| Jackson, Tenn. - 51ÉçÇø conferred 116 degrees
during its fall graduation ceremonies last weekend. Eighty-three students graduated in a
ceremony on the Jackson campus, Dec. 19, in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel. Thirty-three
students received their degrees in a commencement ceremony on the Germantown campus, Dec.
20, in its chapel. 
Union President David S. Dockery with Dr. Larry McSwain, president of
Shorter
College in Rome, Ga. McSwain delivered the commencement address at Union's Fall
1998 graduation ceremony.
Larry McSwain, president of Shorter College, was the Jackson ceremony's commencement
speaker. Shorter College is located in Rome, Ga., and is affiliated with the Georgia
Baptist Convention.
Before Shorter, McSwain served as provost of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
in Louisville, Ky., where he also received his master of divinity and doctorate.
Union Provost Carla D. Sanderson delivered the commencement address at the Germantown
ceremony. Sanderson is currently serving her ninth year as Union's dean of the school of
nursing. The commencement included the first graduating class of Union's RN-to-BSN program
on the Germantown campus.
This is the second year Union has held a fall graduation ceremony. The University began
offering a fall commencement in 1996, so that students who fulfill their degree
requirements during the fall or winter semesters can graduate closer to the time they
complete their college curriculum.
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