BATON ROUGE – Some 1,935 potential graduates will be recognized during LSU’s 267th commencement exercises on Friday, Dec. 19. This number includes about 1,618 bachelor’s degrees, 238 masters and professional degrees and 79 doctoral degrees.There is no main ceremony for December commencement, but every degree candidate’s name will be called individually at separate ceremonies for each college. The college ceremonies will begin at 9:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. at various locations around the campus. For more information on the times and locations of the college ceremonies, go to http://www.lsu.edu/commencement.The LSU Honors College has 29 degree candidates, representing all nine senior colleges. Three of the students will be recognized with the College Honors designation for participating in a specific honors program and successfully completing and defending an undergraduate thesis.Some 111 potential honor graduates will be recognized during the ceremonies for having high GPAs and will be recognized as magna cum laude, summa cum laude and cum laude, including four students who are receiving more than one degree with honors. Also included in the honor graduates are the five potential University Medal recipients, who are expected to graduate with perfect grade point averages. These five students will also be recognized at a special ceremony at the LSU Faculty Club on Thursday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m.Medalist candidate Lindsay Day of Springfield is also a member of the LSU track & field team, which captured the 2008 Women’s Outdoor National Championship. Day will also compete in multiple distance races this winter during the indoor track season.Day is one of 46 LSU student-athletes expected to receive degrees on Friday. See the notes below for names of other Tiger athletes expected to graduate.This semester, five graduates will be awarded the LSU Distinguished Communicator Award. These students earned this honor by meeting high standards set by faculty in various colleges and by the LSU Communication across the Curriculum program. The students earned high grade-point averages in communication-intensive courses – based on written, spoken, visual and technological communication – and have built digital portfolios, displayed as public Web sites, that include their communication projects from courses, internships, leadership roles and public service.Some eight degree candidates who took part in ROTC programs will be recognized for being commissioned into the U.S. military. Six of the graduates are Army ROTC and two are Navy ROTC. They will also be honored at a commissioning ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 18, at 3 p.m. in the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes. Gen. William G. Webster Jr., deputy commander of the U.S. Northern Command and vice commander of the U.S. Element, NORAD, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, will be the main speaker for the ceremony.During the College of Education’s ceremony, Adam Patrick Schilling, a 2008 Presidential Management Fellow, will receive his Ph.D. in Human Resource Education.Other noteworthy graduates this semester include:* Gail L. Johnson of Lake Charles, a 55-year-old Ph.D. candidate in Educational Leadership and Research. Johnson, who began her program in 2001, has commuted to LSU by bus from Lake Charles for the duration of her time here.* Kelly Baptiste, a member of the LSU Track & Field team who competed in the 2008 Olympics, will receive her bachelor’s degree in psychology. Baptiste, who ran the 60-meter dash in Beijing, was also voted SEC Female Runner of the Year in 2008, won the national championship in the 100-meters and was a 14-time All-American.* Several members of the 2008 Tiger football team: Herman Johnson, a 2008 All-American, Rahim Alem, a 2008 All-Southeastern Conference pick, Tyson Jackson, Quinn Johnson, Charles Alexander, Curtis Taylor, Tremaine Johnson and Ryan Miller.