MCKEESPORT, Pa. — On May 5, Penn State Greater Allegheny participated in University-wide commencement activities. Faculty and staff, alongside the graduates' friends and family members, watched and celebrated as 52 students became Penn State alumni.
Commencement, held in the Wunderley Gymnasium on Greater Allegheny’s upper campus, was filled with emotions as the student speaker, Rhickisha Hinkson, welcomed the ceremony-goers and told her peers that “every person was put on this Earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.”
During the ceremony, keynote speaker Saleem Ghubril, executive director of the Pittsburgh Promise, shared words of wisdom to the Class of 2018 and welcomed them into the next stage of their lives.
At the end of the event, families, faculty, staff and alumni congregated to the Student Community Center for a final goodbye.
Congratulations to Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Class of 2018:
Associate in Science
Business Administration
- Shataja Lenece White
Bachelor of Science
Administration of Justice
- Jashaun Jamie Fontanez
- Michael Sokolowski
- Richard J. Vollberg
Biobehavioral Health
- Rebecca A. Capozzi
- Marin Marina
- Michael J. Rosa
- Laura I. Vazquez Diaz
Business
- Andrew Richard Brissette
- Ryan Hunter Brown
- Amanda Georgette Burchell
- Qinzhi Chen
- Rhickisha M. Hinkson
- Nicholas Jugovic
- Jermey A. Martin
- Ryan McMahon
- Taylin Marie Panella
- Tony Patterson Brown
- Brittney M. Renfro
- Craig Slepsky
- Ryan James Snyder
- Jacob James Thieret
- Scott Michael Uniatowski
- Brianna Nekaybaw Ware
Information Sciences and Technology
- Adejuwon Israel Adenuga
- Nicholas Charles Andrews
- Qinzhi Chen
- Kedar Dhital
- Cody Koscielski
- Zachary E. Long
- Luke A. Padezan
- Syed M. Saleem
- Manoj Sharma
- Nathan McCoy Withers
Mechanical Engineering
- Andrew W. Bradley
Organizational Leadership
- Cynthia Stevans
Project & Supply Chain Management
- William R. Kahanic III
- Nathan C. Lawrence
Psychology
- John Besnak
- Paige Darlene Hako
- Marissa Lynn Lewis
- Marino R. Swanson
- Tracy Lynn Thomas
- Aubrey N. Wilson-Tucker
- Kayla Zeigler
Bachelor of Arts
Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Aria Catherine Pisor
Communications
- Shakeria Fallon Ra’sha Carter
- Ashley Hammond
- Tawnya Pirch
Psychology
- Brittany Nicole Lesko
- Angela Rose Mayhue
- Jordan Williams