Degrees Of Success

May commencement featured ODU’s 100,000th graduate and a high-profile speaker

More than 2,000 students, including these smiling, soon-to-be graduates, processed into the Ted Constant Convocation Center May 6 for Old Dominion’s 104th commencement exercise.
CNN reporter and host Wolf Blitzer spoke to graduates at the morning ceremony and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Local writer Michael D’Orso, the author of seven bestsellers and the 2006 book, “Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska,” addressed graduates at the afternoon program.
Jacqueline Honaker of Northern Virginia, who received her bachelor’s degree in nuclear medicine technology, was recognized as the university’s 100,000th graduate as she walked across the Constant Center stage. On hand to congratulate her was W. Frank Latham Jr. ’56, who was among the first class of students to earn a baccalaureate degree.

Photos: Chuck Thomas