OMMENCEMENT MAY 11, 1991 WSU Branch Campus and Center Ceremonies
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Ninety-Fifth Annual OMMENCEMENT MAY 11, 1991 WSU Branch Campus and Center Ceremonies Commencement-related ceremonies will be held at all WSU branches and centers according to the following schedule: WSU Intercollegiate Center for Nursing 6:00 p.m., Friday, May IO-Shadle Park Education High School Auditorium, Spokane WSU Seattle Center for Hotel and 7:00 p.m., Thursday, June 6-Pigott Restaurant Administration Auditorium, Seattle University WSU Spokane 6:30 p.m., Friday, May 10-WSU Spokane, B 1 level WSU Tri-Cities 7:00 p.m., Friday, May 17-Hanford School Auditorium, Richland WSU Vancouver 7:00 p.m., Sunday, May 12-Mountain View High School Auditorium, Vancouver COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES NINETY-FIFTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT Nine O'Clock Saturday, May Eleventh Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-one Pullman, Washington Commencement Recognition Ceremonies will be held following the All-University Commencement Exercises. Time and location can be found immediately preceding the list of degree candidates, by college. ••• 2 COMMENCEMENT 1991 Washington State University, on the occasion of its 95th annual commencement, cordially welcomes all those who have come to the Pullman campus to share in ceremonies honoring the members of the graduating class of 1991. All are encouraged to attend the College and School Commencement Recognition Ceremonies being held throughout the day. To the members of the Class of 1991, the university extends sincere congratulations. Washington State University is dedicated to the preparation of students for productive lives and pro fessional careers, to basic and applied research in a variety of areas, and to the dissemination of knowledge. The university consists of seven colleges, a graduate school, an Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education in Spokane and Yakima, the Center for Hotel and Restaurant Administration in Seattle, and branch campuses in Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver. It also has extension of fices in all 39 counties, four research centers, and 16 small business development offices statewide. The university also is responsible for administration of the Washington Higher Education Telecom munications System, which transmits courses to four locales. For nearly a century, Washington State University has offered strong and diverse programs. From its founding in 1890, liberal arts and sciences have occupied an important place in the curriculum along with business, education, nursing, pharmacy, and the traditional land-grant programs in agriculture, home economics, veterinary medicine, and engineering. WSU now offers more than 100 major fields of study to undergraduate students. Bachelor's degrees are available in all major areas. Master's and doctoral degrees are available in most subject areas. The Honors Program is one of the few all-university programs for superior students at a major American institution of higher learning. The faculty, including a substantial number of scholars with national and international reputations, is charged with the development of instructional methods that will open students' minds to the most recent knowledge and discoveries. The opportunity for students to know and work closely with their instructors is one advantage of a residential campus. Washington State University at Pullman is one of the largest residential universities west of the Mississippi. Of the approximately 14,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, about half live on campus in university housing or in fraternities or sororities. Here, students of diverse social, economic,.and ethnic backgrounds from throughout the nation and more than 80 foreign lands come together in a community in which education is the principal industry and human development the primary concern. Approximately 1,500 additional students were enrolled in courses this year at the university's branch campuses. As the branch campuses in Spokane, Tri-Cities, and Vancouver develop over the next five years, this enrollment is expected to multiply to several thousand, providing educational opportunities for place-bound citizens for whom access to higher education heretofore has been limited. The 1991 Commencement Program includes those degree candidates from August 1990 through May 1991. Those previously awarded degrees are denoted with an asterisk (*). Appearance of a name in this program is presumptive evidence of graduation and graduation honors, but it must not in any sense be regarded as conclusive. The university diploma, signed and sealed by its proper officers, remains the official testimony of the possession of the degree. 3 fhe Commencement Procession Candidates for Advanced Degrees University Faculty Regents of the University Honored Guests of the University President of the University )rder of Exercises Music by Wasbington State University Wind Sympbony 8:15 a.m. Presiding-Dr. Samuel H. Smith, President ?rocessional Washington State University Wind Symphony Professor L. Keating Johnson, Conductor :>osting of the Colors Air Force ROTC Color Guard fhe National Anthem Washington State University Wind Symphony Ms. Lovie J. Jackson, Song Leader :i-reetings and Introductions Dr. Samuel H. Smith :Ionorary Degree Carolyn Kizer :::ommencement Address ?:resident's Faculty Excellence Awards Instruction: Dr. Everett L. Martin Research: Dr. Bruce A. McFadden Public Service: Dr. Nicholas P. Lovrich 'A Festival Prelude" by Alfred Reed Washington State University Wind Symphony Jachelor's Degrees ~dvancedDeg:rees Uma Mater The Assembly lecession.al Washington State University Wind Symphony :PECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS AND FRIENDS: 'rofessional photographers will photograph all candidates as they receive their diploma covers from he deans at the all-university and college commencement ceremonies. A photo will be mailed to each :raduate, and additional photos may be purchased at reasonable rates. Parents and friends of the graduates re asked to remain in their seats during the ceremonies. 4 AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF COMMENCEMENT1 BACKGROUND Universities that developed during the Middle Ages formulated academic practices that are still followed today. This medieval heritage has provided us with a teaching institution-the university; a method of measuring academic progress-degrees; and a structure for an appropriate ceremony recognizing the student's achievement-commencement. In medieval times, a master (from the Latin magister, "teacher") was a person licensed to teach by the chancellor of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. As the number of masters increased, they ultimately formed a guild. The word universitas was a common term applied to any collectivity, including that of guilds. The university probably took form around 1170 as a guild of teachers rather than a union of faculties. It was sanctioned by Pope Innocent III in 1210 in a bull which recognized and approved the written statutes of the teachers' guild. By approximately 1250 the University of Paris masters were divided into four faculties: theology, canon law, medicine, and the arts. The arts students, by far the greatest number, correspond to our "undergraduates" of today. They ultimately organized themselves into "nations" based on the geographical regions of Europe from which they came. The universities, international in their appeal both to students and scholars, sought and receiv ed support from the papacy. Students attended classes, heard lectures, and engaged in disputations, but there appears to have been no examination unless a student determined to become a master. After four or five years of resident study, the student, indicating an intention to become a master, would be tested. Passing these trials, the candidate would don a special gown and take a seat with the bachalari, or bachelors. This ceremony was often followed by a feast. Between the baccalaureate and the master's degree, the student ob tained a licentiate, an authorization to teach. Until the Civil War, the American college system was based on the English model. Most colleges stood alone, rather than being part of a university, and the baccalaureate was the only earned degree awarded. The curriculum was invariably classical and essentially the same as in the Middle Ages. Since there was little opportunity for postbaccalaureate study in the United States, students sought higher education abroad. After 1815, perhaps reflecting the nationalism born of the War of 1812, students increasingly attended German universities and returned with the concept of higher degrees as earned degrees based on a specified curriculum and embracing independent research. The post-Civil War period received impetus from another direction also. The Morrill Act, adopted by Congress in 1862, established the land-grand college system-of which WSU is a part-which led to a rapid increase in public universities and an extension of graduate study. The expansion of the curriculum into new fields of specialization to meet the needs of an increasingly industrial soci ety led to multiplication of degree titles to identify the areas of educational experience and specialization. 1Infonnation for this section was excerpted fron1 the files in the WSU Registrar's Office and fro111 Adnzissions, Acadeniic Records, and Registrar Services, published by Josscy Bass, Inc., 1987 edition. 5 COMMENCEMENT Commencement is the special occasion that provides public recognition of the academic achieve ment of students after four or more years of study by awarding a diploma specifying a degree. This diploma is an official document certifying the completion of