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SNOW TO AWARD 914 DEGREES AT COMMENCEMENT

Student from Moroni to be Honored

 

EPHRAIM, Utah—May 4, 2004—Snow College today announced that 914 students will receive degrees at commencement Wednesday, May 12 at 10:00 a.m. in the Snow Activity Center. Snow also announced that Scott H. Burton is the valedictorian and Kristen Marian Morley the salutatorian of the 2004 class.

            Burton is a computer science major from Orem. He will continue his studies at Brigham Young University this fall and plans to pursue a graduate degree after earning a bachelor’s. Burton was Orem High School’s computer technology Sterling Scholar.

            Morley is an elementary education major from Moroni who plans to enroll at Utah State University this fall. She is the youngest daughter of Bob and Annette Morley and their fifth child graduating from Snow College.

Of the 914 degrees at commencement 570 are associates of science and 156 associates of arts. Associates of applied science will be awarded to 87 students. Sixty-three percent of the graduates are women and 37 percent men. The grade point average is 3.21 and 271 students graduate with honors.

            Snow graduates this year represent 26 of 29 Utah counties, 22 states or colonies and 9 foreign countries. The average age of a Snow graduate is 23 years old. Snow’s youngest graduate this year is 17; the oldest graduate is 68.

Snow College

Snow College, founded in 1888, serves approximately 3,000 students at its Ephraim campus. The college provides general education and applied technology programs leading to Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied Science and Associate of Pre-Engineering degrees, and certificates of completion in a number of occupational areas.  Once owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Snow College became a state college in 1932.

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