Laredo
Community College formally recognized recipients of the General Educational
Development (GED) Diploma during the 36th annual GED Commencement on May 13 in
the Maravillo Gymnasium.
Family and friends of the graduates, as well as the public, attended the traditional ceremony.
Hosted by the LCC Adult Education Program Tri-County Co-op for Webb, Zapata and Jim Hogg counties, 103 individuals were conferred diplomas. Approximately 260 persons who passed all portions of the GED exam between May 2004 and April 2005 were eligible to participate in the traditional ceremony.
Commencement addresses were provided by May 2005 GED graduate Imelda Garcia and LCC Protective Services Department Chair Alfonso Mendiola.
A highlight of the ceremony was the
presentation of eight scholarships, totaling $8,000, to deserving graduates who
plan to launch their college education at LCC this fall. This included the
presentation of the LCC GED Merit Scholarships to Carlos Martinez, Brenda
Mendez, Ulysses Ortegon, Maria de Jesus Rivera and Maria Esther Traniello. Also
awarded were scholarships from International Bank of Commerce (Antonio R.
Sanchez, Sr. Memorial Scholarship) to Adriana Sanchez, Sony Magnetic Products to
Luis Caballero and H.E. Butt to Sandra Fong.
May
2005 graduates of the GED diploma included Luis Antonio Acevedo, Vanessa
Ann Aldape, Maribel Alegría, Frank Alemán, Elizabeth Alvarado, Eliana K.
Alvarez, Cynthia E. Aranda, José Arredondo, Rosa Elva Arreola, Maribel Ayala,
Silvia Guadalupe Balderas, Bernadette Banda, Araceli
Barrios, Héctor Joaquín Bernal, Brenda Lee Berrones,
Larisa S. Briseno, Daniel Lee Brown, Laura
Maríana Caballero, Luis Caballero, Cynthia Edith Cadena, Perla Lorena
Campbell, Julie Ana Cantú, Lorenzo Carrera Jr., Cirila Castañeda, José A.
Castillo, Laura Ann Castillo, Ramíro Castillo, René Castillo,
Sylvia Verónica Castillo, Juan Francisco Castro, José De
Jesús Cedillo, José Luciano Cegueda, Sandra Yvette Cepeda, Juan Antonio Chabana,
Olga Belinda Chávez, Melody Chávez-Olan, Graciela Cipriano, Ana Gloria Cisneros,
Hilda Guadalupe Cisneros, Nydia Cisneros, Sheila Clavijo, Paola G. Contreras,
Blanca I. Córdova, Jennifer Lizette Córdova, Elizabeth Ruby Cortés, Carlos
Alberto Cortéz, Esteban Crites, Diana Cruz, Jovita Cruz, Kriztella M. Cruz,
Esmeralda Cuevas, Jamie Claire Darling, Gerardo Rafael De León, Julio Alfredo De
León, María Guadalupe De Los Santos, Diana E. Delgado, Ana Karen Díaz, Azalia
Domínguez, Jaaziel Domínguez, Samuel Esparza, Víctor Joshua Esquivel, América
Estrada, Marcelino Estrada, Juan H. Farías, José De Ferdín, Jorge Figueroa, Irma
Guadalupe Flores, Sandra Margarita Fong, Georgina Alejandra Franco and Gorge L.
Franco.
Also
graduating were Pablo Gallardo, Miguel Angel Gallegos, Josue A. Galván, Alex
García, Angelica García, Brenda Lee García, Imelda García, Maricela García,
Osvaldo García, Rogelio García, Selina García, Christina Adelaida Garza, Héctor
A. Garza, Jessie Garon Garza, Luis Ariel Garza, María G. Garza, Hugo Gómez,
Odulia Joséfina Gómez, Ana Cecilia González, Carlos G. González, David González,
Florentina González, Guillermo González, José Francisco González, Marcella V.
González, Nelicia Avila González, Oscar C. González, Marcela Verónica González,
Nicolás Idelfonso Granados, Mike Guajardo Jr., Griselda Elena Guerrero, Perla
Ester Guevara, Jessica Katherine Gullette, Brenda Gutiérrez, Gabriel Gutiérrez,
Luis C. Gutiérrez, María de Lourdes Hall, Trisha Jeanise Hayman, Jessica Elaine
Henderson, Nicholás Humberto Hernández, Rubén Hernández, Sara Elizabeth
Hernández, Yesenia Guadalupe Hernández, Eduardo Higareda, María Luisa Hinojosa,
Christopher Salvador Huerta, Nelda Ibarra, Roberto E. Ibarra, Roxanna María
Ibarrola, Luis Jara, Brenda Ivette Jaramillo, Rosa Isela Jaramillo, Adalberto
Lara, Federico Leyva, Consuelo Lezama, Teresa Lezama, Miroslava Elida Linares,
María Elina Liuskos, Begonia A. López, Lilia López, Jaqueline Lozano, Cecy
Evelyn Macías, Luis Enrique Macías, Renata Rubí Madrigal, Crystal Oralia
Maldonado, Mayela Márquez, Adriana Martínez, Brenda G. Martínez, Carlos
Martínez, Cristina Anel Martínez, Gerardo Martínez, Ibeth Yadira Martínez, Irma
Martínez, Jaime Martínez, José Martínez, Josue Martínez, Luis Alfredo
Martínez, María D. Martínez, María Susana Martínez,
Myriam Guadalupe Martínez, Rebecca Cristina
Martínez, Rocío Isabel Martínez, Adrian Martínez Jr., Melissa Linda Mata,
Alejandro Jacob Medina, Magali Medina, Sandy Ann Medina, Diana de los Angeles
Medrano, Valerie M. Mejía, Brenda E. Méndez, Gabriel Méndez, Charles Merlin
Miller, Clarissa Molina, Deneen Claudette Moncivais, Verónica Morales, Francisco
Javier Moreno, Ayuko Nakanishi, Evangelina Nakazono, Annette Nevarez, Jessica
Nevarez, Julio Pablo Niño and Sandra A. Noriega.
Other
recipients of the GED diploma included Janet Ochoa, Nacely Ochoa, Rosa Ochoa,
Gabriel Olivares, Ulysses Douglas Ortegón, Marissa Ortiz, Lidangel Osorio,
Alicia Pacheco, Stephanie Paez, Monica Anabell Palacios, Gilberto Palacios Jr.,
María Guadalupe Paul, Pablo Peche Jr., Rosa Nelly Peña, Robert Samuel Pérez,
Roberto Puente, Rosalio Ramírez, Sarai Ramírez, Diego Ramos, Michael-Carlos
Ramos, Angela M. Rendón, Alan S. Retamozo, Celia Reyes, Daniel Reyes, Mario
Alberto Reyes, Ruth Rico-Lucero, Jomey Riojas, María E. Riojas, María De Jesús
Rivera, Javier Robles, Dixie Rocha, Ana Cristina Rodríguez, Belinda Bellanira
Rodríguez, Heidi Rodríguez, María Adriana Rodríguez, Miguel Rodríguez, Nadia A.
Rodríguez, René Rodríguez, Roosvelt Rodríguez, Simón P. Rodríguez, Wendy
Rodríguez, Amanda Rodríguez-Guajardo, José Raúl Ruíz, César Salas, Nancy
Salinas, Adriana Sanchez, Gloria Alicia Sánchez, José Sánchez, Juan J. Sánchez,
Manfredo M. Sánchez, María De Jesús Sánchez, Jorge Luis Sandoval, Rosa Sandoval,
Diana Verónica Saucedo, Christina L. Segura, Aimee Silva, Luis Alberto Solis,
Andrea Krystle Sosa, Brock Adam Suárez, Francisco Antonio Tapia, Pablo Torres,
Roberto Torres, Gregorio Tovar, María E. Traniello, Cynthia Treviño, Elizabeth
Treviño, Jesús Treviño, Marisela H. Treviño, Jorge Treviño Jr., Araceli Valdéz,
Teresa J. Valdéz, Eduardo Valdivia, Sanjuana Vaquera, Joann Vásquez, Juan Carlos
Vásquez, Amalia Vázquez, Josue Vega, Jesús Eric Vela, Selena Velarde, Cynthia
Villarreal, Perla Villarreal, Eduardo Villarreal III, Martín Christopher
Villegas, Mary Lucille Wiekel, Jaime Zaldivar, Maríann Zamarripa, Raúl Enrique
Zamarripa and Jesús Zepeda.
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