Program
Processional Graduate Brass Quintet
Welcome and Remarks Peter Alexander, Dean
UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance
Introduction of Commencement Speaker David Teachout, Department Head
Music Education
Commencement Address Jennifer Stewart Walter
Introduction of Student Performances Peter Alexander
“Boogie Shoes”
Choreography and Performance:
Chelsea Cross (BFA Dance, 2014) and Kelly Craig (BFA Dance, 2014)
Music: K.C. and the Sunshine Band
Lighting: Mitch Fore (Dance faculty)
from Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano in Eb major, Op. 40 Johannes Brahms
I. Andante
Ian Mayton (BM Performance, 2014), horn
Molly Hines (BM Performance, 2014), violin
William Kelley (BM Performance, 2014), piano
REACH/GRASP Samantha Leary (BFA Acting, 2014)
Woman: Kamilah Bush
Man: Arnold Chanakira
Director: Joshua Foldy (Theatre faculty)
Presentation of Awards Jennifer Stewart Walter
Outstanding GA Award
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award
Awarding of Degrees Janet Lily, Dance
David Teachout, Music Education
Dennis AsKew, Music Performance
Gavin Douglas, Music Studies
Christine Morris, Theatre
Closing Remarks Peter Alexander
Recessional Graduate Brass Quintet
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Doctor of Philosophy in Music
Education
Robin Whitener Wilkins *
Raychl Smith Woodward +
Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance
Benjamin Carl Blozan +
Justin Charles Davis •
Timothy Lee Ellison *
Richard David Auvil
Kathryn Eileen Bridwell-Briner
Katie Ann Cox
Benjamin Laurence Crouch *
Robert Alan Faub +
Pamela Meys Kane •
Roman Placzek
Leslie Ann Simmons
Laura Dangerfield Stevens *
Justin Kendall Worley *
Gizem Yücel •
Master of Fine Arts in Dance,
Choreography
Caroline E. Althof, Kristina Larson
Choreography Award
Amelia Renee Byrd, Kristina Larson
Choreography Award
Master of Arts in Dance Education
Erin Elizabeth Jaffe
Ashlie A. Kittleson
Master of Arts in Dance Theories and
Practices
Samantha Rose Coran *
Amy Caitlin Smith, Summer Research
Assisantship
* August, 2014
• December, 2013
+ August, 2013
Master of Fine Arts in Acting
Miranda Elaine Barnett, Kathryn McA.
England Scholarship (12-13)
Aaron Brakefield
David W. Coolidge, John and Mary
Burns Scholarship (12-13), Kathryn
McA. England Scholarship (13-14)
Amy Lynn Hamel, Faculty Achievement
Award in Performance, John and
Mary Burns Scholarship (13-14)
Alan M. Miller
Tara Whitney Rison
Jami Dru Witt
Master of Fine Arts in Design
Thomas Michael Barker
Emma Patricia Anne Ford
Lauren Victoria Pivirotto
Vandy Scoates, Faculty Achievement
Award in Design, Andreas Nomikos
Scholarship (13-14), Hugh B. Hester
Graduate Fellowship (13-14)
Robyn Kathryn Warfield
Master of Fine Arts in Directing
Danielle Marie Keil, Mary Sheila Nassif
Graduate Award (12-13), Faculty
Academic Achievement Award
(13-14)
Matthew Teague Miller
Master of Fine Arts in Theatre for
Youth
Katherine Lucinda Campbell, Kay
Brown
Barrett Theatre for Youth Scholarship
(12-13), Mary Sheila Nassif Graduate
Scholarship (13-14)
Alexandria Louise Scamehorn, Betty Jean
Jones Professional Development Fund
(12-13), Kay Brown Barrett Theatre for
Youth Scholarship (13-14)
Master of Education in Theatre
Education
Hilary Leigh Peoples +
Jeremy Scott Peterson +
Michael P. Shannon +
Benjamin Winston Sims +
Master of Music in Performance
Matthew Stephen Arnold
Ryan S. Brock
Rachel Elizabeth Davis
Nicholas Del Prince
Lesly Dumé •
Lauren Stacey Eastman
Sonja Irene Guthrie •
Christina Danielle Hart
Jessica Marie Hempstead •
Jessica Ellen Johnson
Justin Hughes Johnson •
Elizabeth Susan Leddy *
Justin Howard Mabry +
Donald Peter McEwan, III
Amanda Kristine Mitchell
Jonathan M. Ray
Matthew Jamar Reese •
Kari Ann Ringgenberg
Naiara Sánchez
Sara Louise Soltau •
Sarah Love Taylor +
Carl Blayne Ziegenfuss
Michelle L. Zint
Master of Music in Music Composition
Brian Matthew Koenig +
Eric Michael Pazdziora
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in
Ethnomusicology
Heidi Reed *
Sara Louise Soltau +
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in
Musicology (Historical)
Holly Lyn Blanchette +
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in
Music Composition
Benjamin Laurence Crouch
Master of Music in Music Education
Meg Ellen Anderson +
Jennifer Beddingfield +
Annalisa Chie Chang •
Sarah E. Combs +
John Henry Corey, III +
Curtis Cotton, III +
Daniel Steven Dickens +
Lisa Gattuso *
Heather Ann Lofdahl
Joshua G. Morgan +
Emily Victoria Northridge
Katherine Marie Perkins +
Kaye Elston Pluth +
Sarah Hampton Rochelle +
Alexandra Grace Sims +
Jonathan Matthew Walters *
Aria M. Westbrook +
Sarah Lauren White *
Master of Music in Music Theory
Joseph Lucas Arno
Karen Elaine Hovey Messina
Stephen Andrew Mitchell •
Jonathan Michael Patterson *
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in
Music Education
Amanda Kristine Mitchell *
Ingrid Lillian Popp +
Jason Allen Wright
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in
Music Theory
Charles Gregory Rasmussen +
Post Masters Certificate in
Music Theory Pedagogy
Benjamin Laurence Crouch
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance
Tabia McKinzie Biyela
Kelly Craig, Prime Movers (president),
HonorSociety.org
Chelsea Marie Cross, Prime Movers (vice
president), Dancers Connect (teacher)
Chelsea Brenna Flanagan +,
magna cum laude
Kelcey Marie Herrera
Meghan McHone *, minor in Film and
Television Studies
Leslie Renee Noble
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Education
Kelley Ann Walsh
Bachelor of Arts in Dance
Hannah E. Boning, minor in
Computer Science, International Honors,
Phi Beta Kappa
Kaitlin Mary-Elizabeth Buss, also
Major in History, Delta Chi Xi,
Prime Movers
Brialyn Teel Ivers Gailes •
Lauren Ashley Gibbs •
Whitney Renee Hickman, also
Major in Sport Science
Makeda Johnson, minor in
Entrepreneurship
Victoria Peyton Junell
Valencia Diamonique Lipscomb
Arimentra Sáda Lodge •
Catherine Cameron McDonald, also Major
in International Business, minor in
Russian, Full University Honors,
Virginia Moomaw Scholarship,
Delta Chi Xi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi
Beta Delta
Destinee E. Smith, also Major in Psychology
Kaylyn Jessica Taylor,
minor in ASL/Deaf Studies
Ashley Renee Williams
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design and
Technical Theatre
Katlyn Diane Biser
Lacey Michelle Davis
Michael Todd Ferguson Jr.
Katherine A. Reinlib •, magna cum laude
Kelsey Lerae Willis, Faculty Achievement
Award in Design
Bachelor of Arts in Drama
Amber Nicole Adams •, minor in History
Gretchen Lynn Adkins, minor in English
Ashley Victoria Ayers Atkinson •,
minor in Dance
Brittany Cannino *
Tyler D. Carlson
Megan A. Christy •, minor in
Entrepreneurship
Katherine Lynn Cornwell McHargue •,
summa cum laude
Kyle Hamilton Doerr
Price Joseph Felker, minor in English,
Faculty Academic Achievement Award
Diamond Nicole Gaither +
Shanice Francene Goode, minor in Dance
and African American Studies
Kate Phyllis Hodge +
Laural Nicole Johnson +
Max Abraham Kirkham, also Major in
Media Studies
Michael John Kolenac •
Nicholas M. Lingle
Kristopher H. MacNeill +
Ariel Timmel Magno •,
minor in ASL/Deaf Studies
Christopher Maurice Mayo •, Alpha Psi
Omega
James Joseph Carl McClain •, also Major in
Psychology
John Kings Motsinger Jr.
Amanda Allison Murray
Nigel Freeman Robinson, minor in English
Benoit D. Sabourin, minor in Hospitality
and Tourism Management
Matthew Joseph Sara
Susan Jeannette Sullivan
Jordan Antonius Scott
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting
Benjamin David Apple
Michael Cameron Bass
Skyler Isaiah Brown
Erica Bell Honeycutt
James Russell Huneycutt +
Emily Kate Johnson-Erday, Honors in
Theatre
Adam Elias Kampouris
Rosser Hopkins Lamason •
Margaret Elisabeth Lea
Samantha Michele Leary
Maiya JaVon Reaves +, minor in
Political Science
Reanna Roane, Honors in Theatre, Faculty
Achievement Award in Performance
Shelton Ray Tripp
Rebecca Joan Woodrum
Phillip Marcus Wright
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Education
Abigail Hattie Bogardus, minor in English
Kaycie Ryan Coy, minor in English and
ASL/Deaf Studies
Phoebe Frances Dillard, Student Excellence
Award
Emily Ann Flanagan, minor in History,
Faculty Achievement Award in
Theatre Education
Robyn Lee McLaughlin
Karis Nicole Riddle
Morgan E. Sharon, minor in Dance,
cum laude
Meleah Carrie Styers
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Technical
Production
Katherine Byron
Hillary Tabb Chesson
Trisha Kentrell Cohen •
Sean Michael Gray, Faculty Achievement
Award in Technical Theatre
Stephen Matthew Hirst •
Catharine Vida Kerr +
Daniel Louis Perez +
Jathan Samuel Pugh •
Briana Nicole Valderrey •, Southeastern
Theatre Conference Young Scholar's
Award (First Place), Faculty Academic
Achievement Award, summa cum laude
Bachelor of Music in Performance
Naomi Rachael Bate •, minor in Spanish,
summa cum laude
Gregory James Davis
Heather Lee Ellis
William Stagg Estes
Jeremy Harris
Molly J. Hines
William Joseph Kelley
Adriel Omari Lyles
Ian Spencer Mayton •, Presser Fellow,
magna cum laude
Jennifer Ann Neese •, minor in Business
David Desmond Parks
Tyler A. Pfledderer
Kelsey Jean Philbrick
Ethan Lynn Price •
Margaret Woodson Ramsey
Bradley J. Slusarczyk +
Kirby Mae Treadaway •, Barbara B. Bair
Award, summa cum laude
Jonathan Lloyd Wiseman
* August, 2014
• December, 2013
+ August, 2013
Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies
Christopher Evernham
Alexander Harris Smith
Bachelor of Music in Composition
Aaron Bond
Jazzmin Yvonne Moore, minor in Sociology,
Honors in Music Studies
Vaughn Luke Perveiler
Travis E. Railsback
Lucas Versano
Bachelor of Music in Music Education
James Herbert Bailey III
Rachael Lowell Bumsted
Katherine Adele Burleson
Melissa Marie Capozio
Jasmine LaShae Cooper +
Franklin Nash Dunn +
John T. Farrell
Steven P. Giles, Honors in Music Education
Daniel Reed Kosel
Eric Allen Langer II
Christopher Lavignette
Virginia Boyd Lee, Sigma Alpha Iota
Collegiate Leadership Award, Sigma
Alpha Iota Collegiate Scholarship Award
Michael Alexander Lemons, minor in
Classical Studies
Nathan E. Litwin, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Collegiate Honor Award
Andrew Stephen Lovett
Phoebe Lynn Lustig
Jessica Marie MacNair, minor in
Psychology, Honors in Music Education,
Student Excellence Award
Nathan Conrad Joseph Martin •
Charles Deshawn Abraham Parker, Honors
in Music Education
Jonathan W. Partin, Honors in
Music Education
Jacob Riley Phillips •
Ethan Lynn Price •, cum laude
Nicole Kay Ramsey
Robert T. Rathbone
Lucy E. Rogers, minor is Spanish, Student
Excellence Award, Undergraduate
Research and Creative Activity Award
Haley Elizabeth Rollins
Charles Maynard Shaffer III •
Elizabeth Leanna Townley
Kirby Mae Treadaway •, Barbara B. Bair
Award, summa cum laude
Andria Lashae Williamson •
Philip Thomas Wingfield, Thomas J. Stone
Award, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Scholastic Award
Bachelor of Arts in Music
David G. Boyd •
Rebekah Logan Bray +, minor in German,
magna cum laude
Wilson Carter Brooks
Angela Beth Bullard
Brent Daniel Byhre
Katie Leone Clark +, summa cum laude
Justin Perry Cowan
Mariko Michelle Davison
Christopher Griffin
Jordan S. Hart, also Major in English
Katherine Wilma Herring •
Emily Susan Ingle •, also Major in
Social Work
LaBreta P. Johnson
Marion Elizabeth Josey •, summa cum laude
Jason P. Kraack +
Stuart Allen McLemore
Mary Elizabeth McNeill •
Abigail Chandler Miller +
Matthew Douglas Surprenant +
Phillip Antonio Watson Jr.
Claire Cannaday Wright, Student
Excellence Award
* August, 2014
• December, 2013
+ August, 2013
Academic honors are awarded to graduating Undergraduate students,
based upon Grade Point Average for all courses completed at UNCG.
Honors include summa cum laude ("with highest honor," GPA between 3.90-4.00),
magna cum laude ("with great honor," GPA between 3.70-3.89),
and cum laude ("with honor," GPA between 3.50-3.69).
Designation of summa, magna, or cum laude is based on grades through
Fall 2013 Semester.
