RICHMOND, Ind. – A total of 45 Quaker student-athletes received degrees as Earlham College held its 171st Commencement exercises on Saturday on the Chase Stage adjacent to The Heart on the Earlham campus.
Fourty-three student-athletes received Bachelor of Arts degree while two – field hockey's Megan Hut and cross country's Gabriel Penk – earned their Master of Arts in Teaching degrees.
Seventeen of the graduating student-athletes did so with College and/or Departmental Honors in their fields of study.
Lara Khalifeh (field hockey/women's track and field) was one of three undergraduates selected to give the Welcome from the Earlham College Class of 2018, while Megan Hut (field hockey) gave the opening welcome on behalf of degree recipients in the Master of Arts in Teaching program.
Grace Makhoul (field hockey) was one of two graduates to give the Benediction at the end of the ceremony.
In addition, Darrell Hutchison (men's basketball) and Raven Thibodeaux (women's lacrosse) were among the four honorary junior ushers who led the procession of graduating seniors, and Ashlea Meadows (women's basketball) was one of four honorary Commencement ushers during the ceremony.
Two student-athletes – men's tennis seniors Vitalii Stadnyk and Vojislav Tatarevic – were the first to receive their degrees, so they could immediately leave campus for Indianapolis, to compete in a semifinal match against Hanover College in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Tennis Tournament.
The complete list of graduating student-athletes is as follows:
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MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING |
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Megan Hut |
Field Hockey |
Spanish |
Tiel, The Netherlands |
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Gabriel Penk |
Men's XC / Track & Field |
History |
Portland, Ore. |
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BACHELOR OF ARTS |
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Lexi Aligarbes |
Women's Tennis |
Peace & Global Studies * |
Farmington, N.M. |
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Ian Bach |
Baseball |
Global Management |
Union, Ky. |
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Kendal Baker |
Baseball |
Global Management |
Richmond, Ind. |
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Eliza Balch |
Women's XC / Track & Field |
Biology & Geology * |
Durham, N.H. |
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Meredith Beed |
Volleyball |
Sociology/Anthropology * & |
Annapolis, Md. |
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Yuvraj Bisht |
Men's Cross Country |
Environmental Studies |
Bangalore, India |
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Jacob Breen |
Football |
Public Policy |
Middletown, Ohio |
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Eric Bryant |
Football |
Psychology |
Oxnard, Calif. |
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Marcaus Cooper |
Football |
Liberal Studies |
Palm Coast, Fla. |
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Nicholas Dey |
Men's Soccer |
Global Management |
Newport News, Va. |
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Simon Dickerson |
Men's Soccer |
History and Psychology |
Dulles, Va. |
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Arrita Domi |
Women's Tennis |
Mathematics and Psychology |
Gjakova, Kosovo |
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Dakota Fields |
Football |
Psychology |
Mount Olive, Ill. |
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Xavier Flores |
Football / Men's Lacrosse |
Global Management |
Commerce City, Colo. |
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Mariah Flynn |
Women's Basketball |
Human Development & Social Relations |
Kodak, Tenn. |
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Symrin Greenhow |
Women's Lacrosse |
Global Management |
Fulton, Md. |
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Emma Hoffmann |
Women's Soccer |
Biochemistry * |
Monrovia, Ind. |
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Dorian Holmes |
Baseball |
Global Management |
Indianapolis, Ind. |
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Olivia Honigman |
Field Hockey |
Biology * |
Richmond, Vt. |
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Wesley Hundley |
Football |
Chemistry |
Gardnerville, Nev. |
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Faith Jackobs |
Women's Soccer |
Biochemistry * |
Austin, Texas |
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Mia Kaplan |
Women's Cross Country |
Art * |
Durham, N.C. |
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Lara Khalifeh |
Field Hockey / |
Psychology * |
Sarafand, Lebanon |
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Aidan Klemmer |
Men's Soccer |
Physics |
Olympia, Wash. |
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Isabela Lopez |
Women's Soccer |
Neuroscience |
Albuquerque, N.M. |
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Grace Makhoul |
Field Hockey |
Comparative Languages and Linguistics & Peace and Global Studies * |
Homs, Syria |
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Matt Mathies |
Baseball |
Global Management |
Loogootee, Ind. |
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Roderick Matthews |
Football |
Global Management |
Pierson, Fla. |
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Valentino Mbaya |
Men's Soccer |
Global Management |
Lexington, Ky. |
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Kelsey Moore |
Women's Soccer |
Art * |
Granville, Ohio |
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Kaitlyn Morgan |
Women's Tennis |
Psychology |
Richmond, Ind. |
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Cezannie Mount |
Men's Basketball |
Music |
Long Beach, Calif. |
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Lam Nguyen |
Men's Tennis |
Computer Science * |
Hanoi, Viet Nam |
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John Okker-Edging |
Men's Lacrosse |
Music |
Columbia, Mo. |
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Niraj Parajuli |
Men's Tennis |
Computer Science and Mathematics * |
Kathmandu, Nepal |
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Adam Schwartz |
Men's Tennis |
Computer Science * |
Wilmette, Ill. |
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Abbey Smith |
Women's Soccer |
Biology |
Mount Vernon, Ohio |
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Vitalii Stadnyk |
Men's Tennis |
Computer Science and Economics * |
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine |
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Vojislav Tatarevic |
Men's Tennis |
Global Management * |
Belgrade, Serbia |
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Olivia Wallace |
Women's Lacrosse |
Biochemistry * |
Portland, Ore. |
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Ziqi Wang |
Women's Tennis |
Environmental Studies and Music |
Bejingshi, China |
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Annalee Wilson |
Women's Track and Field |
Psychology * |
Lyme, N.H. |
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Elijah Wilson-Thomas |
Men's Basketball |
Liberal Studies |
Goldsboro, N.C. |
* - denotes graduates who earned College and/or Departmental Honors
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