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Event Information

Date

Friday, December 21, 2012 at 10 a.m.
Processional starts at 9:30 a.m.

Location

Bowie State University
Leonidas S. James Physical Education Complex
14000 Jericho Park Road
Bowie, Maryland 20715

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Overflow Parking

Jericho Park on 197. Shuttles will be available from the overflow parking areas to the ceremony.

Commencement Viewing Overflow Campus Locations

In the event that the main commencement site becomes filled to capacity then the remaining attendees can view the ceremony from the 2 locations listed below:

- Center for Learning and Technology Rooms 102 and 117
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Communications Art Center Samuel L. Myers Auditorium

Graduating Seniors

Graduate Rehearsal

Thursday, December 20, 2012
4 p.m.
Leonidas S. James Physical Education Complex

Bring your cap and hood

Graduate Reception

McKeldin Gymnasium
Thursday, December 20, 2012
5-8 p.m. (immediately following the rehearsal)
RSVP: alumni@bowiestate.edu

Graduate Continental Breakfast

McKeldin Gymnasium
Friday, December 21, 2012
8:30 a.m.

Alumni Information

YOUR BSUNAA MEMBERSHIP

Graduating Seniors: Get your free one-year BSU National Alumni Association (BSUNAA) membership card today!

As a new graduate, you will receive your first year of BSUNAA membership at no cost. We invite you to take advantage of your free membership.

Benefits of the BSUNAA include great opportunities to make new friends and business networking. Visit http://www.bowiestate.edu/Alumni/bsunaa for more information.

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Commencement Committee

The Committee

Ms. Karen Johnson Shaheed, Esq., General Chair
Dr. Freddie T. Vaughns, Co-Chair
Ms. Cynthia Coleman, Co-Chair

Ms. Yolanda Pearson, President, Graduate Student Association (GSA)
Mr. Leslie Hall, President, Senior Class

Dr. Jacqueline Jackson-Palmer
Dr. Otis Thomas
Dr. Shirelle Briscoe
Prof. Adolph Wright
Ms. Patricia Mitchell
Ms. Cassandra Robinson
Ms. Maisha Ali
Acting Sgt. Lashelle Powell
Ms. Thomasina Boardley
Ms. Doris Gillard
Ms. Amanda Warfield
Mr. Darren Swain
Ms. Aurora Burke
Ms. Frances Christian
Ms. Arlene Creek
Ms. M. Shirlene Brooks
Mr. Bryant Adams
Mr. Chartez Bond
Mr. David Fisher
Mr. Wade Henley
Mr. John Satterthwaite
Chief Ernest Waiters
Ms. Annette Wedderburn
Mr. Robert Donald

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