Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
CLOVIS — Wayland Baptist University-Clovis is holding commencement ceremonies for 19 graduates at 10 a.m. Friday at Central Baptist Church.
Dean Gary Mitchell said he expects 15 of the graduates will be at the event. Of the graduates, eight earned master’s degrees and the other 11 earned bachelor’s degrees. The master’s candidates are largely teachers, with Mitchell noting one graduate is a bank employee and two others are affiliated with Cannon Air Force Base.
Clovis Police Chief Doug Ford is the commencement speaker. Ford earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the school in 1999 and later finished his master’s work at Colorado Technical University. Ford, a 1984 graduate of Clovis High School, has been with the Clovis department since 1997 and became chief in June 2015.
The school will also honor a distinguished alumni at the ceremony.
“This is our first time to do a distinguished alumni award,” Mitchell said. “I can’t say who it is, because I want it to be a surprise.”
The school does instruction on a different schedule than other area colleges, and also has a commencement in late August.
