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For the first time this year, Drake announced the nominees for the University’s highest honors for teachers and mentors — the Madelyn Levitt Teacher and Mentor of the Year awards. Nominees were honored during the Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony last Sunday. They are listed below: Madelyn Levitt Teacher of the Year Award Nominees Aimee Beckmann-Collier, professor...

Faculty members Rachel Paine Caufield and Carol Spaulding-Kruse received Drake's highest honors for teachers and mentors at Drake's Undergraduate commencement ceremony.

As the caps and gowns were donned, one thing was clear for many graduates: the Drake experience is a family affair.

Taught by film studies expert Professor Dina Smith, the course will examine the lives of Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant and Doris Day.

Oatts, who teaches at Temple University, attended Drake before launching his successful career as a professional musician.

Senior Abby Dierks donned a robe first worn by her great grandmother in 1906 and also by her grandfather, Paul Morrison, in 1939.

Drake President David Maxwell performed a blues ballad with saxophonist Dick Oatts, who received an honorary degree.

Alumna Jane Lorentzen will give the keynote address as Drake Law School honors 141 graduates this evening.

Drake will celebrate a total of 1,421 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree recipients in the class of 2010.

Oatts has enjoyed a successful career as a professional jazz saxophonist for more than 30 years and teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia.