Longtime community leader is graduation speaker
G. Richard Myers, a retired ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç pharmacist and longtime community leader, will deliver the keynote address of ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State College's winter commencement ceremony, Friday, Dec. 19 at 5 p.m. in Armstrong Gym
Diplomas will be conferred to 161 graduates, 41 of whom are receiving advanced degrees.
Myers, 73, and his wife Marlene owned and operated Myers Corner Drug at the corner of Third and Main streets for almost four decades ending in 2000. The pharmacist and his parents purchased the operation in 1961.
Myers has been involved in many aspects of the community. He is past president of the Nebraska Pharmacists Association, ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Chamber of Commerce, the ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Rotary Club, Nebraska Board of Examiners in Pharmacy and the ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Development Corporation. He also was director of the ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç State Foundation and the ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Community Hospital Board and is past member of the ºÚÁÏ´óÊÂ¼Ç Board of Education. He remains a member of many of those organizations, in addition to serving as on the board of ºÚÁÏ´óʼÇ's TeamMates chapter and the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Board of Counselors.
Myers graduated from the University of Colorado with a pharmacy degree in 1957. He is a native of Gering and a 1953 graduate of Gering High School.
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