Commencement Ceremonies Scheduled for May 23
Buena Vista University will hold commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 23, with 582 graduates scheduled to receive their degrees. The commencement speaker will be retired America Online executive and former BVU Trustee Laura Horn.
Buena Vista University will hold commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 23, with 582 graduates scheduled to receive their degrees.
They include 164 undergraduates from the Storm Lake campus and 418 who attended the locations of BVU's Graduate & Professional Studies (GPS) program, both on-site and online. Another 46 students are scheduled to receive master's degrees.
All events will take place on the BVU campus. The baccalaureate service will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Schaller Memorial Chapel. The procession through the Victory Arch will take place at 2:15 p.m., and commencement ceremonies will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Siebens Fieldhouse.
The commencement speaker will be retired America Online (AOL) business executive and former BVU Trustee Laura Horn.
Horn graduated with honors from Buena Vista College in 1973 with a major in English and began her career at LEXIS-NEXIS. For nearly twenty years, she held a variety of positions at LEXIS-NEXUS, with her last position as vice president of marketing and sales for LEXIS Legal Publishing.
In the mid-1990s, she left LEXIS-NEXIS for AOL, joining the company as general manager of new products and services, developing and acquiring new capabilities for AOL members. Horn then became vice president of technology for AOL.
Horn left AOL in 2001 and co-founded Wondir, Inc., which provided a live Q&A service that combined search and instant messaging, and the company was purchased by Revolution Health in 2005.
Horn served on BVU's board of trustees from 2005 to 2014. She currently chairs the board of the Community Investment Collaborative, serves on the board of Poetry Daily, is president-elect of her Unitarian Universalist church and teaches specialty classes to middle-school students.
She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband Hasty, BV Class of 1971. The couple established an endowment fund at BVU to support the Women's Studies Program that is used for research, faculty development and travel, guest lectures and academic applications.
For additional details about commencement, visit www.bvu.edu/commencement.