Keuka College’s Class of 2008 will receive degrees at the College’s 100^th commencement Sunday, May 25.

Undergraduate and graduate students will participate in the ceremony that begins at 12:30 p.m. on the Norton Chapel lawn (Weed Physical Arts Center in case of inclement weather).

U.S. Rep. John R. “Randy” Kuhl Jr. will deliver the commencement address while Floyd F. Amann, president of Corning Community College (CCC) and Wanda Polisseni, a member of the Polisseni Foundation Board of Directors, will receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.

^{U.S. Rep. John R. "Randy" Kuhl Jr.}
Kuhl is a native and lifelong resident of the Southern Tier/Western New York region. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 and now represents the 29th Congressional District of New York, which includes parts of eight counties in the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes region, and the southern suburbs of Rochester.

Kuhl was re-elected to the 110th Congress in 2006. He serves on three House Committees, including the Committee on Education and Labor, where he serves on the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness. Kuhl also serves as deputy minority whip.

Kuhl spoke at Keuka’s 2001 commencement and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

^{Floyd F. Amann}
Amann became president of CCC in May 2001.

A native New Yorker, he has spent most of his educational career with three of New York’s community colleges: Jamestown, Finger Lakes and Monroe. He returned to the EmpireState after serving as president of Shelby State Community College in Memphis, Tenn.

Since arriving in Corning, Aman has placed an emphasis on strengthening CCC’s commitment to enriching the lives of all residents of the three-county region it serves and to the success of every learner.

The partnership he helped forge with Keuka College’s Accelerated Studies for Adults Program has allowed CCC alumni and others in the region to further their educations by earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Keuka.

_{Wanda Polisseni}

Polisseni was born in Penn Yan and raised on a farm in Potter. She and her late husband, Eugene, raised four children in Irondequoit. Daughter Kimberly was killed in an auto accident in 1983, and it was through Kimberly’s desire to become a police officer and help prevent child abuse that Wanda became involved with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She has served on its board for nearly 20 years.

She also donates her time and talents to the F.F. Thompson Foundation, Rochester General Hospital Foundation, and New York State Troopers Foundation, among others. She is committed to giving race horses a second chance at productive lives and her generous contribution was instrumental in the construction of the Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program’s Purple Haze Center.

The Polisseni Foundation has provided financial support to many deserving organizations including Rochester General Hospital, F.F.Thompson Hospital, and Special Olympics of Monroe County.

_{Lorraine Potter}

Commencement day activities at Keuka will kick off with the baccalaureate service at 9:30 a.m. in Norton Chapel. Chaplain, Maj. Gen. Lorraine K. Potter (USAF retired), a 1968 Keuka College graduate, will be the speaker.

A member of Keuka’s governing board, Potter delivered the commencement address at her alma mater in 2002 and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1984. She also was the baccalaureate speaker in 2006.

Potter was a trailblazer and leader in civilian and military ministry for more than 35 years, garnering many “firsts,” including first woman ordained by the American Baptist Churches in Rhode Island; first woman chaplain commissioned in the United States Air Force in September 1973; first woman chaplain to serve as a senior pastor for an Air Force wing, the historic “Flying Tigers;” first woman chaplain to serve at the Department of Defense level; first woman chaplain to serve as command chaplain for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and later for the Air Education and Training Command; and, first woman chaplain in all military services to be promoted to colonel in 1992; to brigadier general in 1999; and to major general as chief of Air Force chaplains in 2001.