Emory University The One Hundred Sixty-ninth Commencement The Twelfth of May Two Thousand Fourteen The Alma Mater Table of Contents In the heart of dear old Emory Where the sun doth shine, Order of Exercises .................................................................... 2 That is where our hearts are turning ’Round old Emory’s shrine. Musical Selections .................................................................... 3 Order of Procession ................................................................. 3 We will ever sing thy praises, Award Recipients ..................................................................... 4 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Honorary Degree Recipients .................................................... 6 Hail the Gold and Blue! Diploma Ceremonies ................................................................ 7 Tho’ the years around us gather, Retiring Faculty and Staff ........................................................ 8 Crowned with love and cheer, Still the memory of Old Emory Recipients of Degrees-in-Course ............................................... 9 Grows to us more dear. Emory College of Arts and Sciences ..................................... 9 We will ever sing thy praises, Oxford College .................................................................. 15 Sons and daughters true. School of Medicine ............................................................ 15 Hail we now our Alma Mater, Hail the Gold and Blue! Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ....................... 16 —J. Marvin Rast 1918C 29T Candler School of Theology .............................................. 17 School of Law .................................................................... 18 Roberto C. Goizueta Business School ................................ 20 Rollins School of Public Health ......................................... 23 James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies ....................... 25 Recipients of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree ...................... 26 Recipients of Honors and Prizes ............................................ 36 A Commentary on Commencement ....................................... 49 Emory University Commencement 2014 1 The Order of Exercises Gathering Music Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Processional Atlanta Pipe Band Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Welcome James W. Wagner President of the University Invocation Rev. Lisa Garvin 03T Acting Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life Presidential Address James W. Wagner Presentation of the Marion Luther Brittain Service Award Ajay Nair Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Presentation of the Scholar/Teacher James W. Wagner and Thomas Jefferson Awards Authorization to Confer Degrees John F. Morgan 67OX 69B Chair of the Board of Trustees Conferral of Honorary Degrees James W. Wagner Keynote Address Hon. John Lewis Conferral of Degrees James W. Wagner Welcome to the Emory Alumni Association Laura Durudogan 85C President, Emory Alumni Board Emory Alumni Association Closing Remarks James W. Wagner Benediction Tenzing Rapden Lama 14C, Buddhist Samuel Blake Mayes 14C, Christian Nandita N. Balakrishnan 14C, Hindu Sahar Rahim 14C, Islamic Hadar Naftalovich 14C, Jewish Alma Mater Fei Gao 15B Collin John Shepard 14C David Goldbaum Shortell 14C Benito Jared Thompson 14C Yedoye Opigo Travis 12OX 14C Recessional Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Guests are asked to please remain seated during the processional and recessional. Please silence any cell phones, pagers, or electronic devices, and refrain from talking during the ceremonies. The Quadrangle ceremony will be broadcast live on Emory Television Channel 28.1 (QAM) in rooms 206, 207, and 208 in White Hall and at various locations on campus. The Quadrangle and Emory College of Arts and Sciences ceremonies can be viewed on the web at www.emory.edu/commencement. View commencement photos, videos, and stories on Twitter and Instagram by following @EmoryUniversity and using hashtag #Emory2014. Stay connected with Facebook and the Emory Mobile App (text “EMORY” to 99699 for information). 2 Emory University Commencement 2014 Gathering Music The Faculties The Order of Exercises Sonata from Die Bänkelsängerlieder ...................... Daniel Speer Chief Marshal of the University Scherzo ...............................................................John Cheetham Professor Bobbi Patterson Villancico ................................................................ Anonymous Jubilate Deo .................................................... Gregor Aichinger The Platform Party Suite of Dances ...................................................... Johann Pezel Vice President and Secretary of the University Central Park Morning .......................................... David Chesky Allison Dykes The Fairest of the Fair .....................................John Philip Sousa Vice President and Deputy to the President Contrapunctus IX ...................................Johann Sebastian Bach Gary S. Hauk 91PhD Georgia on My Mind ........................ Hoagy Carmichael/Moore University Trustees Soliloquy for Solo Trumpet ..................... John Anthony Lennon Recipients of Special Awards Commencement Vocalists Interim Vice President for Communications and Marketing The Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet, under the directorship Nancy Seideman of Emory University Organist Timothy Albrecht, performs this Senior Vice President for Development morning’s commencement music, which includes arrangements and Alumni Relations Susan Cruse by Michael Moore. Senior Vice President and General Counsel Stephen D. Sencer Stuart Stephenson and Michael Tiscione, trumpet Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Richard Deane, horn S. Wright Caughman Nathan Zgonc, trombone Executive Vice President for Business and Administration Michael Moore*, tuba and artistic director Michael J. Mandl *Emory Artist Affiliate President of the Emory Alumni Board of the Emory Alumni Association Laura Durudogan 85C President of the University Senate Deb Houry 94C Processional Registrar JoAnn McKenzie Acting Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life Lisa Garvin 03T Emory and Old St Andrews .......Henry Frantz 71C 74L/Moore Student Ministers An Academic Procession Overture .................. Johannes Brahms President of The Carter Center John B. Hardman 73FM Prelude to “Te Deum”…….. .Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Moore Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health James W. Curran Please remain seated while the platform party, faculty, and Interim Dean of Roberto C. Goizueta Business School graduates process into the Quadrangle. Robert Kazanjian Vice Provost for Academic Affairs–Graduate Studies and Dean of the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies Recessional Lisa A. Tedesco Dean of the School of Law Robert Schapiro La Rejouissance from Dean of Candler School of Theology Jan Love “Royal Fireworks Music”...George Frederick Handel/Moore Dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Linda A. McCauley 79N Please remain seated until the platform party, faculty, and Dean of the School of Medicine graduates have departed. Christian P. Larsen 80C 84M 91MR Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences Robin Forman Dean of Oxford College Stephen H. Bowen Order of Procession Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Claire E. Sterk The Atlanta Pipe Band Ben F. Johnson III 65C Beverly Daniel Tatum Candidates for Baccalaureate and The Honorable John Lewis Professional Degrees Chair of the Board of Trustees John F. Morgan 67OX 69B Bedel of the University Raj Kartik Patel 12OX 14C Each school is preceded by the bearer of its gonfalon. President James W. Wagner Candidates for Master’s Degrees Deputy University Marshals Professor Gray Crouse, Faculty Marshal Candidates for the Degree of Associate Professor Debra E. Houry, Faculty Marshal at Large Doctor of Philosophy and Faculty Sponsors Associate Professor Linda Spencer, Retired, Faculty Marshal at Large Corpus Cordis Aureum (The Golden Corps of the Heart) Professor Arri Eisen, Emory College of Arts and Sciences Members are Emory University alumni from the Class of 1964 Professor Nancy J. Newman, Medicine or earlier. They are attired in distinctive golden robes. Assistant Professor Carolyn Clevenger, Nursing Emory University Commencement 2014 3 Associate Professor Rex D. Matthews, Theology Presentation of the Professor Richard Freer, Law University Scholar/Teacher Award Professor Doug Bowman, Business Associate Professor Nancy J. Thompson, Public Health Chosen by the university president from nominations by the Associate Professor Vicki S. Hertzberg, Graduate School deans on behalf of the United Methodist Church Board of Isabel Garcia 99L, Alumni Higher Education and Ministry. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im Presentation of the Marion Luther Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Brittain Service Award With law degrees from the University of Khartoum This award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on students and the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the by the university, is an expression of gratitude for service University of Edinburgh, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im is an performed without expectation of reward or recognition. The internationally recognized expert on Islam and human rights, award was established at Emory in 1942 through a bequest comparative law, and human rights in cross-cultural perspec- from a distinguished Emory alumnus, former President Brittain tives. He teaches courses in the