Physics major Laura Odeh has been selected as student speaker for SSU’s 39th commencement May 27, 2000. Laura has starred in five plays at SSU, including Cabaret and The Skin of Our Teeth. She is currently playing the lead in The Quick Change Room at Actors’ Theatre in Santa Rosa, interning at Agilent Technologies, and taking light and optics, computer applications for scientists, physics of semiconductor devices, and two music courses. The last physics major commencement speaker was Mary Silber in 1981.