Annual Commencement Program 1989
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I THE WICHIT.l\ STATE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT 1989 The Wichita State University NINETY-FIRST ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT SINCE THE FOUNDING OF FAIRMOUNT COLLEGE Saturday Morning, May the Twentieth, Ten O'Clock Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Nine Levitt Arena The Colleges Order of Academic Procession Academic Dress Today's academic dress evolved from caps and gowns worn in medieval universities. The academic gown is the basic garment and by tradition is black for all degrees and ranks. The square caps or mortarboards are part of the prescribed academic dress. Accompanying the gowns are hoods, lined with silk in the official color of the institution conferring the degree and bordered in the color representing the discipline of learning. The color of the tassel designates the student's school or college. The University Marshal Drab-W. Frank Barton School of Business Pink-College of Fme Arts-Music Light Blue-College of Education Green-College of Health Professions The Members of the Class of 1939 Orange-College of Engineering Salmon-College of Health Professions-Nursing Brown-College of Fine Arts Black-Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The Candidates for Degrees Students receiving graduate degrees wear the color appropriate to the degree emphasis. The University Faculty The Board of Trustees Members Receptions The President of the Alumni Association The colleges invite graduates and their families to attend receptions following the commencement ceremony in the locations given below: The Vice President of the WSU Endowment Association W. Frank Barton School of Business-Missouri Valley Lounge, north end, first floor, Campus Activities Center College of Education-Corbin Education Center The Recipients of the Teaching Awards College of Engineering-Lobby, first floor, Wallace Hall College of Fine Arts-Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art The Deans and Other University Officers College of Health Professions-Lobby, second floor, Ahlberg Hall Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Lobby, first floor, Liberal Arts and Sciences Building The Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculties Graduate School-The reception of the college of the major field of study The President of the Student Government Association The Wichita State University Mace The President of the Faculty Senate As the official symbol of the University's authority and power, the mace is carried in today's academic procession by The Representative of the Kansas Board of Regents University Marshal J. Kelley Sowards. The mace was commissioned in 1978 by Paul J. Magelli, former dean of Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as a memorial to his twin brother, Peter M. Magelli, and presented for the first time The Recipients of the Fairmount Founders' Award at the 1980 commencement. Designed by artist Jonathan Graham Bonner of Providence, Rhode Island, the mace is executed primarily in stainless steel, gold and silver. The head of the mace is a gilt frame with 22 stainless steel spikes. The points are sterling silver. A The Recipient of the Board of Trustees' Award silver ball engraved with the three seals of The Wichita State University-Fairmount College, the Municipal University of Wichita and The Wichita State University-is suspended in the frame by two springs. The shaft is a stainless steel spring The Recipient of the President's Medal and the handle is a gilt ball set with nine hematites. The President of Dankook University The Presidential Medallion The President of The Wichita State University The Presidential Medallion symbolizes the three distinct historical phases of the University. Using imagery derived from the official seals of Fairmount College, the Municipal University of Wichita and The Wichita State University, three medallions engraved in 14-carat yellow gold fonn the trihedral center of the ceremonial anaglyph. This centerpiece is surrounded by two sterling silver hyperbolic forms designed to complement the University Mace. The Presidential Medallion is hung from black silk trimmed with gold. The medallion was designed and constructed by Wichita artists Michael J. Oliver and Glenice Lesley Matthews in 1983. 3 Commencement Program 1989 Commencement Speaker Choong-sik Chang Processional ...................................................... ''Pomp and Circumstance," Elgar The Wichita State University Commencement Band Choong-sik Chang, president of Dankook University in Seoul, Korea, received Myles A. Mazur, Conductor the BA degree from Seoul National University in 1956 and the MA degree from Korea University in 1960, both in history. He began his postgraduate studies at Opening of the Ceremonies ......................................................}. Kelley Sowards Brigham Young University in 1963 and received the PhD degree from Pusan National University in 1967. From 1966 to 1967 he was dean of Dankook College Marshal, The Wichita State University and in 1967 he became president of Dankook University. He is married to Dong-soon Shin. Invocation ........................................................... The Reverend Richard D. Lewis Chang has served as president, adviser and chair for many sports associations Ecumenical Christian Ministries at the collegiate and national levels. He was a member of the 1988 Seoul Olympics Organizing Committee and is vice chair of the Korean Olympic Welcome and Introduction of Committee. Platform Guests ................................................................... Warren B. Armstrong He has received awards and honors both in Korea and abroad. In 1972, he received Korea's National President, The Wichita State University Award, the Moran-jang Medal. Ohio Northern University and Montpellier University, France, have awarded. him the honorary LLD degree. In 1986, Chang received Korea's National Award for Athletics. Dankook University and The Wichita State University have forged an active exchange program involving Greetings from the faculty and research activities. This program affirms the University·s commitment to campus-community Kansas Board of Regents .............................................................Linwood Sexton interaction for the mutual benefit of both-in this case, at the international level. In 1986, President Warren B. Member, Kansas Board of Regents Armstrong presented Dankook University's commencement address; today, The Wichita State University is delighted that President Choong-sik Chang can affirm that vital exchange program by presenting Wichita Awarding of Honors ........................................................... Warren B. Armstrong State's 1989 commencement address. Assisted by Michael R. Meacham Chairman, Board of Trustees President's Medal Commencement Address........................................................ Choong-sik Chang President, Danlwok University, Seoul, Korea H. Marvin Bastian .. Translation by Dae H. Chang Professor of Administration of Justice, H. Marvin Bastian is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the The Wichita State University Fidelity Investment Company and Fidelity Savings Association of Kansas. He was born in Danbury, Nebraska and attended the University of Kansas, but his Conferring ofDegrees................. ........................................ Warren B. Armstrong good works on behalf of The Wichita State University and the City of Wichita and have established him as a valuable member of both "families." Over the years, his commitment to campus and civic involvement has been Joyce A. Scott abundantly demonstrated. He has served as president of the WSU Endowment Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Association, the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce, Wichita Rotary, Quivira and Dean of Faculties, Council of Wichita and United Way of Wichita and Sedgwick County. For 20 The Wichita State University years he was a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America's board of directors. He is a past chairman of the Kansas Savings and Loan League and Assisted by Linwood Sexton the WSU Board of Trustees. Currently, Bastian is chairman of the Kansas State Savings and Loan Board; a member of the Research Benediction .................................................................................. Richard D. Lewis and Education Trust Fund Committee; and a board member of St. Francis Regional Medical Center, the Wichita Art Museum Endowment Board, the Wichita Symphony Society, the Kansas Coliseum, the Kansas Closing of the Ceremonies ........................................................ }. Kelley Sowards Society for Crippled Children, the Wichita Metropolitan Council, the Downtown Action Corporation, the Greater Wichita Community Foundation, the Wichita/Sedgwick County Long-Range Planning Task Force, Recessional ......................................................................... ''British Eighth," Elliott and the WSU Endowment Association and Board of Trustees. Marvin Bastian's commitment to Wichita and Wichita State has been extraordinary; today, with deepest gratitude, The Wichita State University awards him the President's Medal in recognition of his exemplary service and leadership. The audience shall remain seated during the Processional and the Recessional. 5 4 Board of Trustees ' Award 1989 University Awards Lionel D. Alford Excellence in Teaching Award Lionel D. Alford is senior vice president of The Boeing Company. Alford began his illustrious aviation career as a World War II pilot. In 1951 he received. the BS As one of its final acts, the University of Wichita Board of Regents