COMMENCEMENT 2015 Saturday, May 9 GREETINGS from the PRESIDENT
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COMMENCEMENT 2015 Saturday, May 9 GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT COMMENCEMENT is a day like no other. At the University of Maine, we come together as an academic community to celebrate the achievements of the state’s flagship university with hundreds of our dearest family members, friends, colleagues, mentors and peers. The academic, research and creative accomplishments of our undergraduate and graduate students, and our faculty, are at the heart of the distinctive UMaine experience. Our students and faculty make us extremely proud and thrilled to be here, sharing this memorable milestone with them. This UMaine Commencement also is part of our 150th anniversary celebration, a year of reflecting on a legacy as Maine’s land grant institution and how that history informs our future. Since 1865, the University of Maine has been a leader in educating students and conducting important research, scholarship and community Dr. Susan J. Hunter outreach that make important contributions in Maine President, University of Maine and beyond. For these past few years, our students have been active participants in this University of Maine community committed to excellence and engagement. They have learned from the extraordinary faculty in their fields and have been part of a student-centered community focused on making a difference. Now with degrees in hand, our new UMaine graduates will launch a new chapter in their lives, joining the ranks of nearly 105,000 alumni worldwide who model the UMaine difference. Yet no matter where life takes them, the University of Maine will be a touchstone, and our newest graduates, part of the UMaine legacy going forward. Best regards, Dr. Susan J. Hunter President TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH COMMENCEMENT 2015 COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY COMMENCEMENT MUSIC THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE BLACK BEAR MEN'S CHORUS CEREMONIAL BRASS Color Guard COMMENCEMENT CONCERT Mr. Daniel B. Williams, Dr. Ginger Yang Hwalek, Jubilee, Johnson Music Director Conductor Welcome Irish Tune from County Derry, Dr. Laura Artesani, Accompanist Baritone Horn National Anthem arr. Grainger Tenor I Mr. Nick Turner Mr. Grant Bloomfield Ms. Jamie McDonald Home on the Range, traditional Mr. Roger Feeley Remarks cowboy song, arr. Patterson Trumpet Mr. William Fink Mr. Blake Peachey Recognition of Family and Friends Suite No. 3 from The American Brass Mr. Tripp Lewis Ms. Sarah Sukeforth Band Journal Mr. John Thompson Mr. Kyle Goupille Recognition of Stage Party Falmouth: A Maine Hymn, Maxim, Tenor II Mr. Christopher Plaisted arr. Mr. Christopher Plaisted Mr. Josh Kovach French Horn Rudy Valee circa 1930 Celebration of Academia (graduating senior) Mr. Doug Meswarb Ms. Sarah Small Mr. Todd McKinley 2015 Distinguished Maine Professor The University of Maine Band, Ms. Mary Hamilton Stein Song McCusker ’17, arr. D. Williams Mr. Jarod White Mr. Jared Jacobs Mr. Carl Witham Colcord and Sprague, Class of 1905 Welcome to New Alumni and Mr. Scott Burditt For Maine! Mr. Glendon Yule From a march titled “Opie” composed by A.E. Fenstad Recognition of Class Gift Trombone Bartlett ’14, arr. D. Williams Bass I Mr. Jason Priest Fill the steins to dear old Maine! O! Our Dear Alma Mater, Mr. Andrew Vetter Greeting From University of Maine System Ms. Amanda Bloss Shout till the rafters ring! Board of Trustees arr. D. Williams Mr. Travis Vincent Mr. Zachry Fox Stand and drink a toast once again! Mr. Daniel Williams Amazing Grace, arr. Villanueva Tuba Let every loyal Maine man sing, Introduction of Honorary Degree Recipients and Mr. Kevin Young Mr. William Martin Commencement Speaker Battle Hymn of the Republic, Mr. Justin Zang Drink to all the happy hours, Percussion Drink to the careless days! arr. Wilhousky Bass II Mr. Nathan Hackworth Drink to Maine, our Alma Mater, Conferral of Honorary Degrees Fanfare for the Common Man, Mr. Alexander Audet Mr. Jackson Cromwell The college of our hearts always. Copland Mr. Jacob Campbell Commencement Address Mr. Samuel Terris Mr. Alex Henthorn To the trees, to the sky, PROCESSIONAL Mr. Nathan Roach To the spring in its glorious happiness! Recognition of Valedictorian and Salutatorian Pomp and Circumstance, Elgar Mr. Andrew Schanck To the youth, to the fire, Recognition of Honors College Graduates RECESSIONAL To the life that is moving and calling us! Stein Song, Sung by all To the Gods, to the fates, Recognition of ROTC Graduates To the rulers of men and their destinies! The rousing Stein Song made famous READER To the lips, to the eyes, by singer Rudy Vallee is the official Mr. Daniel B. Williams ’91, ’94G Conferral of Doctoral Degrees To the girls who will love us some day! anthem of the University of Maine. Executive Director of the Collins Center for the Arts Conferral of Graduate and Undergraduate Degrees Oh, fill the steins to dear old Maine! National Anthem sung by: Shout till the rafters ring! Charge to the Graduates and Closing Remarks Morning Ceremony Ms. Molly Abrams Stand and drink a toast once again! Afternoon Ceremony Let every loyal Maine man sing, Ms. Amanda Sarol Drink to all the happy hours, Drink to the careless days! Drink to Maine our Alma Mater, The college of our hearts always. 2 3 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS 2015 HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT AND COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Dana F. Dennis M. Peter Connors Rezendes McPherson President of the Maine National hospice President of the Association State Chamber of pioneer, volunteer and of Public and Land-grant Commerce philanthropist Universities FOR MORE than 20 DENNIS REZENDES SINCE 2006, M. Peter years, Dana F. Conners provided national McPherson has been has led the state’s leadership to improve president of the Washington, largest and most end-of-life care for D.C.-based Association of diverse business millions of people by Public and Land-grant association. Mr. Connors oversees the Maine State helping establish the hospice program in this country, Universities (APLU). The association, founded in 1887, Chamber Association’s broad range of activities: offering quality and compassionate care for those with is North America’s oldest higher education association, advocacy efforts, economic development initiatives, terminal illnesses. As a volunteer and philanthropist, comprised of public research universities, land-grant workforce development opportunities, and a wide he devoted himself to educational and social justice institutions and universities in all 50 states, the District of variety of member services on behalf of the state’s causes at home and abroad. Mr. Rezendes is a strong Columbia, four territories, Canada and Mexico. APLU is business community. believer in the power of education to open minds and the leading research, policy and advocacy organization for change lives. With his wife, he has contributed to public research universities like UMaine. Mr. Connors began his career as the city manager of scholarships and the arts, and has created UMaine Stevens Hall Presque Isle, a position he held for 16 years, and then endowments to support a visiting scholar in ethics, an Mr. McPherson also chairs the Partnership to Cut Hunger circa 1934 and 2012 spent 11 years as commissioner of the Maine ethics essay competition and the Honors College. and Poverty in Africa, an organization he cofounded to Department of Transportation. He has been president address agricultural production and rural income issues. of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce since Under the auspices of the Global Volunteers He is chair of the advisory committee for HarvestPlus, an 1994. organization, Mr. Rezendes also endowed a program organization funded at approximately $40 million annually enabling a student to volunteer for two weeks in a to research the biofortification of crops grown by workers A Maine native who lives in Gray, Maine, Mr. Third World country. in poor countries. Biofortification is the genetic Connors received a bachelor’s degree in public improvement of crops to fortify them with vitamin A, management from the University of Maine. He has Mr. Rezendes received the Founder’s Award from the iron and zinc. been appointed by the governor to serve on the National Hospice Organization (NHO), which Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority and provided leadership to define hospice and develop the From 1993 –2004, Mr. McPherson served as president of the State of Maine Governor’s Business Roundtable standards of hospice care. He provided direct his alma mater, Michigan State University. Prior to that, he for Early Childhood Development. Other boards on leadership in the passage of federal legislation was a group executive vice president with Bank of America, which he currently serves include Maine Economic enabling hospice care to be a Medicare benefit. In based in San Francisco. He also served as deputy secretary Research Institute; Maine Manufacturing Extension New Haven, Connecticut in 1974, Mr. Rezendes of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Partnership; and Maine & Company. became the nation’s first hospice executive director. administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Mr. McPherson is a former chair Of Portuguese heritage, Mr. Rezendes is a second- of the board of directors of Dow Jones and Company, generation immigrant and the first of his family to publisher of The Wall Street Journal. graduate from college. After graduating from UMaine in 1957 as an honors student with a degree in public Mr. McPherson received an MBA from Western Michigan management, he continued his education at the University and a J.D. from American University Law University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School. School. From 1960 –70, he was director of administration for the City of New Haven, Connecticut. 4 5 2015 DISTINGUISHED MAINE PROFESSOR AWARD 2015 PRESIDENTIAL OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD The Distinguished Maine Professor Award, established by the University of Maine Alumni Association in 1963, is presented annually to a tenured University of Maine Presidential Outstanding Teaching, PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE faculty member who exemplifies the highest standards of excellence in Public Service, and Research and Creative Achievement teaching, research and public service.