On Saturday, June
4, 2005, at 10 a.m., commencement exercises for Ohio
University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine will be held at
Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The members of
OU-COM’s Class of 2005, its 26th graduating class,
will receive doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees. The
commencement is held separately from Ohio University’s general
graduate commencement.
The class is
composed of 96 members — 55 males and 41 females — which
includes 24 minority students. Seven members of the class are
residents of Southeastern Ohio.
Thomas J. Moyer,
J.D., chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, will be the
keynote speaker at the medical school’s graduation.
This is Moyer’s
second visit to OU-COM. At the 2004 Convocation Ceremony last
September, he commended the college for instituting an honor
code for its medical students.
A Sandusky native, Moyer earned
his bachelor and J.D. degrees at The Ohio State University.
Before becoming chief justice, he served eight years on the
Court of Appeals for Franklin County,
four years as executive assistant to the governor and for eight
years was in private practice. Moyer has served as chief justice
since 1987.
Moyer is past
president of the Columbus Board of Education and the Columbus
Bar Association. He received the American Judicature Society
Award for improving the administration of justice in Ohio. In
1991, Ohio State Bar
Association presented him the Ohio Bar Medal, its highest award,
for his service to the profession. From 1995–96, he served as
chairman of the national Conference of Chief Justices.
Ohio University
President Roderick McDavis, Ph.D., will act as presiding
officer, while Alan Geiger, Ph.D., a member of the university’s
board of trustees, will convene the commencement. Also speaking
at the graduation will be Jody Jerome, a representative
of the Class of 2005; Jeffrey Stanley, D.O. (’82),
president of the Ohio Osteopathic Association; and Thomas
Anderson, D.O. (’83), president of the OU-COM Society of
Alumni and Friends.
OU-COM Dean
Jack Brose, D.O., will present the outstanding student
awards, including the Osteopathic Heritage Award, Dean’s Award,
Family Practice Award, Specialty Medicine Award, Obstetrics and
Gynecology Award, Pediatrics Award, Geriatric
Medicine/Gerontology Award-Ohio Department of Aging, Social
Medicine-Medical Humanities Award, Biomedical Science Award,
Student D.O. of the Year Award and the Centers for Osteopathic
Research and Education site awards.
Following the
Moyer’s address, Provost Kathy Krendl, Ph.D., will present the
Class of 2005 and President McDavis will preside over the
conferral of degrees. Brose, who will hood each graduate, says
that the commencement exercises always fill him with great
emotion.
“Graduation is an emotional
experience for me; it always has been,” says Brose. “I am always
moved by watching medical students walk to the stage as laymen
and return to their seat as physicians. I consider it an
enormous honor to hood our new physicians, administer the
Osteopathic Oath and be the first to call them ‘doctor.’
“This also is a very special
class to me. The Class of 2005 is the first class to spend four
years at OU-COM with me as dean. Its members are enormously
talented and made a real mark on our medical school in terms of
their academic performance, professionalism and service to our
college. I am very proud that my son, Steve, who was in his
first year of medical school when I became dean, is an
outstanding member of this exceptional class.”
Following the
conferral of degrees, Brose will lead the class in reciting the
Osteopathic Oath, which will be followed by the singing of
“Alma Mater, Ohio.”
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