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La Sierra University graduate Alyssa Lee celebrates Sunday, June 15, 2025, during commencement on the Riverside campus. She earned a degree in business management for health care professionals. (Courtesy of Jon Hwang)
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La Sierra University graduate Alyssa Lee celebrates Sunday, June 15, 2025, during commencement on the Riverside campus. She earned a degree in business management for health care professionals. (Courtesy of Jon Hwang)
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La Sierra University bid farewell Sunday, June 15, to 378 graduates in a Father’s Day ceremony on the Riverside campus.
The commencement speaker was Surangel S. Whipps, Jr., president of the Republic of Palau, a nation of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. His speech was titled “Navigating the Future, Knowing God is in Control,” a university news release states.
The ceremony took place as usual on Founders’ Green on the Seventh-day Adventist campus.
Whipps, a Seventh-day Adventist, also received an honorary doctor of laws from the university, which was presented by President Christon Arthur, who oversaw his first commencement since arriving in July.
