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Article: WSU's Rawlins still loves graduations: Retiring president going back into teaching.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2007
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Byline: Shawn Vestal
May 5--PULLMAN -- For most people, college graduation is a one-time event.
For V. Lane Rawlins, it's been more like a regular stop. During his time as a university president, he estimates he's overseen nearly 90 commencement ceremonies.
But today is it for Rawlins, the retiring president of Washington State University -- as well as this year's commencement speaker and the man who will confer roughly 2,300 degrees on graduates.
"I'm still not tired of it," he said in an interview this week. "It's an electric feeling. You're standing there, the orchestra's playing 'Pomp and Circumstance,' students in their robes are ...