Fifty-eight students from Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Bexley Hall Seminary received degrees during commencement on Saturday, May 24, 2008. The Rev. Ann M. Svennungsen, president of Texas Lutheran University, provided the commencement address. Trinity also awarded her an honorary doctor of divinity degree. The Rev. Dr. Emlyn Ott, assistant professor of Ministry and Pastoral Leadership, preached during the morning Eucharist. Read her sermon and President Mark R. Ramseth's farewell message to the graduates.