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LWC confers 418 degrees at Winter Commencement
Rev. Todd Love delivers commencement address. He and Greensburg businessman Lenn Pruitt receive honorary doctorates
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By Duane Bonifer, Director of Public Relations
Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY
COLUMBIA, KY - Lindsey Wilson College graduated the largest winter class in the college's 110-year history Saturday morning. A total of 418 degrees were awarded at the college's 98th ceremony, held before a crowd of more than 2,000 guests in Biggers Sports Center on the campus of Lindsey Wilson College today, Saturday, December 13, 2013.
In his commencement address, the Rev. Todd Love of Columbia told the graduates that they were about to begin a different kind of "hero's journey."
"We're taught that the hero's journey is the journey from weakness to strength ... but the real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness," said Love, who is superintendent of the Columbia District of The United Methodist Church Kentucky Annual Conference.
Love told the class -- which included 219 undergraduate degrees and 199 graduate degrees -- that they are "about to be a rookie again," which means they will have learn the important life role of how to be a "nobody."
"For in learning how to be a nobody, you will learn how not to be a jerk," said Love, who is also an ex officio member of the Lindsey Wilson Board of Trustees. "For the rest of your life ... you will learn to be kinder and more thoughtful. You will tip well. You will empathize. You will be a mentor, and a generous one."
Love told the graduates to become lifelong students by building on their college educations.
"Education is not really about grades and getting a job," he said. "It's primarily about becoming a more aware and engaged observer of the universe. If that ends with college ... you're wasting your one and only chance at real consciousness."
Love also urged graduates to "concentrate on growing in compassion."
"Choose the possibility that the lives and experiences of other people you encounter are as complex and unpredictable as your own. That other people are not simply one thing or another ... but their life, like yours, contains a multitude of layers," he said. "And by reading other people in that context, we learn to be more compassionate to each other. ... The gift and the challenge of your education is to see others as they see themselves -- to grapple with this mean and crazy and beautiful world in all of its baffling complication."
Love also received an honorary doctorate from the college. Also receiving an honorary doctorate was Lindsey Wilson trustee and Greensburg, KY, businessman Lenn R. Pruitt.
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Moving Tassels
2013-12-14 - Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo. Alainna Fay Owens of Somerset, KY, left, Stephanie D. Overby of Columbia, Brian Nichols of Lexington, KY, Rachel L. Neal of Lebanon, TN, and Victor Munderere of Louisville, KY, move the tassels on their mortar board from right to left to symbolically represent their graduation from Lindsey Wilson College Saturday morning, December 14, 2013, at Biggers Sports Center. The five received a bachelor of arts degree, five of the record 418 awarded by the liberal arts college at its 98th commencement ceremony. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Receiving doctorates
2013-12-14 - Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Duane Bonifer. .
Lindsey Wilson College awarded an honorary doctorate at Saturday morning's winter commencement to Greensburg, KY, businessman Lenn R. Pruitt and the Rev. Todd Love, superintendent of the Columbia District of The United Methodist Church Kentucky Annual Conference. From left: LWC President William T. Luckey Jr., Pruitt, Love and Lindsey Wilson Board of Trustees Chair Allan Parnell of Louisville, KY. Lindsey Wilson College awarded an honorary doctorate at Saturday morning's winter commencement to Greensburg, KY, businessman Lenn R. Pruitt and the Rev. Todd Love, superintendent of the Columbia District of The United Methodist Church Kentucky Annual Conference. From left: LWC President William T. Luckey Jr., Pruitt, Love and Lindsey Wilson Board of Trustees Chair Allan Parnell of Louisville, KY
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Wating
2013-12-14 - V.P. Henry Auditorium, 210 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer.
Texting while waiting - Emily Waltrip of Owensboro, KY, sends a text message to friends while waiting Saturday morning, December 14, 2013, in V.P. Henry Auditorium. Waltrip received a bachelor of arts degree in human services and counseling at Lindsey Wilson College's winter commencement ceremony. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Mortar Board art
2013-12-14 - Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
These seven Lindsey Wilson College graduates turned their mortar boards into art for Saturday's winter commencement ceremony. Front row, from left: Sarah Vaughn of Hendersonville, TN; Stephanie Trawick of Hendersonville, TN; and Tess Copas of Red Boiling Springs, TN Back row, from left: Rachel Neal of Lebanon, TN; Roger Todd DeWilde of Hendersonville, TN; Haley Rodgers of Campbellsville, KY; and Brandi Key of Gallatin, TN - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: 35 years for degree
2013-12-14 - Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Portia Flowers-Gosser of Russell Springs, KY, flashes a thumbs up Saturday morning while walking to Lindsey Wilson College's winter commencement in Biggers Sports Center. Flowers-Gosser, who graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree in communication, said she waited "35 years for this degree" Joining Flowers-Gosser are, from left: - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Receiving assistance
2013-12-14 - Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Ashley Phillips of Campbellsville, KY, center, gets help from Elizabeth Ingold of Cambellsville while while walking to Lindsey Wilson College's winter commencement in Biggers Sports Center. At right is Charlie Pingleton of Greencastle, IN. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Adjusting mortar board
2013-12-14 - V.P. Henry Auditorium, 210 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Sarah Foley of Russell Jamestown, KY, adjusts her mortar board Saturday morning, December 14, 2013, in the lobby of the L.R. McDonald Administration Building. Foley received a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice at the college's winter commencement ceremony. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: LWC Singers
2013-12-14 - Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choral Programs Gerald Chaffin, directs the Lindsey Wilson College Singers at Saturday morning's winter commencement at Biggers Sports Center. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Lydia Tiiller
2013-12-14 - Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Lydia Tiller of Columbia, KY is congratulated Saturday morning by Lindsey Wilson College President William T. Luckey Jr. Tiller earned a bachelor of arts degree in Christian ministries, cum laude, and was also a graduate of the college's R.V. Bennett Honors Program. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Celebrating degree
2013-12-14 - Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Patti Phillips of Campbellsville, KY, holds a sign celebrating her daughter Ashley, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in communication Saturday morning from Lindsey Wilson College. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Tanner Strein
2013-12-14 - Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY. - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Tanner Strein of Lexington, KY, is congratulated Saturday morning by Lindsey Wilson College President William T. Luckey Jr. Strein earned a bachelor of arts degree in history, cum laude. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Acknowledging families
2013-12-14 - Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Lindsey Wilson College graduates acknowledge their family members and friends toward the end of Saturday morning's winter commencement ceremony in Biggers Sports Center. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Kalen Kimberland
2013-12-14 - Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard DR, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Kalen Kimberland of Columbia, KY is congratulated by Lindsey Wilson College Associate Professor of Communication Dan Koger while walking through the "Academic Gauntlet" Saturday morning in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center. Kimberland received a bachelor of arts degree in communication. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Linda Smiley & family
2013-12-14 - Roberta Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Linda Smiley of Elizabethtown, KY, left, is joined by family members Saturday morning in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center following Lindsey Wilson College's 2013 winter commencement. Smiley earned a master of education degree in counseling and human development. From left: Joining Smiley are her, mother, Peggy Lacey, son Warren Gates and step-father, Bobby Owens, all of Elizabethtown, KY. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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2013 LWC Winter Commencement: Tess Copas & daughter
2013-12-14 - Roberta Cranmer Dining Center, 430 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo by Duane Bonifer. LWC photo.
Tess Copas of Red Boiling Springs, TN, holds her 18-month-old daughter, Bria Miller, Saturday morning in Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center following Lindsey Wilson College's 2013 winter commencement. Copas earned a bachelor of arts degree in human services and counseling. - Duane Bonifer, Lindsey Wilson College
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