Laredo Community College formally recognized recipients of the General Educational Development (GED) Diploma during the 35th annual GED Commencement on May 7 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, more than 80 individuals were conferred diplomas. Approximately 300 persons who passed all portions of the GED exam between May 2003 and April 2004 were eligible to participate in the traditional ceremony.
Commencement addresses were provided by May 2004 GED graduate Jose Luis Garza and LCC English as a Second Language Instructor Ricardo Vergara.
A highlight of the ceremony was the presentation of five scholarships, totaling $5,000, to deserving graduates who plan to launch their college education at LCC this fall. This included the presentation of the LCC Merit Scholarship to Hortencia E. Arizpe and Carmen Ramirez and scholarships from International Bank of Commerce (Antonio R. Sanchez, Sr. Memorial Scholarship) to Richard Valadez, Sony Magnetics to Grace Wolfe and the LCC Citizens Advisory Committee to Leticia T. Leon de Gomez.
May 2004 graduates of the GED diploma include Gerson U. Acevedo, Elena Alicia Acosta, Alfredo Agredano, Chuy Alcalá, Diana E. Alonso, Dalia Alvarado, Eric Alvarado, Federico Alvarado, Jr., Rosa Alvarez, Tatiana Michelle Alvarez, Norma Roxanne Alverdi, Hortencia Arizpe, Oscar César Arteaga, Ricardo Avila, Stephanie Annette Baez, Ricardo Ballesteros, Jonathan Banda, Noel Barraz, Barbara Benavides, Daniel Benavides, Alejandro Bentley, Eric Shane Besancon, Santini Javier Briseño, Julia Buentello, Beyda Buruato, Ana María Bustamante, Arturo A. Cadena, Emilia Cadena, Diana Calderón, Claudia Patricia Caldwell, Ramiro Campos, Martha Cano, Kevin Christopher Cantú, Yasmín Lizeth Cantú, Nora Inés Cardenas, Margarita Carpenter, Marco A. Carpio, Laura Verónica Carrillo, María Lourdes Carrizal, Guadalupe Jonathan Carrizales, Yerica Carrizales, Byaney Carus, Yvette Casiano, Gustavo Castillo, Christian Castro, Elizabeth Castro, Josefa Castro, Patricia Ceballos, David Cedillo, Patricia Chapa, Angela R. Chapa-García, Jesús Chavarín, Elías G. Chavez, Sergio Xavier Contreras, Alicia Costilla, Jesús Guadalupe Covarrubias, Evelyn Gisell Cruz, Lilia Cruz, Eduardo Cuevas, and Osvaldo Ivan Cuevas.
Also graduating were Rubén Alejandro Dávila, Virginia De Avila, José H. De Rubin, Carlos Alberto Díaz, Leonardo Díaz, Stephen Edward Dillard, Aurelio Ivan Domínguez, Esteban Fermín Domínguez, Juan Durán, Melquiades Durán, Kadance Edington, Dora Angelica Escalón, Juanita Escobedo, Geneva Renee Espinoza, Leslie LeAnn Espinoza, Rolando Espinoza, Margarita Esquer, Marla Isela Estrada, José Luis Félix, Zaida Y. Fernández, Christian Gerardo Flores, Denise Flores, Eduardo Flores, Esmeralda Flores, Jorge Flores, Juan Raúl Flores, Elisa Frankford, Miguel Angel Gallardo, Pedro Gallardo, Amanda García, Fernando García, Javier García Gamboa, Gladys Macrina García, Ismael García, Lucina García, Margarito García, Osvaldo García, Virginia García, Viridiana García, José A. Garibaldi, Ana Masai Garza, Dora María Garza, Faustino Garza, Gerardo Garza, José Luis Garza, Juan Garza, Luis Garza, María del Rosario Garza, María Eva Alejandra Garza, Priscilla Garza, Shaun Joseph Garza, Melissa Yvette Golarte, Alaciel Gomez, José Noé Gomez, Anamayori González, Bernarda Patricia González, Irasema González, Isabel González, Juan Rafael González, Marina González, Marisol González, Marissavel González, Mauricio B. González, Hilda Gabriela Gordillo, Diana R. Grace, Carlos Guerra, Joann Guerra, Farah Soraya Guerrero, and Stephanie Gutiérrez.
Other recipients of the GED diploma included Todd Aubrey Hendricks, Elizabeth Delilah Hernández, Héctor Hernández, Patricia Hernández, Rogelio Hernández, Ruth Hernández, Samanda Hernández, Verónica S. Hernández, Víctor Manuel Herrera, Bobby Erle Hinds, Santos Edmundo Ibarra, Gabriela Jimenez, Fernando Juarez, Robert Charles Keeling, Jorge Landa, Ramón Alejandro Landin, Mary Jo Leal, Leticia Teresa León, Gabriel Lerma, Dolores Lobo, Liliana López, María de Jesús López, Braulio Rodrigo Lugo, Diana Machuca, Jason Sam Mackey, José Leonardo Magaña, Antonio Maldonado, César Rene Maldonado, María de la Luz Maldonado, Susy Maldonado, Stephanie Mancillas, Mayra Selene Mares González, Salvador L. Marquez, Alicia María Martínez, Antonio Lee Martínez, Claudia Grisel Martínez, Félix Alberto Martínez, Gustavo Martínez, Israel Martínez, Jassmin Cardina Martínez, Javier Martínez, José Alfredo Martínez, Mario Martínez, Rosa Dalia Martínez, Yessica Martínez, Analia Mata, María Guadalupe Mata, Marsha Maxwell, Emma Yanira McCanlas, Claudia Medellín, Edgar Mejía, Roberto Esteban Mejía, Esmeralda Meléndez, Rodolfo Menchaca, Mario Mencías, Roberto Mendez, Reyna A. Mendoza, Daniel Merino, Jessica Ilene Moore, Carmen Morales, Graciela G. Morales, María Guadalupe Morales, Joseph Franklin Morgan, and Lizeth Muñoz.
Also graduating were: Rosa Elena Nava, Rebeca Luz Navarro, Silvia Neumann, Arlene Nevarez, Francisco Javier Nieves, Johnny Ochoa, Diana Lisa Ollervidez, Visente Olvera, Alejandra Orozco, Omar De Jesús Orrantia, Araceli Ortegón, Juan José Ortegón, Alfredo Palacios, Debra Palacios, Rosaura Alejandra Palacios, Juan Angel Patlan, Renato Pedroza, Antonio Peña, Josue Peña, Daniela Pérez, Erika Pérez, Jean Pérez, José Adan Pérez, Ivan Gustavo Piñeda, José Luis Porras, Abel Ramírez, Carmen Ramírez, Ivan Ramírez, Juan Ramírez, Diana Ramón, Claudia Ramos, Gabriela Ramos, Sheri Ramos, Carlos Rangel, Christian Rangel, María Cristina Reyes, Rafael Rios, Jorge Alfredo Ríos, Diana Irene Rivera, Hugo G. Rivera, Juan Jaime Rivera, Alfonso Rivera, III, Sylvia Rizzi, Adriana Rodríguez, Anna Laura Rodríguez, Daniel G. Rodríguez, Erica Rodríguez, Luis Ramiro Rodríguez, María Rodríguez, María Alicia Rodríguez, Ricardo Rodríguez, Ramiro Rodríguez López, Lazaro Guadalupe Rojas, Mauricio Rosell, Alberto M. Salazar, Sonia Beatriz Salazar, Alejandro Salcedo, Albert Gabriel Salinas, Elías Salinas, Karla Salinas, Víctor Hugo Salinas, Jorge Santana, Homero Santos, III, Agueda Sarinana, Mario Sepulveda, Cecilia Catalina Serna, Hitomi Shimokuni, José Gerardo Silva, Ana Laura Solís, Gerardo Solís, Ray Solís, Fernando Suarez, Marisa Lizette Tello, Consuelo Tobar, Joe Raymund Tobías, Joel A. Torres, Linda Torres, Víctor E. Treviño, Leslie Jacob Trowbridge, Richard Valadez, Ana Laura Valdéz, Sergio Carlos Valencia, Andrés Salazar Valtierrez, Roxana Varela, Israel Vasquez, Giovanni Santiago Vazquez, Sergio Alberto Vela, Luis Verduzco, Loretta Lorraine Vidaurri, Jimmy Vigil, Francisco Villa, Erika Villalobos, Idalia Villarreal, Isaias Roberto Villarreal, Jesús Villarreal, Juan Angel Villarreal, Leticia Villarreal, Richard Villarreal, Concepción A. Viñas, Martha Nazaria Virjan, Phung Bao Vuong, Kandy Walker, Grace Wolfe, Evelyn Ybarra, Jessica Lizeth Zaldivar, Juan Eulalio Zapata and David Zuñiga.
Five GED graduates have received scholarships to launch their college education at Laredo Community College. Alma Hernandez, Dean of Workforce Development at LCC, presented the $1,000 scholarships to the recipients during the annual GED Commencement Exercises. The recipients and the scholarships awarded are, from left, Leticia T. Leon de Gomez, LCC Citizen's Advisory Committee; Richard Valadez, International Bank of Commerce; Grace Wolfe, Sony Magnetics; Hortencia E. Arizpe, LCC Merit; and Carmen Ramirez, LCC Merit.
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