UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Two Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Commencement for the Conferring of Degrees PHILADELPHIA CIVIC CENTER CONVENTION HALL Monday, May 18, 1981 10: DO A. M. Guests will find this diagram helpful in locating in the Contents on the opposite page under De- the approximate seating of the degree candidates. grees in Course. Reference to the paragraph on The seating roughly corresponds to the order by page seven describing the colors of the candidates school in which the candidates for degrees are hoods according to their fields of study may fur- presented, beginning at top left with the Faculty of ther assist guests in placing the locations of the Arts and Sciences. The actual sequence is shown various schools. Contents Page Seating Diagram of the Graduating Students 2 The Commencement Ceremony 4 Commencement Notes 6 Degrees in Course 8 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences 8 The College of General Studies 16 The School of Engineering and Applied Science 17 The Wharton School 23 The Wharton Evening School 26 The Wharton Graduate Division 28 The School of Nursing 32 The School of Allied Medical Professions 34 The Graduate Faculties 35 The School of Medicine 39 The Law School 40 The Graduate School of Fine Arts 42 The School of Dental Medicine 44 The School of Veterinary Medicine 46 The Graduate School of Education 46 The School of Social Work 48 The Annenberg School of Communications 49 The School of Public and Urban Policy 49 Certificates 50 General Honors Program 50 Medical Technology 50 Occupational Therapy 50 Physical Therapy 52 Dental Hygiene 52 Advanced Dental Education 53 Social Work 53 Commissions 54 Army 54 Navy 54 Principal Undergraduate Academic Honor Societies 55 Prizes and Awards 58 Class of 1931 64 Events Following Commencement 65 The Commencement Marshals 66 Academic Honors Insert The Commencement Ceremony MUSIC Pennsylvania Pro Musica Brass and Percussion Ensemble FRANKLIN B. ZIMMERMAN, Conductor STUDENT PROCESSION PROCESSION OF THE CLASS OF 1931 ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION PAUL F. MILLER, JR., Chairman of the Trustees INVOCATION STANLEY E. JOHNSON, Chaplain THE NATIONAL ANTHEM INTRODUCTION SHELDON HACKNEY, President THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. President, National Urban League CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES The President JAMES A. BALDWIN Writer Doctor of Letters JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN John Matthews Manly Doctor of Humane Letters Distingushed Service Professor University of Chicago VERNON E. JORDAN, JR. President Doctor of Laws National Urban League The audience is requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem and The Red and Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the Auditorium. STELLA KRAMRISCH Curator of Indian Art Doctor of Laws Philadelphia Museum of Art Emeritus Professor of South Asian Art University of Pennsylvania LYMAN CUNNINGHAM OGILBY Bishop of the Episcopal Doctor of Laws Diocese of Pennsylvania FRANCIS OTTO SCHMITT Institute Professor Emeritus Doctor of Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology LINCOLNS GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Bruce Montgomery The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club BRUCE MONTGOMERY, Director CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Deans ACADEMIC HONORS Louis A. GIRIFALCO, Acting Provost PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTY-YEAR CLASS SARA SPEDDEN SENIOR, President of the General Alumni Society CLOSING REMARKS The President THE RED AND BLUE (By WILLIAM J. GOECKEL, '96 and HARRY E. WESTERVELT, '98) Come all ye loyal classmen now, in hall and campus through, Lift up your hearts and voices for the royal Red and Blue. Fair Harvard has her crimson, old Yale her colors too, But for dear Pennsylvania we wear the Red and Blue. Hurrah! Hurrah! Pennsylvania! Hur- rah for the Red and the Blue; Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah for the Red and the Blue. BENEDICTION THE CHAPLAIN RECESSIONAL Commencement Notes As the War of the American Revolution moved through the decisive events of 1781, which, in October, would culminate in the Allied victory at the Battle of Yorktown, the University of the State of Pennsylvania observed its annual com- mencement on the fourth of July. The day, a relatively new anniversary, was already of profound significance to the nation and nowhere more so than in the capitol city of Philadelphia. As in 1780, the ceremony, in the big brick hall of the University in Fourth Street, was attended by members of the Congress led by their President, Samuel Huntington, of Connecticut, by representatives of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania and by Luzerne, Minister of France. The candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts numbered only six. Two candidates were presented for the honorary Master of Arts degree. Both were Philadelphians and recent graduates of Nassau Hall: William Barton, to whom we owe the design of the pyramid which appears on the reverse of our national seal and on the one dollar bill, and William Bradford, Jr., who later became Attorney General of the United States. In the normal way, the six hour long commencement would have been cheerful, pompous and exhausting, but relatively uneventful. However, in 1781, the exercises took an unexpected turn when senior Francis William Murray rose to deliver his oration, "Is it for the Interests of America to be independent of Great Britain?" Murray was an ardent young patriot; he spoke, as his audience would wish, dwelling on the success of American arms backed by the French Alliance and on the horrors of war wrought on American soil. The guests were invited to hear "the piercing shrieks of the insulted virgin" and to see "e'en our sacred temples wrapt in flames" and Murray dutifully censored the traitor, Benedict Arnold. For some unexplained reason, however, his rambling discourse deplored the fate of Major John Andre, the British spy who had gone to the gallows with conspicuous courage. The University trustees thereupon halted the proceedings and announced that Murray's diploma would be withheld. This dramatic action made the 1781 commencement unique in our history. In 1881, the University of Pennsylvania, a century older, occupied its new buildings in West Philadelphia. Its growth called for two commencements, both held that year at the Academy of Music. The first, in March, witnessed the con- ferral of 122 medical degrees upon young Americans from 18 states, of eight diplomas to future physicians from Australia, Brazil, Canada and Cuba, as well as the awarding of 48 doctorates in dental surgery to 38 United States citizens and to ten men who also came here to study from Brazil, Canada, Cuba, and Norway. Among the American dental graduates was James Brister, the first student of color to receive a Pennsylvania degree. With other alumni and alumnae of his race, Brister has been honored this year by a cultural program commemorating a century of the black presence at this University. The principal, if smaller, June commencement one hundred years ago pro- vided the occasion upon which Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania received the only honorary degree of the day, the LL.D., and it witnessed the receipt of degrees in course or certificates by 70 collegians and the creation of 51 new Bachelors of Laws. Among the company of future bankers, lawyers, brokers, college professors and clergymen, all but a handful of whom were American born, was a brilliant representative of another minority, a native of Warsaw, Morris Jastrow, Jr., A.B., a philologist, who five years later became the first Jew appointed to a professorship at Pennsylvania. While academic procedure changes slowly and musical accompaniment and oratory are a traditional part of such ceremonies, it is unlikely that our medical candidates will rise today to the music of Turkish Reveille or that the transmittal of degrees in dentistry will be accompanied by the strains of the Snow-Flake Waltz, the tunes which brightened the earlier proceedings. Yet how familiar seem the themes of our predecessors student orations: A National Economic Policy, The Irish Situation, The True Weakness of Russia, and Foreign Encroachments on Our Republicanism. The degree candidates of 1981 may well feel that the concerns of 1881 have been with us always. While we must go to the archives for details of the antecedent commence- ments of 1781 and 1881, the events of 1931 are remembered by numerous wit- nesses who were here a half century ago and are with us today. In 1931, as she had done fifty years earlier, Pennsylvania presented her academic awards at two ceremonies. At the Midwinter Convocation in Irvine Audi- torium, 474 degrees in course were bestowed; at the June commencement, held in the Palestra, 1,612 men and women received degrees in course, and nine honorary degrees were conferred. Notable among the nine recipients was a woman, the pianist-composer, Madame Olga Samaroff. No fewer than five graduates on that June day fifty years ago later served their alma mater as Trustees, two of them, William Lang Day and Robert Galbraith Dunlop, as Chairmen of the Trustees. A sixth Trustee remained among the most loyal of alumni; the devotion to Pennsyl- vania of Walter Hubert Annenberg, LL.D. 1966, is manifest on this campus. The proceedings today should carry no echo of the events of 1781, but the commencements of 1881 and 1931 bear one striking resemblance to the present occasion. All three ceremonies introduced to his constituency a new head of the University appearing at his first commencement as its presiding officer: Provost William Pepper in 1881, President Thomas Sovereign Gates in 1931, and Presi- dent Francis Sheldon Hackney in 1981. The University Mace, the symbol of authority of the University Corporation, is carried at the head of the academic procession by the Secretary of the Univer- sity. The Mace was a gift of the family of William M.