The Colors of Honor t e x a s l u t h e r a n u n i v e r s i t y Graduation with Honors The gold TLU honors cords are presented to Delta Mu Delta is the international honor Sigma Pi Sigma is the national graduates who have achieved the recognition society for business administration. Honor for physics. Students elected to membership Honors–Cum Laude (3.5 GPA), High Honors– cords are gold and purple. Membership in must attain high standards of general Magna Cum Laude (3.75 GPA), or Highest Delta Mu Delta is offered to the junior and scholarship and outstanding achievement in Honors–Summa Cum Laude (3.9 GPA). senior business majors and minors who rank physics. The society honors its graduates with These cords are presented to the graduates as in the top 20 percent of the students within green and ivory cords. they cross the stage. the Business Administration and Economics Department. Delta ’s central purpose is to confer Alpha Chi is a national academic honor society Iota Tau Alpha distinction upon students of the English open to undergraduates in the top ten percent Iota Tau Alpha is the national honor society for language and literature in undergraduate, of junior and senior classes. The purpose of athletic training education and the colors are graduate, and professional studies. Sigma Tau Alpha Chi is to promote academic excellence red, yellow and blue The purpose of Iota Tau Delta also recognizes the accomplishments of and exemplary character among college Alpha is the promotion and encouragement professional writers who have contributed to students. The colors of Alpha Chi are emerald of scholarly activity in athletic training and the fields of language and literature. The colors green and sapphire blue, signifying victory and the recognition of outstanding achievement of Sigma Tau Delat are black and red. truth. among students enrolled in athletic training education programs. Theta Alpha Kappa, whose color is red, is the Alpha Lambda Delta is the national honor only national honor society serving the needs society for first-year students. Full Lambda Pi Eta, the honor society of the of those involved in the study of religion and/ time students who have earned a minimum communication studies discipline, encourages or theology at both the baccalaureate and GPA of 3.5 in the first semester of university high standards of scholarship and a commitment post-baccalaureate levels of higher education. are invited to join. At graduation, students to professional development. It is named for Honoring excellence in these academic fields is who have maintained a minimum 3.5 GPA Aristotle’s three modes of rhetoric, Logos, its primary puropose. are presented with Alpha Lambda Delta cords, Pathos, and Ethos. Its colors are crimson, three cords in the ALD colors of white, red, to represent the communication studies TLU Honors Program and gold, which are worn with academic discipline, and silver, to represent speech and The Texas Lutheran University Honors regalia. oratory. Program includes students who have demonstrated academic promise through high Alpha Mu Gamma Phi Alpha Theta grades and test scores, interviews, essays, and recommendations. At graduation, students Alpha Mu Gamma is a national foreign Phi Alpha Theta is the national honor society who have completed the honors curriculum ONE HUNDRED THIRTIETH ANNUAL language honor society open to full time in history. The satin worn by are presented with honors medallions to be students with at least two final course grades of society members at graduation are in the worn with academic regalia. “A” in the same foreign language. The students society colors of blue and Madonna red with a must also have maintained a minimum grade multi-colored tassel at each end. point average of 3.0 in all of their college level work. The color of the society is gold, symbolizing truth, light and intelligence. Pi Lambda Theta COMMENCEMENT Pi Lambda Theta is the international honor society and professional association in Beta Beta Beta education. High-ranking students who are Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society seeking teaching certification are nominated members are biology majors in good academic for membership by TLU faculty members. standing who have completed at least 12 The society honors its graduates with gold CEREMONY hours of biology with at least a B average in cords. those courses. The cords are red (representing zoology) and green (representing botany). Psi Chi is the international honor society for EIGHT O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING psychology, and the organization’s colors are Delta Epsilon Iota’s mission is to educate its blue and gold. Students must be psychology membership on career development issues, majors or minors and their GPAs must be SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 encourage students to excel academically, in the top 35 percent of the class, both in and promote the principles of dedication, psychology and overall. Psi Chi sponsors enthusiasm, and initiative in all aspects of service projects and academic activities relating campus life. The colors of Delta Epsilon Iota to psychology. are blue and gold. The Program The Closing Remarks ...... Dr. Cottrell

The Academic Procession (please stand as you are able) Pomp and Circumstance ...... Edward Elgar Performed by Eastern Wind Symphony The Alma Mater (please stand as you are able) (Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0) TLU Alma Mater...... arr. by Roy Norton

O stately college of the plain, Beloved TLU, to thee The memories we’ve gathered here We pledge our love and loyalty. The Invocation...... Ms. Katy Miles-Wallace, M.Div. Of chiming bell and chapel spire Hail to our alma mater fair! Interim Campus Pastor Will live through each advancing year; The truth of Christ shall make us free. TLU Class of 2014 Closing Prayer...... Ms. Elise Gray Member, Graduating Class

The Welcome...... Dr. Debbie Cottrell Benediction...... Pastor Miles-Wallace President

The Academic Recession (please remain standing until graduates and faculty exit)

The Greeting From the Board of Regents ...... Mr. Wesley J. Peoples Chair, TLU Board of Regents TLU Class of 1978 Marshals...... Dr. Linda Wilson Professor of Mathematics and Computer

Assistant Marshals...... Dr. Steve Boehm The Greeting From the TLU Alumni Association ...... Mr. Kevin Boyle Associate Professor of Sociology President, TLU Alumni Association TLU Class of 2012 Dr. Brian Coulombe Associate Professor of Kinesiology

Dr. Casi Helbig Professor of Kinesiology The Presentation of the Candidates...... Dr. Sarah Ferguson Vice President for Academic Affairs

Crucifer...... Ms. Audrey West Member, Graduating Class The Conferring of the Academic Degrees...... Dr. Cottrell Dr. Ferguson The regalia worn by graduates is made in the USA from 100% post-consumer plastic bottles. Music provided by Mrs. Wendi Gustafson, Organist.