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MATC Commencement Returns to Downtown Madison
With Two Ceremonies at Overture Hall May 21
Graduates to Parade up Dayton Street; Ceremonies to Feature
Entrepreneur Rebecca Ryan and Moving Graduate Stories
Madison Area
Technical College (MATC) will recognize 1,963 graduates at two
commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 21, 2006, at the
Overture Center for the Arts. This marks the college’s first
commencement ceremonies held in downtown Madison since the 1960’s,
when ceremonies were held at the Orpheum Theater in 1966-67 and
the Central High School Auditorium in 1962-65.
WHAT:
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Madison Area Technical College 2006 Spring
Commencement Ceremony
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WHO:
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MATC graduates and speakers:
Rebecca Ryan, founder of Next Generation
Consulting, keynote speaker
Dr. Bettsey Barhorst, MATC President
Calista Lowe, student speaker, liberal arts graduate -- 10
am Ceremony
Calista, a single mother and the first of eight children
in her family to earn a degree, will share the doubts she
had when she first decided to attend college, “Can
I balance another responsibility on top of motherhood and work?” “Is
this an attainable goal?” “Can I do what no one in my family has
done before?” She also will share that from her childhood and Seminole
heritage, she “learned that my parents saw something out there that they
wanted, and that they had the courage to struggle for it.”
Ema Zajmi, student speaker, marketing graduate -- 1 pm Ceremony
Ema, a 1999 refugee from Kosovo, will share how she “finished high school
in abandoned buildings with broken windows while sitting on a cold floor with
just a pencil and notebook” and that moving to the U.S. was “the
day that I could smell freedom for the first time in a long time.” With
both parents as teachers, she never gave up on her education and with her new
chance to start over in the U.S. she promised herself she would “take every
opportunity that came my way and not take anything for granted.”
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WHERE & WHEN:
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MATC Downtown Education Center, 211 N. Carroll Street
8:30 am & 11:30 am • Graduates gather and prepare in Rooms 240 & 040
9:45 am & 12:45 pm • Graduates depart for ceremonies from exits at
Wisconsin
Avenue and corner of Carroll/Dayton
Dayton to Fairchild Streets, starting at Carroll St.
9:50 am & 12:50 pm • Graduates parade with royal blue banners held
high
to enter Overture Hall at Fairchild entrance
Overture Hall, Overture Center for the Arts, State & Fairchild Streets
10 – 11:15 am • Ceremony for art, arts & sciences, health, human
and
protective services
1 – 2:15 pm • Ceremony for agriscience, apprenticeship, technical
and industrial,
business and applied arts
11:15 am & 2:15 pm • Graduate Reception, Overture 2nd Fl. Lobby
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MORE: |
See the complete press release at:
http://matcmadison.edu/matc/news/2006/05_may/commencement.shtm |
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May 19, 2006
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