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University of Massachusetts Boston Coininenceinent 1 9 9 8 Saturday, May 30 at 11:00 am After the Main Ceremony Diploma presentation ceremonies for individual UMass Boston colleges will be held after the main ceremony. Some graduates will leave the main hall and move to other locations in the Expo Center, followed by their families and friends. Other graduates, families, and friends will remain where they are. To make the Commencement experience as pleasant as possible for everyone involved, we ask all graduates and their guests to follow the instructions below. Information for Graduating Students College of Arts and Sciences graduates, including recipients of graduate degrees, should remain seated after the main ceremony. Graduates of the McCormack Institute should also remain seated. The diploma presentation ceremony for these graduates will be held in the main hall. All other graduates, including recipients of graduate degrees, will be asked to leave in groups, college by college. Graduates should wait until their college is announced. They should then march down the main aisle, following color coded banners for their colleges, to the locations of their ceremonies. The color codes are: College of Management Dark blue College of Public and Community Service Red Graduate College of Education Light blue College of Nursing and Human Performance Peach and Fitness Program Information for Guests As courtesy to the graduating students, we ask family members and friends to remain in their seats until all the graduates have been escorted to their indi vidual college ceremony locations. Guests of College of Arts and Sciences graduates, including recipients of graduate degrees, should remain seated after the main ceremony. Guests of McCormack Institute graduates should also remain seated. The diploma presentation ceremony for these graduates will be held in the main hall. The guests of all other graduates, including recipients of graduate degrees, will be asked to move from the main hall to the individual college ceremonies. Color-coded banners representing each college will be visible at the back of the hall. Guests should gather first near the appropriate banners. They will then be guided to the locations of their ceremonies. The color codes are: College of Management Dark blue College of Public and Community Service Red Graduate College of Education Light blue College of Nursing and Human Performance Peach and Fitness Program The University Mace Symbols of authority and power, maces were originally hand weapons designed for use against armor. Topped by the flame of knowledge, the University mace has the Cniversity seal as a focal point and unif)·ing element. Tassels of maroon and white hang from the shaft offourteen rods of black walnut, SJmbolizing the fourteen counties of the Commonwealth. The head of the mace is gold plate over highly polished brass. Complex curves radiating from the hub in which the seal is centered reflect light in constantly changing patterns, symbolic of the many-faceted environment of the university life. Academic Costume and Regalia Academic regalia represent traditions which come down from the Middle Ages, when European universities were institutions of the church. At that time, robes u-ere a common form of dress, particularlJfor officials of church and state. The cut of the robe, its adornment, and the colors used comprised a specialized heraldry that conveyed the rank and station of the wearer. At the universities, both faculty and students were considered to be part of the church hierarchy and were expected to wear the prescribed gowns. As society moved tou·ard more modern forms of dress, only royalty, clergy, judges, and academics retained the traditional regalia, reserving it only for ceremonial use. 1Hodern academic regalia retain some of the symbols of the earlier forms of ceremonial dress. The gou·n tends to be fullest, longest, and heaviest for the doctoral degree. The sleeves for the bachelor's and master's gowns are t)pically open at the wrist. Cuffs are more common on the doctoral gown, and its sleeves are adorned by three velvet strips, symbolic of the degree. The mantle worn about the shoulders, called the hood, is the remnant offimctional headgear worn for warmth in the unheated classrooms of medieval uni~·ersities. Today its colors refer to the school that granted the degree and the level or discipline of the degree (e.g., naV')' blue for Ph.D., pink for music). The usual colorfor academic gowns in the United States is black. Howe~·er. almost three dozen universities in this country and many others throughout the world hm·e adopted more coloiful robes. In general, this practice has been limited to schools more than one hundred ;·ears old. Among the schools represented by coloiful robes at commencement ceremonies are Boston College, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harmrd, New York, Oxford, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, Tufts, and Yale Universities, and the Universities of California, Kansas, and Rhode Island. Please note: The audience is asked to remain seated throughout this ceremony: At the end of the program, those attending the diploma-presentation ceremony· for College of Arts and Sciences and J1cCormack Institute graduates should continue to remain seated. Diploma presentations for graduates of the College of Management, the College of :Vursing, the College of Public and Community Service, and the Graduate College of Education will take place at other locations in the Bayside Exposition Center, which will be announced by the Prowst at the close of this ceremony: :Vlusicfor the processional and recessional is provided by the [Jniversit)' Brass Ensemble. The flags of various nations on display at this ceremon_Y are a gift of the class of 1987. This program booklet is for ceremonial purposes. The official list of graduates is maintained by the uni~·ersity registrar. ' University of Massachusetts Boston Coininenceinent l 9 9 8 Saturday, May 30 at 11:00 am Bayside Exposition Center Boston, Massachusetts The Program Sherry H. Penney, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Boston presiding The Academic Procession The National Anthem Christina De Vaughn, Class of 2001 Carlton Haynes, Class of 1998 Invocation Rabbi Herb Tobin, Vice President, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life Welcome Sherry H. Penney, Chancellor Greetings of the University William M. Bulger, President, University of Massachusetts Presentation of the Chancellor~s Distinguished Scholarship Award to Manickam Sugumaran Sherry H. Penney, Chancellor Presentation of the Chancellor~s Distinguished Teaching Award to Michael A. Milburn Sherry H. Penney, Chancellor 2 Presentation of the John F. Kennedy Award for Academic Excellence to Andrea Higgins Edward Glynn, Provost Remarks on Behalf of the Class of 1998 Andrea Higgins, Kennedy Award Recipient Conferral of Honorary Degrees Principal Address David McCullough Congratulations to the Graduates Michael G. Murray, Student Trustee Conferral of Doctoral Degrees Conferral of Master's Degrees, Graduate Certificates, and Bachelor's Degrees upon Students from The College of Arts and Sciences The College of Management The College of Nursing The College of Public and Community Service The Graduate College of Education The Program in Human Performance and Fitness The John W McCormack Institute of Public Mfairs Closing Remarks Sherry H. Penney, Chancellor Recessional 3 Reverend Avery Dulles, S.J. Reverend Avery Dulles, S.]., an internationally known theologian, author; and lecturer, Doctor of Laws is Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. He has served on the faculties of Woodstock College (1960-74) and the Catholic University of America (1974-88) and has been a visiting professor at many institutions, among them the Gregorian University (Rome), Campion Hall (Oxford University), Boston College, Notre Dame, Yale, Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Episcopal Seminary, and Weston School of Theology. Father Dulles graduated from Harvard College in 1940, attended Harvard Law School before serving in the United States Navy, and upon his discharge entered the Jesuit Order, receiving his doctorate in sacred theology in 1960 from the Gregorian University. He is the author of over 500 articles and nineteen books, including A Testimonial to Grace (republished in a fiftieth anniversary edition in 1996) and The Priestly Office (1997). He is a past president of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society, and has served on the International Theological Commission. Among his numerous honors are the Croix de Guerre and the Cardinal Spellman Award for distinguished achievement in theology. Throughout his career, with the greatest understanding, clarity of thought, intellectual honesty, and generosity, Father Dulles has pursued ecumenical dialogue while eschewing relativism. His numerous ecumenical activities have included position,; on the Advisory Editorial Board for Ecumenism, Concilium (1963-92), the Academic Council of the Irish School of Ecumenics (1971-78), United States Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue (1972-92), and the Advisory Editorial Board of Mid-Stream: An Ecumenical Journal (1974- ). One aspect of Father Dulles's work especially echoes the life of the public university: In a contentious world, he has maintained both his allegiance to fundamental values and his respect for diversity of opinion. It is