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Josephine Vowels celebrates graduating at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News

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Josephine Vowels celebrates graduating at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News

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  • Josephine Vowels celebrates graduating at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Lauren Dionne, center, celebrates at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • James Sloven, left, Travis Speier, center, and Katie St. Hilaire, right, support a friend receiving her diploma at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Victor Rapkoch admires his diploma at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Patrick Dodd, 7, far right, prays during the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Joe Luminiello, left, and Joe Grady, right walk across campus on their way to the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Travis Speier, center, honors the National Anthem at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J., Ph.D., speaks to the Class of 2011 at the Commencement Ceremony at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Thomas Monaghan, left, Chancellor, speaks to the Class of 2011 Commencement Ceremony at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Deirdre Harkins, Theology graduate, listens to a speaker at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Patricia Crane Lynch, Honorary Degree recipient speaks at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Scenes from the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Lauren Dionne, center, Theology graduate, says, 'it was really challenging but I really discovered who I was,' celebrates graduation at the Commencement Ceremony Class of 2011 at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • Thomas Monaghan, left, Chancellor, presents diploma to Chelsea Hunter, Naples, Fla., at the Class of 2011 Commencement Ceremony at Ave Maria University on Saturday May 7, 2011 in Ave Maria, Fla. Michele AnneLouise Cohen for Naples Daily News
  • The class of 2011 is the first Ave Maria University class in which students attended all four years at the permanent campus in Ave Maria. Ave Maria held commencement exercises May 7.

For the 130 students of Ave Maria's seventh graduating class, the graduates of the class of 2011 are the first to have spent all four years on Ave Maria's permanent campus. For some students, coming to Ave Maria was a calling, for others, it was an adventure.

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emperoraustus writes:

congratulation Josephine Vowels.

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