Lebanon Valley College hosts 156th commencement ceremonies on May 10

Lebanon Valley College will celebrate the commencement of 398 undergraduate students in the Class of 2025 with a ceremony beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 10, in the Louis A. Sorrentino ’54 Gymnasium.

At 2 p.m. Saturday, 193 graduate-level students will participate in a separate ceremony, also in the gym.

Tom Corbett – who was governor of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2015 and a 1971 graduate of LVC – will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the college in the morning and will give the keynote speaker during the afternoon ceremony.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, an associate professor of physics, co-chair of the chemistry and physics department, and the 2024 recipient of the Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished Teacher Award, will be the commencement speaker at the morning event.

Besides honoring graduates, LVC will reveal the winners of the following annual awards:

• H. Anthony Neidig Award to LVC’s top student.
• Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished Teacher Award, LVC’s top honor for a full-time faculty member.
• Nevelyn J. Knisley Award, bestowed annually to a part-time or adjunct college faculty member.

Dr. Alan Walker, chair and assistant professor of exercise science, received the Educator of the Year Award from student government members on Friday, April 25. The honor is given each year to a member of the full-time faculty who “embodies the transformative power of the LVC experience, in and out of the classroom,” according to a release.

Also on April 25, campus safety supervisor Brian Boyer received the third annual Administrator or Staff Member of the Year Award, which is presented to a non-faculty member “who has significantly impacted a student’s time at LVC.”