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THEIJNIVERSITYO/TENNESSEI ; ; w 234ih Conimencemenl THEUNIVERSITYQ/TENNESSEE ur CHATTANOOGA 234th Commencement Summer 2010 Saturday, August 7, 20tO Eleven O'Clock in the Kioming The McKenzie Arena utc University Mace Chancellor's Chain of Office The University Mace and Chancellor's Chain of Office are significant icons of the institution and stand as impressive symbols on permanent display in the Lupton Library when not in service. Creation of the mace and chain was commissioned to New York artist and professor of silversmithing at State University of New York Kurt J. Masdorf in 1977. The University Mace and Chancellor's Chain of Office are emblazoned with the institution's name along with symbols of Tennessee, the state whose citizens we serve. Borrowing from ancient traditions, these hand-crafted ceremonial pieces create interest and respect by both participants and observers. They have become important representations honoring and identifying our educational personage. Faculty Marshals Faculty Senate President Victoria Steinberg Faculty Secretary Marcia Noe Head Marshal Deborah McAllister Assistant Marshals Janetta Bradley Gary McDonald Pam Carter Vicki Petzko Linda Collins Cathie Smith Kay Cowan Joanie Sompayrac Lee Harris Patrick Sweetman Jamie Harvey Shela Van Ness Linda Johnston Sandy Watson Margaret Kovach Academic Regalia The origins of academic dress date back to the 12th and 13th centuries, when universities were taking form. The ordinary dress of the scholar, whether student or teacher, was the dress of a cler ic. With few exceptions, the medieval scholar had taken at least minor orders, made certain vows, and perhaps been tonsured. Long gowns were worn and may have been necessary for warmth in unheated buildings. Hoods seem to have served to cover the tonsured head until superseded for that purpose by the skull cap. A statue of the University of Coimbra in 1321 required that all "Doctors, Licentiates, and Bach elors" wear gowns. In England, in the second half of the 14th century, the statutes of certain col leges forbade "excess in apparel" and prescribed the wearing of a long gown. In the days of Henry VIII of England, Oxford and Cambridge first began prescribing a definite academic dress and made it a matter of university control even to the extent of its minor details. The assignment of colors to signify certain faculties was to be a much later development and one which was to be standardized only in the United States in the late 19th century. White taken from the white fur trimming of the Oxford and Cambridge B.A. hoods was assigned to arts and let ters. Red, one of the traditional colors of the church, went to theology. Green, the color medieval herbs, was adopted for medicine; and olive, because it was so close to green, was given to phar macy. Golden yellow, standing for the wealth which scientific research has produced, was assigned to the sciences. European institutions have always had great diversity in their specifications of academic dress, and this has been a source of confusion. In contrast, American colleges and universities opted for a definite system that all might follow. A significant contribution to the development of this system was made by Gardner Cotrell Leonard of Albany, New York. Mr. Leonard designed gowns for his class at Williams College in 1887 and had them made by Cotrell and Leonard, a firm established by his family in Albany, New York. He was greatly interested in the subject, and following the publication of an article by him on academic dress in 1893, was invited to work with an Intercolle giate Commission made up of representatives of leading institutions to establish a suitable system of academic apparel. The Commission met at Columbia University in 1895 and adopted a code of academic dress, which besides regulating the cut and style and materials of gowns prescribed the colors which were to represent the different fields of learning. In 1932 the American Council on Education authorized the appointment of a committee "to determine whether revision and completion of the academic code adopted by the conference of the colleges and universities in 1895 is desirable at this time, and, if so, to draft a revised code and present a plan for submitting the code to the consideration of the institutional members of the Council." The committee reviewed the situation through correspondence and conference and ap proved a code for academic costumes that has been in effect since that year. A Committee on Academic Costumes and Ceremonies, appointed by the American Council on Education in 1959, again reviewed the costume code and made several changes. In 1986, the committees updated the code and added a sentence clarifying the use of the color dark blue for the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. It is customary at many colleges and universities for the tassel to be worn on the right side of the cap by degree candidates. Upon conferral of the degree, the tassel is then moved from right to left. For all academic purposes, including trimmings of doctoral gowns and edging of hoods, the colors associated with different disciplines represented at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga are as follow: Art: White Music: Pink Commerce, Accountancy, Nursing: Apricot Business: Sapphire Blue Oratory (Speech): Silver Gray Economics: Copper Philosophy: Dark Blue Education: Light Blue Physical Therapy: Teal Engineering: Orange Public Administration, including Fine Arts: Brown Foreign Services: Sapphire Blue Journalism: Crimson Science: Golden Yellow Law: Purple Social Work: Citron Library Science: Lemon Theology: Scarlet Excerpts from: An Academic Costume Code and An Academic Ceremony Guide, by Eugene Sullivan, American Council on Education www.acenet.edu. American Universities and Colleges, 15th Edition. New York: Walter de Gruyter, Inc., 1997. ™EUNIVERSITYO/TENNESSEE or CHATTANOOGA ALMA MATER Lookout Mountain o'er us guarding Ceaseless watch doth keep. In the valley stands our college Where the shadows creep. Chattanooga, Chattanooga Loud the anthem swell; Sing, O Sing of Alma Mater, All her praises tell. THEIJNIVERSITYQ/TENNESSEE or v->rlA. 1 I /\JNOOLJA. 234th Commencement Program Dr. Phil Oldham, Presiding Academic Processional Dr. Deborah McAllister Head Marshal Chattanooga Brass Ensemble Dr. Jocelyn Sanders, Director Invocation Reverend G. Keith Moore The Wesley Center / The United Methodist Student Center National Anthem Chattanooga Brass Ensemble Greetings Dr. Phil Oldham Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Remarks and Introduction Dr. Roger Brown Chancellor Commencement Address Dr. Jan Simek Interim President, University of Tennessee Conferring of Degrees Chancellor Brown Remarks Mr. Andrew Clark President, Student Government Association Welcome and Induction Mr. Tom Losh President, UTC Alumni Board of Directors Alma Mater UTC Vocal Ensemble Dr. Kevin Ford, Director Academic Recessional Chattanooga Brass Ensemble The audience is asked to stand for the processional Your cooperation is appreciated in silencing and recessional and to remain in place until the cellular phones and other electronic recessional is concluded. devices during the ceremony. utc % 7 Commencement Address Dr. Jan Simek Interim President, University of Tennessee Dr. Jan Simek became interim president of the University of Tennessee on July 1, 2009. Dr. Simek had served as acting president since March 1, 2009. He is to be interim president for a period of up to two years. In his current role, Dr. Simek serves as the chief executive officer of a statewide university system that includes the flagship campus in Knox ville, campuses in Chattanooga and Martin, the Health Science Center in Memphis, the Space Institute in Tullahoma, and statewide institutes of agriculture and public service. As president, Dr. Simek serves as chairman of the UT-Battelle Board of Governors and as a member of the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees. Most of Dr. Simek's academic career has been spent at UT Knoxville, where he has served in various academic and administrative posts with the campus over a 25-year period. Dr. Simek previously served as interim chancellor of UT Knoxville for one year and before that was chief of staff to former Chancellor Loren Crabtree from 2005 to 2008. Dr. Simek is an archaeologist who came to UT in 1984 as an assistant professor of anthro pology. He is now a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and has served as head of the Anthropology Department, the interim director of the School of Art and interim dean of the College of Architecture and Design. Dr. Simek earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a master's and doctorate from the State University of New York in Binghamton. He has carried out archaeological research in France, Italy, Croatia, California and Tennessee and received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society and the French Ministry of Culture. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the University of Washington, the University of Bordeaux and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Simek and his wife, Mary Ann, live in Seymour, Tenn. A Note to Our Guests Today is a milestone day in the lives of our graduates. Our administration, faculty, and staff join in recog nizing and congratulating each of today's honorees. We want today to be special, and we want each of our graduates to receive the recognition and the attention for which so many individual families have sacrificed. Each of our graduates deserves his or her moment of recognition. For that reason, please do not celebrate so exuberantly preventing the next graduate's name from being heard. Thank you for helping us to celebrate the accomplishment of each graduate. — Your Commencement Marshals Thank you to the members of the UTC GOLD Council who served as hosts for today's ceremony. This program lists candidates for degrees anticipated to have completed all requirements for graduation prior to the date of commencement.