May 7, 2003
USM COMMENCEMENT NEWS ADVISORY - 2003
TIME/PLACE: 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Saturday, May 10,
Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland. Approximately 1,000
of over 1,500 graduates in attendance; 7,500 spectators.
CEREMONY SCHEDULE: 8:15 Graduates line up. 9:00 Ceremony
begins. 9:30 Student commencement address, Daryl Douglas Morazzini
(text available). 9:45 Presentation of Distinguished Achievement
Awards. 10:00 Keynote address, film and TV actor Tony Shalhoub.
10:20 Presentation of diplomas to individual graduates. 12
noon Ceremony ends.
AWARD RECIPIENTS:
•Distinguished Achievement Awards to Golden Globe
Award-winner Tony Shalhoub (USM class of '77) for his contribution
to the arts ;
•Congressman Tom Allen for his commitment to social and
political equity and public service; and
•Timothy Wilson, Seeds of Peace Camp vice president and
camp director, and one of the creators of The Portland Project.
INTERESTING GRADS:
•Graduation is decidedly a family affair at USM this
year. The mother-daughter duo of Jan and Verity Herliekson,
of Lebanon, Me., are graduating with honors from the Geography-Anthropology
department. Verity, 18, who was home-schooled by her mother,
began the Early Study at USM program when she was 13. Her
sister, Rhianna, 19, also was home-schooled and entered USM
at 14. She graduates next year from the School of Music.
•Fifteen members of the Class of 1953 will be marching,
including Eleanor Berry Pickett of Westbrook, whose granddaughter,
Aimee Tanguay, and her husband, Adam Tanguay, are graduating
from USM Saturday. Eleanor's husband, Francis, received his
bachelor's in 1951 and his master's in 1961 from USM. Their
daughter, Lynn Caroll, who is Aimee's mother, is also a USM
alumna.
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