1998 Commencement

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I was on hand for Drexel's Commencement Exercises on June 13, 1998. Armed with an Apple QuickTake 150 digital camera, I recorded these pictures for posterity.

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• TA's Extraordinaire Dorean Gibson Downing and Shannon McGinnis (a.k.a. "The Red X")
• Denise Humes Penterman and Marna Mozeff, the first two winners of the Albert J. Herr Teaching Assistant Award.
• A group of compatriots who hail from India including Vikas Ramnani, Diwarkar Puthalapat, and Surabhi Vibhuti . I confess that I do not remember the other gentleman's name!
• Seniors who were the lifeblood of the MCS Society this year, including Steve Knott, Tim Cochrane, and Ken Berger. Whoops, I missed another person's name! We will miss all your petitions!
• MCS Seniors Lorrie Smith, Quentin Moore, and Mani Shahidsales.
• MCS Senior Vladlena Galinskaya, an excellent student and lab assistant.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant/Star of Philadelphia Inquirer article Santiago Lombeyda.
• MCS TA Joe Zabaga and his evil twin, Joseph Zabaga.
• MCS Professors Robert Busby and Chris Rorres.
• If you have been an MCS student sometime in the 1990's, surely you have interacted with Hoi-Man Chang, seen here posing with a cardboard cutout of a generic professor. Hoi-Man earned his BS in CS in 1996, and a dual MS in Math and CS this year. We understand he wore out a lot of red pens as a TA. Popyack's necktie provided by Surabhi. Photo by Ray Brebach.
• Dan Hunt was lucky enough to be captured for a pose with President Papadakis and CoAS Sweetheart (Associate Dean) Harri Weinberg. Dan earned a dual BS in computer science and computer engineering.
• Here's Vikas again with his mother and (I think) some members of Surabhi's family. Ever wonder how he got his reputation for hanging around with beautiful women?