State Senator Picked As MCC Commencement Speaker
MANCHESTER, CT — The announced speaker at Manchester Community College's 58th Commencement Ceremony will be State Sen. Saud Anwar, the Senate's deputy president pro tempore.
The ceremony is scheduled for May 26, at 5:30 p.m. at the Bicentennial Band Shell, on the campus lawn.
Anwar was first elected to public office in 2011 as a member of South Windsor's town council. He served two terms as South Windsor's mayor, once from 2013 to 2015 and then from 2017 to 2019. He was elected to the state senate in February 2019 to represent the residents of the 3rd state senate district towns of East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington and South Windsor.
He is a medical doctor with specializations in treating lung diseases and also practices critical care medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. He currently serves as chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Manchester Memorial and Rockville General Hospitals. He was trained in pulmonary and critical care medicine and holds a master’s degree in public health from Yale University.
The 2022 ceremony marks the first on the MCC grounds since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
For more information on the 58th Commencement Ceremony, visit: www.manchestercc.edu/current-students/commencement.
This article originally appeared on the Manchester Patch
