Eighty-Sixth Commencement Exercises Springfield College
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'The eighty-sixth Commencement exercises Springfield College Xt./~/,ZD Monday, May 29, 1972 Iq'n Co! 'I. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Joseph B. Burns, Chairman Dr. Wilbert E. Locklin, President of the College Charles H. Schaaff, Vice Chairnu:m Dr. Bernard H. McMahon, Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Julius H. Appleton Levi A. Jackson Wilmot 5. Babcock Dean W. Jeffers Dr. T. Erwin Blesh Harold J.lennifer Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Dr. Norman C. Keith Peter 5. Burdett Henry Kusel Wallace V. Camp Dr. Art Linkletter William Carpenter Dr. Edmund T. Manley Arthur H. Christ John E. Mann Ralph L Countryman Louis E. Martinelli Douglass C. Coupe William W. Moore,}r. Solon B. Cousins Dr. Winston Paul Edgar C. Craver Magnus F. Peterson Mrs. Richard A. Ehrlich Chris Schenkel Dr. Herbert E. Evans Joseph A. Shields Irving J. Feist Chauncey A. Steiger Dr. CheSler O. Fischer Edward L. Stoughton Richard C. Garvey Robert R. Thompson, Jr. Ralph M. Goglia Dr. Richard P. Towne, Sr. Dr. Herman O. Grimmeisen John M. Turnbull Donald K. Hacker Dr. Robert A. Utter Edward Harris Stanley G. Van Arsdale Willis H. Hayes Robert W. VanCamp Dr. Richard R. Higgins Rufus Wesson Dr. Melvin I. Holstein Dr. Roberts J. Wright COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES M onday, May Twenty-Ninth Ten o'clock Dean Paul U. Congdon, Presiding Prelude Polacca (2nd Concerto) Carl Maria von Weber First Suite in Eb Gustav Holst Processional Pomp and Circumstance Op. 39, No.5 Elgar Invocation T he Reverend Robert Rue Parsonage Chaplain, Springfield College Audience will stand for Invocation and Hymn Hymn God of OU f Fathers Warren Commencement Address Dr. Glenn A. Olds Conferring of Degrees President Wilbert E. Locklin Alma Mater A Song for Springfield Hyde-Vickers Benediction The Reverend Francis W . Scanlon Chaplain of Newman Apostolate Recessional The Pilgrim, Grand March M . L. Lake Grand Marshal Professor Charles F. Weckwerth Faculty Marshals Dean John 1. Costello Professor Emery W. Seymour Professor Edward J. Sim s Class Marshals Joanne A. Healey '72 Wayne H. Anderson, Graduate Lee E. Keimach '72 Albert G. Sack, Graduate The President's Reception for members of the Graduating Class, Honorary Degree recipients and those allending the Exercises will follow immediately at Doggett Memorial, President's Residence. THE DOCTOR OF HUMANICS DEGREE The faculty and trustees of Springfield College award the Doctor of Humanics Degree to selected individuals whose lives and deeds have exemplified the humanics philosophy of Springfield College. Humanics, within the context of this institution, encompasses the education of the whole man in the service of all men; the integration of the behavioral sciences to focus on man and the development of his potentiality; the harmonization of scientific orientation with the Greek ideal of freedom and the Judea-Christian spirit of love of God and fellow man; and the recognition of the responsibilities of the educated man as a citizen within local. national and internation al communities. HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS ORVILLE H. EMMONS RUTH E. CAMERON Orville H. Emmons is the Associate Secretary General of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations in Miss Ruth E. Cameron served on the Springfield faculty Geneva, Switzerland. He graduated from Springfield College for 17 years, retiring in 1967. She was a specialist in element in 1929, and went into YMCA work in Morris County, New ary education, coming to Springfield from the Wellesley, Mas Jersey. sachusetts school system, serving there as director of elementary education. He served as General Secretary of the Mercer CountyFeder alian of YMCA's from 1937-41, then moved to Boston as As Prior to that poSition she held the same title in Stratford, sociate Siale Secretary for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Connecticut. She has taught at the Utica Country Day School He became State Secretary in 1955, and in1957 was named New Utica, New York, Great Neck New York Preparatory School' England Area Council of YMCA's executive, serving in that and was director of the Halsted School. Yonkers, New York. ' post until moving to the World Council in 1969. Miss Cameron also directed the Head Start Program at While al Springfield College, Mr. Emmons was voted to the college in 1967. She conducted many programs and work Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society. In 1965 he was awarded the shops on the campus for neighborhood children, and was a Tarbell Medallion by the Alumni Association. The Tarbell is familiar figure working with children in the Winchester Square the highest honor given to an alumnus. Mr. Emmons has been area. a member of the Alumni Council, the YMCA-Springfield Col Miss Cameron also served as President of the Mental Health lege Council. and an active member of the Alumni Fund Cam Association of Greater Springfield, PreSident of the Massachu paign in the Boston area. setts Childhood Educational ASSOciation; International Juvenile He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Massa Projection Chairman, Massachusetts P.T.A.; executive chusetts Council of Churches, and a member of the Manage committee, Massachusetts Supervisors of Elementary Education. ment &ard of the North American YMCA " Employed Offi A world traveler, Miss Cameron was also well-known for cers" Emergency Assistance Trust Fund. He has also served her conducting of world tours, leading trips for many years. on the Board of Missions of the New England Conference of She received her bachelor'S degree from Boston University, the Methodist Church. and a ma ster's degree from New York University. DOCTOR OF HUMANICS DOCTOR OF HUMANICS In your life is symbolized the highest ideals of the Young Men's Christian Association and of this College. From early . Teacher, community worker, Professor Emeritus of Spring youth you aspired to a career of service. Your years at Spring fIeld Co~lege-to you goes the greatest tribute students can pay. field College prepared you for such service, culminating in a de In reachmg out to them, in stimulating them to think and learn gree with praise and election to Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society. and care about their fellow men, you have had a lasting impact on Recognizing you as a distinguished alumnus, in 1965 your their lives. Alma Mater presented you with its highest alumni award, the For almost twenty years your noble spirit was reflected in Tarbell Medallion. your students. Interwoven into your teaching was a rare in For more than forty years you have served the YMCA in novative talent. You introduced field trips into the community various capacities, in your native New Jersey, as State Secretary -encouraged study abroad-brought resource people to the in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, director of Camp Becket, campus, poets, artists, creative teachers and writers. The first Executive of the New England Area Council. and, finally, the Head Start program at Springfield was directed by you, and your great honor of being appointed Associate Secretary-General of work in interracial programs both on and off campus has been the World Alliance of YMCAs in Geneva, Switzerland. outstanding. Gentle man-leader of youth-devoted churchman-states For your love of people, for your inspiration to your stu man in the YMCA movement-contributor and editor to YMCA de~ts, ~nd fa.r your exemplification of the Humanics Philosophy publications-for all these and much more, we, the faculty and whIch IS so mtegral a part of this College, we, the faculty and Trustees of Springfield College, recommend you for the de Trustees of Springfield College, recommend you for the degree gree of DOCTOR OF HUMANICS, honoris causa. of DOCTOR OF HUMANICS, honoris causa. GOD OF OUR FATHERS God of our fathers. whose almighty hand Leads forth in beauty all the starry band Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies, OUf grateful songs before Thy throne arise. Refresh Thy people on their toilsome way; Lead us from night to never ending day; Fill all our lives with love and grace divine. And glory, laud. and praise be ever Thine. - George Warren A SONG FOR SPRINGFIELD Now raise a song for Springfield, let hearts and voices blend. To celebrate her praises whose fame shall have no end; While fellowship makes holy, while eager hope elates, And visioned men come thronging her spacious gates. Earth-wide may happy boyhood lift high his wond'ring eyes, Strong youth bring back the vision of earthly paradise; To follow truth to wisdom, nor faint through falt'ring fears, Be this thy task, 0 Springfield, through all the years. - Written and composed by F. S. Hyde Professor of English and Music 1907 -1936 DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION CERTIFI CATE OF ADVANCED STUDY Douglas W. Deyoe Framingham, Massachusetts Roger B. Hatlem Faisall. Ali Springfield College 1970 B.S. Viroqua. Wisconsin Pittsfield, Massachusetts Springfield College 1972 M.Ed . Saint Olaf College 1953 B.A. University of Massachusetts 1968 B.5. Frederick A. Douglas Springfield College 1956 M.S. Springfield College 1972 M.Ed. Winthrop, Maine Donald Hayes Richard Lawrence Amuso Bates College 1952 A.B. Elmira, Ontario. Canada Pittsfield, Massachusetts University of Maine 1963 M .Ed . Springfield College 1961 8.5. Clark University 1970 B.A . Robert Allen Duncan Springfield College 1970 M.s. Springfield College 1972 M.Ed. Windsor, Connecticut Charles L. Hunter Richard Wilson Ault Springfield College 1969 B.s. Potsdam, New York Wayne, Maine Springfield College 1970 M.Ed. State Teachers College of N. Y. at Cortland 1952 as University of Maine 1955 B.A. Bruce Cameron Elliot State University of New York at Cortland 1959 M.5. Springfield College 1972 M.Ed. North Andover. Massachusetts Thomas Allan Knudson Springfield College 1968 B.S. Bridgewater. Massachusetts Thomas M. Bachman Springfield College 1972 M .Ed . McConnelsville. Ohio Slate Teachers College 1955 BS Carol Florence Filosi Springfield College 1966 M.S.