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One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth FINAL EXERCISES The Lawn May 19, 2013 The University of Virginia is grateful to the 392nd Army Band from Fort Lee, under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer Five Charles H. Vollherbst, for its participation in Final Exercises. Contents Finals Speaker, 2 Finals Program, 3 A History of Final Exercises, 4 The Academic Procession, 5 Board of Visitors and Administration, 6 Faculty Marshals, 7 Graduation Planning Committee, 8 Graduates and Degree Candidates * School of Medicine, 9 School of Law, 9 School of Engineering & Applied Science, 11 Curry School of Education, 15 Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, 18 School of Architecture, 20 School of Nursing, 20 McIntire School of Commerce, 21 School of Continuing & Professional Studies, 23 Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, 24 Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 24 College of Arts & Sciences, 31 Student and Faculty Awards, 41 Honorary Societies, 43 Locations of Final Exercises and Diploma Ceremonies, 46 Maps, inside back cover The Good Old Song, outside back cover * The degree candidates in this program were applicants for degrees as of May 10, 2013. The deans of the University’s schools will make any necessary changes in the awarding of diplomas and/or the conferral of degrees and report them to the Office of the University Registrar for the official records. In addition, distinction and honor notations in this program are based on coursework completed as of the end of the Fall 2012 semester and may be adjusted based on coursework from Spring 2013. The August 2012 and December 2012 degree recipients precede the list of May 2013 degree candidates in each section. 1 Distinction 2 High Distinction 3 Highest Distinction 4 Honors 5 High Honors 6 Highest Honors 7 Distinguished Majors Program © 2013 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Printing by University of Virginia Printing and Copying Services 1 Finals Speaker The Honorable Jim Webb Jim Webb, former U.S. Senator from Virginia, has been a combat Marine, a counsel in the Congress, an assistant secretary of defense and Secretary of the Navy, an Emmy-award-winning journalist, a film-maker, and the author of nine books. While in the Senate, Mr. Webb was selected to deliver the response to the President’s State of the Union address in 2007, and served on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services, Veterans Affairs, and Joint Economic Committees. He wrote, introduced, and guided to passage the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the most significant veterans legislation since World War II, and co-authored legislation which exposed 60 billion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan wartime-support contracts. A long-time advocate of fixing America’s broken criminal justice system, Mr. Webb was spotlighted in The Atlantic magazine as one of the world’s “Brave Thinkers” for tackling prison reform and possessing “two things vanishingly rare in Congress: a conscience and a spine.” Having widely traveled in Asia for decades, as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee’s Asia-Pacific Subcommittee Mr. Webb was a leading voice in calling for the United States to re-engage in East Asia, meeting frequently with key national leaders throughout the region. In 2009, he led an historic visit to Burma, becoming the first American leader to visit that country in ten years, and opening up the dialogue that resulted in the re-establishment of relations between the two countries. Mr. Webb graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968, receiving a special commendation for his leadership contributions. First in his class of 243 at the Marine Corps Officer’s Basic School, he served as a rifle platoon and company commander in Vietnam and was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal, two Bronze Star Medals, and two Purple Hearts. He graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. Mr. Webb served in the Congress as counsel to the House Committee on Veterans Affairs from 1977 to 1981. In 1982, he led the fight to include an African-American soldier in the Vietnam Veterans memorial on the National Mall. In 1984, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, and in 1987 became Secretary of the Navy. He was a Fall 1992 Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. In addition to his public service, Mr. Webb has enjoyed a varied career as a writer. He taught literature at the Naval Academy. Traveling widely as a journalist, he received an Emmy Award for his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983, and in 2004 was embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan. A screenwriter and producer, his original story Rules of Engagement held the top slot in U.S. box offices for two weeks in April 2000. Mr. Webb has written nine books, including Born Fighting, a sweeping history of the Scots-Irish culture, and Fields of Fire, widely recognized as the classic novel of the Vietnam War. Mr. Webb has six children and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Hong Le Webb. He speaks Vietnamese and has done extensive pro bono work with the Vietnamese community dating from the late 1970s. 1 Distinction 2 High Distinction 3 Highest Distinction 4 Honors 5 High Honors 6 Highest Honors 7 Distinguished Majors Program 2 Finals Program Sunday, May 19, 2013 Academic Procession Gweneth L. West, Grand Marshal Degree Candidates Faculty President’s Party The Pledge of Allegiance The National Anthem, performed by the 392nd Army Band from Fort Lee Welcome Teresa A. Sullivan, President of the University of Virginia Introduction of Finals Speaker Helen E. Dragas, Rector of the University of Virginia Finals Address The Honorable Jim Webb, Former U.S. Senator from Virginia Greetings from the Alumni Association Peter M. Grant II, Chair of the University of Virginia Alumni Association Board of Managers Conferring of Degrees, Ms. Sullivan School of Medicine, Vice President and Dean Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., FAAN, FACP School of Law, Dean Paul G. Mahoney School of Engineering & Applied Science, Dean James H. Aylor Curry School of Education, Dean Robert C. Pianta Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean Robert F. Bruner School of Architecture, Dean Kim Tanzer School of Nursing, Dean Dorrie K. Fontaine McIntire School of Commerce, Dean Carl P. Zeithaml School of Continuing & Professional Studies, Dean Billy K. Cannaday, Jr. Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, Dean Harry Harding College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Dean Meredith Jung-En Woo Final Words to the Class, Ms. Sullivan Academic Recession, The Good Old Song 1 DistinctionWe request2 High Distinction that the audience 3 Highest remain Distinction in place 4until Honors the academic 5 High Honors recession 6 Highesthas passed. Honors The presentation 7 Distinguished of Majorsdiplomas Program will follow at the locations noted in this program. Degree candidates who do not receive their diplomas at school or departmental ceremonies may receive them at the Office of the University Registrar in Carruthers Hall after 2 p.m., Monday, May 20. 3 A History of Final Exercises at the University of Virginia So astute was Mr. Jefferson in determining the basic educational policy for the University of Virginia that the policy has seen very little change in the University’s 194-year history. The colorful ceremony you will see today, however, would not have been held under Thomas Jefferson’s original plan, which did not provide for degrees and diplomas. Although the early students of the University were highly respected for their knowledge, some of them petitioned the Board of Visitors for diplomas to improve their opportunities for employment. Out of deference to the founder, the Board took no action on these requests during Jefferson’s lifetime, but fifteen months after his death, it changed the policy and directed that plans be laid for the first “Public Day” (commencement). In July 1829, the first Public Day was held in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. The program was very long, and it included orations by students. By 1848, the program began with a procession led by students and involved a single address by a prominent person. Public Day was held in the Dome Room until the Rotunda annex was completed in 1853. It was then held in the public hall of the annex until the Rotunda and the annex burned in 1895. When Cabell Hall was completed in 1898, the Public Day programs were held in its auditorium. President Alderman’s inauguration in 1905 brought about the more formal procession as seen today. It is now led by a faculty grand marshal. When the McIntire Amphitheatre was completed in 1921, it became the site for the final exercises. A sudden drenching rainstorm disrupted the 1949 ceremony, sending the soaked graduates and guests into any shelter they could find. The threat of sudden storms and the increased number of graduates caused President Colgate Darden to declare that the 1952 ceremony would be the last to be held in the amphitheatre. Since then, Finals have been held on the Lawn except in bad weather. Even when the ceremonies were held in the amphitheatre, the participants marched from the Rotunda, down the Lawn to the site of the ceremony. Students have long considered it a high privilege to have the opportunity to walk down the Lawn at Finals, and today’s students place an even greater importance on this privilege. So important to many of them is the ceremonial walk down the Lawn, that a number of students, cheated out of a ceremony on the Lawn by bad weather, “confirm” their graduation by processing down the Lawn after Finals.