2004 Convocation
Guest Speaker
Stephanie Abrams
The ceremony’s keynote speaker was Stephanie Abrams, a meteorologist with The Weather Channel, who earned her bachelor’s degree in geography from UF in 1999. Abrams also earned a bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Florida State University and started working at The Weather Channel in June 2003.
During the past several months, she has given live television reports throughout Florida during the state’s hurricanes. Abrams also provides online video forecasts and weather information for The Weather Channel Interactive. She delivers local forecasts for more than 75 US cities as well as forecasts related to various activities and interests, such as golf, health and gardening. Abrams is a member of the American Meteorology Society and was president of the North Florida chapter of the AMS from 2002–2003.
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Program
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Prelude
Selections from Suite Gothique Leon Boellmann
Laura Ellis, Associate Professor of Music and University Organist - Introduction and Welcome
Neil S. Sullivan, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Recognition of Faculty
Louis J. Guillette, CLAS Associate Dean for Research - Recognition
of National Merit Scholars and National Achievement Scholars
Sheila K. Dickison, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education
Director, University Honors Program - Recognition of John V. Lombardi Scholars
Sheila K. Dickison - Recognition of Transfer Scholars
Sheila K. Dickison - Recognition of CLAS Scholars and 2004
Anderson Scholars
Dean Sullivan - Introduction of Speaker
Peter R. Waylen, Chair and Professor of Geography - Convocation
Address
Stephanie Abrams, Weather Channel Meteorologist and UF Geography Alumna
“Weathering College and Storming into the Real World” - Postlude
- Grand Choeur Dialogue Theodore Dubois
Professor Ellis - Carillon Postlude
Music from Century Tower Lee Cobb, Graduate Student Carillonneur
