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The PSC commencement ceremony is scheduled for 3 p.m. Dec. 12 in the Pensacola Bay Center. Julian MacQueen, a Pensacola State College District Board of Trustees member, will be the guest speaker.

Pat Horacek, PSC mathematics professor, will be the Grand Marshal. Michael Payne, assistant professor of business, and Kenneth Phillips, the Performing Arts department head, will serve as Faculty Marshals. PSC Registrar Stephanie Denmark and Karen McCabe, director of the Santa Rosa Center, will be the Student Marshals.

Students are limited to eight guests each. Attendees are encouraged to wear face masks and follow social distancing protocol at the nursing pinnings and graduation ceremonies. MacQueen is the founder and chairman of Innisfree Hotels, the Gulf Breeze-based hotel development and management company that owns and operates a collection of hotels in the Southeast.

Since founding Innisfree Hotels in 1985, the company is currently ranked as the 42nd largest hotel company in the United States and the seventh largest employer in the Pensacola metropolitan statistical area.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, MacQueen graduated from the University of South Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. MacQueen and his wife, Kim, are members of the Bahá’í Faith, founding life-changing programs, such as University of South Alabama MacQueen Alumni Center, MacQueen School of Hospitality at the University of West Florida, Parent University of Pensacola, Equality Project Alliance for Anti-Racism, Escambia Children’s Trust, and more.

Also, Innisfree Hotels funds Dixon School of Arts & Sciences, a private, K-eighth-grade school serving at-risk youth living in Escambia County.

Recognized for his hotel management prowess and philanthropy, MacQueen has been awarded with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, 2019 Elvin McCorvey Education Award by NAACP, and 2020 Florida Trend 500’s Most Influential Business Leader in Hospitality.

For family and friends who cannot attend, the events will be livestreamed at: Nursing Pinning ─ http://www.facebook.com/FirstPentecostalChurch, GED Graduation ─ https://www.facebook.com/PensacolaStateCollege and PSC Graduation ─ https://www.facebook.com/PensacolaStateCollege.

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