LIT announces Spring 2015 honor graduates

BEAUMONT — Honor graduates for Lamar Institute of Technology’s Spring 2015 commencement are as follows:
Summa Cum Laude: Kamryn Aucoin, child care and development, Orange; Emily Carl, management development, Beaumont; Ron Collins, process operating technology, Port Arthur; Sallie Bryanna Cooke, health information technology, Vidor; Sarah Cooper, homeland security, Hamshire; Thomas Culp, instrumentation technology, Orange; Derek W. Dillon, instrumentation technology, Beaumont; Nicholas Doukas, process operating technology, Port Arthur; John Dubose, instrumentation technology, Orangefield; Paul Duval, industrial mechanics, Devers; Mychal Phillip Ford, process operating technology, Port Arthur; Kenneth Freeman, instrumentation technology, Beaumont; Joshua George, instrumentation technology, Port Neches; Joanne Goodman, occupational safety and health, Saratoga; Ashleigh Griffin, process operating technology, Humble; Brian Handly, process operating technology, Beaumont; Cissy Lara, radiologic technology, Sulphur, La.; Jeremy Lee, process operating technology, Warren; Justin Leslie, process operating technology, Silsbee; Vicki Miller, instrumentation technology, Warren; Marcus Moore, instrumentation technology, Beaumont; Michael Murphy, process operating technology, Beaumont; Terry Nguyen, process operating technology, Beaumont; April Simoneaux, radiologic technology, Beaumont; Khanh Tran, process operating technology, Port Arthur; Ryan Whitten, instrumentation technology, Orange; and Lisa Wilkerson-Cousins, restaurant and institutional food management, Port Neches.
Magna Cum Laude: Jared Brown, process operating technology, Lumberton; Angie Collier, computer networking and troubleshooting technology, Buna; Jesse Cozad, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, Port Neches; Dawn Davis, child care and development, Winnie; Nicholas Fontenot, computer drafting technology, Vidor; Dustin Godair, instrumentation technology, Nederland; April McClure, radiologic technology, Moss Bluff, La.; Joseph Mitchell, process operating technology, Warren; Hoan Nguyen, radiologic technology, Beaumont; Rebecca Presseisen, radiologic technology, Albany, N.Y.; Jesse Cheyenne Ray, welding technology, Kountze; Christopher Robinson, process operating technology, Orange; and Kimberly Truong, process operating technology, Orange.
Cum Laude: Josh Bertling, instrumentation technology, Silsbee; Jeremy Brister, welding technology, Hamshire; Jeremy Cecil, instrumentation technology, Beaumont; Abigail Cole, dental hygiene, Bridge City; Brandy Dicke, dental hygiene, Beaumont; William Evans, occupational safety and health, Texas City; Reginald Lebleu, child care and development, Port Arthur; Vanessa Mangana, radiologic technology, Port Arthur; John Nguyen, process operating technology, Beaumont; Laura Rodriguez, occupational safety and health, Winnie; and Dylan Rogers, process operating technology, Beaumont.

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