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Albertus Magnus College on Sunday, May 16, celebrated its 87th Commencement, awarding more than 700 undergraduate and graduate degrees in an outdoor ceremony in from of venerable Rosary Hall. Thousands of family members and friends cheered and applauded the graduating students and honorary degree recipients.
Awarded were 115 Associate degrees, 414 Bachelor degrees and 200 Master degrees. Among the jubilant new alumni are a father and son who received MBAs; a husband who earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree and his wife who earned a Bachelor of Science degree; a mother and daughter earning Bachelor’s degrees; father and daughter receiving Bachelor’s degrees; and many siblings completing various degree programs.
Bishop Theodore L. Brooks, pastor of the Beulah Heights Pentecostal and recipient of an Albertus honorary degree in 2003, gave the charge to the graduates and the benediction.
Biographies and citations for the 2010 honorary degree recipients– Carl A. Anderson, Sister Ann Bailie, O.P., Jane Nady Sigmon ’70 and Lula White—follow.
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SISTER ANN BAILIE, O.P.
DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
Dominican Sister of Peace, administrator and master teacher, Sister Ann Bailie has led a dedicated life of service as an active and committed member of her religious congregation. During four decades at Albertus Magnus College, she has personified the Dominican Order’s motto: to contemplate and to share with others the fruits of contemplation.
A passionate New Yorker, Sister Ann was born and grew up in Manhattan, attending schools where she was taught and inspired by Dominican Sisters. She attended St. Vincent Ferrer Elementary School and Dominican Academy. Both provided a solid academic and spiritual foundation, which would one day change the course of her life. After two years at Hunter College of the City of New York, she made the decision to join the Dominican Order. She received her bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College and went on to earn a master’s degree in French Language and Literature from Université Laval in Québec City; she also completed advanced studies in French literature at New York University.
Prior to coming to Albertus, Sister Ann was a secondary school principal, and teacher of French, science and math for many years. Here at the College, she is an associate professor of French, and has chaired both the French and foreign language departments; in recent years, she has eloquently engaged numbers of Albertus students in the study of the humanities.
Sister Ann Bailie held a Yale University Visiting Faculty Fellowship and studied in Paris on a Fulbright U.S. Government Fellowship. Over the years, this professor extraordinaire and thoughtful member of the Albertus community of scholars has inspired and mentored countless students in the College’s day and evening programs. She has transmitted her enthusiasm for languages and other cultures, especially her beloved French, to students of all ages. Sister Ann’s complete dedication to the adventure of education has made the academic journey of her students one that inspires both lifelong learning and personal joie de vivre.
Presentation
Sister Ann Bailie, O.P., member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace and associate professor of French and chair of the Department of Foreign Language at Albertus Magnus College, you have led a life of service to others and have done so with good humor and sensitivity. You have taught, encouraged, nurtured and inspired students of all ages here at Albertus.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, one of the patron saints of this College, wrote in his great work the Summa Theologica: “Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” You, Sister Ann, are, indeed the personification of these ideals.”
Degree Citation
Sister Ann Bailie, Dominican Sister of Peace, we at Albertus say mille fois merci for your selfless devotion and faithful service to your religious congregation and to this College.
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