringher time at Eastern, she has interned with political campaignsand presented her research at the Northwest AnthropologicalConference. She is a member of the Eastern Honors programand the Pi Sigma Alpha national political science honor society.Following graduation, she plans to attend Lewis & Clark LawSchool, pursuing her passion for the environment through theEnvironmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law program.Tabitha attributes her academic success to the incredible supportsystem of her professors, family and friends.Graduating with a Masterof Education in Literacy,Richardson began herjourney as an Eastern Eaglein fall 2009. As a firstgeneration college studentfrom Richland, Washington,she was awarded the EasternAdvantage Scholarship andstudied elementary education,majoring in reading with aminor in theatre. During herundergraduate studies, amongan array of engagement opportunities, she participated in theEastern Reading Council, which promotes children’s literacy inour community. She became involved with the Communities inSchools mentoring program and worked with youth in local afterschool care and camp programs. Following her graduation in 2013,Richardson began teaching kindergarten in Cheney Public Schools.She obtained a position at Windsor Elementary School in fall2014 and continues to teach there. Richardson says that she feelsproud to be a part of the Cheney school system where she has anopportunity to promote college and career readiness while “rockingher EWU gear.”16

Commencement Speakers10 a.m. Ceremony2 p.m. CeremonyKen PrivratskyJo Ann KauffmanKen Privratsky spent 33 years in the U.S. Army beforeretiring in 2002 as a Major General. He graduated fromEastern Washington State College in 1969 as an ROTCdistinguished graduate and served as an infantry platoonleader in combat in Vietnam.Maj. Gen. Privratsky has been awarded the highestservice decorations and received personal recognitionfrom the vice president of the United States for hisrevolutionary changes to military distribution operations.After leaving the military, he entered the oceanshipping business with the largest domestic shippingcompany in the U.S. He became responsible foroperations spanning the Pacific, including terminaloperations in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and along the WestCoast of the U.S. He retired from industry in 2010.He has written several articles on military matters overthe years. His interest in and research of the FalklandsWar culminated in British publication of his bookLogistics in the Falklands War in 2014.Maj. Gen. Privratsky was an assistant professor atWest Point and a National Security Affairs Fellow atthe Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace atStanford University. He has earned master’s degrees inEnglish, business and military science.He is a past chair of Special Olympics Alaska and hasserved on multiple other boards, including AnchorageEconomic Development Corporation, Armed ForcesYMCA, Covenant House Alaska and World Trade CenterAlaska.In 2007, Maj. Gen. Privratsky and his wife, alumnaKathy (Iverson) Privratsky, established an endowedscholarship for EWU students pursuing an MS incommunication disorders. To date, this scholarship hashelped 12 graduate students reach their goal of becomingspeech-language pathologists.Jo Ann Kauffman is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe.She served as a member of the EWU board of trusteesfrom 2003 to 2015, including two terms as its chair.She is a nationally recognized leader in the field ofIndian health care and community wellness.For the past 27 years, she has been president andCEO of Kauffman & Associates, Inc., a Spokanebased company that provides management consulting,strategic planning, corporate communications andprogram evaluation services to agencies of the federal,state and tribal governments, nonprofit organizationsand private philanthropies. Her company addressesissues of public health, wellness, communitydevelopment, justice and education services.Kauffman received her undergraduate degreefrom Western Washington University in 1976, andher master’s in public health from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley in 1979.She helped start rural health clinics on three Indianreservations in Northern Idaho, and she ran a largehealth center serving Native Americans in Seattle.The Freedom Forum of the Gannett Foundationawarded her their prestigious “Free Spirit Award” in1998 in recognition of her persistent advocacy forNative and other vulnerable populations. In 2015,the Spokane YWCA awarded her the Women ofAchievement “Carl Maxey, Racial & Social JusticeAward.”She currently leads the new Lucy Covington Centerat EWU Advisory Committee, established to createa permanent legacy on EWU’s campus recognizingthe life and struggle of Lucy Covington to secure theunique and important status of tribal governments.She is married to Spokane attorney, Thomas Keefe,and they have four adult children.17

Honorary DegreesJo Ann KauffmanKathy PrivratskyJo Ann Kauffman is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe.She served as a member of the EWU board of trusteesfrom 2003 to 2015, including two terms as its chair.She is a nationally recognized leader in the field ofIndian health care and community wellness.For the past 27 years, she has been president andCEO of Kauffman & Associates, Inc., a Spokanebased company that provides management consulting,strategic planning, corporate communications andprogram evaluation services to agencies of the federal,state and tribal governments, nonprofit organizationsand private philanthropies. Her company addressesissues of public health, wellness, communitydevelopment, justice and education services.Kauffman received her undergraduate degreefrom Western Washington University in 1976, andher master’s in public health from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley in 1979.She helped start rural health clinics on three Indianreservations in Northern Idaho, and she ran a largehealth center serving Native Americans in Seattle.The Freedom Forum of the Gannett Foundationawarded her their prestigious “Free Spirit Award” in1998 in recognition of her persistent advocacy forNative and other vulnerable populations. In 2015,the Spokane YWCA awarded her the Women ofAchievement “Carl Maxey, Racial & Social JusticeAward.”She currently leads the new Lucy Covington Centerat EWU Advisory Committee, established to createa permanent legacy on EWU’s campus recognizingthe life and struggle of Lucy Covington to secure theunique and important status of tribal governments.She is married to Spokane attorney, Thomas Keefe,and they have four adult children.Kathy Privratsky graduated from Eastern WashingtonState College in 1969 and earned her master’s degreein communication disorders in 1973. For 40 years sheworked as a speech-language pathologist providingcommunication and assistive technology services tochildren.18In 1992, she became assistive technologycoordinator for Special Education Service Agency inAnchorage, Alaska, with a focus on services in ruralAlaska. During this time, she received the AmericanSpeech-Language-Hearing Association’s DiCarloAward for Clinical Excellence. She also received theGovernor’s Award in 2004 for co-founding AssistiveTechnology of Alaska and expanding services for allAlaskans. She became its executive director in 2004and continued until her retirement in 2011.She has been active in professional forums bothnationally and internationally and has conducteddozens of workshops, authored articles and taughtcollege-level courses. She developed a passion forSpecial Olympics, coordinating Alaska’s HealthyAthlete Hearing Program for many years and at theInternational Winter Games in Alaska in 2001. Shealso assisted International Games in Japan in 2005 andChina in 2009.Ken and Kathy Privratsky established an honoraryendowed scholarship at EWU in 2007 to supportstudents pursuing a master’s degree in communicationdisorders. To date, this scholarship has helped 12deserving graduate students achieve their goalsof becoming speech-language pathologists andsuccessfully treating individuals with communicationand other related disorders.

Honorary DegreesKen PrivratskyKen Privratsky spent 33 years in the U.S. Army beforeretiring in 2002 as a Major General. He graduated fromEastern Washington State College in 1969 as an ROTCdistinguished graduate and served as an infantry platoonleader in combat in Vietnam.Maj. Gen. Privratsky has been awarded the highestservice decorations and received personal recognitionfrom the vice president of the United States for hisrevolutionary changes to military distribution operations.After leaving the military, he entered the oceanshipping business with the largest domestic shippingcompany in the U.S. He became responsible foroperations spanning the Pacific, including terminaloperations in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and along the WestCoast of the U.S. He retired from industry in 2010.He has written several articles o

EWU Fight Song 12 Graduation Academic Honors 12 University Mace 12 Academic Regalia 13 Recognition and Awards EWU Brass Ensemble 14 Selected Vocalists from the EWU Choirs Master of Science 14 Student Commencement Speakers 14 10 a.m. Commencement Speaker 15 2 p.m. Commencement Speaker 15 Honorary Degrees 16-17