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Commencement Confetti speak at Class Day.) Royalty sighting: Her Majesty Ashi Dorji Commencement Wangmo Wangchuck, left, one of four Commencement Confetti queens of Bhutan, with her daughter, Her caller Frederick Aber- Royal Highness Princess Ashi Sonam An omnium-gatherum of notes and nathy, McKay profes- Dechen Wangchuck, LL.M. ’07, who plans sor of mechanical en- to serve her country as a member of the statistics, vital and otherwise gineering and Law- Judiciary of Bhutan. rence professor of en- EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN gineering, told the celebrants milling On Commencement day, Thursday, in the Old Yard before the procession June 7, Harvard conferred 6,871 degrees Thursday morning, “My responsibility and 138 certificates. The College granted is to engineer with dignity and good 1,694 of these, 71 summa cum laude. humor your orderly march into Ter- Mother Nature, the ultimate female centenary Theatre.” When his charges scientist (as one participant called her), failed to form up smartly, he observed, laid on forgiving weather—crisp—for “Good weather is not good for Com- the throng jammed into Tercentenary mencement,” due to its relaxing ef- Theatre for the formal exercises in the fects. He appealed for discipline, de- morning and the multitude that re- claring stentorianly, “President Bok is turned that afternoon to hear the ad- here, anxiously looking forward to the JIM HARRISON dress of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. end of this event!” (The day before, also fair, had drawn its WARRIORS own huge crowd WOOKIEES Eleven seniors took oaths and received to listen to for- The Latin Oration, which can always be their first salutes at the ROTC commis- mer U.S. presi- counted on to raise a few laughs, is one sioning ceremony on June 6. Lawrence H. dent Bill Clinton of three traditional student “parts” de- Summers spoke at the event in each of livered during the formal Commence- his years as president, but President Harvard planted yellowwood trees ment exercises. This year’s o≠ering, by Derek Bok did not attend. The guest in Tercentenary Charles J. McNamara ’07, of Lowell speaker was Stephen P. Rosen, Kaneb Theatre because House and Grayling, Michigan, entitled professor of national security and mili- they customarily “Iohannes Harvard, Eques Iediensis,” or tary a≠airs, director of the Olin Institute bloom in these parts in early June, “John Harvard, Jedi Knight,” had a Star for Strategic Studies, Harvard College at Commencement time. This year they Wars theme. Names such as “Chew- Professor, and master of Winthrop flowered a full week ahead of schedule. bacca” jumped out of the Latin in a House. “Four years ago,” he said, “Har- They were practicing for the new academic startling way—and, in that case, drew vard chose and four years ago, you calendar (see page 60), which will wrap up you, the academic year, including Commence- an answering Wookiee growl from chose….the life of a warrior. Harvard hon- ment, in May, beginning in 2010. members of the audience. ors public service, but is uneasy with na- tional military service, because New officers, all College seniors, from left: 2nd Lt. Robert Huefner, of Peachtree City, Georgia; 2nd Lt. John W. Cancian, of Arling- ton, Virginia; Ens. Donald M. Coates, of Los Angeles; Ens. Erika E. Helbling, of San Anto- nio, Texas; Ens. Patrick Morris- sey, of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Ens. Erik A.H. Sand, of Lake Elmo, Minnesota; Ens. Meredith E. Sandbert, of Salt Lake City; Ens. Jonathan T. Sieg, of Salem, Oregon; Ens. Danielle Thiriot, of Salt Lake City; Ens. Aaron T. Woodside, of Edmond, Okla- homa; and 2nd Lt. Lauren L. Brown, of Winter Park, Florida. A twelfth senior, 2nd Lt. Jukay JIM HARRISON Hsu, was commissioned in April. Harvard Magazine 53 JOHN HARVARD’S JOURNAL COMMENCEMENT 2007 Harvard is uneasy with war, and with warriors, and increasingly sees itself as an international university, not simply an American university. “We all wish to avoid war, with all our hearts…,” Rosen continued. “And we welcome students and faculty from around the world. But the United States is our country. Without the United States, there would be no Harvard, and we should never forget that. And our country is still at war, and so I salute your courage, your commitment to na- tional service, and the…sacrifices you have made and will make.” STU ROSNER FOUR MINUTES TO REMEMBER Each summer the Crimson Summer Academy welcomes 30 ninth-graders from low-income An unprecedented approach to a re- families in Boston and Cambridge, who commit to the program for three years. They live on campus during the week in summer and take rigorous courses. The inaugural class graduated union panel led to an especially engag- at this Commencement. Each member received a diploma and a $3,000 scholarship check to- ing o≠ering by the class of 1972, “My Fa- ward college. They marched at the tail of the afternoon alumni procession, being the youngest. vorite Four Minutes.” Each of the five panelists chose a four-minute scene House and Edmonton, Alberta, for find- seen no shortage of accomplishments.” from a movie that came out during their ings about the development of trade “Derek did well to respond by invok- years in college. These excerpts were and trading networks in the medieval ing Nathaniel Eaton, whose term lasted shown to the audience, and after each Adriatic Sea, and to Emily K. Vasili- just one year, from August 1638 to August one the classmate who chose it revealed auskas ’07, of Lowell House and Pen- 1639,” notes John T. Bethell ’54, author of why it stuck in memory. Thus, after re- hook, Virginia, for her analyses of Ger- Harvard Observed and a contributing edi- visiting “Hot Lips” Houlihan in the man poet Paul Célan’s work. tor of this magazine. “So he has tied that shower in M*A*S*H, panelist Timothy record (though purists might note that W.H. Peltason ’72, of Wellesley, Massa- TERM LIMITS? Eaton held the title of master, not presi- chusetts, discussed antiauthoritarian- Introducing President Derek Bok, who dent). However, the shortest term as act- ism and “mean-spirited misogyny.” spoke on Commencement afternoon, ing president would seem to have been Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, of that of Andrew Preston Peabody, who PRIZEWINNERS Evanston, Illinois, outgoing president of stepped in when Thomas Hill resigned in The Phi Beta Kappa scholars honored the Harvard Alumni Association, as- September 1868. Charles W. Eliot was three members of the faculty with serted that Bok’s second tenure was “the elected president in May 1869, and even teaching prizes: David A. Evans, shortest presidency on record, but it has though he would have needed some time Lawrence professor of chem- to wind up his responsibilities at istry; Anne Harrington, profes- MIT, he almost certainly would sor of the history of science and have been on the job before the Harvard College Professor; and 1869-70 academic year started. I poetry critic Helen Vendler, think Peabody beats Bok by at Porter University Professor. The least a few weeks.” senior class bestowed the two Ames Awards, for “selfless, Left: Bubble-blower Siri Trang Khalsa, M.P.A. ’07, of Española, heroic, and inspiring leadership,” New Mexico, carries a globe, on classmates Rajan Sonik, of a Commencement prop favored Adams House and Sacramento, by degree candidates from the Rabia Mir, Kennedy School and more worldly California, and of than the Dental School’s tube Pforzheimer House and Karachi, of Crest. She is a Sikh, thus the Pakistan. The Radcli≠e Institute turban. With her is Rostom gave two Fay Prizes, for out- Sarkissian, M.P.P. ’07, of Glendale, California. The school granted standing scholarly work, to 605 degrees to students from Rowan W. Dorin ’07, of Adams JIM HARRISON 67 countries. 54 July - August 2007.
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