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Commencement takes on
Global Dimensions
Graduation was an international event
for Siena Heights University at Lake
Michigan College! Among the 58 men
and women recognized at ceremonies on
May 18 in Benton Harbor were seven students from Africa, Europe and China.
“I pledge to
Siena that I
will never let
them down!”
exclaimed an
exultant Godwin
Ngoma, (pictured with SHU
staffer Marie
Suzor ‘99).
Godwin’s parents and sister
traveled from
Lusaka, Zambia,
to see him receive his Bachelor of Arts in
Business Administration.
After two years in the U.S., Godwin has
returned with his family to Africa where
he hopes to “contribute to the sound
development of my country.”
Godwin said he learned much about
America from the terrorist attacks of Sept.
11: “The resilience in this leadership, in
ordinary Americans, that’s the kind of
spirit that builds great nations. Those are
the kinds of things I want to carry back to
the Zambian children.”
In addition, he said, “I want to uphold the
Siena name in Africa. I want to have the
Siena spirit in Africa.”
Some of the international Benton Harbor
graduates this year were:
• sister and brother Cholwe and Ngoma
Hantuba of Zambia
• Jiang Zhu of China
• Aleksander Petrovic of Croatia
• Aleksander Stankovic of Yugoslavia
• Lewis Geza of Zimbabwe, who plans
to continue his education with Siena
Heights by enrolling in the master’s
program in organizational leadership.
Graduation 2002:
A Day for Family Photos!
everal families attending Siena
Heights Commencement ceremonies had more than one reason to
cheer—and more than one graduate to capture in pictures! Among the newest SHU
alumni are two parent-child combinations, a
grandparent-grandchild pair, two brothersister teams, one husband-and-wife
combo, and one set of identica