From: Dr. Birgit Puschner, Dean
I cannot say enough how proud I am of you and your accomplishments. You're entering the field having more than proven your strength, versatility, and capability and veterinary medicine will be all the better for it. On a personal note, I cannot say enough how proud I am of you and your accomplishments. You're entering the field having more than proven your strength, versatility and capability and veterinary medicine will be all the better for it. Congratulations; go green!
From: Taylor Epp, Director of the Veterinary Nursing Program
Congratulations to the graduating classes of veterinary nursing students and doctor of veterinary medicine students. Your time with the College is complete. You're ready to move on and I want to express to you how proud we all are. We're proud of your hard work and your determination, we're proud of your dedication and your passion and we're proud of your resilience and your perseverance.
From Dr. Jane Manfredi, Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation
Congratulations to the MSU-CVM Class of 2021! So proud of all that you have accomplished and of all that you will accomplish! I am honored to have had the privilege of teaching you from your very first days in anatomy and watching you develop into such wonderful veterinarians. Wishing you all the best. Jane Manfredi
From: Dr. Leanne Magestro, Radiation Oncology
Dear DVM and VN graduates of 2021,
Congratulations on making in through one of the most difficult years of your lives—for so many reasons!
We are all so proud of you and your dedication, resilience, and positive attitude through adjustments we never could have anticipated.
Stay strong and safe. Always keep building your knowledge.
Remember that we are always here for you if you need us!
Sincerely, Dr. Leanne Magestro (Radiation Oncology)
From: Christina Catt, Veterinary Medical Center
Congratulations everyone!!!
You did it!! You have fulfilled your dream!
I am excited for you to write your next chapters. I am honored to have been a part of your journey.
To my Nursing students: you are amazing!!
Thank you for allowing me to help you develop your skills and for listening to my life lessons. I would be proud to work alongside all of you.
Remember to keep your patients FAS scores, as well as your own, a zero.
Best Wishes and Peace, Christina Catt, LVN VMC Treatment Center
From: Mary Jo Smith, to the recipient of the Kelly H. Smith, DVM, Memorial Endowment Award
Dear Allison,
On behalf of our family, I want to congratulate you on being selected as the 2021 recipient of the Kelly H. Smith, DVM, Memorial Endowment Award!
Kelly was a graduate of the class of 2015. She was a lifelong equestrian, who was also very passionate about her interests in post-surgery rehabilitation and animal dermatology.
Again, our congratulations on your achievement!
Mary Jo Smith
From: Dr. Bruce and Diane Beachnau, for the recipient of the Dairy Clinical Proficiency Award
Dr. Melanie Graham, we want to congratulate you on earning the Dairy Clinical Proficiency Award for Outstanding Achievement and Dedication in the Field of Veterinary Medicine. You were awarded a check for $1000 and a plaque. It is funded by an Endowment Diane and I set up ten years ago. It is entitled, “Endowment for the Proficiency in Dairy Medicine, Performance and Heifer Raising."
I spent more than 40 years as a practicing veterinarian and a career working for an animal health company coaching heifer raising on how to raise heifer calves. I emphasized feeding colostrum and the correct amount of milk in the calf barns. Diane and I are confident you will carry on this endeavor.
From: Ann Schaefer, Specialist, Off-Campus Clinical Instruction
You made it….Congratulations!! Best wishes on all of your future endeavors!
From: Maggie Bodiya, Instructor, Veterinary Nursing Program
To the graduating group of doctors and nurses, CONGRATULATIONS! GO GREEN! You are a very special group that has had to dig deep to find creative solutions, discover your personal and professional resilience, overcome unique obstacles, and most importantly you persevered through rigorous training amidst a global pandemic. What you will take with you out into the workforce is unlike any other graduating class. We are SO proud of what you've accomplished and who you've grown to be. We can't wait to see how you change the veterinary world around you and positively represent your Spartan Alma Mater. Keep in touch my little chickadees, the coop is never too far away! ALL MY LOVE, Maggie (and Finn) Bodiya
From: Kristi Sneed, Specialist, Pre-Veterinary and Veterinary Nursing
Veterinary Nursing and DVM graduates: Congratulations! Be joyful and remember to celebrate life's small victories. -Kristi
From: Supporters from the Hal & Jean Glassen Memorial Foundation
Congratulations, graduates!
With the purchase of their first hunting dog in 1939, the Glassens became dog lovers and fanciers. Jean was a pioneer breeder in the U.S. of English cocker spaniels, producing more than 50 champions under her kennel named Maple Lawn. A six-time president of the English Cocker Spaniel Club of America, she was keenly interested in diseases such as progressive retinal atrophy, which is a problem with English cockers and other breeds.
From: Susan Rosser, Veterinary Medical Center
Dear new, extraordinary veterinary nurses,
I am so very grateful to be able to welcome you into the most fantastic career ever! You will rarely be bored, you'll fall in love with most patients, some clients, and never have to say to yourself, "I don't have purpose."
You have demonstrated such resilience and dedication the likes of which I have not seen in many, many years of teaching.
You have taught me while I taught you. I can now laugh when I am tempted to over think an exam...I can look at a craft from a Cricket machine or a pretty string bracelet and know that you have learned the importance of finding balance in your world and the joy of sharing! I learned from you, that even loss, can't sour you...you moved through this with courage and demonstrated characteristics of integrity. I will miss you all.
Spartans will and you do!!! May you always keep your positive spirits.
Sincerely, Susan M. Rosser, BS, LVN
From: Dr. Ioana Sonea, Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation
Congratulations, Class of 2021, for making it all the way from your first anatomy lab (a LONG time ago!) to graduation!! You worked so hard, and now you can use your knowledge and talent to help animals and people as a fully-fledged DVM. Wishing you the very best,
Ioana Sonea