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McDaniel celebrates 135th Commencement
Language major honored for academic scholarship
Senior papers on novelists win writing award
Cheers for the Class of 2005
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More than 500 bachelor's and master's degrees were awarded May 21 at the 135th Commencement at McDaniel College.

Joining the students in cap and gown were honorary degree recipients Dr. Charles W. Manning '65, Chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents, and former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, non-executive Chairman of the newly formed DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary law firm and Chair of the Board of Walt Disney Company.

"Stand up and speak out against all forms of discrimination and injustice," Mitchell told the graduates and some 3,500 relatives and friends who came to wish them well. "Silence makes you an accomplice."

Manning also spoke of opportunity and what has become an "international world." He described the scene in the 1970s movie "The Graduate" where the character played by Dustin Hoffman is advised that the future is "plastics." Manning's 2005 version of plastics is "China."

"Life is a team sport," he said.

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Silvia Ute Baage received the Argonaut Award at McDaniel College's May 21 Commencement ceremony, the first international student to earn this award in the College's history.

The Argonaut, named for the College's original honor society founded in 1935 and superseded by formation of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 1980, is given to the graduating senior with the highest cumulative grade point average (GPA).

Due to plus/minus grading, which awards more points for an A+, B+ or C+ and fewer points for an A-, B- or C-, Baage had a more-than-perfect 4.162 GPA.

While German is her native language, Baage is fluent in English and graduated with departmental honors in both French and Spanish.

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Chava Roth of Eldersburg and Silvia Ute Baage received the 2005 Edith Farr Ridington Phi Beta Kappa Writing Award at McDaniel College. Shared by two graduating seniors for their outstanding senior honors papers, this year's award was presented at the College's May 21 Commencement ceremony.

A major in English, Roth won the award for her paper entitled: "A Bodily Grave for a New Birth: Bakhtinian Theory and the Carnivalesque Journey in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews." A double major in French and Spanish, Baage's paper written in French was entitled (in translation), "Love and Nonexistent Love in 'The Lover'-- Marguerite Duras and Jean-Jacques Annaud."

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Commencement promises much excitement and anticipation, as well as a good deal of familial pride. Take a moment to check out the Class of 2005 from our insider's view. We salute 2005's graduates who are pushing to realize their dreams. The future is theirs to win. We wish them success.

Cheers 2005

While most students leave for the summer, McDaniel's campus continues to swarm with activity. Click below for a schedule of conferences, sports camps, and other events at the College during the semester break.

Summer Conferences at McDaniel College