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The University of Connecticut is in the midst of the most profound and positive transformation in its history. Building on a foundation created by dedicated faculty and outstanding students over the course of many decades, we are now emerging as a national leader in undergraduate, graduate and professional education, research and scholarship, and service to our state and nation. The promise of UCONN 2000 is fast becoming a reality as we build a statewide campus noted for its beauty and technological sophistication, and the quality of our physical structures sets a standard for pursuit of excellence in every important sphere. The Class of 2001 has witnessed and contributed to the University's progress. Over the course of your career at this institution we have maintained an unquestioned commitment to the highest standards of academic performance and student service. At UConn, these have been years of noted breakthroughs in research, implementation of commitments to community service, extraordinary success in obtaining private support, and great achievements on the athletic field. Y our education has prepared you well for a challenging future and the degree you receive at this Commencement indicates to the world at large your ability to contribute to society. Even in this time of change some things remain constant. As it has been throughout its history, the University of Connecticut remains dedicated to the concept that education is the greatest gift society can bestow on its young people. An essential instrument of scientific progress and economic advancement, education is even more valuable simply as an end in itself— as the activity that defines and nourishes the human spirit. I know that each of you has grown and changed over the course of your college career and I hope that you continue to reap the benefits of your education throughout your lifetime. I am glad you were with us, and I hope that you remain a part of the UConn community in the years to come.
Philip E. Austin President University of Connecticut COMMENCEMENT ORDER OF EXERCISES
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Gampel Pavilion, Storrs Saturday, May 19, 2001 - 10:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M.
PRELUDE AND PROCESSIONAL: University Wind Ensemble, PROFESSOR DAVID L MILLS
SINGING OF THE National Anthem JENNIFER DARIUS - 10:00 A.M. CEREMONY, JESSICA RENFRO - 3:00 P.M. CEREMONY
PRESENTATION OF THE CLASS SARAH KIERNAN, Representative of the Graduating Class, 10:00 A.M. CEREMONY DOROTHY PUZIO, Representative of the Graduating Class, 3:00 P.M. CEREMONY
PRESENTATION OF UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOLARS JOHN D. PETERSEN, Chancellor and Provost fir University Affairs
PRESENTATION OF UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT TEACHING FELLOWS THOMAS C. DEFRANCO, KARL GUILLARD, ANDREW J. ROSMAN
GREETINGS TIMOTHY RIORDAN, Alumni Association President
CONFERRAL OF HONORARY DEGREES PHILIP E AUSTIN, President ROGER A. GELFENBIEN, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON MARY FRANCES BERRY President Chairperson Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Doctor of Science Doctor of Laws THOMAS D. RITTER RAY NEAG Former Speaker Founder and Director Connecticut House of Representatives Arrow International, Inc. Doctor of Laws Doctor of Humane Letters
CHARLES H THORNTON PHILIP ROTH Chairman Author The Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Inc. Doctor of Letters Doctor of Science
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS THE HONORABLE RODERICK R. PAIGE United States Secretary of Education
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES: THE DEANS
CONFERRAL OF DEGREES: PHILIP E. AUSTIN, President
GREETINGS: ROGER A. GELFENBIEN, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
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THE GRADUATE SCHOOL Gampel Pavilion, Storrs Sunday, May 20, 2001 - 3:00 P.M.
PRELUDE AND PROCESSIONAL University Wind Ensemble, PROFESSOR DAVID L MILLS
SINGING OF THE National Anthem COLLEEN CALLAHAN
PRESENTATION OF UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT RESEARCH FELLOWS JOHN D. PETERSEN, Chancellor and Provost for University Affairs ROBIN J. COTE MARGARET P. GILBERT STEVEN L. SUIB PETER TURCHIN
CONFERRAL OF HONORARY DEGREE PHILIP E AUSTIN, President ROGER A. GELFENBIEN, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
LESTER R. BROWN Chairman of the Board Worldwatch Institute Doctor of Science
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS LESTER R. BROWN
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES IAN C. HART Interim Vice Provost fir Research and Dean of the Graduate School
CONFERRAL OF DEGREES PHILIP E AUSTIN, President
GREETINGS ROGER A. GELFENBIEN, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
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SCHOOL OF LAW 55 Elizabeth Street, Hartford Sunday, May 20, 2001 - 10:30 A.M.
PROCESSIONAL
SINGING OF THE National Anthem DENISE J. PIPERSBURGH, CLASS OF 2001, School of Law
INTRODUCTION PETER L. HALVORSON, University Marshal
WELCOMING REMARKS NELL JESSUP NEWTON Dean, School of Law
INTRODUCTION OF COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER PHILIP E AUSTIN, President
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS CLARE DALTON Matthews Distinguished University Professor Northeastern University School of Law
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES NELL JESSUP NEWTON Dean, School of Law
CONFERRAL OF DEGREES PHILIP E AUSTIN, President
STUDENT ADDRESS BOB HOFF
CLASs TOAST JEREMIA R. GALL
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THE SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE AND THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Health Center, Farmington Thursday, May 24, 2001 - 5:30 P.M. PROCESSIONAL
SINGING OF Star Spangled Banner GABRIELA BRZANKALSKI
WELCOMING REMARKS PETER J. DECKERS, Dean Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS GOVERNOR JOHN G. ROWLAND
RECOGNITION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IAN HART Interim Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES PETER J. ROBINSON, Dean School of Dental Medicine
PETER J. DECKERS, Dean School of Medicine
CONFERRAL OF DEGREES PHILIP E AUSTIN, President
REMARKS CLAIRE R LEONARDI Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees
REMARKS GERALD YANG Graduate, School of Dental Medicine
JASON RYAN Graduate, School of Medicine
ADMINISTRATION OF HIPPOCRATIC OATH DAVID BROWN Associate Clinical Professor
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COMMENCEMENT DAY at The Universi ty of Connecticut is a time of ceremony and pageantry, portions of which represent traditions dating back to medieval times. These notes on the history of the University and the commencement ceremony are offered in the hope that they will be of interest to spectators. THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT WAS FOUNDED as the Storrs Agricultural School in 1881 when the General Assembly accepted a gift of money and land from Charles and Augustus Storrs, natives of Mansfield. In 1893 when it became a land-grant college and officially opened to women, the name was changed to Storrs Agricultural College. As the mission of the institution changed, its name was changed in 1899 to Connecticut Agricultural College. In 1933 it became the Connecticut State College. It grew slowly becoming a small but vigorous college with limited undergraduate offerings in agriculture, home economics and mechanical arts. With the development of a university program it became The Universi ty of Connecticut in 1939. The first regional campuses were established in 1946 to deal with the influx of veteran students. Today, the Universi ty is made up of sixteen different schools and colleges. Through the various agencies of five Divisions and seven Institutes, including forty-nine Special Facilities, Programs, and Centers, the University is privileged to serve many State citizens. The Graduate program began in 1935, and in 1949 the University awarded its first doctoral degrees. Enormous expansion has taken place over the years together with increased enrollment. Today, the Universi ty has an enrollment of over 23,400 students. At Storrs there are over 13,200 undergraduates and more than 3,480 graduate students, representing some 104 nations. This year, the Universi ty will award over 4,800 degrees. Of these approximately 3,200 will be Bachelor's degrees, 1,000 Master's degrees, 173 Juris Doctor degrees, 24 Master of Laws degrees, 53 Doctor of Pharmacy degrees, 38 Doctor of Dental Medicine degrees, 79 Doctor of Medicine degrees, 1 Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and 208 Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Also to be awarded are 40 diplomas in Professional Education and 28 Associate's Degrees in the two-year Ratcliffe Hicks School of Agriculture. THE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY, because of the number of graduates, is divided into five separate exercises. The Schools of Dental Medicine and Medicine, located at the University's Health Center in Farmington, and the School of Law, located in Hartford, hold their own exercises. The Commencement procession in each of the three exercises at Storrs is heralded by the ceremonial trumpets which were obtained especially for the Universi ty commencement.
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College and School of Agriculture Brown and Maize School of Allied Health Green, White and Gold School of Business Administration Drab Green College of Continuing Studies Brown and Blue School of Dental Medicine Lilac and Gold Neag School of Education Light Blue School of Engineering Orange School of Family Studies Maroon School of Fine Arts Brown and Pink The Graduate School Masters Candidates Blue, White and Gold Doctor of Philosophy Gold School of Law Purple College of Liberal Arts and Sciences White and Yellow School of Medicine Green and Gold School of Nursing Apricot School of Pharmacy Green School of Social Work Citron THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION begins with the heralding of the trumpeters announcing the arrival of the academic procession. The Bearer of the Mace leads the procession. The University Marshal, identified by his Baton, leads the P resident, together with the speaker, the Board of Trustees, vice-presidents, deans, other University officials, and faculty. The Mace is presented at the center of the stage while those processing enter and take their places. Once the Mace is placed on the stand it signals the beginning of the ceremony.
Six THE ACADEMIC GowNS, HOODS AND REGALIA represent more than elegance or colorful attire. Academic caps and gowns represent a tradition which reaches far back into the early days of the oldest universities of the Middle Ages. The early European universities were founded by the church; the students, being clerics, were obliged to wear prescribed gowns and caps at all times Caps and gowns were once common forms of clothing and were retained by the clergy when the laity adopted more modern dress. Though some universities here and abroad have other colors, the usual color for gowns in America is black. Hoods are lined with the official color of the college or university which conferred the degree. The velvet edging of the hood varies in length for bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. The color represents the appropriate degree. Mortar boards (caps) are usually black. The tassel for the Bachelor of Arts, Science, and Engineering may be of color distinctive of the degree, and the tassel for the Doctor of Philosophy may be made of gold thread. The gown and hood of the University Marshal were made specifically for University ceremonies in the official colors of national flag blue and white. The Processional Marshals wear blue velvet "beefeater" berets; the School and College Marshals, who assist in conducting the ceremonies, wear blue Dutch caps.
THE MACE, carried by Keith Barker, Co-Chairm an of the Commencement Committee, is used at all academic ceremonies. In medieval times maces were weapons of warfare, but today a mace is "a staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate or other dignitary as an ensign of his authority." It is the emblem and symbol of the President's authority to administer the Universi ty. This mace was first used at the Inauguration of President Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., on October 20, 1962. It was designed by Nath an Knobler, former head of the Department of Art. The University's early seal, executed in beautiful wood carving, appears on both faces. A penny dated 1881 is affixed to it to commemorate the date of the University's founding.
THE BATON, carried by the University Marshal, Professor Peter L. Halvorson, was specifically designed for ceremonial activities at The University of Connecticut and was first used at the Commencement in 1968. The Office of Marshal c an be traced back to the medieval period, and the Baton is a symbol of the Marshal's authority. This Baton has silver mountings and is surmounted by a representation of the University's former seal in enamel, which itself incorporates the coat of arms of the State of Connecticut. The University Marshal, carrying the Baton, follows the Mace Bearer as he leads the academic procession into and out of the place of ceremony.
THE SILVER COLLAR/MEDALLION, worn by Philip E. Austin, President, was first used in 1964, at the time of the University's Silver Anniversary. Each link on the collar represents one of the University's Schools or Colleges and consists of a cloissoné circle engraved with an appropriate design for the particular school and enameled with its traditional school or college colors. Hanging from the chain is a large silver medallion containing the University's early seal THE AWARDING OF DEGREES at The University of Connecticut is accomplished by a twofold process. First, the c andidates for degrees of each respective school or college are presented by the University Marshal. The candidates proceed to the front, receive their diplomas, are congratulated by their administrative officers and return to their seats. The School or College Marshal then officially presents the candidates to the Dean who acknowledges the candidates and declares the appropriate degree. Second, when all c andidates have been duly presented, the President of the Universi ty formally confers the appropriate degree. This is accomplished verbally at the time that he speaks the words: "By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Trustees of The Universi ty of Connecticut, and in accordance with the procedures and regulations of the University, I confer upon you the Certificate, Associate's Degree, appropriate Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Juris Doctor, Doctor of Dental Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Musical Arts, or Doctor of Philosophy for which you have been presented at this One Hundred and Eighteenth Commencement of The University."
THE RECESSIONAL of the officials and faculty is once again led by the Mace Bearer and Universi ty Marshal. The graduates, along with the audience, are requested to remain seated until the recessional is concluded.
Out of respect and courtesy to all graduates, participants and guests are requested to remain in their seats until the ceremony has concluded.
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HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS while he attended high school and college. He earned a degree in agricultural science from Rutgers University in 1955, a Master of Science from the University of Ma ryland in Agricultural MARY FRANCES BERRY, PH.D. Economics in 1959, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1962. Mr. Brown's lifetime of public Doctor of Laws service began within the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1959, where he held a series of progressively more responsible positions Historian, lawyer, teacher, and public official, Mary Frances Berry over the next ten years, ultimately serving as Administrator of the is among the nation's most visible, aggressive, articulate advocates International Agricultural Development Service. In 1969 he for social justice. In a wide range of governmental and private helped establish the Overseas Development Council, and in 1974 positions—most notably, for the last eight years, as Chairperson of founded the Worldwatch Ins titute. A private non-profit research the United States Commission on Civil Rights—she has brought institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues, to the nation's attention compelling if sometimes painful evidence this organization has attained a stature and credibility normally that American practice often falls short of American ideals. In reserved for only a handful of international official agencies. The areas ranging from police-community relations to irregular voting annual State of the World reports initiated by Mr. Brown in 1984 procedures to the perpetuation of de facto segregation in public have been characterized as the "Bible of the global environmental institutions, Dr. Berry has, in a phrase she sometimes uses "told movement" and are translated into all the world's major languages; truth to power" and laid the groundwork for progress. Born in Worldwatch's other publications, which similarly reach a vast and Nashville, Tennessee, Mary Frances Berry earned bachelor's and influential audience, also play a critical role in focusing debate and master's degrees at Howard University, and a doctorate in history shaping policy. Mr. Brown has authored or co-authored more and a law degree from the Universi ty of Michigan. She has taught than a dozen books, among which a re Saving the Planet. How to at several universities and served as Provost of the Division of Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy; Vital Signs: Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland and The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future; Who Will Feed China? Chancellor of the University of Colorado. From 1977 to 1980 Man, Land and Food and Building a Sustainable Socie ty. He has Dr. Berry served in the Carter Administration as Assist ant been honored with a number of awards including a MacArthur Secretary of Education in the Department of Health, Education Fellow Award, the United Nations' Environment Prize, the and Welfare, and was appointed to the Civil Rights Commission in World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and numerous 1980, becoming Chairperson in 1993. Author of seven books, honorary degrees. holder of 28 honorary degrees and numerous other honors, she served in 1990-91 as President of the Organization of American Historians. In addition to her responsibilities as leader of the Civil Rights Commission, Dr. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History and Adjunct SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON, PH.D. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor of Science
Shirley Ann Jackson's career has taken her on one of the most LESTER R. BROWN extraordinary journeys of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Theoretical physicist, high-ranking government Doctor of Science official, university professor, and trail blazer for women and members of groups underrepresented in the academy and in the As Chairman of the Board of the Worldwatch Institute and sciences, she has been for the past two years the 18th President of President of the newly established Earth Policy Institute, Lester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Born in Washington, D.C. and Brown is widely recognized as one of the central figures in the valedictorian of her high school class, she received a Bachelor of global environmental movement; indeed, he has been Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in characterized by one of Indias major newspapers as the 1968; five years later she became the first African-American movement's guru. Over the course of more than four decades woman to receive a Ph.D. from MIT in any field when that his skills as analyst, advocate, and organizer have moved institution awarded her a doctorate in physics. Dr. Jackson environmentalism to the center of the world's consciousness, conducted post-doctoral research at Illinois' Fermi National thereby shaping what may well come to be regarded as the late Accelerator Laboratory, the International School for Subnuclear twentieth century's most farsighted and fat-reaching crusade. Physics in Sicily, and the European Center for Nuclear Research Mr. Brown began his environmental work at the most in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1976 to 1991 Dr. Jackson fundamental level, as a tomato farmer in southern New Jersey conducted research in theoretical physics, solid state and Eight COMMENCEMENT
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quantum physics, and optical physics at AT&T Bell Laboratories; attention to his alma mater, accepting an invitation to join the she then served for four years as Professor of Physics at Rutgers University of Connecticut Foundation Board of Directors and, University. President Clinton named Dr. Jackson Chairman of the in November of that year, donating $1.5 million to establish the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1995. In that position Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development; a she initiated a strategic assessment of the agency and guided the gift the next year established the Lynn Wood Neag development of new and more effective approaches to the Distinguished Visiting Professorship of British Literature. In implementation of its regulatory and licensing responsibilities. February of 1999 Mr. Neag provided a $23 million gift to the Dr. Jackson spearheaded the formation of the International University—the largest single gift to a public university in New Nuclear Regulators Association in 1997 and served as the group's England and, with $21 million devoted to the School of first chairman. She assumed the presidency of Rensselaer Education, the largest gift to a school of education anywhere in Polytechnic Institute in 1999 and has, among other notable the United States. Now proudly bearing his name, the Neag achievements, proven among the nation's most successful academic School of Education is building on a foundation of excellence as leaders in securing philanthropic suppo rt for her institution; RPI it moves to a position of national leadership. Mr. Neag's recently announced a $360 million gift, the largest ever given to an support is not limited to the investment of resources; as a American university. Dr. Jackson has been honored repeatedly, member of the Foundation Bo ard, as Vice Chair of the most notably by election to membership in the National Academy University's fundraising Campaign Steering Committee, and as of Engineering, by being named as a Fellow of the American a continuing source of wisdom and guidance, he contributes Academy of Arts and Scien ces and of the American Physical immeasurably to the University's growth and transformation.
Society, by inclusion in the National Women's Hall of Fame, and with the Golden Torch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Academics from the National Society of Black Engineers. She holds more than a dozen honorary degrees. THOMAS D. RITTER Doctor of Laws
RAY NEAG It is hard to think of any American legislator who has rendered Doctor of Humane Letters a greater contribution to public education in his or her state than has Thomas D. Ritter. Over the course of a highly distinguished career in the Connecticut House of The University of Connecticut has produced few more successful Representatives from 1981 to 1999, Mr. Ritter demonstrated a graduates, and no more loyal alumni, than Ray Neag, Class 1956. consistent commitment to fundamental values of social justice, A native of Torrington, the youngest of eight children of Romanian d worker protection, economic growth and rational immigrants, Mr. Neag graduated from Torrington High School consumer an allocation of resources. In the six years he served as Speaker of and began his UConn career at the Waterbury campus in 1948. the House, from 1993 to 1999, he led the General Assembly to After taking time out to serve in the United States Air Force, he support measures that would lead to the transformation of the returned to the University and completed his degree in political state's flagship public university. Mr. Ritter's support was science at Storrs. Within a few years Mr. Neag embarked on what instrumental in creating the School of Law Library, adop tion of would prove to be an extraordinary career in the medical product measures providing the Universi ty with greater administrative field, first at Sherwood Medical, Inc., then at Teledyne Dental d securing adequate funding for Products; in 1973 he joined Rockwell International, where he autonomy and responsibility, an the University's operating budget. His role in securing passage helped develop a medical products division in Pennsylv ania. In d the inclusion in that farsighted measure 1975 Rockwell sold that business to Mr. Neag and three partners; of UCONN 2000 an of an endowment matching grant program was no less than over the years the firm grew from 200 employees producing text ile vital; the impact of his contribution is in evidence in Storrs and needles and hypodermic needles to a major enterprise, now called at University regional campuses across Connecticut. Mr. Ritter Arrow International, Inc., that employs 3,000 people in plants in was born in New Haven, Connecticut and earned his the United States and abroad, produces a wide range of life-saving baccalaureate degree from Amherst College. In 1977 he and health enhancing products, and generates revenues in excess of received a Juris Doctor degree from the Universi ty of $300 million. Mr. Neag's natural generosity led him to support Connecticut School of Law. Elected to the General Assembly libraries, hospitals, community organizations and higher education from his Hartford district in 1980, he was reelected eight times. at a number of institutions over the years. In 1996 he turned his As House Chair of the General Assembly's Banks Committee he
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oversaw passage of legislation helping homebuyers and consumers CHARLES H THORNTON, PH.D. and led the Task Force on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending. Doctor of Science Among his most significant accomplishments as Speaker, apart from his support for UConn, was the enactment of the School d designer Sir Readiness Bill in 1998, which introduced a statewide network of It was said of the great English builder an quality preschool programs and expanded day-care availability. On Christopher Wrenn, "If you seek his monument, look around his retirement from the General Assembly in 1999, Mr. Ritter you." One can find monuments to the engineering contributions : became a partner in the law firm of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & of Dr. Charles Thornton in places far and near to this University Gesmer. Among his several honors, he was awarded the Swiss Bank Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut; the United Distinguished Graduate Award in 1994 by The Universi ty Law Airlines Terminal at O'Hare Airport in Chicago; or in the world's School Alumni Association and the Universi ty of Connecticut tallest buildings, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, angible, Medal in 1999. Malaysia. One can also find monuments less physically t but no less important, in his work to bring young people into the engineering field, especially minorities and women. As notable as PHILIP ROTH his contributions to creation of structures and development of Doctor of Letters careers, Dr. Thornton has led many of the nation's major forensic structural investigations, adding to the sum of professional Philip Roth is a writer of stunning originality. In the last ten knowledge and assuring continued progress in the prevention of years alone he published six major works: Patrimony (1991); disaster. Among the investigations to which he contributed his Operation Shylock (1993); Sabbath's Theater (1995); American insight and expertise were those of the collapse of the H artford Pastoral (1997); I Married a Communist (1998); and The Human Coliseum space truss roof, the L''Ambiance Plaza construction Stain (2000). Among other high honors, these books have earned collapse, and the damage to the bombed federal building in him the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Oklahoma City in 1995. Born in 1940, Dr. Thornton received a Award, the National Book Award, the Ambassador Book Award Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from Manhattan College, a of the English-Speaking Union, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1998 Master of Civil Engineering from New York University, and a Mr. Roth received the National Medal of Arts at the White Doctor of Philosophy degree in Structural Engineering and House. This month he will publish The Dying AnimaL followed Mechanics from New York University in 1966. He began his in September by the publication of Shop Talk, his twenty-fifth career in 1961 as Engineer for Lev Zetlin Associates in New York; book. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Mr. Roth has lived in 1974 he was named President and CEO; and in 1977 assumed and worked in Litchfield County, Connecticut since 1971. He the leadership of all three divisions of the firm. As Chairman of holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell Universi ty and a The Thornton-Tomasetti Group, Inc., Dr. Thornton leads a 450- Master of Arts in English from the University of Chicago. In person firm providing design and engineering se rvices for addition to the University of Chicago, Mr. Roth has been a commercial, institutional, and industrial building projects. He is teacher at the University of Iowa, Princeton, the Universi ty of also the Chairman, Founder and guiding spirit of the ACE Pennsylvania, and Hunter College, where he was named a (Architects Constructors Engineers) Mentor Program, a Distinguished Professor of Literature. Since 1970, he has been a consortium of schools and universities, architects, interior member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In designers, engineers, construction companies, and professional addition to his four-decade career as a novelist, Mr. Roth has organizations that mentors and guides inner-city students toward written satire, short stories, memoirs, autobiographies, and careers in engineering and related fields. Dr. Thornton is also critical essays, and served as general editor for the influential President of The Salvadori Center, a non-profit organization that, series, "Writers from the Other Europe." No other contemporary each year, educates over 2,000 New York City Middle School author has so brilliantly depicted in all its compelling detail the students in mathematics and science using architectural and relationship between history and place in the lives of ordinary engineering principles. Dr. Thornton has served on the Bo ard of Americans. The anti-Communist hysteria of the McCarthy era of Trustees for Manhattan College; the Applied Technology Council the 1950s, the impact of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, and the (ATC); and the National Institute of Building Science's Building backlash to the excesses of the 1990s enter with all their chaotic Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) and Multihazard Mitigation power into the lives of Mr. Roth's characters. His characters' Council (MMC). Dr. Thornton has received a number of honors intense engagement with those unleashed forces of passion and in his profession, including election to the National Academy of fate that thwart all their efforts at control has re-invigorated the Engineering in 1997, being named Honorary Member of the novel and raised Mr. Roth to the highest rank of American American Society of Civil Engineers in 1999, and receiving writers. Engineering News-Record's Award of Excellence 2001.
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COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS RODERICK R. PAIGE UNDERGRADUATE CEREMONIES COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER LESTER R. BROWN GRADUATE CEREMONY COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Educator, creative implementer of programs and policies, former college dean and highly successful superintendent of schools in (See Biography Under Honorary Degree Recipients) one of the nation's major urban districts, Roderick R. Paige was confirmed by the United States Senate as the nation's Secretary of Education on January 20, 2001, following the inauguration of President George W. Bush. A native of Monticello, Mississippi, CLARE DALTON Secretary Paige is the son of public school educators. He earned a bachelor's degree from Jackson State University in Mississippi SCHOOL OF LAW COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER and master's and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. After distinguishing himself coaching college-level athletics, Secretary Professor Clare Dalton received her B.A. in Jurisprudence from Paige served for a decade as De an of the College of Education at Oxford University in 1971. She then taught legal writing at the Texas Southern University, where he established the university's University of Connecticut Law School in 1971-72. Professor Center for Excellence in Urban Education. As a trustee and Dalton received her LL.M. from Ha rvard Law School in 1973. officer of the Board of Education of the Houston Independent She taught at American University's Washington College of Law School District (HISD) from 1989 to 1994, Secretary Paige from 1974 to 1978, and joined the Harvard Law School faculty in coauthored the board's A Declaration of Beliefs and Visions, a 1981, after an interim period as an attorney with the Washington statement of goals for the district that called for fundamental firm of Covington and Burling. In 1988 Professor Dalton joined reform through decentralization a focus on instruction, the Northeastern University School of Law faculty as a full accountability at all levels, and development of a core professor. In the spring of 2000 she was named a Matthews curriculum; this document was the catalyst of ongoing Distinguished University Professor, an award that recognizes and comprehensive restructuring of the dis trict. Named HISD's furthers the scholarly and creative activities of prominent Superintendent of Schools in 1994, Secretary Paige launched a Northeastern University professors. Professor Dalton is a leading system of charter schools with broad authority in decisions feminist legal scholar and a pioneer in the development of legal regarding staffing, textbooks, and materials; saw to it that the education focusing on domestic violence. In 1990 Professor Dalton district paid teachers salaries competitive with other l arge Texas founded the Law School's domestic violence clinical program, and school districts; made HISD the first school district in the state in 1993 established the Domestic Violence Institute, an to institute performance contracts modeled on those in the interdisciplinary education, research and service organization private sector; and introduced teacher incentive pay. He has which she continues to serve as Executive Director. The Institute served on numerous local, state and national commissions, and has become a nationally recognized center for addressing domestic received the Council of the Great Ci ty Schools' Richard R. violence and its impact on the lives of women, children and men, Green Award as the outstanding urban educator of 1999. In providing a model for pedagogy about domestic violence and for 2000 Secretary Paige received the Harold W. McGraw, Jr., Prize law-school based institutes around the country. As a scholar, in Education for his extraordinary commitment to the Professor Dalton has made significant contributions in the areas of improvement of education and the National Association of Black feminist legal thought and domestic violence. Her Battered Women School Educators' Superintendent of the Year award. In 2001 he and the Law, co-authored with Elizabeth Schneider and published was named the National Superintendent of the Year by the in March of 2001 by Foundation Press, is the first casebook in its American Association of School Administrators. field. Her Essay in the Deconstruction of Contract Doctrine, published in 1985 by the Yale Law Journal, is considered a breakthrough analysis in combining the field of contracts with modern and feminist legal theory. Professor Dalton received Northeastern Law School's Urban Law Distinguished Professor award in 1998, was the recipient of the Massachusetts Women's Bar Association's Leila J. Robinson Award in 1997, was named Feminist of the Year by the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1993, and received a Bunting Fellowship in 1987.
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GOVERNOR JOHN G. ROWLAND SCHOOLS OF DENTAL MEDICINE AND UNIVERSITY MEDAL* MEDICINE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER JAMES VERINIS, CLASS OF 1941
ty Medal is As Governor of the State of Connecticut, John G. Rowland Among the University's highest honors, the Universi awarded in recognition of distinction in a field or profession or serves as President Ex-Officio of the University of Connecticut d for outstanding achievement or Board of Trustees. Governor Rowland took office in 1995 and in public service, an was re-elected in 1998 with the largest plurality in state history. leadership on a community, state national or international level. This year the Board of Trustees conferred the 23rd His record of public se rvice began in 1980 when he was elected ty of to the Connecticut State Legislature to represent the Waterbury University Medal on James A. Verinis, Universi Connecticut Class of 1941, whose heroism as a World War II 73rd Assembly District. He served until 1984 at which time he an outstanding representative of the was elected to the United States House of Representatives for the Air Force pilot makes him University's contribution to what has been called America's 5th Congressional District, which includes Waterbury, Danbury "greatest generation." A native of New Haven, "Angie" Verinis and surrounding towns. He represented the 5th District until 1990. He follows a 50-year family tradition of public service. carne to UConn in 1937. Awarded a basketball scholarship, he and graduated with a baccalaureate Both his father and grandfather served as comptrollers for the co-captained the team degree in economics in 1941. Soon thereafter Mr. Verinis City of Waterbury. His family has lived in the city for more than 200 years. A graduate of Holy Cross High School in Waterbury, passed the arduous examinations for the Army Air Corps, and in September 1942 was sent to Governor Rowland went on to Villanova Universi ty in completed Flying School, England. Ultimately rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Philadelphia where he earned his undergraduate degree. In June Mr. Verinis participated in the first air raids over Germany. He 1995, he signed into law the bill that created the UCONN 2000 ber The program, which to date has led to the construction of nearly 20 signed on as the co-pilot of the legendary B-17 bom lle, which became the subject of a William Wyler new buildings on UConn's Storrs and regional campuses, and he Memphis Be d a 1990 feature film. After several missions also supported capital spending to build the $40 million documentary an on the Memphis Belle, Mr.Verinis assumed comm and of his Academic Research Building at the UConn Health Center. He ankee which he piloted for has been honored with a Yale University Chubb Fellowship, an own B-17, the Connecticut Y twenty combat missions. He was the first pilot to complete the honorary doctorate of human letters from Teikyo Post College in required 25 missions as a tour of duty over Europe. In the Waterbury, and honorary doctor of law degrees from the years following the war, Mr. Verinis returned to Connecticut, University of Hartford in West Hartford and the University of pursued a successful career in business, and raised a family. New Haven, and is the recipient of numerous service awards. Through the award of the University Medal, the Bo ard of Trustees commemorates not only his own extraordinary personal saga, but the enormous contributions of all those who were part of the UConn community during the time when our nation faced its greatest test.
*Awarded May 11, 2001
Twelve UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT BOARD OF TRUSTEES
THE HONORABLE JOHN G. ROWLAND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, President Ex Officio
ROGER A. GELFENBIEN, Chairman
SHIRLEY C. FERRIS Commissioner of Agriculture, Member Ex Officio
THEODORE S. SERGI Commissioner of Education, Member Er Officio
JAMES E ABROMAITIS LINDA P. GATLING
CHRISTOPHER J. ALBANESE LENWORTH M. JACOBS, JR. LOUISE M. BAILEY CLAIRE R. LEONARDI WILLIAM R. BERKLEY MICHAEL J. MARTINEZ LOUISE S. BERRY FRANK A. NAPOLITANO
MICHAEL H. CICCHETTI IRVING R. SASLOW JAMES M. DONICH RICHARD TREIBICK
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
PHILIP E. AUSTIN President of the University PETER J. DECKERS JOHN D. PETERSEN Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Chancellor and Provost for University Affairs and Dean, School of Medicine and Murray-Helig Professor of Surgery
PETER J. ROBINSON Dean, School of Dental Medicine
EDWARD T. ALLENBY Irce President for Institutional Advancement
LORRAINE M. ARONSON Vice President fir Financial Planning and Management
Thirteen ACADEMIC HONORS
University Scholar
The University Scholar designation is the highest scholastic honor at the Universi ty. The individualized undergraduate programs of these students, which in some cases include work toward a graduate degree, are supervised by faculty committees. Up to thirty students are selected as University Scholars in the junior year. Candidates for the University Scholar designation wear gold and blue recognition cords at the commencement exercises.
Honors Scholar Honors Scholars are outstanding students who complete intensive two- or four-year programs, including Honors courses of unusual breadth and depth. Honors requirements include a senior thesis in the major field. Candidates for the Honors Scholar designation wear gold recognition cords at the commencement exercises.
With Distinction "With Distinction" is the University's designation for degrees earned by students who give evidence of significant achievement in their major fields. Candidates for the graduation "with Distinction" wear silver recognition cords at the commencement exercises.
The names in this program do not constitute an official list. The students whose names are listed herein were considered candidates for the degree indicated when the program was printed, except where a prior date of graduation (August 31 or December 31, 2000) is given.
RATCLIFFE HICKS SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE
HEATHER MARIE ATTARDO BETH MARY DYKES BARBARA A. MACMILLIAN ROBERT A. BALLOK, JR. LINCOLN PHILLIP GILLON ELIZABETH ANN MELE KRISTEN MARIE BINNIX RICHARD WILLIAM HANY, JR. MAURO D. PRIOLI KRISTIN ELIZABETH BUFITHIS COURTNAY T. HENNINGER ERICA SCHERMERHORN PATRICK EDWARD BURKE, JR HEIDI MARIE HLASNY JAMES J. SHEA III BRUNO TRAPE CARDOSO BRANDON DOUGLAS HYDE BRENDA D. SMITH TAYLOR L. CHAMBERS ANDREW G. JUDD KRISTEN L. TOMASCAK JENNIFER NICOLE CORTI EMILY BESS KIBBE MACOLA LEA WIDOFSKY REBECCA MARY DURFEE
Graduates, August 31, 2000