Commencement Speaker: Rev. Muriel L. Johnson, CEO of Bishops INK, LLC., who is retired from 20 years as Executive Regional Associate Minister for the American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region.
One of four Honorary Degree recipients, Mrs. Norma Klemme, longtime Friend of the Missouri Mid-South Conference, will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters. The other recipients are Rev. Muriel L. Johnson, Rabbi Howard Kaplanssky, and Rev. Dr. Veronica Richardson (posthumously).