LSU recognized 1,986 graduates at the university’s 300th commencement exercises on Dec. 20.
The 1,986 degrees awarded is a new record for LSU’s fall graduation. In addition, the university awarded the most degrees to female, African American, Asian and Hispanic students ever during a fall semester. This fall, LSU also saw the most degrees ever awarded to veteran students, students on Pell grants and students awarded the Pelican Promise.
The fall graduating class represented 55 Louisiana parishes, 42 states and 39 foreign countries. Men made up 48.55 percent of the class and women made up 51.45 percent. The youngest graduate was 19, while the oldest was 61 years old.
There is no main ceremony for December commencement, so each college held separate ceremonies to recognize their own individual students. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards spoke at the Manship School of Mass Communication ceremony and LSU Board Chair Mary Leach Werner, vice president of The Sweet Lake Land & Oil Company and The North American Land Company, spoke at the College of Science ceremony.
Graduates included the following.
Acadia Parish
College of Agriculture: Jacob Paul Meyer, Crowley.
E. J. Ourso College of Business: Victoria Taylor Bieber, Church Point.
College of Human Sciences & Education: Mallory Genevieve Faul, Egan.
College of Humanities & Social Sciences: Jules Grant Broussard, Crowley; Matthew Klein Gates, Rayne; Timothy “Ty” Melancon Jr., Rayne; and Morgan Paige Ruppert, Eunice.
Evangeline Parish
College of Engineering: Gannon Reese Deshotels, Ville Platte; and Evan Christian Mire, Ville Platte.
St. Landry Parish
College of Agriculture:Charanda Rockelle Celestine, Opelousas; and Maggie Priscilla Ducote, Opelousas
College of Engineering: Stephen Scott Daniel, Eunice; Lindy Blair Fortier, Opelousas; and Drake Elliott Helton, Arnaudville.
College of Human Sciences & Education: Lea Raphael Dupre, Eunice; Kenneth Reed Elliott, Arnaudville; and Jordan Christopher Jason, Opelousas.
College of Humanities & Social Sciences: Kameron Lance Darbone, Eunice; Stephen Paul Davis, OpelousasSarah Leanna Guilbeau, Opelousas; Kathryn Louise Reaux, Port Barre; Anna Marie Sharkey, Port Barre; Lauren Victoria Vidrine, Eunice; and Lauren Victoria Vidrine, Eunice.
College of Science: Cy Bennett Bryson, Palmetto.
Graduate School
Master’s: Alexandra Lee Lavergne, Sunset; and Patrice Maria Lazard, Opelousas
