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SUNDAY, THE FIFTEENTH OF MAY, Two THOUSAND AND ELEVEN TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING - WALLACE WADE STADIUM DUKE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT 2 0 I I ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINTH COMMENCEMENT Notes on Academic Dress Academic dress had its origin in the Middle Ages. When the European universities were taking form in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, scholars were also clerics, and they adopted Mace and Chain of Office robes similar to those of their monastic orders. Caps were a necessity in drafty buildings, and Again at commencement, ceremonial use is copes or capes with hoods attached were made of two important insignia given to Duke needed for warmth. As the control of universities University In memory of Benjamin N. Duke. gradually passed from the church, academic Both the mace and chain of office are the gifts costume began to take on brighter hues and to of anonymous donors and of the Mary Duke employ varied patterns in cut and color of gown Biddle Foundation. They were des1gned and and type of headdress. executed by Professor Kurt J. Matzdorf of New The use of academic costume in the United Paltz, New York, and were dedicated and first States has been continuous since Colonial times, used at the inaugural ceremonies of President but a dear protocol did not emerge until an Sanford in 1970. intercollegiate commission in 1893 recommended The Mace, the symbol of authority of the a uniform code. In this country, the design of a University, is made of sterling silver throughout. gown varies with the degree held. The bachelor's lt is thirty-seven inches long and weighs about gown is relatively simple with long pointed Significance of Colors eight pounds. At the lower end of the hammered sleeves as its distinguishing mark. The gown for Colors indicating fields of shaft is a gilt (gold-plated) pine cone. The the master's degree has an oblong sleeve with study and colors identifying upper end of the shaft displays the inscription the rear part cut square and the front part with some of the universities Universitas Dukiana 1838. This inscription is a cutaway arc. The most elaborate academic represented by members surmounted by a short, hammered neck followed costume is the doctoral gown with velvet panels of the faculties of the by the head which has eight fiutings alternating down the front and three bars of the same University are: with eight gilt ribs. Above the head of the mace, material across the sleeves. The velvet is usually a band carries the motto of Duke University: black, but it may be a color designating the Arts,Letters, Humanities: white Eruditio et Religio. The upper end of the mace is a field of study to which the degree pertains. The BusinessAdministration:drab crown of gilt laurel leaves which carries the seal gown itself, usually black like those of the lower Dentistry:lavender Divinity,Theology: scarlet of Duke University surrounded by the three degrees, may be of a color distinctive of a Economics:copper symbols of the Trinity to indicate that Duke particular university. Education:light blue University emerged from Trinity College. The hood bears a still larger symbolic burden: Engineering:orange FineArts: brown The Chain of Office of the President of Duke the width of its velvet trimming designates Forestry:russet University is four feet long and is also made the level of the degree; the color heralds the Law:purple of sterling silver throughout. The main part major field of study; and the lining identifies Medicine:green consists of nine silver pine cones alternating the institution that granted the degree. Duke Music:pink with ten gilt clusters of three laurel leaves each. University is symbolized by a lining of Duke Nursing:apricot In the front hangs the gilt medallion with the blue with a white chevron. Philosophy:dark blue PhysicalTherapy: teal official seal of Duke University surrounded by The cap, originally round, is usually a square Science:golden yellow a laurel wreath into which are set the three mortarboard and is the same for all degrees. symbols of the Trinity. In the back is the gilt coat The standard tassel for the cap is black, but the of arms of the Duke family with the motto cap worn with the doctoral robe may have a In Adversis Idem set in a sterling wreath of laurel gold tassel. The Duke doctoral gown is in the leaves and bearing the inscription Duke. authentic Duke blue. The Duke University shield, embroidered in blue on white, is applied to each front panel. With this gown there may be worn a black velvet, four-pointed, soft tam with a square top and a gold metallic bullion tassel. Two THOUSAND ELEVEN COMMENCEM.EN T' 1 COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM Presiding Richard H. Brodhead, President of the University When the Wind Symphony sounds the fanfare for the entrance of the faculty, the audience and candidates will rise and remain standing through the prayer. Processional March FLOURISH FOR WIND BAND Ralph Vaughan Williams (r872-r958) Candidates for Degrees Members of the Faculty Members of the University Administration Members of the Board a/Trustees Members of the Platform Party National Anthem Anthony Vito Alberti, Erin Anne Cloninger, Hannah Elizabeth Hunt, Kiah Dawson Pape, Anna Haldeman Ruddle Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts Hilary Lynn Cole, Lydia Kathryn Greene Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science Joav Birjiniuk, Brian Richmond Solomon Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering Invocation Samuel Wells, Dean of the Chapel Welcoming Remarks Remarks by a Student Michael Weston Lefevre Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Conferring of Honorary Degrees Introduction Daniel T. Blue, Jr., Chair, Board a/Trustees Commencement Address John T. Chambers Conferring of Earned Degrees Introduction and Presentations Peter Lange and Deans Concluding Remarks Alma Mater Student Ensemble The audience stands for the Alma Mater and remains standing until the platform party and the faculty leave the Stadium. Dear Old Duke, thy name we sing. And though on life's broad sea To thee our voices raise,we'll raise, Our fates may far us bear, To thee our anthems ring We'll ever turn to thee in everlasting praise. Our Alma Mater dear. -R.H. James '24 Procession Out CROWN IMPERIAL William Walton (r902-r983) . In Beauty Bearing the CrovVD.Imperial. .. " DUKE UNIVERSITY CO.MMENCEI'vlENT EXERCISES 2 ONORARY DEGREE RECIPIEN Rita Dove DOCTOR OF LITERATURE Faculty Sponsor - Melissa Malouf Trustee Sponsor - J. La")'rence Mccleskey Rita Dove served She is also the author of short stories, essays, a as Poet Laureate of novel, and the play The Darker Face of the Earth, the United States which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare and Consultant Festival and was subsequently produced at the to the Library of Kennedy Center in Washington, the Royal Congress from National Theatre in London, and other theaters. 1993 until 1995. Her Seven for Luck, a song cycle for soprano She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the and orchestra with music by John Williams, was University of Virginia. premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1998. Her most famous work is Thomas and Beulah, published in 1986, a narrative sequence of poems Professor Do;_,-ehas received numerous literary loosely based on the lives of her maternal and academic honors, among them the 1996 grandparents, for which she received the Pulitzer Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Prize in 1987. Her other poetry collections include 1996 National Humanities Medal, the 2001 Duke Mother Love ( 1995 ), On the Bus With Rosa Parks Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award, and (1999), and American Smooth (2004). Her most the 2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal. recent work, Sonata Mulattica, was published in She is a chancellor of the Academy of American 2009; it is a fictionalized verse narrative of the life Poets and a member of the American Academy of of biracial virtuoso violinist George Bridgetower, Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of a contemporary of Beethoven. Arts and Letters. A graduate of Miami University of Ohio, Professor Dove received her master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa. She also held a Fulbright scholarship at the Universitiit Tiibingen in Germany. I Two THOUSA:'-fT) ELEVEN CO.i\'lMENC.EMEKT 3 H N RARY DEGREE RECIPIENT James IL lhu1t, Jr. DOCTOR OF LAWS Faculty Sponsor - Kenneth Dodge Trustee Sponsor - Daniel T. Blue, Jr. The Honorable Harvard University. Over the years, his leadership James B. Hunt Jr. in education has been recognized by, among was a four-term other organizations, the Education Commission governor of North of the States, the National Mentoring Partnership, Carolina, serving the Children's Defense Fund, Columbia University from 1977 until Teachers College, the American Academy of 1985 and then from Pediatrics, the National Education Association, 1993 until 2001. During his time in office, the and the American Association for Educational state consistently ranked at the top of the nation Research. in economic growth, job creation, and capital investment. He was instrumental in transforming Currently, Governor Hunt is a member of the law the state's economy from traditional industries firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. He to knowledge-driven industries, including chairs the boards of directors of two institutes that biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and information he founded: the Hunt Institute for Educational technology. Among other initiatives, he established Leadership and Policy at the University of North the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Institute for Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Emerging Issues at N.C. State University. and the North Carolina School of Science and Governor Hunt earned his bachelor's and master's Mathematics.

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