Convocation SPRING 2016 MAY 30 – JUNE 2 Convocation procession in the Bowl, May 1928. A-1666 UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 1 Spring Convocation 2016 The graduation lists shown in this program were prepared prior to convocation and may not reflect final college decisions regarding each student’s eligibility for graduation. As a result, some of the students listed in this program may not have been formally approved to receive the degree or diploma indicated. The registrar maintains the official list of graduates. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE PETER STOICHEFF Today we celebrate you. We celebrate the with us, whether your path will keep you countless hours you have committed to in Saskatchewan or take you around the learning and research, and all that it is to be a world. When you think of the University of university student. Your efforts are rewarded Saskatchewan, I hope your thoughts are filled today as you receive your degree and join with memories and friendships that will last a 150,000 proud alumni of the University of lifetime. Saskatchewan. Graduands, congratulations on this important The milestone you have reached today is a achievement and my very best wishes as you marker in your life and in the lives of those embark on this next chapter in your life. who have supported and encouraged you. Whether you will begin your career, continue All the best, your education or travel the world, I am confident the time you have spent at the university is a foundation for your success. Our alumni hold a special place in our hearts and I am pleased to welcome you to this Peter Stoicheff worldwide family. I invite you to stay engaged President, University of Saskatchewan UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 3 Spring Convocation 2016 ALUMNI MESSAGE TANYANN BELANEY Congratulations to our 2016 graduates, and No matter where life leads you, you will welcome to the University of Saskatchewan continue sharing the tradition of excellence Alumni Association, which is just turning 100 with your fellow U of S alumni. Your years young. achievements, awards and accolades will add to the ongoing list of accomplishments For the past few years you have spent hours made by U of S alumni. Your name will be in classrooms, laboratories and libraries. You added among the long list of researchers, have spent countless nights writing papers, inventors, business and community leaders, agonizing over the right words. You fell asleep entrepreneurs, authors and artists—virtually studying and woke in a panic because you every field imaginable—to whom future thought you slept through a final exam. You generations of U of S graduates will hold in have consumed more caffeine than you care high esteem. to admit. You ate lunch in Place Riel, studied in In the grand scheme of things, you are a the Murray Library and maybe even took time student for a small amount of time, but an to sit in the Bowl and watch the leaves change alumni forever. I encourage you to keep in colour in the fall. touch with us as you embark on your new You have shared all of these experiences, and adventure. so many more, as University of Saskatchewan Go out and do great things knowing you are students. These experiences are not just a member of the U of S alumni family, and we, shared with those classmates of yours here your family, are proud of you. today, but with everyone who has walked campus since it was founded more than 100 We also look forward to seeing you again years ago. soon as we all reconnect during our centennial celebrations. Today, you share one more experience—you become University of Saskatchewan alumni Tanyann Belaney B.A. (Honours) Dean's List, J.D. and join our family of over 150,000 around the President, University of Saskatchewan world. Alumni Association UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 4 Spring Convocation 2016 THE CHANCELLOR BLAINE FAVEL Blaine is the chancellor of the University served as Grand Chief of the Federation of of Saskatchewan as well as the executive Saskatchewan Indian Nations from 1994-98. chairman of One Earth Oil and Gas Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in First Blaine received his Bachelor of Education Nations business development as an advisor, degree from the College of Education at the entrepreneur and Chief. As an influential University of Saskatchewan, his law degree Plains Cree leader, he has made significant at Queen’s University, and a master’s degree contributions to scholarship, education, public in business administration from Harvard service and the Canadian public good. He Business School. He resides in Calgary, Alberta, was Chief of the Poundmaker Cree Nation and and is the proud father to five children. UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 5 Spring Convocation 2016 The convocation ceremony marks the transition from the role of student to the Our ceremony holder of a degree with its accompanying rights and privileges. The convocation ceremony is are the election of representatives The ceremony, solemnized in the presence a calling together of the new to university governing bodies of the university community and family and graduates of the and the admission of candidates friends of the graduands, consists of three University of Saskatchewan, to degrees. The chancellor, parts: a procession marking the leaving of the old status and entering the new; the symbolizing the historical practice appointed by senate as the chair president’s statement to the graduands, of calling together all former of convocation, is the highest the secretary’s petition and the chancellor’s graduates. In current times, the official and spokesperson of the consent for their admission; followed by major functions of convocation university. individual presentation by a university orator and admission by the chancellor to the degrees to which they are entitled. SHARE YOUR MOMENT! As graduates are admitted to their degrees, a graduation hood, which has a colour #USASKCONVO symbolizing a particular degree, is placed over each graduate’s head. UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 6 Spring Convocation 2016 ENTRANCE Graduands in their academic dress march in procession into the ceremony in the following order: graduands in the order in which their degrees are to be conferred; faculty; board of governors; senate; guests of honour; the president; the chancellor; the lieutenant governor. When the members of convocation reach their places they remain standing during the Vice-Regal Salute, the singing of “O Canada” and the invocation. ORDER OF THE CEREMONY The first business is the conferring of honorary degrees, followed by convocation address, president’s statement to the graduands, the conferring of degrees and the presentation of awards. The meeting is THE ADMISSION Each candidate then comes forward and the closed by the chancellor rising and leading The chancellor then addresses the candidates: degree hood is placed on his or her shoulders. As the orator speaks the candidate’s name in the procession in the reverse order out of “By virtue of the authority vested in me by the hall. full, the candidate moves forward in front of the legislature of this province, and with the chancellor. Then the chancellor says, “I the consent of the council of this university, THE PETITION admit you”. Hereupon the candidate passes to I consent to admit you to the degrees and The university secretary on behalf of all the the chancellor’s right, is greeted by the dean candidates, addresses the chancellor and certificates to which you are entitled and to of the faculty, or designate, and receives the senate in the following words: invest you with all the powers, rights and degree parchment. privileges pertaining thereto.” “Eminent Chancellor, Mr. President, DEGREES IN ABSENTIA members of the University Senate and THE PRESENTATION In such cases, the university secretary says: Board, I present to you the petition of The university orator approaches the chancellor from the left and presents the the Council of this University that the “Eminent Chancellor, in the name of the candidates: candidates to be named, having fulfilled faculties, I ask you to grant the degrees all the requirements of the bylaws, may, “Eminent Chancellor, on behalf of the and certificates, in absentia, to those with your permission, be admitted to the faculty of ______, I present to you these students who have met the requirements to degrees and certificates to which they are scholars and ask that you will confer on graduate, but were not able to be present entitled”. them the degree of _____ .” today.” UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN 7 Spring Convocation 2016 THE CONVOCATION CEREMONY ACADEMIC DRESS DEGREE COLOURS Academic dress lends an element of colourful Black pageantry to the convocation proceedings. black with brite gold lining and white trim Honorary D.Sc. , D.Litt. This traditional clothing—worn on a daily black with brite gold lining and white trim LL.D. basis at universities in earlier times—is now black with green silk lining and brite gold trim Doctor of Philosophy reserved for ceremonial functions. black with green lining and white trim Earned D.Sc. and D.Litt Blue At the University of Saskatchewan, the deep blue band of trim, gold lined hood Doctor of Veterinary Medicine following academic dress is adopted for all deep blue lined hood and band of trim Master of Veterinary Science appropriate occasions: The gown resembles light blue band of trim Bachelor of Science in Agriculture a long cape with full sleeve cut to elbow light blue lined hood and band of trim Master of Agriculture royal blue outside band of trim and silver inside band of tri and terminating in a point for the bachelor’s Master of Public Administration and lining degree; with long sleeve and a semi-circular Bachelor of Science in Renewable Resource singapore blue outside band of trim and blue inside band of trim Management cut at the bottom for the master’s degree; sky blue sating outside band of trim and silver metallic satin inside band of Master of Public Policy and with round open sleeves for the doctor’s trim degree.