Class of 2007 - 2008

Gail Ferency (USA)

Gail lives in South Bend, IN and works at the South Bend Medical Foundation. She is doing the Categorical in Chemistry. In her spare time she plays tournament paintball.

Tonya Shipp (USA)

Lives in South Bend, IN

Amanda (USA)

Lives in Lamson Hall and completed her scuba diving certification this summer.

Charmaigne Gallega (Philippines)

Lives in Berrien Springs, MI

Matthew Marsh (USA)

Lives in Berrien Springs

Hui Wen Wang (Taiwan)

Lives in Berrien Springs and says she is glad to be here.

Ruth Walker Jiyani (Malawi)

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Lives in California and works in Lamson Hall. She has 24 aunts and uncles and says "that's a Samoan family for ya!"

Ghabrielle Dorsett (Bahamas)

Lives in Berrien Springs and enjoys photojournalism, scrapbooking, scuba diving, and basic fun in the sun.

Theo Cunningham (Jamaica)

Lives in Carmarillo, CA and works at AU dairy. He says "I'm a pretty cool guy that wants to make the best of my life"

Smruti Damania (India)

Lives in South Bend, In and says "I'm happily married to my undergraduate sweetheart and we have two dogs - a German shepard pup and a lab mix. Will share pictures soon.

Ceddy Bear (Philippines)

Lives in Loma Linda, CA and plays the piano and saxophone. "I am 1/2 filipino and 1/2 Bengali" Loves to play tennis and soccer.

Neil "the deal" Cometa

Lives in Loma Linda, CA and enjoys meeting people, hanging out with friends and family, traveling, cooking, and photography.

Cha (Philippines)

Lives in Berrien Springs and is a MK (missionary kid) who likes ethnic foods, playing sports, and looking at bugs through a microscope.

Pearl (Philippines)

Lives in Berrien Springs and says "I am 1/2 Filipino and 1/2 Ethiopian and lived overseas most of her life." She loves to travel, music, and hanging out with friends.

Becky Doering (USA)

Lives in Lincoln, NE and works at not failing her courses. She speaks Spanish and loves those Cornhuskers!!

Certificate ceremony II

The Senior girls quartet (l,r JoJo, Keithea, Cyntoia, and Monique) provided a special song for the occassion.

Dr. Kilsby introduced the "Lab-in-a-suitcase" project the CLS Dept. is involved with. Come back to the blog later for a more indepth presentation of the LIS.

Dr. Marcia Kilsby, Department Chair, had opening remarks.

Rachel Tambunam(Senior CLS major) played the piano as guests came in for the certificate ceremony.

Karen Reiner had the closing prayer. Sorry the pictures are not in order.

For the first time this year a graduating senior was asked to read the covenant. Scott Juhl read the covenant and then the class responded with I Do signifying their acceptance of the covenant.

Al McMullen explaining to the guests the significance of his tie. There are two occassions when he wears this tie. One is when he is upset about something the students have done or haven't done. The other is for happy occassions. This was definitely a happy occassion.

Shahira Stubbs (CLS senior) sang a medley of songs accompanied by Marvin Powell (CLS senior) at the piano.

Marvin Powell (CLS senior) at the piano

The youngest CLS-to-be-student, Kalyse Reiner, enjoyed the festivities while her Mom Karen helped serve the guests.

Some of the graduates posing with Dr. Kilsby.

Masato and Maryam enjoying the cake and punch.

Some of the goodies.

The graduates of 2007. Only one missing was Phyllis Blake who had to be at Mayo Clinic to house hunt as she was hired there to work in their laboratory.

Also missing was Mr. Richard Show, Clinical Chemistry Instructor who was home sick and couldn't make it. He is back to work now feeling much better.

Certifcate ceremony

On Sabbath, August 4th the CLS Department hosted the annual Certificate Ceremony for the graduating CLS majors. This year we had 21 graduates and all but one was able to attend the event.

Some of the goodies

Nadya prepared a scrapbook of the years events.

The traditional cake with first names of all the graduates. Actually we have to have two cakes this size to feed all the graduates and their guests.


Some of the preparations being made. Nadya, Grace (Chemistry dept. Secretary) and Marcia making sure things tasted right!

Marcia, Harvey, and Wendell are hard at it.
Some of the "meatballs" the ladies prepared during the week.

Pita bread to add the stuffing of humus or meatballs in to