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Duke University Commencement ~ 2010 Sunday, the Sixteenth of May, Two Thousand and Ten ten o’clock in the morning ~ wallace wade stadium Duke University Commencement ~ 2010 One Hundred Fifty-Eighth Commencement Notes on Academic Dress Academic dress had its origin in the Middle Ages. When the European universities were taking form in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, scholars were also clerics, and they adopted Mace and Chain of Office robes similar to those of their monastic orders. Caps were a necessity in drafty buildings, and Again at commencement, ceremonial use is copes or capes with hoods attached were made of two important insignia given to Duke needed for warmth. As the control of universities University in memory of Benjamin N. Duke. gradually passed from the church, academic Both the mace and chain of office are the gifts costume began to take on brighter hues and to of anonymous donors and of the Mary Duke employ varied patterns in cut and color of gown Biddle Foundation. They were designed and and type of headdress. executed by Professor Kurt J. Matzdorf of New The use of academic costume in the United Paltz, New York, and were dedicated and first States has been continuous since Colonial times, used at the inaugural ceremonies of President but a clear protocol did not emerge until an Sanford in 1970. intercollegiate commission in 1893 recommended The Mace, the symbol of authority of the a uniform code. In this country, the design of a University, is made of sterling silver throughout. gown varies with the degree held. The bachelor’s Significance of Colors It is thirty-seven inches long and weighs about gown is relatively simple with long pointed Colors indicating fields of eight pounds. At the lower end of the hammered sleeves as its distinguishing mark. The gown for study and colors identifying shaft is a gilt (gold-plated) pine cone. The the master’s degree has an oblong sleeve with some of the universities upper end of the shaft displays the inscription the rear part cut square and the front part with represented by members Universitas Dukiana 1838. This inscription is a cutaway arc. The most elaborate academic of the faculties of the surmounted by a short, hammered neck followed costume is the doctoral gown with velvet panels University are: by the head which has eight flutings alternating down the front and three bars of the same with eight gilt ribs. Above the head of the mace, material across the sleeves. The velvet is usually Arts, Letters, Humanities: white a band carries the motto of Duke University: black, but it may be a color designating the Business Administration: drab Eruditio et Religio. The upper end of the mace is a field of study to which the degree pertains. The Dentistry: lavender crown of gilt laurel leaves which carries the seal gown itself, usually black like those of the lower Divinity, Theology: scarlet of Duke University surrounded by the three degrees, may be of a color distinctive of a Economics: copper Education: light blue symbols of the Trinity to indicate that Duke particular university. Engineering: orange University emerged from Trinity College. The hood bears a still larger symbolic burden: Fine Arts: brown the width of its velvet trimming designates Forestry: russet The Chain of Office of the President of Duke Law: purple the level of the degree; the color heralds the University is four feet long and is also made of Medicine: green sterling silver throughout. The main part major field of study; and the lining identifies Music: pink the institution that granted the degree. Duke Nursing: apricot consists of nine silver pine cones alternating University is symbolized by a lining of Duke Philosophy: dark blue with ten gilt clusters of three laurel leaves each. blue with a white chevron. Physical Therapy: teal In the front hangs the gilt medallion with the Science: golden yellow official seal of Duke University surrounded by a The cap, originally round, is usually a square laurel wreath into which are set the three mor-tar-board and is the same for all degrees. symbols of the Trinity. In the back is the gilt coat The standard tassel for the cap is black, but the of arms of the Duke family with the motto cap worn with the doctoral robe may have a In Adversis Idem set in a sterling wreath of laurel gold tassel. The Duke doctoral gown is in the leaves and bearing the inscription Duke. authentic Duke blue. The Duke University shield, embroidered in blue on white, is applied to each front panel. With this gown there may be worn a black velvet, four-pointed, soft tam with a square top and a gold metallic bullion tassel. Two Thousand Ten Commencement 1 Commencement Program Presiding Richard H. Brodhead, President of the University When the Wind Symphony sounds the fanfare for the entrance of the faculty, the audience and candidates will rise and remain standing through the prayer. Processional March Flourish for Wind Band Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Candidates for Degrees Members of the Faculty Members of the University Administration Members of the Board of Trustees Members of the Platform Party National Anthem Nancy Cheng, Amanda Susan Cummings, Caroline Lanier Griswold, Katherine Anne Morrison Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts Georgia Hopkins Hoyler Candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Science Genevieve Marie Lipp Candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering Invocation Samuel Wells, Dean of the Chapel Welcoming Remarks Remarks by a Student David Scott Distenfeld Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Conferring of Honorary Degrees Introduction Daniel T. Blue, Jr., Chair, Board of Trustees Commencement Address Muhammad Yunus Conferring of Earned Degrees Introduction and Presentations Peter Lange and Deans Concluding Remarks Alma Mater Sara Avari Patrick Womble Candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts The audience stands for the Alma Mater and remains standing until the platform party and the faculty leave the Stadium. Dear Old Duke, thy name we sing. And though on life’s broad sea To thee our voices raise, we’ll raise, Our fates may far us bear, To thee our anthems ring We’ll ever turn to thee in everlasting praise. Our Alma Mater dear. —R. H. James ’24 Procession Out Crown Imperial William Walton (1902-1983) “… In Beauty Bearing the Crown Imperial…” DUKE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES 2 Honorary Degree Recipient Temple Grandin Doctor OF Humane Letters Faculty Sponsor — Alvin L. Crumbliss Trustee Sponsor — Janet Hill As Temple Grandin Dr. Grandin has traveled the globe implementing likes to put it, her unique design for curved livestock handling she is a professor of chutes, which are now in almost half of the cattle animal science at facilities in North America. She is considered an Colorado State expert in flight zone and other principles of grazing University and an animal behavior that reduce stress on animals expert in humane during handling and are considered more humane. livestock facilities design and animal behavior who happens to be autistic. A native of Boston, She is also one of the leading advocates and Dr. Grandin was diagnosed with autism at an authorities on autism —a theme she writes about early age and struggled throughout her childhood in her books Emergence: Labeled Autistic and as she adapted to the difficult aspects of her Thinking in Pictures, both groundbreaking works disorder. By the time she reached high school, that changed the way that healthcare professionals she began to flourish both academically and and parents look at the diagnosis and treatment socially under the tutelage of a mentor, her high of autism. She is the author of Animals in school science teacher and support from her family. Translation and Animals Make Us Human, both A gifted student with a photographic memory, New York Times best sellers. she graduated from Franklin Pierce College and This past February, HBO aired a full-length film received her master’s from Arizona State University based on Dr. Grandin’s life. She has also been and a Ph.D. in animal science from the University featured on NPR, BBC radio and was recently of Illinois. named one of Time’s “Most Influential People of 2010.” She has been honored by the American Society of Animal Science, American Veterinary Medical Association, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Autism Society of America. Two Thousand Ten Commencement 3 Honorary Degree Recipient Joel Klein Doctor OF Humane Letters Faculty Sponsor — Charles T. Clotfelter Trustee Sponsor — Marguerite W. Kondracke Joel Klein has After attending New York public schools himself, been chancellor of Mr. Klein went on to graduate from Columbia the New York University and to earn a law degree from Harvard City Department Law School. Before being named chancellor, of Education, he was chairman and chief executive officer of the nation’s largest Bertelsmann, Inc., one of the world’s largest media public-school companies, and assistant attorney general in district, since 2002. He oversees more than 1,600 charge of the U.S. Department of Justice’s schools, 1.1 million students, 136,000 employees, antitrust division. and a $21 billion operating budget. Mr. Klein once told the New Yorker that he’d long Mr. Klein’s effective yet sometimes controversial felt a “passion” about education and was indebted education-reform program, considered by many to the “phenomenal teachers” who schooled him to be the most sweeping reform platform ever in his youth. He recounts that when he first got to attempted in a major urban school system, has Columbia, the dean told him, “you should shoot transformed New York schools into an incubator to graduate in the middle of your class; you come for achievement.
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