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77824 CC Comm_• 20-page2013.qx 5/16/13 5:46 PM Page 1 COLORADO COLLEGE t n e CLAS SOF2013 m e c n e m Monday, May 20, 2013 8:30 a.m. m Colorado Springs, Colorado o C 77824 CC Comm_• 20-page2013.qx 5/16/13 5:46 PM Page 2 COLORADO COLLEGE ALMA MATER (O Colorado College Fair) Words and music written in 1953 by Charles Hawley ’54 and Professors Earl Juhas and Albert Seay Song Leaders: Zachary Anderson ’13 , The Back Row Kathleen Carroll ’13 , Ellement Harriet Jacobs ’13 , Room 46 O Colorado College fair, O Colorado College fair, We sing our praise to you; Long may your fame be known; Eternal as the Rockies, May fortune smile upon you, that form our western view; and honor be your own; Your loyal sons and daughters Our Alma Mater always, will always grateful be; Your loyal children we; The college dear to all our hearts Together let us face the future, is our C.C. Hail C.C. AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL (O Beautiful for Spacious Skies) Music written by Samuel A. Ward (1847–1903) Words written by Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) (Selected Verses) In 1893, Katharine Lee Bates was a visiting professor of English literature in Colorado College’s summer session. Bates and a group of faculty members went by prairie wagon and mules to the summit of Pikes Peak. There, inspired by the magnificent panorama, the poet conceived the initial verses of “America the Beautiful.” It was published in 1895 to national acclaim. Song Leaders: Zachary Anderson ’13 , The Back Row Kathleen Carroll ’13 , Ellement Harriet Jacobs ’13 , Room 46 O beautiful for spacious skies, O beautiful for pilgrim feet For amber waves of grain, Whose stern impassioned stress For purple mountain majesties A thoroughfare for freedom beat Above the fruited plain. Across the wilderness. America! America! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, God mend thine every flaw, And crown thy good with brotherhood Confirm thy soul in self-control, From sea to shining sea. Thy liberty in law. Senior Class Gift Each year the graduating class chooses a senior class gift to leave their legacy on campus. This year, the Class of 2013 collectively chose to support The Classes of 2012 and 2013 Fund in Memory of David Blackett ’13 in honor and memory of their friend and classmate. As a class, they hope to leave the legacy of enhanced programming to assist making mental health awareness a broader topic on campus, so that every student feels comfortable reaching out. As of printing, the Class of 2013 raised approximately $2,500. The Blackett Family has also agreed to match some of this funding. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: First Aid: There is a first aid station located on the southwest side of Armstrong Hall. Sign Language Interpretation: Guests who are deaf of hard of hearing may sit in the reserved seats to the north of the stage where we will have sign language interpreters. Photography: A professional photographer will be taking photos of each graduate; however, there is a family photography area roped off to the southeast corner of the stage for loved ones to get close to snap a quick photo. Gown Returns: Graduates need to return their gown to the Colorado College Bookstore. Share your photos and tweets: #coloradocolleg e2013 77824 CC Comm_• 20-page2013.qx 5/16/13 5:46 PM Page 3 THE COLORADO COLLEGE • 131th ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT • MAY 20, 2013, 8:30 A.M. PROGRAM Presiding: Jill M. Tiefenthaler , President of Colorado College *PROCESSIONAL Entrada . G. F. Handel (1685–1759) Voluntary on Old 100th . Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695) Fanfare and Chorus . Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707) Trumpet Voluntary . Henry Purcell Brass Ensemble Jeremy Van Hoy , Colorado College Concert Band Director, Conductor *INVOCATION Bruce R. Coriell , Chaplain *COLORADO COLLEGE ALMA MATER “O Colorado College Fair” . Words and Music by Charles Hawley ’54 and Professors Earl Juhas and Albert Seay WELCOME Jill M. Tiefenthaler , President of Colorado College and Suzanne Woolsey P’97 , ’98 , ’99 , Chairman of the Board of Trustees COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS “The Values of Lifelong Learning, Civic Engagement, and Intellectual Leadership” Marian Wright Edelman , Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Susan Landau Axelrod ’74 , Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters , honoris causa Presented by Owen Cramer , Professor of Classics; conferred by Jill M. Tiefenthaler Raymond D. Jones ’67 , Honorary Doctor of Laws , honoris causa Presented by Timothy Fuller , Professor of Political Science; conferred by Jill M. Tiefenthaler Antonio Skármeta , Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters , honoris causa Presented by Salvatore Bizzarro , Professor of Spanish; conferred by Jill M. Tiefenthaler SENIOR ADDRESS “Our CC” John “Sam” Brody ’13 , Senior Class Speaker CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE Conferred by Jill M. Tiefenthaler Names read by Sandra Wong , Dean of the College and Dean of the Faculty *AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL (Selected Stanzas) O Beautiful for Spacious Skies (1893) . Samuel A. Ward (1847–1903) Words by Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) *BENEDICTION Bruce R. Coriell , Chaplain *RECESSIONAL March of the Earl of Oxford . William Byrd (1543–1623) Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2 . Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1612) Music for King Charles II . Matthew Locke (163 0–1677) Brass Ensemble Jeremy Van Hoy , Conductor Degree recipients and guests are requested to remain in their places until the conclusion of the ceremony. Immediately following the ceremony, degree recipients and guests are invited to the President’s Reception in the Cutler quadrangle. *THE PEOPLE STANDING www.coloradocollege.edu/commencement 77824 CC Comm_• 20-page2013.qx 5/16/13 5:46 PM Page 4 MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN SUSAN LANDAU AXELROD ’74 Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the A liberal arts education comes to fruition in unpredictable Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for ways. Susan Axelrod’s Colorado College education, begun in the disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under year the Block Plan began, and her religion major, prepared her her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for for a career as a physically active, spiritually informed, civically children and families. The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No engaged professional. She found time in her senior year for Child Behind ® mission is to ensure every child “a Healthy Start, a music theory course, and she took a course in the Classics a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start” in life Department. Her skills were honed in the pursuit of a graduate and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring degree in business administration/health services administration families and communities. at the University of Chicago, where she had grown up as a Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law faculty child. School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black But circumstances focused her attention in a unique way. woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Her oldest child, Lauren, began having uncontrollable seizures at Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. seven months old, joining the roughly one percent of Americans In 1968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the with epilepsy, half of whom even now do not have complete Poor People’s Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began seizure control. In the 1980s this disease was more mysterious and organizing before his death. She founded the Washington frightening, and it started Lauren and her parents on 18 desperate Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body years of medications, diets, an electronic implant, and surgical of the Children’s Defense Fund. For two years she served as evaluations, until Lauren finally achieved seizure freedom in 2000. the director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard Rather than simply living through these circumstances, University and in l973 began CDF. Susan Axelrod chose to “turn . anguish into action,” joining Edelman served on the Board of Trustees of Spelman College with colleagues in 1998 to found Citizens United for Research which she chaired from 1976 to 1987 and was the first woman in Epilepsy, which she still chairs. Under her leadership, CURE elected by alumni as a member of the Yale University Corporation has redefined the goals of epilepsy research as ‘no seizures, no side on which she served from 1971 to 1977. She has received more effects.’ CURE funds cutting-edge research grants and sponsors than 100 honorary degrees, including one from Colorado College landmark conferences, beginning with the 2000 National in 1999, and many awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Institutes of Health (NIH) conference “Curing Epilepsy: Focus on Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, and a MacArthur the Future.” CURE’s commitment has earned the group the Child Foundation Prize Fellowship. In 2000, she received the Neurology Foundation’s 2008 Advocacy Award of Merit. Axelrod Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, serves on NIH’s National Advisory Neurological Disorders and and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her Stroke Council, and as a consumer reviewer for the Peer Reviewed writings which include: “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Medical Research Program in the Congressionally Directed Change;” “The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children Medical Research Program within the Department of Defense. and Yours;” “Guide My Feet: Meditations and Prayers on Loving