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Joe Angeles / WUSTL PhotoGraduating students stand during the singing of “America the Beautiful” at the start of the Commencement ceremony.Much has changed in the world since he sat through his own college graduation more than 40 years ago, said Richard A. Gephardt, former U.S. house minority leader, in his May 20 Commencement address to some 2,500 graduating students at Washington University in St. Louis. But what hasn’t changed is the uncertainty that faces recent college graduates. “We had no idea what we were heading into as we left on our graduation day,” Gephardt told the audience of more than 12,000 in Brookings Quadrangle. “Neither, I suspect do you. And it would be a reckless commencement speaker who ventured too many predictions about a world that in his own lifetime has confounded so many expectations.” Related article: 2005 Commencement photo gallery Related media: View 2005 Commencement ceremony Related article: View the Record‘s “Gallery of Graduates”

Photo by Joe AngelesJohn Woock was named both an NCAA College Football National Scholar-Athlete and an ESPN The Magazine First-Team Academic All-American.

His slate of responsibilities has been jammed; “I’ve lived life so that now I have the opportunity to give something back,” he says.

The School of Law celebrated the outstanding achievements of six individuals at its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner April 22 at The Ritz-Carlton. Distinguished Law Alumni Award recipients were Steven N. Rappaport, Barry S. Schermer, John C. Shapleigh and Raymond P. Wexler. Alan B. Bornstein and Linda M. Martinez received Distinguished Young Law Alumni Awards.

Her passions include community activism & service; she founded St. Louis Project Democracy and was involved in numerous other projects.

“I’ve learned to enjoy the process and enjoy the path I’m on, because life is a blur and college is even faster,” he says.

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“I left St. Louis still thinking I would use law in a different career and came back from South Africa wanting to practice law,” she says.

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“Michael is one the best medical students we’ve worked with,” says Thomas H.H. Tung, M.D., assistant professor of surgery.