UniversityCommencement of PennsylvaniaCeremony Two Hundred Thirty-Ninth Commencement

MUSIC The 389th United States Army Band John S. Fraser, Commander and Bandmaster STUDENT PROCESSION ALUMNI PROCESSION The Class of 1970 The Class of 1945 Alumni Class Representatives ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION P. Roy Vagelos, Chairman of the Trustees INVOCATION Stanley E. Johnson, Chaplain THE NATIONAL ANTHEM GREETINGS Judith Rodin, President Presentation of the Classes Remarks ACADEMIC HONORS Stanley A. Chodorow, Provost GREETINGS William L. Kissick, Chair, Faculty Senate CONFERRAL OF HONORARY DEGREES The President Jane Alexander ...... Doctor of Fine Arts Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts Stanley N. Cohen, M ‘60 ...... Doctor of Science Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine Mary Maples Dunn ...... Doctor of Humane Letters President, Smith College Harry B. Gray ...... Doctor of Science Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Director, The Beckman Institute California Institute of Technology Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ...... Doctor of Humane Letters Professor of the History of Modern Civilization, College de France Former Director General, Bibliotheque Nationale Alvin V. Shoemaker, W ‘60 ...... Doctor of Laws Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, University of Pennsylvania (1986-1994) Donald M. Stewart ...... Doctor of Laws President, The College Board INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER The Provost COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Jane Alexander Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts ACADEMIC FESTIVE ANTHEM Words by Benjamin Franklin (from Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania) Music by Bruce Montgomery The Commencement Chorus and 389th Army Band Bruce Montgomery, Conductor Obtain the advantages arising from an increase in knowledge. And prevent, as much as may be, the mischievous consequences that would attend a general ignorance among us. Learn everything that is useful and everything that is ornamental. But art is long and time is short. Therefore, learn those things that are likely to be most useful and most ornamental. Fix in the minds of youth deep impressions of the beauty and usefulness of virtue. True merit consists in an inclination joined with an ability to serve mankind. Which ability is (with the blessing of God) to be acquired or greatly increased by true learning; And should, therefore, be the great aim and end of all learning. CONFERRAL OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Deans and the Vice Provost CLOSING REMARKS The President THE RED AND BLUE By William J. Goeckel, Class of 1896 and Harry E. Westervelt, Class of 1898 Come all ye loyal classmates now, But for dear Pennsylvania we wear in hall and campus through, the Red and Blue. Lift up your hearts and voices for the Hurrah! Hurrah! Pennsylvania! Hurrah royal Red and Blue. for the Red and the Blue: Fair Harvard has her crimson, Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! old Yale her colors too, Hurrah for the Red and Blue. The audience is requested to stand BENEDICTION during the Academic Procession, the The Chaplain Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem and the Red and RECESSIONAL Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the field.