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  "description": "More than 750 graduates will receive degrees Saturday during Pacific University's May commencement at Hanson Stadium on the Forest Grove campus.",
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    "Every Pacific University student on the candidate list for Saturday's 2026 graduationMore than 770 graduating Pacific University students will be celebrated in ceremonies on Saturday. Here they all are.News in the Grove"
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  "textContent": "Pacific University will present more than 750 degrees Saturday during its May commencement ceremonies at Hanson Stadium on May 16.\n\nPacific's undergraduate ceremony begins at 9 a.m., with more than 330 students receiving bachelor's degrees across more than 60 majors and minors. The graduate ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m., with more than 430 master's and doctoral degrees conferred in fields including optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, social work, athletic training, education, and business administration.\n\nTickets are free but required to attend either ceremony.\n\nPacific will award honorary doctorates to two longtime educators at the morning ceremony. Judy Sherman served the university from 1967 to 2019 as a physical education professor, coach for the volleyball, women's basketball, softball, and field hockey teams, and as athletics director from 1992 to 2004. She led Pacific's softball program for 25 years, winning six conference championships and finishing third at the 1985 NAIA Championships, according to a press release from the university.\n\nEvery Pacific University student on the candidate list for Saturday's 2026 graduationMore than 770 graduating Pacific University students will be celebrated in ceremonies on Saturday. Here they all are.News in the Grove\n\nMike Steele, Distinguished University Professor emeritus of English, joined Pacific's undergraduate faculty in 1974 and retired in 2011. He taught courses ranging from Holocaust studies to writing about sports, and founded Pacific's handball team in 1977, coaching it to back-to-back national championships in 2013 and 2014.\n\nAt the afternoon ceremony, Pacific will present the Kamelia Massih Prize for a Distinguished Optometrist to Graham Erickson, a Pacific alumnus and Distinguished University Professor of Optometry. Erickson has taught at Pacific since 1998 and wrote _Sports Vision: Vision Care for the Enhancement of Sports Performance_ , which the university says is the only textbook of its kind in the field.\n\nValedictorian Tiger Reimann will speak at the undergraduate ceremony. A 2022 graduate of Yamhill-Carlton High School, Reimann majored in kinesiology with a minor in sports leadership and management. He played two years on Pacific's football and men's basketball teams and plans to become a strength and conditioning coach.\n\nPacific holds three commencement ceremonies each year. After Saturday's May graduation, the next is a June ceremony for the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program, followed by an August graduate-level ceremony.",
  "title": "Pacific University to honor more than 750 graduates at Saturday commencement",
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