MCC to hold fall commencement Dec. 16
The McHenry County College Fall Commencement will honor students who have earned associate degrees and/or certificates from August through December, 2017. MCC has 448 candidates for graduation who have applied for 473 certificates and degrees.
The commencement ceremony will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, in the MCC Gym/Multi-purpose Room in Building A, 8900 Route 14 in Crystal Lake
Kathleen Porth of Woodstock has been selected as the student speaker for the commencement ceremony. She will receive her associate in arts (AA) degree and hopes to transfer to Northern Illinois University to study archaeology. Currently, Porth, a mother of four grown children, is a school bus driver for School District 200 and aspires to be an archaeologist someday. She attended MCC part-time for the past four years. Ten days after Porth graduates from MCC, she will hit another life milestone - she turns 65.
"I always wanted to go back to school, but never knew what I wanted to do," Porth said. "One day, I was looking in the MCC course catalog and saw archaeology and I took one course and that was it."
When asked why she likes it, she said "I love history and I like playing in the dirt. I always wanted to go on an archaeology dig," she said, adding that she found her first artifact - the head of golf club - at an archaeology field school session in the Macktown Forest Preserve in Rockton.
Also speaking will be MCC President Clinton Gabbard, Ph.D. In addition, history instructor Sarah Sullivan, co-president of the MCC Faculty Association, will lead the faculty charge speech.
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