{"id":79474,"date":"2023-04-17T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=79474"},"modified":"2023-04-18T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T12:36:07","slug":"florida-journalist-utoledo-alumna-to-deliver-commencement-address-may-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_17_2023\/florida-journalist-utoledo-alumna-to-deliver-commencement-address-may-6","title":{"rendered":"Florida Journalist, UToledo Alumna to Deliver Commencement Address May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

A news anchor and reporter covering southwest Florida is returning to her alma mater to speak at The University of Toledo spring commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 6, in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n

Elyse Chengery, a journalist at WFTX-TV Fox 4 who graduated from UToledo in 2009 with a bachelor of arts degree in communication, will address 1,749 candidates for undergraduate degrees \u2014 1,672 bachelor\u2019s and 77 associate\u2019s candidates. The undergraduates will be split into two ceremonies at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

The University\u2019s graduate commencement ceremony and doctoral hooding are scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, May 5, in Savage Arena, and will commemorate 791 candidates for doctoral, education specialist and master\u2019s degrees as well as graduate certificates.<\/p>\n

Tickets are required for admission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Class of 2023 is graduating from UToledo at an important time in our history as we complete the celebrations of our sesquicentennial,\u201d said UToledo President Gregory Postel. \u201cIn our 150th year, Rocket Nation is excited to honor our newest alumni and their successful academic journey and welcome their families to campus for a graduation day full of inspiration and joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elyse Chengery<\/p><\/div>\n

Chengery plans to talk to UToledo graduates and their families about leading with credibility, integrity, determination and heart.<\/p>\n

Her career has taken her into the path of hurricanes reaching Category 5 strength \u2014 most recently Hurricane Ian \u2014 updating hundreds of thousands of people on the conditions and evacuations.<\/p>\n

The most meaningful stories that stand out for Chengery have been about how you can help others, such as a group remodeling a military veteran\u2019s home for accessibility after he suffered a stroke or a dying woman\u2019s journey to receiving a life-saving kidney transplant.<\/p>\n

At the age of eight, Chengery knew that anchoring news was her calling. On the day of her graduation from UToledo she told her family that she would return someday as the commencement speaker.<\/p>\n

Chengery, who grew up in Cleveland, later returned to the city to work at WNWO-TV, the NBC-affiliate in Toledo. Prior to her current position in Florida, she also has worked as an anchor at TV6 in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula and a news reporter at NBC 4 in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n

UToledo\u2019s spring commencement ceremonies will recognize graduates from the colleges of Arts and Letters; John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation; Judith Herb College of Education; Engineering; Graduate Studies; Health and Human Services; Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Nursing; and University College.<\/p>\n

The College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will host its commencement ceremony 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 6, in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n

The College of Law will host its commencement ceremony 1 p.m. Sunday, May 7, in Nitschke Auditorium.<\/p>\n

The College of Medicine and Life Sciences will hold its commencement ceremony 2 p.m. Friday, May 19, in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Photo<\/a>

Elyse Chengery, a UToledo alumna, will be the keynote speaker at the undergraduate commencement ceremonies at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, May 6, in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":79475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,32,34,35,61,36,53,30,38,39,1,40,42,62,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79476,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79474\/revisions\/79476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}