NORTH MANKATO — Honors will be awarded posthumously to a paramedic during South Central College’s commencement ceremonies 4 p.m. Thursday at Bresnan Arena in Taylor Center on the campus of Minnesota State University.
Adam Finseth was killed in the line of duty Feb. 18. An honorary doctorate degree and the 2024 SCC Outstanding Alumni Award will be accepted on his behalf by his wife, Tara, and close friend Andy Atwater.
In 2010, Finseth began working as an emergency department technician for Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He completed a two-year paramedic program at South Central College and graduated with high honors in 2012.
SCC’s commencement ceremonies will celebrate graduates from the college’s Faribault and North Mankato campuses who completed their programs during the fall or this spring as well as summer graduates.
Keynote speakers are Minnesota State Chancellor Scott Olson and this year’s Minnesota State student trustee Christopher Richter. He also will receive his associate of arts degree from SCC on Thursday and, in June, his diploma from Owatonna High School.
Tracy Wuddah, who will deliver student remarks, is an international student from Ghana, West Africa. Victoria Robinson, daughter of immigrant parents from El Salvador, is SCC’s first DREAM scholar and will read a poem.
For more information about SCC’s commencement, go to: www.southcentral.edu/graduation.