Annual Commencement / Northwestern University
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL Northwestern University 9:30 A.M., SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1985 McGAW MEMORIAL HALL, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS CONTENTS PROGRAM 3 HONORARY DEGREES 5 Q DEGRbES IJN COURSE O The College of Arts and Sciences 8 The Medical School 15 The School of Law 18 The School of Speech 21 The Dental School 24 The School of Music 26 The J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management 29 Xhp IVTprlill Sphool of loiirna 1 ism 40 The School of Education 44 The Technological Institute 45 1 lie VJlaULIalC oCllUVJi iQ DIPLOMAS 64 COMMISSIONS o5 DECj1vEEJ> (jRAINlED MINCE JUNE lo, lVo4 o7 The College of Arts and Sciences 67 The Medical School 67 The School of Law 69 The School of Speech 69 The Dental School 69 The School of Music 69 The J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management 70 The Medill School of Journalism 71 The School of Education 72 The Technological Institute 72 The Graduate School 73 PRIZES AND HONORS ANNOUNCED BETWEEN JUNE 16, 1984, AND JUNE 3, 1985 81 PRIZES AND HONORS ANNOUNCED SINCE JUNE 3, 1985 85 POST-COMMENCEMENT SCHOOL CONVOCATIONS 94 COMMENCEMENT COORDINATORS 96 THE UNIVERSITY ALMA MATER Hail to Alma Mater! We will sing thypraiseforever; All thy sons and daughters Pledge thee victory and honor Alma Mater, praise be thine, May thy nameforever shine! Hail to Purple! Hail to White! Hail to thee, Northwestern! THE CAP AND GOWN The cap and gown are worn by each partici- pant in the Commencement exercises. The cap is worn throughout the ceremonies, ex- cept that men remove their academic caps for the National Anthem, the Invocation, and the Benediction. Gold and silver cords represent the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society. The tassel colors are as follows: Arts and Sciences White Medical Green Law Purple Speech Silver Gray Dental Lilac Music Pink Graduate School of Management Acorn Journalism Crimson Education Light Blue Technological Institute Orange Traffic Institute Acorn and White Graduate Black ) ) PROGRAM PROCESSIONAL (Audience will please remain seated for the Student and Faculty Processional.) NATIONAL ANTHEM (first stanza only) (Audience will please remain standing until the Invocation has been offered.) The Northwestern University Band, conducted by John P. Paynter, Director of Bands and Chairperson of the Department of Conducting and Performing Organizations INVOCATION Virginia Landwehr, Dean of Students CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Citations read by Raymond W. Mack, Provost of the University AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS AND CONFERRING OF DEGREES Arnold R. Weber, President of the University DELIVERY OF DIPLOMAS TO DOCTORAL RECIPIENTS Deans of the Graduate, Medical, Law, Dental, and Music Schools UNIVERSITY ALMA MATER BENEDICTION James E. Avery, University Chaplain RECESSIONAL Faculty Recessional (Graduates and guests will please remain seated. Student Recessional (Guests will please remain seated. The Northwestern University Band, conducted by John P. Paynter Guests are respectfully requested to remain in their seats during the entire ceremony. The aisles of the hall must be kept clear at all times, and those who leave their scats before the close of the ceremony must leave the building immediately through either the north or south door, whichever is closer. Smoking is permitted only in the outer main floor lobby. 3 University Hall Evanston campus Artist:John Heritage Wright . HONORARY DEGREES ROBERT HENRY STROTZ—DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Economist, educator. Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1951. Northwestern University's thirteenth president, from 1970 to 1985, and now University chancellor, Strotz joined the economics faculty in 1947 and became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1966. As president, he was responsible for much of the University's growth into one of the nation's leading teaching and research universities. Member and officer of numerous educational, professional, and civic organizations, he is vice chairman of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, past chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, a former director of the McGaw Medical Center, a trustee of the Field Museum of Natural Histor}', and a former trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry. In addition to having served as editor oi Econometrica and other economics journals, he has published widely on welfare economics, statistical estimation, and consumer behavior. Presented by Thomas G. Ayers, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Northwestern University, and by Marcus Alexis, Professor of Economics and Chairperson of the Department. College of Arts and Sciences GEORGE PRATT SHULTZ—DOCTOR OF LAWS Public official, corporate executive, educator. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949. When appointed secretary of state in 1982, Shultz returned to Washington from the presidency of the Bechtel Group, Inc., a San Francisco-based engineering company. As an adviser to and member of both Republican and Democratic administrations, he had previously held a number of important 9~'0; positions in the federal government, including those of secretar)- of labor, from 1 969 to 1 director of the Office of Management and Budget, from 1970 to 1972; and secretary of the treasury, from 1972 to 1974. Following receipt of his Ph.D., Shultz taught industrial relations at M I T. and at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he was named dean in 1962. A specialist in labor relations, he is coauthor of several books, including The Dynamics of a Labor Market (1951), Management Organization and the Computer ( 1 960 ) , and Strategies for the Displaced Worker ( 1 966) Presented by The Honorable fohn f. Louis, Jr., Trustee, Northwestern University WALPOLA SRI RAHULA—DOCTOR OF SACRED THEOLOGY Scholar, educator. Ph.D. University of London, 1950. An ordained Buddhist monk, Rahula was actively engaged in the struggle for independence from British rule of his native Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) . His book The Heritage of the Bhikku was written to remind his fellow monks of the Buddhist monk's public responsibility, before colonial conquest, it remains a standard study of Buddhist monasticism. Among his other books is What the Buddha Taught, which has been translated into five languages. Attached to the Sorbonne in Paris for many years, Rahula returned to Sri Lanka in 1 966 to head the oldest continuing institution of higher learning in that nation, Vidyodaya University. He also headed the National Council on Higher Education. He is currently chancellor of the Kelaniya University of Sri Lanka. Since the Sri Lanka disturbances of 1983. he has worked as an adviser on interracial relations to the country's president and has chaired a national committee on racial and religious conciliation. Presented by Edmund Perry, Professor ofHistory and Literature of Religions. College of Arts and Sciences CHARLES LEE BROWN—DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Corporate executive. B.S.E.E. University of Virginia, 19^3 Chairman of American Telephone and Telegraph, he has recently steered the world's largest corporation through a massive restructuring. Following three years of service in the Nav>' during World War 11, he joined AT&T as an engineer After holding several increasingly responsible positions with the AT&T Long Lines Department, he joined Illinois Bell in 1963 and was elected president in 1969. He was elected vice chairman and 9'^~' chief financial officer and a director of AT&T in 1 976; president in 1 . and chairman of the board in 1979. He has served as national campaign chairman for the I'nited Negro College Fund and is a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study and of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Presented by Daniel C. Searle. Trustee, Northwestern University CARLO RUBBIA—DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Physicist. Ph.D. University of Pisa, 1958. Professor of physics at Har\ ard rni\ ersit\ and researcher at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) near (ieneva. Switzerland. Ruhbia led a 5 team of more than 100 physicists from 1 1 universities and laboratories in experiments that led to the detection of three subatomic particles—two W particles (one electrically positive and one negative) and the neutral Z particle. He supervised the construction of a large and sophisticated detector that, when used with the CERN accelerator capable of generating the world's highest energies, made possible the discovery of the subatomic particles. Regarded as a crucial step toward the development of a single theory to account for all natural forces, the discover}- confirmed predictions based on a theory that unifies two of the basic forces of nature: the electromagnetic force and the weak force. For his work, Rubbia was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics. Presented by Bruno Gobbi, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, College ofArts and Sciences STANTON RUFUS COOK—DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS Publisher, civic leader. B.S.M.E. Northwestern University, 1949. President and chief executive officer of the Tribune Company and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and past president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, Cook has been instrumental in transforming the Tribune Company into a dynamic, diversified communications and entertainment company that operates four newspapers, five television stations, five radio stations, and a cable television company; in 1981 the Chicago Cubs baseball team was purchased by the Tribune organization. A leader in the improvement of race relations in the Chicago area. Cook is chairman of the Business Advisory Committee of the Chicago Urban League and former chairman of the National Alliance of Business for Metropolitan Chicago. Chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Cook has also served as president of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Commercial Club of Chicago. Presented by fames f. O'Connor, Trustee, Northwestern University DANIEL CHARLES DRUCKER—DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Engineer, educator. Ph.D. Columbia University, 1940. A pioneer in the field of continuum plasticity and limit analysis, Drucker is the author of scores of scholarly papers on plastic deformations of solids.