Six WM Students to be Commissioned Into Military Service

By Amber Lester Kennedy Thursday, May 12, 2011

Six William and Mary students will be commissioned as U.S. Army officers on Saturday, one day before their graduation.

The students will be commissioned during a ceremony at noon on May 14 in the Sadler Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium. Maj. Gen. Walter L. Davis, class of ’79 and deputy director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center at Fort Monroe, will deliver the commissioning address. William and Mary President Taylor Reveley will also provide remarks at the event, which is open to the public.

Erin Brady, Adam Grover, Harrison Mann, Andrew Rampp and Sheila Wilson will be commissioned as active duty officers. Cyrus Askin, who received the Army’s Health Professions Scholarship, will be commissioned as a reserve officer.

Lt. Col. Barbara Streater, chair of William and Mary’s Department of Military Science, praised her students’ work ethic to prepare for military service. “They have trained and prepared themselves both mentally and physically and have demonstrated beyond any doubt their worthiness to hold our sacred trust,” she said.