Longtime community leader is graduation speaker
G. Richard Myers, a retired Chadron pharmacist and longtime community leader, will deliver the keynote address of Chadron State College's winter commencement ceremony, Friday, Dec. 19 at 5 p.m. in Armstrong Gym
Diplomas will be conferred to 161 graduates, 41 of whom are receiving advanced degrees.
Myers, 73, and his wife Marlene owned and operated Myers Corner Drug at the corner of Third and Main streets for almost four decades ending in 2000. The pharmacist and his parents purchased the operation in 1961.
Myers has been involved in many aspects of the community. He is past president of the Nebraska Pharmacists Association, Chadron Chamber of Commerce, the Chadron Rotary Club, Nebraska Board of Examiners in Pharmacy and the Chadron Development Corporation. He also was director of the Chadron State Foundation and the Chadron Community Hospital Board and is past member of the Chadron Board of Education. He remains a member of many of those organizations, in addition to serving as on the board of Chadron's TeamMates chapter and the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Board of Counselors.
Myers graduated from the University of Colorado with a pharmacy degree in 1957. He is a native of Gering and a 1953 graduate of Gering High School.
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