Hinds Community College students who plan to march in one of three Raymond Campus ceremonies on May 15 must submit a graduation application by 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 6.

For more information about graduation, go to the Hinds Web site at http://www.hindscc.edu/Admissions/graduation/default.aspx

Hinds graduations will also be shown through live Web cast. For more information go to http://www.hindscc.edu/Admissions/graduation/Web_Cast.aspx

Hinds Community College will hold four graduation ceremonies in May with prominent Mississippians delivering addresses.

The Raymond Campus will host graduates from the Jackson Campus-Nursing/Allied Health and Academic/Technical centers, and the Vicksburg-Warren, Rankin and Raymond campuses in three ceremonies Friday, May 15 in Cain-Cochran Hall's Hogg Auditorium. The Utica Campus will hold its commencement Sunday, May 17 at 2 p.m. in J. D. Boyd Gymnasium.

Hinds alumnus Joe Pinion, CEO at Central Mississippi Medical Center, will speak to nursing and allied health graduates at 8:30 a.m. in Hogg Auditorium.

The speaker for ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. (students whose last names begin with A-L) and 2:30 p.m. (students whose last names begin with M-Z) will be Dr. Mark Keenum, who became Mississippi State University's 19th president Jan. 5 following a distinguished public service career.

Utica Campus graduates will hear commencement speaker Dr. Lonnie J. Edwards Sr., superintendent of the Jackson school district.