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CEMENT MAY 9, 1992 ·_···:·:~ ... '":' ··,. WSU Branch Campus and Center Ceremonies Commencement-related ceremonies will be held at all WSU branches and centers according to the following schedule: WSU Intercollegiate Center for Nursing 4:00 p.m., Friday, May 8-The Spokane Education Metropolitan Performing Arts Center WSU Seattle Center for Hotel and 7:00 p.m., Thursday, June I I-Pigott Restaurant Administration Auditorium, Seattle University WSU Spokane 4:00 p.m., Friday, May 8-The Spokane Metropolitan Performing Arts Center WSU Tri-Cities 7:00 p.m., Friday, May IS-Richland High School Auditorium, Richland WSU Vancouver 7:00 p.m., Sunday, May IO-Evergreen High School Auditorium, Vancouver COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES NINETY-SIXTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT Nine O'Clock Saturday, May Ninth Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-two Pullman, Washington Commencement Recognition Ceremonies will be held following the All-University Commencement Exercises. Time and location can be found immediately preceding the list of degree candidates, by college. ••• 2 COMMENCEMENT 1992 Washington State University, on the occasion of its 96th annual commencement, cordially welcomes all those who have come to the Pullman campus to share in ceremonies honoring the members of the graduating class of 1992. All are encouraged to attend the College and School Commencement Recognition Ceremonies being held throughout the day. To the members of the Class of 1992, the university extends sincere congratulations. Washington State University is dedicated to the preparation of students for productive lives and profes sional careers, to basic and applied research in a variety of areas, and to the dissemination of knowledge. The university consists of seven colleges, a graduate school, an Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education in Spokane and Yakima, the Center for Hotel and Restaurant Administration in Seattle, and branch campuses in Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver. It also has extension offices in all 39 counties, four research centers, and 16 small business development offices statewide. The university also is responsible for administration of the Washington Higher Education Telecommuni cations System, which transmits courses to four locales. For nearly a century, Washington State University has offered strong and diverse programs. From its founding in 1890, liberal arts and sciences have occupied an important place in the curriculum along with business, education, nursing, pharmacy, and the traditional land-grant programs in agricul ture, home economics, veterinary medicine, and engineering. WSU now offers more than 100 major fields of study to undergraduate students. Bachelor's degrees are available in all major areas. Master's and doctoral degrees are available in most subject areas. The Honors Program is one of the few all university programs for superior students at a major American institution of higher learning. The faculty, including a substantial number of scholars with national and international reputations, is charged with the development of instructional methods that will open students' minds to the most recent knowledge and discoveries. The opportunity for students to know and work closely with their instructors is one advantage of a residential campus. Washington State University at Pullman is one of the largest residential universities west of the Mis sissippi. Of the approximately 14,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, about half live on campus in university housing or in fraternities or sororities. Here, students of diverse social, eco nomic, and ethnic backgrounds from throughout the nation and more than 80 foreign lands come together in a community in which education is the principal industry and human development the primary concern. Approximately 1,700 additional students were enrolled in courses this year at the university's branch campuses. As the branch campuses in Spokane, Tri-Cities, and Vancouver develop over the next five years, this enrollment is expected to multiply to several thousand, providing educational opportu nities for place-bound citizens for whom access to higher education heretofore has been limited. The 1992 Commencement Program includes those degree candidates from Au gust 1991 through May 1992. Those previously awarded degrees are denoted with an asterisk(*). Appearance of a name in this program is presumptive evi dence of graduation and graduation honors, but it must not in any sense be regarded as conclusive. The university diploma, signed and sealed by its proper officers, remains the official testimony of the possession of the degree. 3 The Commencement Procession Candidates for Advanced Degrees University Faculty Regents of the University Honored Guests of the University President of the University Order of Exercises Music by Washington State University Wind Symphony 8:15 a.m. Presiding-Dr. Samuel H. Smith, President Processional Washington State University Wind Symphony Professor L. Keating Johnson, Conductor Posting of the Colors Army ROTC Color Guard The National Anthem Washington State University Wind Symphony Professor Paul Klemme, Song Leader Greetings and Introductions Dr. Samuel H. Smith Commencement Address Mr. James R. Ellis, Chairman Washington State Convention and Trade Center President's Faculty Excellence Awards Instruction: Dr. Richard S. Williams Research: Dr. Rodney Croteau Public Service: Dr. John C. Little ''The Lord of the Rings Gandalf" by Johan de Meij Washington State University Wind Symphony Bachelor's Degrees Advanced Degrees Alma Mater The Assembly Recessional Washington State University Wind Symphony SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS AND FRIENDS: Professional photographers will photograph all candidates as they receive their diploma covers from the deans at the all-university and college commencement ceremonies. A photo will be mailed to each graduate, and additional photos may be purchased at reasonable rates. Parents and friends of the graduates are asked to remain in their seats during the ceremonies. 4 AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF COMMENCEMENT1 BACKGROUND Universities that developed during the Middle Ages formulated academic practices that are still fol lowed today. This medieval heritage has provided us with a teaching institution-the university; a method of measuring academic progress-degrees; and a structure for an appropriate ceremony recognizing the student's achievement-commencement. In medieval times, a master (from the Latin magister, "teacher") was a person licensed to teach by the chancellor of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. As the number of masters increased, they ultimately formed a guild. The word universitas was a common term applied to any collectivity, including that of guilds. The university probably took form around 11 70 as a guild of teachers rather than a union of faculties. It was sanctioned by Pope Innocent III in 1210 in a bull which recognized and approved the written statutes of the teachers' guild. By approximately 1250 the University of Paris masters were divided into four faculties: theology, canon law, medicine, and the arts. The arts students, by far the greatest number, correspond to our "undergraduates" of today. They ultimately organized themselves into "nations" based on the geographical regions of Europe from which they came. The universities, international in their appeal both to students and scholars, sought and received support from the papacy. Students attended classes, heard lectures, and engaged in disputations, but there appears to have been no examination unless a student determined to become a master. After four or five years of resident study, the student, indicating an intention to become a master, would be tested. Passing these trials, the candidate would don a special gown and take a seat with the bachalari, or bachelors. This ceremony was often followed by a feast. Between the baccalaureate and the master's degree, the student ob tained a licentiate, an authorization to teach. Until the Civil War, the American college system was based on the English model. Most colleges stood alone, rather than being part of a university, and the baccalaureate was the only earned degree awarded. The curriculum was invariably classical and essentially the same as in the Middle Ages. Since there was little opportunity for postbaccalaureate study in the United States, students sought higher education abroad. After 1815, perhaps reflecting the nationalism born of the War of 1812, students increasingly attended German universities and returned with the concept of higher degrees as earned degrees based on a specified curriculum and embracing independent research. The post-Civil War period received impetus from another direction also. The Morrill Act, adopted by Congress in 1862, established the land-grand college system-of which WSU is a part-which led to a rapid increase in public universities and an extension of graduate study. The expansion of the curriculum into new fields of specialization to meet the needs of an increasingly industrial soci ety led to multiplication of degree titles to identify the areas of educational experience and speciali zation. 1Information for this section was excerpted from the files in the WSU Registrar's Office and from Admissions, Academic Records, and Registrar Services, published by Jossey Bass, Inc., 1987 edition. 5 COMMENCEMENT Commencement is the special occasion that provides public recognition of the academic achieve ment of students after four or more years of study by awarding a diploma specifying