University of Oregon graduate student Shaun Wilde’s twin daughters will go along when she picks up her master of business administration degree at 6 p.m. Friday, June 11, during a special ceremony for MBA students at Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. "I feel they went through most of the program with me. They deserve this as much as I do," she says of her nine-month-old daughters. Starting a family while in graduate school was a challenge, Wilde says, and adds that the 16 hours she worked each week as a graduate teaching fellow added to the stress. She got through the program at the UO’s Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, Wilde says, with the help of "my incredibly supportive husband, Michael–and some careful planning." She finished as much of the program as possible before the twins arrived in September, took two independent study courses the following term and finished off the academic year by taking only three classes during winter and spring terms. Now the whole family is packing and applying for passports. Wilde starts a job as a management consultant in Frankfurt, Germany, next month. SOURCE: Shaun Wilde, master of business administration degree candidate, (541) 687-7180; e-mail wildeduc@oregon.uoregon.edu

Indigo Teiwes will graduate June 12 with a double major in business and environmental studies and an overall A+ grade-point average of 4.22 (4.0 equals an A). First in her class in the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, she will serve as flag-bearer for the business college in the all-university commencement ceremony at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Hayward Field, 1580 E. 15th Ave. While at the UO, Teiwes brought her divergent areas of study together by serving as co-director of the 1998 Sustainable Business Symposium, a three-day, multidisciplinary conference that featured local and national speakers on topics ranging across business, environmental studies, planning, biology and architecture. Her career goal is in the area of environmental business–increasing both business and consumer awareness of environmental issues. "I feel very fortunate for being supported in my education extensively by scholarships from the University of Oregon, the Lundquist College of Business and the Oregon State Scholarship Commission," she says. Besides the general university exercises, Teiwes will participate in two other commencement ceremonies–with her business college classmates at 3 p.m. Saturday on the lawn south of the Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St., and with fellow environmental studies students at 5:15 p.m. Saturday on the Memorial Quad, near Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, 1415 Kincaid St. SOURCE: Indigo Teiwes, candidate for a bachelor of arts degree in business and environmental studies, (541) 686-5460.

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