Catherine Draycott received her D. Phil in classical archaeology from Oxford University on October 20. Her dissertation was based on the funerary art of western Anatolia in Turkey.

She is presently a departmental lecturer on Classical Archaeology at Oxford University, but will resume her former post as the Leonard & Katherine Woolley Research Fellow at Sommerville College, Oxford in September. She has presented papers on her research in the US, Europe and Turkey.

Catherine holds a B. F.A from Tufts University, an award for the most outstanding research project at Christie's in London, and an M. Phil with distinction from Wolfson College at Oxford.

Catherine attended Harrington Sound Primary School, Bermuda High School for Girls, junior dept., Warwick Academy, and Saltus Senior Year.

Whilst living in Bermuda, she was on the governing board of the B.S.O.A., and was a reporter at the Mid Ocean News.

Catherine's parents, Mr. and Mrs Terrence Draycott and her brother Dr. Simon Draycott attended the ceremony.

Leanda Shine'e Simons, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Human Environmental Sciences.

Shine'e concentrated on Marketing and International Affairs while at UNC Greensboro.

She was actively involved in the Neo Black Society and served on its executive board and was president of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority Inc.

Shine'e was also handball programme director for the Guilford Team, a sporting programme for immigrant youth in Guilford County, North Carolina.

The daughter of L. Shinah Simons and Michelle Simons, Shine'e graduated in December in front of her parents, brother, grandparents, aunts, cousins and friends.

On Monday, she begins her career as a marketing coordinator at the BGA Group of Companies.