Illinois Wesleyan University Digital Commons @ IWU Inauguration of Wayne Anderson Wayne Anderson 4-25-1987 Inaugural Program (and partial audio recording) Illinois Wesleyan University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/anderson_inauguration Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Illinois Wesleyan University, "Inaugural Program (and partial audio recording)" (1987). Inauguration of Wayne Anderson. 2. https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/anderson_inauguration/2 This Article is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Commons @ IWU with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this material in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This material has been accepted for inclusion by faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ©Copyright is owned by the author of this document. President Waune Anderson Dr. Anderson is the sixteenth president of Illinois Wesleyan University. As a student and practitioner of presidential leadership, he views his appointment as an opportunit) to move the University to its rightful place among the best institutions in the United States. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in political science, the 49-year-old Anderson holds the master's degree on public and international affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, awarded in 1961. In 1974, he earned the Ph.D. degree in government from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., writing his dissertation on the White house staff of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1980, he completed the summer program of the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. Four years later, he was one of nine Americans selected as Fellows of the U.S. -Japan Leadership Program sponsored by the Japan Society of New York. Mter serving as an administrative intern with the U.S. Department of Health, Edu­ cation and Welfare, Dr. Anderson went on active duty with the U.S. Army and for a number of years later as an officer in the Army Reserves. In 1962 he become assistant to the president of the Association of American Colleges (AAC), where he supervised various commissions of the Association, all concerned with strengthening liberal arts education in the United States. In 1966 he left the AAC to become executive assistant to the President of Johns Hopkins University during the presidencies of Milton S. Eisenhower, Lincoln Gordon and Steven Muller until1975. At Johns Hopkins his duties involved extensive collaboration with trustees, faculty, staff, students and alumni. His work included budget and planning, program development, fund-raising and public relations, government liaison, and coopera­ tive arrangements with other institutions. In 1975, Dr. Anderson became the first director of the Trustee Leadership Program of the Association of Governing Boards (AGB), a national association comprising more than 700 colleges and universities, representing more than 17,000 trustees. His task was to devise programs to upgrade trusteeship in institutions of higher education through­ out the country. He was named to the presidency of Maryville College, Tennessee, in 1977 and during his tenure, the curriculum was strengthened, endowment was doubled, a weekend college was established, numerous buildings were renovated. Major foundation grants for faculty development were obtained, twice the college won first place awards in the national competition for improvement in alumni giving and it successfully completed the largest fund-raising campaign in its history. Dr. Anderson's contributions to independent education have been outstanding. He has been a director and executive committee member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and a director of the Council of Independent Colleges. as well as Tennessee's representative on the Southern Regional Education Board. Dr. Anderson has served as chairman of the Tennessee Council of Private Colleges, chairman of the Tennessee Institute of Private Colleges and president of the Mid-Ap­ palachia Colleges Council, Inc. He is a member of various regional and national professional groups, including the American Political Science Association and the Young Presidents' Organization. an international network of presidents in business, industry and education. He has been a consultant for many institutions, a panelist for the National Endowment ior the Humanities, and the author of numerous publications on higher education, and speaker at national educational meetings. His professional interests include presidential leadership, the legislative process, American foreign policy and the politics, culture and hi. tory of Japan. I )r. Anderson is married to Anne McClung, an alumna of Mary Baldwin College and Harvard University, where she received her master of arts in teaching degree. After experiences in teaching, Mrs. Anderson was employed by the American College Public Relations Association. the American Council on Education and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She recently published a book of photographs ofBlount County, Tennessee. The Andersons have two daughters: Carrington, a senior at Wellesley College who ,.. ;u be a graduate student at Harvard University in the Fall, and Christen, a high school semor at St. Mary's College in North Carolina, who will be a freshman in the Fall at [ ker : College in Florida. Historu of Illinois Wesleuan Universitu The University was founded in 1850 by thirty men of diverse backgrounds, religious denominations and occupations, all eager to establish "an Institution of Collegiate grade" on the Illinois prairie. The Founding Fathers, all church and community leaders, included attorneys, physicians, merchants and manufacturers, farmers and preachers. Twelve of the signers of IWU's "birth certificate" were ordained Methodist ministers; the others included Roman Catholics, Congregationalists, Quakers, Presbyterians and others. The original agreement named the school "Illinois University," but later "Wesleyan" was inserted to honor the founder of Methodism. By 1856, the University was sponsored by two Central Illinois Conferences of the Methodist Church, although the founders stipulated in the charter of incorporation that "the profession of any particular religious faith shall not be required of those who become students." Today Illinois Wesleyan is proud of its ecumenism. Because public schools had not yet been established on the prairie in the mid­ nineteenth century, preparatory classes opened first at IWU, followed by college classes in 1851. The enrollment was seven young men (the admission of women was debated and rejected as "inexpedient" at that time) and classes were held in a church basement. The central part of the campus was purchased in 1854 on the site of Phoenix nursery, and North Hall, the first building and destined to serve the University for 110 years, was completed in 1856. The main "college edifice" was built in 1871 and later named Hedding Hall. This building burned in 1943; its ground floor was roofed over and renamed Duration Hall. Black students were admitted in 1867; the first black graduate received his degree in 1881. Women were finally accepted in 1870, three years before Illinois Wesleyan opened its highly regarded School of Law. With the absorption of a downtown school of music, Wesleyan created its first profes­ sional school in 1879; in 1906 the College of Liberal Arts was formed and ten years later the University was fully accredited by the North Central Association. A 1924 affiliation with the Brokaw Hospital school of nursing led to the formation of a four-year professional School of Nursing at IWU in 1959. In the decade earlier, the professional School of Art (1946) and School of Drama (1947) joined with the School of Music into the College of Fine Arts. In the decade of the 1960's, the University was among the first in the nation to adopt the January Term, thus restructuring the calendar; Old North Hall was razed to make way for Sheean Library, completed in 1966; and Evans Observatory was dedicated in the presence of the crew of Apollo 8. The Alice Millar Center for the Fine Arts opened in 1972, made possible by a $2 nillion gift from Foster McGaw, the largest single gift at that time. Currently the Fort atatorium is under construction on the Wesleyan campus. n l963 Illinois Wesleyan established a policy to arrange a financial aid proposal to n,eet the need of any student accepted for admission, and the average aid package is nv · $7.000. Student quality has been rising steadily as the University becomes more selective in 1 admission standards. Faculty quality is equally high, with eighty-five percent of the li al arts faculty holding the doctorate; others hold the terminal degree in their particular field. , sleyan's endowment is now at $48 million, among the top ten percent in endowment 1, il'11ong the more than 700 liberal arts colleges in the U.S. Presidents of Illinois Wesleuan Universitu umon . Sears 1855-1857 William J. Davidson 1922-1932 liver Spencer Munsell 1857-1873 Harry W. McPherson 1932-1937 S;unuei ] . Fallows 1873-1875 Wiley G. Brooks 1937-1939 illiam H. H. Adams 1875-1888 William E. Shaw 1939-1947 :illiam H. Wilder 1888-1898 Merrill]. Holmes 1947-1958 Edgar . 1. Smith 1898-1905 Lloyd M. Bertholf 1958-1968 Francis G. Barnes 1905-1908 Robert S. Eckley 1968-1986 Theodor ' Kemp 1908-1922 Wayne Anderson 1986- Inaugural Planning Committee E. Hugh Henning, Chairman President, Board of Trustees Wendell W. Hess Dean of the University Larry W. Colter Chairman, Department of Philosophy Richard B. Whitlock Director of Development Jill M. Yolk Past President, Student Senate Academic Robes and Regalia The pagentry and color of an academic convocation such as today's inauguration come to us from early medieval times when academic robes and regalia were adapted from ecclesiastical garb.