{"id":11062,"date":"2023-05-15T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:24:24","slug":"umaine-machias-held-its-112th-commencement-may-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/15\/umaine-machias-held-its-112th-commencement-may-5\/","title":{"rendered":"UMaine Machias held its 112th commencement May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of Maine at Machias welcomed students, family, faculty and staff to the 112th commencement at the Performing Arts Center on May 5 at 11 a.m. to watch 75 graduates receive their degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ticketed event was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wEcmZ2jDMuk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">livestreamed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with two additional viewing areas available on campus \u2014 Science 102 and the Reynolds Center conference room. No tickets were required in the livestream viewing venues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A car<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">parade of graduates down Main Street followed the ceremony. The parade began at the Crandlemire Support Building on campus and ends in the parking lot across from Pat\u2019s Pizza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Katie Leighton of Pembroke and Rachel Maker of Machiasport are the 2023 University of Maine Machias valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively. Both are education majors with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">concentrations in elementary education and minors in English. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leighton, who completed her coursework in December, plans on teaching within Washington County. Maker has been student teaching for the past semester and has worked at Elm Street School in East Machias for the past few years as an ed tech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2023 commencement address was delivered by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/alumni\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leigh Alley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a 2002 UMaine Machias graduate and president of the university\u2019s Alumni Association. Alley is an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">assistant professor of education at the University of Maine at Augusta and executive director of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meascd.org\/home\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maine ASCD<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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