Twenty students will receive master’s degrees in education from Elon University during Commencement exercises at 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 21 in Whitley Auditorium. The graduating class includes three international teachers who have taught in the United States through the Visiting International Faculty (VIF) program. Based in Chapel Hill, N.C., VIF recruits international teachers for schools throughout the U.S.
Barbara Bass ’61, a member of Elon’s Board of Trustees and a retired educator, will deliver the commencement address. Bass earned numerous teaching awards during a 35-year career in public and private schools in Virginia, including the 1984 National Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching. She retired from St. Catherine’s School in Richmond, Va., in 1995, where she served as chair of the math department.
Elon’s summer cohort M.Ed. program allows students to complete a master’s degree by attending three summer sessions and taking two or three online courses during the normal academic year.
Students who will receive degrees are listed below:
- April Leigh Ayers Barrow, Mebane, N.C.
- Kristen Julie Clark, Goldsboro, N.C.
- Bruce Alan Curtis, Eden, N.C.
- Soledad Dávila, Quito, Ecuador
- Marsha Cromer Erskine, Madison, N.C.
- Amy Gronquist, Burlington, N.C.
- Robin James Hernandez, Greensboro, N.C.
- Ernestine White Holman, Burlington, N.C.
- Helen Elizabeth Levers, Kingston, Jamaica
- Kristen Mary Saunders Lindley, Nags Head, N.C.
- Charlene Kay Eller Marsh, Sophia, N.C.
- Kimberly Pendergraph Mellor, Graham, N.C.
- Kimberly Loftis Murray, Burlington, N.C.
- Tammy Goodson Robertson, Eden, N.C.
- Lulama Nokubonga Rozani, Umtata, South Africa
- Judi Ann Tyler Schuler, Stoney Creek, N.C.
- Wendy Lunsford Staskiewicz, Roxboro, N.C.
- Donna Lynn Gibson Steadman, Douglas, Ga.
- Stephanie Priddy Wray, Stoneville, N.C.
- Candice Currie Wright, Burlington, N.C.
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