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BRIEF: Rep. Kevin Parker to give keynote speech at Whitworth commencement

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State Representative and Whitworth alumnus Kevin Parker will address graduates at Whitworth University’s 123rd undergraduate commencement ceremony May 19, according to a press release.

Whitworth President Beck A. Taylor will be the speaker at the graduate commencement ceremony May 18.

Parker will give his address, “Tomorrow,” during the undergraduate ceremony, which will take place at 3 p.m. on May 19, at the Spokane Arena, located at 720 W. Mallon Ave.

About 637 Whitworth undergraduates will receive their degrees.

Taylor will speak at the university’s graduate commencement ceremony on May 18, at 10 a.m. in Whitworth’s Cowles Auditorium. He will deliver his address, “Peacemaking,” to an audience including 100 graduates receiving master’s degrees in education, teaching, counseling, business administration, international management and theology.

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Professor of Political Science Julia Stronks will offer the homily, “Revelation / Response,” for the baccalaureate service on May 19 at 10 a.m. in the Whitworth Fieldhouse.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
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