IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 5/2/06 CONTACT: PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
SILVER CITY—New Mexico Rep. Dianne Miller Hamilton, district 38, will be the keynote speaker for the Western New Mexico University 2006 spring commencement ceremony scheduled at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 5, at the WNMU Old James Stadium. During the ceremony Rep. Hamilton will be awarded a doctor of humane letters honorary degree.
Some 265 degrees will be conferred during Friday's ceremony including 82 associate, 102 baccalaureate, 36 master of arts, 36 master of arts in teaching, and nine master of business administration degrees.
Hamilton has served four terms in the New Mexico Legislature. She is running unopposed for re-election to a fifth term.
In 1990 Hamilton was appointed to the WNMU Board of Regents. She served eight years, four of them as President of the Board.
Hamilton was a local radio talk show host from 1976 through 1999. She spent five years as a real estate agent and completely retired in 1999. She was very active in volunteerism and received the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Women in 1994. She was selected as the Silver City Citizen of the Year in 1995.
She graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor of science degree in secondary education with a language arts major and a history minor.
She and her husband, Lt. Col. John Hamilton, a retired military officer, moved to Silver City in 1974 where their four children completed their secondary educations.
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