TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 1,000 degrees at summer commencement ceremonies held Monday, Aug. 11, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.

Thomas C. Hubbard, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and a 1965 UA graduate, was the featured speaker. During the ceremony Hubbard was given an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Also during the ceremony, Gloria Narramore Moody, a longtime patron of the arts, received the Julia and Henry Tutwiler Award, UA’s most prestigious award for volunteer service.

With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 186,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. UA holds commencement ceremonies three times a year.

The following students from the Mobile area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:

MASTER’S DEGREE

BUTLER -- Katherine E. Hensleigh

DAPHNE -- John Reese Bedsole, Meghan Kathleen Everette

GREENVILLE -- Blake Stuart

JACKSON -- Ashley Dan Coleman

MOBILE -- Lucille Ross Fields, Alaina Myrtice Harris, Ryan Michael Kyranakis

ORANGE BEACH -- Gregory Alan Hopkins Jr.

SEMMES -- Justin Kyle Everette

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

ANDALUSIA -- Bradley Nash Burgess, Michael Sidney Holland, Michael Shawn Wilson

BAY MINETTE -- Dancy Brock Mosley

BREWTON -- Calvin Avant III, William Philip Henderson, Cecile Marie Smith

CALVERT -- Lance Eugene Taylor

CAMDEN -- Marcus Agee Barr

CITRONELLE -- Brian Sheldon Andrews

DAUPHIN ISLAND -- Crystal Leigh Lavelle

DEMOPOLIS -- Peter Wadkin Coleman, Elizabeth Rachael Prestwood

EIGHT MILE -- Kimberly Shanavia Wiley

EVERGREEN -- Shelley Elizabeth Bell

FAIRHOPE -- Stephanie Summer Sanders, David Earl Sutley Jr., Terrence Joseph Thompson

FOLEY -- Rebecca Lauren Reed

FRANKVILLE -- Kenneth Kwahn Sleets

GEORGIANA -- Bradley Scott Ballew

GREENVILLE -- David Alan Corn

GROVE HILL -- Emmanuel Dale Allen

HOPE HULL -- Cherqueta Romeca Claiborn, Barbara Sue Saylor

JACKSON -- Phillip Caldwell Adams, Melissa Lauren McLendon

MOBILE -- Daniel Weatherford Aull, Thomas Fitzgerald Benton, Ashleigh Dione Chavers, Matthew Edward Clark, Scott Forsythe, Enchantra Renada Green, Sara Elizabeth Green, Shaquana Noel Harris, Joanna Brooke Hudson, Demandra Patrice Huff, Robert Blankenship Maitre, Ryan Charles Marks, Jeremy Burns McDonald, John Carl Medicus, Nancy Carmen Oppenheimer, Margaret Holland Partridge, Wayne Richard Reyner, Ralph H. Sheffield III, David Robert Steber, John Everett Stone III, Sara Nicole Strickland, Arlen Kurt Torp, Tara Revette Williams, Robert S. Wilson, Rhonda Kay Yawn

NEEDHAM -- Lakeisha Johnson

PENNINGTON -- Stanley Joseph Norwood

SARALAND -- Ashley Nichole Walker

SPANISH FORT -- Rachel Louise Faulk

SWEET WATER -- Liyang Pan Riggins, Sheila A. Rodgers

THOMASVILLE -- Dena Elaine Cline, Anisa Raman Patel, Roy E. Waite Jr.