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UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Two Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Commencement for the Conferring of Degrees PHILADELPHIA CIVIC CENTER CONVENTION HALL . Monday, May 19, 1980 10:00 A.M. Guests will find this diagram helpful in locating in the Contents on the opposite page under Degrees the approximate seating of the degree candidates. in Course. Reference to the paragraph on page The seating roughly corresponds to the order by seven describing the colors of the candidates school in which the candidates for degrees are hoods according to their fields of study may further presented, beginning at top left with the Faculty of assist guests in placing the locations of the various Arts and Sciences. The actual sequence is shown schools. Contents Page Seating Diagram of the Graduating Students 2 The Commencement Ceremony 4 Commencement Notes 6 Degrees in Course 8 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences 8 The College of General Studies 15 The School of Engineering and Applied Science 16 The Wharton School 24 The Wharton Evening School 27 The Wharton Graduate Division 29 The School of Nursing 33 The School of Allied Medical Professions 35 The Graduate Faculties 37 The School of Medicine 42 The Law School 43 The Graduate School of Fine Arts 45 The School of Dental Medicine 48 The School of Veterinary Medicine 49 The Graduate School of Education 50 The School of Social Work 51 The Annenberg School of Communications 52 The School of Public and Urban Policy 53 Certificates 54 General Honors Program 54 Medical Technology 54 Occupational Therapy 54 Physical Therapy 56 Dental Hygiene 56 Advanced Dental Education 57 Social Work 58 Commissions 59 Army 59 Navy 59 Principal Undergraduate Academic Honor Societies 60 Prizes and Awards 63 Class of 1930 69 Events Following Commencement 71 The Commencement Marshals 72 Academic Honors Insert The Commencement Ceremony MUSIC CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER ROBERT 0. WAHLUND, Conductor First United States Army Band STUDENT PROCESSION PROCESSION OF THE CLASS OF 1930 ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION PAUL F. MILLER, JR., Chairman of the Trustees INVOCATION STANLEY E. JOHNSON, Chaplain THE NATIONAL ANTHEM INTRODUCTION MARTIN MEYERSON, President THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS THE LORD ANNAN, O.B.E. Vice-Chancellor, University of London CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES The President CHARLES ADDAMS Cartoonist Doctor of Fine Arts THE LORD ANNAN, O.B.E. Vice Chancellor Doctor of Laws University of London Member of the Board of Overseers Faculty of Arts and Sciences University of Pennsylvania NNAMDI AZIKIWE First President Doctor of Humane Letters M.S., 1933 Federal Republic of Nigeria Former Chancellor University of Lagos The audience is requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem and The Red and Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the Auditorium. REGINALD H. JONES Trustee Doctor of Laws B.S. in Economics, 1939 Chairman of the Board of Overseers Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Chairman and Chief Executive Officer General Electric Company SOL MYRON LINOWITZ Former Chairman Doctor of Laws Xerox Corporation Former Ambassador to the Organization of American States Member of the Board of Overseers Faculty of Arts and Sciences University of Pennsylvania JERRE GERALANDO MANGIONE Author Doctor of Letters Emeritus Professor of English University of Pennsylvania JAMES A. MICHENER Writer Doctor of Humane Letters ROBERT VENTURI Architect Doctor of Fine Arts Former Associate Professor of Architecture University of Pennsylvania CHIEN-SHIUNG WU Pupin Professor of Physics Doctor of Science Columbia University CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Deans ACADEMIC HONORS VARTAN GREGORIAN, Provost PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTY-YEAR CLASS DAVID C. AUTEN, President of the General Alumni Society CLOSING REMARKS The President THE RED AND BLUE (By WILLIAM J. GOECKEL, 96 and HARRY E. WESTERVELT, 98) Come all ye loyal classmen now, in hall and campus through, Lift up your hearts and voices for the royal Red and Blue. Fair Harvard has her crimson, old Yale her colors too, But for dear Pennsylvania we wear the Red and Blue. Hurrah! Hurrah! Pennsylvania! Hur- rah for the Red and the Blue; Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah for the Red and the Blue. BENEDICTION THE CHAPLAIN RECESSIONAL Commencement Notes The University Commencement of 1780 took place, appropriately, on the fourth "anniversary of American Independence." It was a day of historic signifi- cance not only for the country but for the University of the State of Pennsylvania, which on the past November 27 had become the name of the reconstituted Col- lege of Philadelphia and, thus, the first institution in the new nation to be desig- nated a "university." The political climate of the previous year had, in fact, pre- vented the College from holding a degree ceremony, and eight candidates, held over a twelvemonth, received their academic rewards on July 4, 1780. The church bells in the city began to ring early for the ten oclock morning ceremony. A band ushered into the hall of the University in Fourth Street, the Trustees, Faculty and Graduates, attended by the President and members of the Continental Congress, the Councillors of the state and the Chevalier de la Luzerne, Minister from the Court of France. After listening to the salutatory address on "The Advantages of a Liberal Education," eight expectant collegians received from the Provost, the Reverend John Ewing, the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three medical candidates were similarly rewarded, one of them, David Ramsay, of South Carolina, "now a Prisoner with the Enemy." The conferral of the honorary degrees which followed set several memorable precedents. The first honors from the new "university" went to the notorious propagandist of the American Revolution, English-born Tom Paine. (The career of the new Master of Arts would later take him to France and to membership in the National Conven- tion of that country, in the throes of creation of its own republic.) Of the other eight honorees two centuries ago, four were German clergymen, all then or soon to be either faculty members or trustees here, the Reverend Doctors Helmuth, Kunze and Muhlenberg, all three alumni of Halle, and Weiberg, out of the Uni- versity of Duisburg. They were the first men born and schooled on the continent of Europe who received honorary degrees from Pennsylvania. At the end of four hours, the ships in the port fired their guns and hoisted flags and the exercises of 1780 came to an end. A century later, the University of Pennsylvania had occupied its serpentine stone Gothic buildings "across the Schuylkill" for eight years. Provost Stille, eighth successor to Provost Ewing, had brought about the progressive move to West Philadelphia as well as the long overdue admission to the University, at the beginning of the academic year just ending, of its first black students. Two com- mencements, at both of which he presided, were held in 1880, both in the Academy of Music in downtown Philadelphia where a large audience could be accommodated. The first, in March, witnessed the graduation of one hundred and eleven medical students, all from the United States except for six Cubans and a resident of both Japan and New Brunswick. The Professor of Physiology made the only address, a brief one. It was the principal commencement on June 15 that resembled in ritual its eighteenth century forerunner and, indeed, had almost the characteristics of an operatic marathon. Although the number of degree recipients was small compared to the great body of their successors of 1980-40 Bachelors of Arts or Science, 9 Masters of Arts, 4 recipients of Certificates of Proficiency, 49 Bachelors of Laws, 5 Doctors of Medicine, 16 Doctors of Philosophy, one Doctor of Laws, and one Honorary Master of Arts—the audience, constantly entertained by the rous- ing music of the city's Germania Orchestra, sat through no fewer than twenty- five student addresses. The young orators touched on concerns as diverse as "Russian Nihilism" and "The Steam-Engine in Civilization." In addition, the pro- gram included the individual bestowal of twenty prizes for scholarship. Among the graduates of 1880 were George Woodward Wickersham, LL.B., later Attorney General of the United States, and Miss Mary Alice Bennett, one of two women in cap and gown that day. Miss Bennett, who received the Ph.D.—at that time a degree in course bestowed upon graduate physicians after two further years of medical study—thus became the first woman to receive a doctorate at the University. The order of the participants in the academic processions, since the first Commencement in 1757, has varied. During one period the Provost, Trustees, and visiting dignitaries led the procession, whereas at another time members of the graduating class entered the hall first. Of interest is the fact that in the early 1800's the janitor of the College led the procession carrying the diplomas for the gradu- ates. The order for today's procession is as follows: the candidates for degrees by schools; the Fifty-Year Alumni Class; the Mace-bearer; the Marshals; the Facul- ties and their Deans; the Officers, Associate Trustees, and Trustees; the Candidates for Honorary Degrees; the Provost and the President. The University Mace, the symbol of authority of the University Corporation, is carried at the head of the academic procession by the Secretary of the Univer- sity. The Mace was a gift of the family of William M. Gordon, School of Medicine 1910. It is adorned with the arms and seal of the University, the Penn and Franklin coats of arms, a depiction of the Rittenhouse Orrery, and a thistle sym- bolizing the University's early ties with Scotland. The academic dress stems from the monastic robes of the Middle Ages, when the hood was worn raised for protection in drafty halls.