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Emory University The One Hundred Sixty-Seventh Commencement The Fourteenth of May Two Thousand Twelve The Alma Mater Table of Contents In the heart of dear old Emory Where the sun doth shine, Order of Exercises .................................................................... 2 That is where our hearts are turning ’Round old Emory’s shrine. Musical Selections .................................................................... 3 Order of Procession ................................................................. 3 We will ever sing thy praises, Award Recipients ..................................................................... 4 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Honorary Degree Recipients .................................................... 6 Hail the Gold and Blue! Diploma Ceremonies ................................................................ 7 Retiring Faculty and Staff ........................................................ 8 Tho’ the years around us gather, Crowned with love and cheer, Recipients of Degrees-in-Course ............................................... 9 Still the memory of Old Emory Grows to us more dear. Emory College of Arts and Sciences ..................................... 9 Oxford College .................................................................. 14 We will ever sing thy praises, Sons and daughters true. School of Medicine ............................................................ 14 Hail we now our Alma Mater, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ....................... 16 Hail the Gold and Blue! Candler School of Theology .............................................. 17 —J. Marvin Rast 1918C 29T School of Law .................................................................... 18 Roberto C. Goizueta Business School ................................ 19 Rollins School of Public Health ......................................... 23 James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies ....................... 25 Recipients of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree ...................... 26 Recipients of Honors and Prizes ............................................ 36 A Commentary on Commencement ....................................... 49 Emory University Commencement 2012 1 The Order of Exercises Gathering Music Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Processional Atlanta Pipe Band Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Welcome James W. Wagner President of the University Invocation Susan Henry-Crowe 76T Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life Presidential Address James W. Wagner Presentation of the Marion Luther Brittain Service Award John L. Ford Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Presentation of the Scholar/Teacher James W. Wagner and Thomas Jefferson Awards Authorization to Confer Degrees Ben F. Johnson III 65C Chair of the Board of Trustees Conferral of Honorary Degrees James W. Wagner Keynote Address Benjamin S. Carson Sr. Conferral of Degrees James W. Wagner Welcome to the Emory Alumni Association Dirk Brown 90B President, Emory Alumni Board Emory Alumni Association Closing Remarks James W. Wagner Benediction Brendan Ozawa-de Silva 15G, Buddhist Agasha Katabarwa 12C, Christian Harshita Mruthinti Kamath 04C 14G, Hindu Nabil Ahmed Jaffar 12C, Islamic Ariel Wolpe 12C, Jewish Alma Mater Jacob Light 12C Rashon Murrill 10OX 12C Collin Shepard 14C Benjamin Sperling 12C Michael Tseng 12C Recessional Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Guests are asked to please remain seated during the processional and recessional. Please silence any cell phones, pagers, or electronic devices, and refrain from talking during the ceremonies. The Quadrangle ceremony will be broadcast live on Emory Vision Channels 86 and 56 (with captioning) in rooms 206, 207, and 208 in White Hall and at various locations on campus. The Quadrangle and Emory College of Arts and Sciences diploma ceremonies can be viewed on the web at www.emory.edu/commencement. Live-captioning text for these ceremonies can be viewed on Internet-capable mobile devices at tinyurl.com/gradcaption. 2 Emory University Commencement 2012 GATHERING MUSIC THE FACULTIES The Order of Exercises Dance ................................................................. Wilke Renwick CHIEF MARSHAL OF THE UNIVERSITY Two Norwegian Dances ................................Mogens Andressen Professor James Larry Taulbee The Killarney Candle ..................................................Marc Mir Londonderry Air ....................................arr. Daniel Rosenboom THE PLATFORM PARTY Suite from “West Side Story” .........................Leonard Bernstein Vice President and Secretary of the University Girl with the Flaxen Hair .................. Claude Debussy/Sabourin Rosemary M. Magee 82PhD Davenport Blues ..........................................Leon B. Beiderbeck Vice President and Deputy to the President Georgia on My Mind ........................ Hoagy Carmichael/Moore Gary S. Hauk 91PhD Soliloquy ................................................. John Anthony Lennon Chancellor of the University Michael M.E. Johns University Trustees The Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet, under the directorship Recipients of Special Awards of Emory University Organist Timothy Albrecht, performs this Commencement Vocalists morning’s commencement music, which includes arrangements Vice President for Communications and Marketing Ron Sauder by Michael Moore. Senior Vice President for Development Tom Hooten and Michael Tiscione, trumpet and Alumni Relations Susan Cruse Richard Deane*, horn Senior Vice President and General Counsel Stephen D. Sencer Nathan Zgonc, trombone Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Michael Moore*, tuba and artistic director S. Wright Caughman *Emory Artist Affiliates President of the Emory Alumni Board of the Emory Alumni Association Dirk Brown 90B President of the University Senate Erica Brownfield PROCESSIONAL Registrar Thomas J. Millen Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life Susan Henry-Crowe 76T Emory and Old St Andrews .......Henry Frantz 71C 74L/Moore Campus Ministers An Academic Procession ..................... Johannes Brahms/Moore President of The Carter Center John B. Hardman 73FM Prelude to “Te Deum”…….. .Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Moore Director of Yerkes National Primate Research Center Fanfare to “La Peri” ................................................ Paul Dukas Stuart M. Zola Please remain seated while the platform party, faculty, and Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life John L. Ford graduates process into the Quadrangle. Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health James W. Curran Dean of Goizueta Business School Lawrence M. Benveniste Vice Provost for Academic Affairs–Graduate Studies and RECESSIONAL Dean of the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies Lisa A. Tedesco La Rejouissance from Dean of the School of Law Robert Schapiro “Royal Fireworks Music”...George Frederick Handel/Moore Dean of Candler School of Theology Jan Love Dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Please remain seated until the platform party, faculty, and Linda A. McCauley 79N graduates have departed. Dean of the School of Medicine Thomas J. Lawley Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences Robin Forman Dean of Oxford College Stephen H. Bowen ORDER OF PROCESSION Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Earl Lewis THE ATLANTA PIPE BAND Camille Billops James V. Hatch CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE AND Catharine R. Stimpson PROFESSIONAL DEGREES Muhammad Yunus Benjamin S. Carson Sr. Each school is preceded by the bearer of its gonfalon. Chair of the Board of Trustees Ben F. Johnson III 65C Bedel of the University Adam Winfield McCall 12C CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES President James W. Wagner CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF DEPUTY UNIVERSITY MARSHALS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND FACULTY SPONSORS Professor Erica Brownfield, Faculty Marshal Professor Linda Spencer, Faculty Marshal at Large CORPUS CORDIS AUREUM (The Golden Corps of the Heart) Professor Alexander Hicks, Faculty Marshal at Large Members are Emory University alumni from the Class of 1962 Professor Barbara Patterson, or earlier. They are attired in distinctive golden robes. Emory College of Arts and Sciences Emory University Commencement 2012 3 Professor Nancy Newman, Medicine As a nurse practitioner for more than thirty-five years Professor Patricia Bridges, Allied Health and a nationally recognized expert in women’s health and Professor Sally Lehr, Nursing chronic disease management, Sarah Freeman has had a powerful Professor Rex D. Matthews, Theology and lasting impact on her field. She is a prolific researcher and Professor Richard D. Freer, Law writer; serves on editorial boards of leading nursing journals; sits Professor Doug Bowman, Business on the boards of national organizations, such as the National Professor Nancy J. Thompson, Public Health Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH); Professor Vicki S. Hertzberg, Graduate School and has been elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Isabel M. Garcia 99L, Alumni Nurse Practitioners and to Who’s Who in American Nursing. Currently, Freeman is the director of both the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program and the combined Women’s PRESENTATION OF THE MARION LUTHER Health and Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the Nell BRITTAIN SERVICE AWARD Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Furthermore, she teaches bioethics in both the MSN and PhD programs at Emory. This award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on students Throughout her career, Freeman has been a tireless advo- by the university, is an