CSC commencement set to take place

The graduate ceremony will take place Dec. 12 in Memorial Hall at 2 p.m. while the undergraduate ceremony follows at 4 p.m. in the Chicoine Events Center. Both events will be streamed online at csc.edu/live.

The ceremonies will include 142 undergraduates with 29 students earning honors, 12 summa cum laude, eight magna cum laude and seven cum laude. Eighty-three students will earn their master’s degrees.

Dr. Jamie Wada, justice studies associate professor and department chair, will be the speaker at the graduate commencement. Con Marshall, Information Services officer, will speak at the undergraduate ceremony.

Wada, a native of Ontario, Oregon, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boise State University and his Ph.D. from Washington State University.

Since he began teaching in the CSC Justice Studies department in 2007, Wada has been a Faculty Senate secretary, a Student Senate adviser, the faculty athletic representative and served on numerous committees. The committees include the Platinum Eagle Awards, Student Trustee Selection, Research Institute, Student Conduct Review, Academic Suspension, Study Abroad, Athletic Administration, Presidential Committee on Athletics and Team George.

He has been involved in the London Study Abroad program and has been the adviser or co-adviser of Omega Phi Rho, Criminal Justice Club, Nights of Country Swing, Women’s Rugby, Outdoor Adventure Club and the Weightlifting Club.

Marshall was honored in late October with the college’s Distinguished Service Award. He has been recognized numerous times by the College Sports Information Directors of America throughout his career for his writing and publications efforts.

In the late 1990s, the press box at Elliott Field was named for Marshall. More recently, Marshall has received awards from the Nebraska Athletic Directors, Nebraska Coaches Association, the Chadron Chamber of Commerce and the Chadron Youth Baseball Program.

Perhaps one of Marshall’s biggest honors came in 2008 when he was inducted into the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame as a contributor. Later that year he was also inducted into the Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame. In July, he was placed in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Hall of Fame.

In 1986, Marshall authored and compiled “The History of Chadron State College,” a 232-page publication to commemorate the college’s 75th anniversary. He followed that with a book to mark the college’s centennial in 2011, “Chadron State College: A Century of Service.”