Annual Commencement Program 1991
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THE WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT 1991 , , ''!; ._.~ '' . ~ I 41· -~ ; •, ~ •- I/' ~ 1 The Wichita State University NINETY-THIRD ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT SINCE THE FOUNDING OF FAIRMOUNT COLLEGE Saturday Morning, May the Eighteenth, Ten O'Clock Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-One Leuitt Arena The Colleges Order of Academic Procession Academic Dress Today's academic dress evolved from caps and gowns worn in medieval universities. The academic gown is the basic garment and by tradition is black for all degrees and ran.ks. The square caps or mortarboards are part of the prescribed academic dress. Accompanying the gowns are hoods, lined with silk in the official color of the institution conferring the The University Marshal degree and bordered in the color representing the discipline of learning. The color of the tassel designates the student's school or college. The Honored Members of the Class of 1941 Drab-W. Frank Barton School of Business Pink-College of Fine Arts-Music The Candidates for Degrees Light Blue-College of Education Green-College of Health Professions Orange-College of Engineering Salmon-College of Health Professions-Nursing The University Faculty Brown-College of Fine Arts Black-Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The Board of Trustees Members Students receiving graduate degrees wear the color appropriate to the degree emphasis. The President of the WSU Alumni Association Receptions The President of the WSU Endowment Association Board of Governors The colleges invite graduates and their families to attend receptions following the commencement ceremony in the The Recipients of the University Awards locations given below: W. Frank Barton School of Business-Missouri VaUey Lounge, north end, first floor, Campus Activities Center The Deans and Other University Officers College of Education-Corbin Education Center College of Engineering-Lobby, first floor, Wallace Hall The Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs College of Fine Arts-Lobby, Miller Concert Hall College of Health Professions-Lobby, second floor, Ahlberg Hall The President of the Student Government Association Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Commons Room, Campus Activities Center The President of the Faculty Senate Graduate School-The reception of the college of the major field of study The Representative of the Kansas Board of Regents The Wichita State University Mace The Recipient of the President's Medal As the official symbol of the University's authority and power, the mace is carried in today's academic procession by University Marshal J. Kelley Sowards. The mace was commissioned in 1978 by Paul J. Magelli, former dean of Fairmount The President of The Wichita State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as a memorial to his twin brother, Peter M. Magelli, and presented for the first time at the 1980 commencement. Designed by artist Jonathan Graham Bonner of Providence, Rhode Island, the mace is executed primarily in stainless steel, gold, and silver. The head of the mace is a gilt frame with 22 stainless steel spikes. The points are sterling silver. A silver ball engraved with the three seals of The Wichita State University-Fairmount College, the Municipal University of Wichita, and The Wichita State University-is suspended in the frame by two springs. The shaft is a stainless steel spring, and the handle is a gilt ball set with nine hematites. The Presidential Medallion The Presidential Medallion symbolizes the three distinct historical phases of the University. Using imagery derived from the official seals of Fairmount College, the Municipal University of Wichita, and The Wichita State University, three medallions engraved in 14-carat yellow gold form the trihedral center of the ceremonial anaglyph. This centerpiece is surrounded by two sterling silver hyperbolic forms designed to complement the University Mace. The Presidential Medallion is hung from black silk trimmed with gold. The medallion was designed and constructed by Wichita artists Michael J. Oliver and Glenice Lesley Matthews in 1983. 3 Commencement Program 1991 Commencement Guests Process1ona· 1 .... ... .......... ..... .. ..... ..... ................ ..... ...... "Pomp and c·1rcums t a nre, " Elgar Jack S. Sampson, Regents' Representative The Wichita State University Commencement Band Victor A. Markovich, Conductor Jack S. Sampson earned the bachelor of science degree in radio and television journalism from Kansas State University in 19.50. He is president and chief executive officer of Sampson Communications Company, Hutchinson;The Bee, Inc., which publishes The Bee, a Opening of the Ceremonies .............................................................. Kelley Sowards J. Hutchinson consumer's guide; Harvest Publishing, Inc., St. Joseph, Missouri, which prints Marshal, The Wichita State University the Buchanan County Farmer; and Sunflower Printing Inc., McPherson. Sampson's interests also include radio broadcasting. He is former president and CEO of Welcome and Introduction of Plains Broadcasting, Hays, which operates KHAZ Radio; and radio stations KLEO and KSKU Platform Guests ........................................................................... Warren B. Armstrong (now KZSN), Wichita. An adjunct lecturer in the William Allen White School of Journalism President, The Wichita State University and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas, Sampson has taught classes in media entrepreneurship. He is currently a member of the Kansas Public Broadcast Commission. Welcome to the Honored Class of 1941 Appointed to the Kansas Board of Regents in 1988, he is that body's chairman of fiscal and the Class of 1991 ............................................................................Rebecca L. Long affairs. Sampson is especially interested in the concept of stewardship; he believes that the state universities can and must President, WSU Alumni Association re-examine their fiscal agendas in light of the state's ongoing budget problems and the Margin of Excellence funding impasse, and he is committed to exploring and proposing feasible ways to accomplish this goal. As a regent, Sampson Greetings from the does not believe that fiscal efficiency per se leads to excellence in higher education; as a businessman, he realizes that the Kansas Board of Regents .....................................................................Jack S. Sampson two are not mutually exclusive, and he is excited about the possibilities for revitalization inherent in this challenge to the Member, Kansas Board of Regents state universities. The Wichita State University cordially welcomes Regent Jack S. Sampson's participation in its 1991 Commencement Awarding of Honors ..................................................................Warren B. Armstrong Ceremony. Conferring of Degrees ................................................................ Warren B. Armstrong and Gordon Parks, President's Medal Recipient Gerald S. McDougall Associllte Vice President for Academic Affairs, -~ Gordon Parks has portrayed the human condition and acted as an eloquent spokesman for The Wichita State University humanity through virtually every artistic and communicative medium. He began his career as a photographer, documenting the slums of St. Paul, Minnesota, and photography has Assisted by Jack S. Sampson prevailed as his most abiding and well-known form of expression. However, Parks has also and the Doctoral Dissertation Faculty Advisers been a painter and has composed popular and classical music. He wrote the music and libretto for his ballet, ''Martin." He has written nonfiction, including books on photography and articles on the leaders of the Black Revolution; four books of poetry and photographs; a Closing of the Ceremonies ................................................................ }. Kelley Sowards novel; and four autobiographies, including The Leaming Tree. He was a founder of Essence magazine. His first film was The Learning Tree, for which he wrote the screenplay and musical Recessional ........................................................................... "Brighton Beach," Latham score, then produced and directecl; his other films include Shafi and Leadbelly. He filmed The Odyssey of Solomon Northup, based on a freeman's diary, for PBS's American Playhouse series. The audience shall remain seated during the Processional and the Recessional. Parks has received countless distinguished awards for his achievements, ranging from an ''Emmy'' to the NAACP's Spingam Medal to some 50 honorary degrees from universities nationwide. One treasured award is the Governor's Medal of Merit, struck in honor of his being named Kansan of the Year in 1985. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas and has relatives living in Wichita. Parks has other Kansas ties as well. Martin Bush, Wichita State's vice president for academic resource development, and Charles McAfee, a prominent Wichita architect and friend of Parks, were instrumental in acquiring 170 of his photographs for the permanent collection at WSU's Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art; that significant collection has toured the United States since 1983 and is currently on exhibition in Germany. At any given moment, Parks has many works in progress; however, despite his daunting schedule, he still makes time to be with people, the universal wellspring of all his creative efforts. Last year he came to Wichita to participate in Heights High School's Gordon Parks Festival. Today, to recognize his extraordinary achievements on behalf