Preparations

This article was published on 05.24.12

In a robing room before the graduate student commencement at UNR, Nevada higher education chancellor Dan Klaich, left, watched while campus publicist Jane Tors (back to camera) fitted Dale Raggio with a mortarboard. At the commencement, Raggio accepted a Distinguished Nevadan award for her late husband, Sen. William Raggio. Historian Guy Louis Rocha, also a recipient of the Distinguished Nevadan award, chatted with UNR President Marc Johnson, right.

In a robing room before the graduate student commencement at UNR, Nevada higher education chancellor Dan Klaich, left, watched while campus publicist Jane Tors (back to camera) fitted Dale Raggio with a mortarboard. At the commencement, Raggio accepted a Distinguished Nevadan award for her late husband, Sen. William Raggio. Historian Guy Louis Rocha, also a recipient of the Distinguished Nevadan award, chatted with UNR President Marc Johnson, right.

Photo by DENNIS MYERS

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