Two ceremonies were held Friday. The Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Education and Human Performance graduated at 9 a.m. The Dick and Mary Lewis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the College of Business Administration and the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering graduated at 6 p.m. There were total of 1,009 students graduating Friday.

Saturday’s ceremony was for the Class of 2020. Any student, that should have graduated in 2020 when all three ceremonies were canceled because of the pandemic, was allowed to walk across the stage at 9 a.m. Saturday. A total of 323 graduates chose to come back for this ceremony.

Two students were chosen to provide the commencement speeches at Friday’s ceremony. Blessing Tamez, from Bishop, received her bachelor’s degree in kinesiology-exercise science with a concentration in pre-physical therapy, and provided the speech for the 9 a.m. ceremony.

San Antonio native Caleb Nash, who received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, provided a pre-recorded speech at the 6 p.m. ceremony. He had to pre-record his speech because he was away from campus with the Javelina baseball team.

Dr. Nirmal Goswami, a Regents professor of political science who has served as a faculty member at Texas A&M-Kingsville for 30 years, gave the speech at the Saturday ceremony.

All ceremonies can be viewed at https://www.tamuk.edu/commencement and shared on the university’s social media pages.

To top it off, all of the more than 1,000 prospective 2021 graduates have a slide that features their name and degree. Graduates were given the option to provide a photo and a short narrative to add to their slide. These slide can be seen at https://www.tamuk.edu/commencement.

TEXAS GRADUATES SPRING 2021 EAGLE PASS

Bachelor of Music

Abel Gonzalez.

Bachelor of Science

Mario Humberto Gonzalez Jr.

Bachelor of Social Work

Melissa Piedra.

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering.

Karla Maria De La Cruz.