Before this years graduating class says goodbye to four years of high school and prepare to finally receive their diplomas, two alumni who walked down the same halls before them will be honored.

Jane Derenowski and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Steven Behmer were selected as this years distinguished alumni honorees. Both are scheduled to speak to the Lake Havasu High School graduating class of 2014 during commencement tonight at 7:30.

Tonight, Derenowski will speak to the graduating class in a message projected onto a large screen. After that, Behmer will address the audience in person.

Derenowski is the medical producer for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. She graduated from Lake Havasu High School in 1986 and was involved in various extra-curricular activities. Derenowski wrote for the school's newspaper, participated in student government, spirit squad, attended the Girls' State Leadership Program.

After high school, Derenowski attended Arizona State University and graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1990. She went on to work for KAET-TV, the local PBS station in Phoenix and KPHO-TV, KTVK-TV, KVOA-TV in Phoenix and Tucson and later as an assignment editor and producer for NBC News in New York.

I love the deadline pressure at my job, Derenowski said. I thrive on it; I love it.

Derenowski said that although she wasnt the best student, she always worked hard and said living in a small town made her dream about branching out to see the world and meet many people.

The isolation that I felt as a teenager in Lake Havasu City inspired me to work harder and expand my experiences, she said.

One piece of advice she would give students is to work hard and be respectful to one another.

You need to work hard but still be nice to everyone you meet, Derenowski said. You dont know how important it is to send someone a hand-written thank you letter in an age with so much social media and Internet a hand-written note to someone still goes a long way Be the first one at the job, and the last one to go home because the competition is fierce out there.

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Sechrist Elementary School celebrated its 50th anniversary with an outdoor picnic Tuesday evening.

Smiling students, their families and their teachers rubbed elbows with Sechrist alumni and retired faculty while enjoying performances by the school choir, the band and the kindergarten bell choir.

We appreciate all the parents and community members that have come out to celebrate the excellent 50-year tradition of Sechrist, said Flagstaff Unified School District Superintendent Barbara Hickman. Its a wonderful school and were delighted that everyone was here.

Sechrist Elementary first opened its doors in the fall of 1963 on a 10-acre parcel of land that used to be a county poor farm off what is now North Fort Valley Road. It was named after Charles W. Sechrist in honor of his service to Flagstaff as a medical doctor and his record 17 years on the local school board. Sechrist died in 1965, but his son, Gilbert Sechrist, attended the anniversary celebration with his wife Jean.

Its a great occasion, Gilbert said.

His wife said they are both thankful for the work the teachers at Sechrist Elementary do every day to educate Flagstaff students.

Were very impressed with what theyre doing for the children, Jean said.

The late Tony Gabaldon, who went on to become an Arizona state senator, was the first principal of the Sechrist Elementary School, which had around 200 students in grades K-7. Since then, the school has transitioned to a K-5 school, added several wings and more than doubled in size. It now serves around 450 students, some of whom have parents who also attended Sechrist when they were little. Principal John Albert was amazed to see the courtyard filled with familiar faces.

Its kind of overwhelming to know that people value public education so much, Albert said. They keep coming back here and to see generations of families, it warms your heart.

Alberts predecessor, Bob Booth, was responsible for planting all the trees that shaded the celebration in the schools courtyard. Booth, who attended Sechrist in seventh grade, later spent around six years there as a teacher and 21 years as the schools principal before retiring nine years ago. Much has changed, he said, since he first sat in the classrooms at Sechrist. His two decades as principal saw an explosion of technology that took the school from chalk and blackboards to whiteboards and computers.

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Newswise New York, NY (May 21, 2014) New York University School of Medicine will hold its 172nd annual graduation at 6:00PM, Wednesday, May 21st , at Alice Tully Hall located in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Established author Stephen Bergman, MD, who writes under the pen name Samuel Shem, will deliver the keynote address.

About the Class of 2014 The Class of 2014 is comprised of 157 students, all receiving Doctor of Medicine Degrees. In addition, eleven students will receive a dual Doctor of Medicine/Master of Science Degree/Masters of Public Health or Masters of Public Administration degree. Seven students will be awarded the Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program and twelve degrees will be conferred with honors. The class includes 27 members of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honor medical society, established in 1902.

About Stephen Bergman, MD, DPhil (Oxon), aka Samuel Shem Dr. Stephen Bergman, who writes under the pen name of Samuel Shem, will deliver this years keynote address at the ceremony titled Staying Human in Medicine.

Dr. Bergman is a graduate of Harvard College. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he was a member of Balliol College and received his PhD in Physiology. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, did his internship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and was a resident in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He has been in private practice since 1977 and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2002. He has been on the faculty for three decades.

It was his internship at Beth Israel Hospital now renamed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which inspired the now classic book The House of God (1978) focusing on the grueling life, lack of sleep, and ups and downs of interning in a hospital. It was named by the British medical journal The Lancet as one of the two most important American medical novels of the 20th century alongside Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith. The House of God has sold over three million copies in 30 languages. Subsequent works are Fine, Mount Misery; Bill W. and Dr. Bob, a play on alcoholism and the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous ; We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women with Janet Surrey, and The Spirit of the Place.

He lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife Janet Surrey and a daughter.

The Ceremony Following the procession and introductions by Anthony J. Grieco, BS (ARTS '60), MD '63, MACP, associate dean for Alumni Relations and Academic Events, class president, August Reich Dietrich, MD, will deliver the Valediction. Anthony J. Grieco, BS (ARTS '60), MD '63, MACP; Kenneth G. Langone, STERN 60, (Hon. 01) chair, NYU Elaine A. and Kenneth G. Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees; and Robert Berne, PhD (Hon. 07) executive vice president for Health, New York University will greet the graduates. Robert I. Grossman, MD, Saul J. Farber Dean and chief executive officer of NYU Langone Medical Center will then address the men and women of the class of 2014 as they embark on what Dr. Grossman in the past has referred to as an ancient and eternally noble calling on the value of hard work as its own reward.

The conferring of diplomas by Dr. Grossman and Lynn M. Buckvar-Keltz, MD 91,associate dean for Student Affairs will take place directly after Dr. Bergman delivers the keynote address and Dr. Grossman will then administer the Hippocratic Oath. Immediately following the Ceremony, a Reception in honor of the Class of 2014 will be held for the graduates, their families and faculty.

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Delivering the commencement address to the class of 2014 was state Rep. Mike Hubbard, speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives. Eighty-three cadets participated in the ceremony.

After an outdoor reception for graduates and their families at the MMI president's quarters, early commissioning program cadets changed into their dress blues to take the oath as second lieutenants. Speaking to these new Army officers was Brig. Gen. Steven Berryhill, commander of the Alabama Air National Guard.

More than 340 University of Montevallo students received their diplomas at spring commencement May 3. Maj. Gen. Frederick M. Padilla, a career Marine and the director of operations with plans, policies and operations at Marine headquarters in Arlington, Va., delivered the commencement address.

University President John W. Stewart III conferred degrees upon some 248 students for bachelor's degrees, 83 students for master's degrees and 11 students for the educational specialist degree.

After students received their diplomas, Mike Malone, president of the National Alumni Association, inducted graduates into the 21,000-member organization.

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AURORA, Colo. - A faculty committee asked to look into the experience of minorities at the University of Colorado's School of Dental Medicine found the school has such a bad reputation that potential black students are advised not to apply.

The committee reported that there is "A generalized perception that the climate is especially adverse to African Americans."

"These findings reveal a need to address the climate as related to race and ethnicity, as well as other categories of identity (e.g., gender, nationality, social class, religion and sexual orientation)," the report states.

In their report issued this week, four CU staff members strongly encouraged the school to immediately address certain action items, including:

Researchers stated that there is a recurring sentiment among alumni of color that students of color experience "routine, ongoing discrimination in the School, to the extent that potentials applicants are being dissuaded from considering the School."

According to a survey, 24 percent of students said they witnessed other students making disparaging remarks or exhibiting hostile behavior toward minority groups; 11 percent said the same was done by faculty members.

Twenty percent said the school had a sexist environment; 13 percent said it was racist; and 12 percent said it was biased against certain sexual orientations.

There have been 10 black graduates of the school since 1977, compared with 1,600 white graduates, according to our partners at the Denver Post, who spoke to Eugene Brooks, an associate professor at the school.

CU's dental school is located at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

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Eight students will be honored during Spring 2014 Commencement ceremonies as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Alumni Association's Outstanding Graduates.

Every spring and fall semester, deans from eight academic colleges each nominate a student as an Outstanding Graduate, based on leadership, scholarship and service. A selection committee of the Alumni Association interviews the candidates and selects one to receive the overall award.

The overall Outstanding Graduate will be announced during the Spring Commencement General Assembly on Saturday, May 17, at the Cajundome.

Here's a look at this semester's Outstanding Graduates.

Jacob Broussard is the Outstanding Graduate for the College of the Arts.

He is a visual arts major with a concentration in painting.

Broussard has a 3.89 GPA,has been on the Dean's List, and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

He received the Spark Student Scholarship, the Marvin and Anne Dubose/Lafayette Art Association Endowed Scholarship, TOPS Performance Scholarship, the Distinguished Freshman Scholarship, and the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts Scholarship.

His work has been displayed at numerous art shows and exhibitions, including the University of Louisiana System's "Academic Summit Invitational Student Exhibition,""The Big Easel Preview Show," and "Under 30: Louisiana's Fresh Crop of Talent."He's a member of the Lafayette Art Association.

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Joe McBride and Adam Fine have been selected as Masters of Ceremonies when Butte Central celebrates 100 years of athletics later this year.

The two former student-athletes from Butte Central are separated by about four generations.

McBride graduated from Boys Central High School, as it was known back then, in 1960. He worked in the investment business until retiring and returning to Butte in 2011. He is currently the President of the Butte Central Education Foundation Board of Directors.

Fine is a four-year letter winner who graduated from Butte Central in 2008. The former two-time First Team All-State selection also played football at Montana Tech, and is preparing to attend medical school in the fall.

Tickets for the 100th anniversary banquet celebration, scheduled for July 16 at the Maroon Activities Center, are available through the Central Foundation Office.

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Dozens of Alumni who graduated from Dougherty County High School got together to celebrate this weekend.

It's a reunion and a time to reconnect with old friends and do some networking. The alumni cookout was held at Heath Park on Maple Street.

This year the class of 1986 is helping out a Dougherty High School Senior Ricardo Sloan who recently received an Athletic Scholarship.

"We know that once you get a scholarship and go to school there is other things that you need money for that's where the class of 1986 steps in," says Sebon Burns, with the class of 1986.

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Newswise MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. Tufts University today announced that it has licensed a novel silk technology for the treatment of chronic skin wounds to Akeso Biomedical, Inc., an early stage medical device company. The technology was invented by David L. Kaplan, Ph.D., Stern Family Professor of Engineering at Tufts University, and his team of researchers at Tufts School of Engineering.

Akeso hopes that the new silk technology will be able to improve wound healing in patients with leg ulcers and diabetic ulcers, where there is a significant, unmet need. Each year millions of Americans seek treatment for these chronic wounds, and many remain unhealed even after six months of treatment.

The significant advantages of the Tufts technology include the ability to control the rate of degradation of the silk, and produce silk solutions that can be processed into different formats from water, including films and sponges, and used to deliver active agents that can speed healing.

Akeso joins a growing number of promising new silk technology based ventures spun out by Tufts Tech Transfer in the Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration.

Were looking forward to the transition of this silk technology from our laboratories to the clinic and commercial products. We believe this is an exciting biomedical application for this technology, which leverages the unique properties of this protein-based biomaterial in new ways, said Kaplan, who chairs the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts and also holds additional Tufts appointments in the Department of Chemistry, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences and School of Dental Medicine.

Tufts University, Tufts Medical Center and Akeso plan to collaborate on the clinical development of the new silk-based products. Mark Iafrati, M.D., chief of vascular surgery at Tufts Medical Center, will lead the pre-clinical effort.

Im very pleased to be working with this exciting technology because it has the potential to address a very significant problem in healthcare, by providing a much-needed treatment for those patients with hard-to-heal chronic wounds, said Iafrati.

Said Simon Williams, CEO of Akeso, I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with David Kaplan and Mark Iafrati on this exciting project, and look forward to developing new products that can help the many people who suffer from treatment-resistant wounds.

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OSWEGO With more than 1,600 SUNY Oswego students eligible to take part in the colleges three commencement ceremonies on May 17, many have already found their directions before donning their caps and gowns.

Physics major Patrick Howard will head to medical school, pursuing a Ph.D. in biophysics at New York University.

Physics major Patrick Howard will pursue a Ph.D. in biophysics at New York University after his May graduation from Oswego. He is one of many soon-to-be graduates who have found career paths before they will walk in May 17 commencement ceremonies.

Biophysics is the use of techniques and principles in physics to do biological research, he explained. In the physics department I was able to find professors that I really enjoyed working with who were also genuinely invested in the outcome of my career. I also had the chance to live in Taiwan during the summer of 2013 to do biophysics research at the graduate level.

Howards experiences also include research funded by the National Science Foundation and the campus, presenting at the American Physics Society conference in Denver, planning on-campus scientific conferences and serving as a physics tutor and teaching assistant.

I was given as many opportunities to get involved as I asked for, Howard said. Thats the key thing: I put a lot into the physics program and I got everything I wanted out of it.

Business success

Human resource management major Alycia White will head to Knoxville, Tenn., to work in the human resources operations department of Scripps Networks Interactive, which owns channels that include the Food Network, HGTV and the Travel Channel. She said the many opportunities Oswegos School of Business offers plugged her into the future.

Being able to connect with previous Oswego grads who now work in the field has not only taught me networking skills, but has also provided a clearer picture of what a day in the life is like for HR professionals, White said. The environment at Oswego has really supported students who take initiative, whether it be within student organizations or classrooms. My experience here has fostered a go-getter attitude that will help take me anywhere I want to go.

Before graduation, MBA/accounting major Kristin Metzger had a job lined up in the audit department of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Rochester.

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