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Emory University The One Hundred Sixty-eighth Commencement The Thirteenth of May Two Thousand Thirteen The Alma Mater Table of Contents In the heart of dear old Emory Where the sun doth shine, Order of Exercises .................................................................... 2 That is where our hearts are turning ’Round old Emory’s shrine. Musical Selections .................................................................... 3 Order of Procession ................................................................. 3 We will ever sing thy praises, Award Recipients ..................................................................... 4 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, Honorary Degree Recipients .................................................... 6 Hail the Gold and Blue! Diploma Ceremonies ................................................................ 7 Retiring Faculty and Staff ........................................................ 8 Tho’ the years around us gather, Crowned with love and cheer, Recipients of Degrees-in-Course ............................................... 9 Still the memory of Old Emory Grows to us more dear. Emory College of Arts and Sciences ..................................... 9 Oxford College .................................................................. 14 We will ever sing thy praises, Sons and daughters true. School of Medicine ............................................................ 14 Hail we now our Alma Mater, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ....................... 16 Hail the Gold and Blue! Candler School of Theology .............................................. 17 —J. Marvin Rast 1918C 29T School of Law .................................................................... 18 Roberto C. Goizueta Business School ................................ 19 Rollins School of Public Health ......................................... 23 James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies ....................... 25 Recipients of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree ...................... 26 Recipients of Honors and Prizes ............................................ 36 A Commentary on Commencement ....................................... 49 Emory University Commencement 2013 1 The Order of Exercises Gathering Music Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Processional Atlanta Pipe Band Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Welcome James W. Wagner President of the University Invocation Susan Henry-Crowe 76T Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life Presidential Address James W. Wagner Presentation of the Marion Luther Brittain Service Award Ajay Nair Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Presentation of the Scholar/Teacher James W. Wagner and Thomas Jefferson Awards Authorization to Confer Degrees Ben F. Johnson III 65C Chair of the Board of Trustees Conferral of Honorary Degrees James W. Wagner Keynote Address Rita Dove Conferral of Degrees James W. Wagner Welcome to the Emory Alumni Association Isabel M. Garcia 99L President, Emory Alumni Board Emory Alumni Association Closing Remarks James W. Wagner Benediction Ngawang Norbu 11C, Buddhist Rebecca Marie Nocharli 13C, Christian Anand Anil Deshpande 13C, Hindu Sameer Syed Quadri 13C, Islamic Michal David 13C, Jewish Alma Mater Jason Charles 15C Alexander Robert Riddle 13C Jordan Landon Samo 13C Collin John Shepard 14C Benito Jared Thompson 14C Recessional Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Guests are asked to please remain seated during the processional and recessional. Please silence any cell phones, pagers, or electronic devices, and refrain from talking during the ceremonies. The Quadrangle ceremony will be broadcast live on Emory Television Channel 56.1 (QAM) with captioning and Channel 28 (analog) without captioning in rooms 206, 207, and 208 in White Hall and at various locations on campus. The Quadrangle and Emory College of Arts and Sciences diploma ceremonies can be viewed on the web at www.emory.edu/commencement. View commencement photos, videos, and stories on Twitter and Instagram by following @EmoryUniversity and using hashtag #Emory2013. Stay connected with Facebook and the Emory Mobile App (text “EMORY” to 99699 for info). 2 Emory University Commencement 2013 GATHERING MUSIC THE FACULTIES The Order of Exercises Fancies, Toyes and Dreames ................................ Giles Farnaby CHIEF MARSHAL OF THE UNIVERSITY Morning Song .......................................... Alexander Arutiunian Professor Bobbi Patterson Two Renaissance Madrigals ............................ Gregor Aichinger and Claude Le Jeune THE PLATFORM PARTY English Folk Song Suite ...................... Ralph Vaughan Williams Vice President and Secretary of the University Contrapunctus IX ...................................Johann Sebastian Bach Rosemary M. Magee 82PhD Georgia on My Mind ........................ Hoagy Carmichael/Moore Vice President and Deputy to the President Soliloquy ................................................. John Anthony Lennon Gary S. Hauk 91PhD University Trustees The Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet, under the directorship Recipients of Special Awards of Emory University Organist Timothy Albrecht, performs this Commencement Vocalists morning’s commencement music, which includes arrangements Vice President for Communications and Marketing Ron Sauder by Michael Moore. Senior Vice President for Development Michael Tiscione and David Vonderheidt, trumpet and Alumni Relations Susan Cruse Susan Welty, horn Senior Vice President and General Counsel Stephen D. Sencer Nathan Zgonc, trombone Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Michael Moore*, tuba and artistic director S. Wright Caughman *Emory Artist Affiliates President of the Emory Alumni Board of the Emory Alumni Association Isabel M. Garcia 99L President of the University Senate Gray F. Crouse PROCESSIONAL Interim Registrar JoAnn McKenzie Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life Susan Henry-Crowe 76T Emory and Old St Andrews .......Henry Frantz 71C 74L/Moore Student Ministers An Academic Procession ..................... Johannes Brahms/Moore President of The Carter Center John B. Hardman 73FM Prelude to “Te Deum”…….. .Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Moore Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life Ajay Nair Please remain seated while the platform party, faculty, and Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health James W. Curran graduates process into the Quadrangle. Dean of Roberto C. Goizueta Business School Lawrence M. Benveniste Vice Provost for Academic Affairs–Graduate Studies and RECESSIONAL Dean of the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies Lisa A. Tedesco La Rejouissance from Dean of the School of Law Robert Schapiro “Royal Fireworks Music”...George Frederick Handel/Moore Dean of Candler School of Theology Jan Love Dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Please remain seated until the platform party, faculty, and Linda A. McCauley 79N graduates have departed. Dean of the School of Medicine Christian P. Larsen 80C 84M 91MR Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences Robin Forman ORDER OF PROCESSION Dean of Oxford College Stephen H. Bowen Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs THE ATLANTA PIPE BAND and Provost Claire E. Sterk Marguerite Barankitse CANDIDATES FOR BACCALAUREATE AND Michael Graves PROFESSIONAL DEGREES Rita Dove Chair of the Board of Trustees Ben F. Johnson III 65C Each school is preceded by the bearer of its gonfalon. Bedel of the University Ashish Ramanlal Gandhi 13C President James W. Wagner CANDIDATES FOR MASTER’S DEGREES DEPUTY UNIVERSITY MARSHALS CANDIDATES FOR THE DEGREE OF Professor Gray F. Crouse, Faculty Marshal DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND FACULTY SPONSORS Professor Alexander Hicks, Faculty Marshal at Large Associate Professor Linda Spencer, Faculty Marshal at Large CORPUS CORDIS AUREUM (The Golden Corps of the Heart) Professor Arri Eisen, Emory College of Arts and Sciences Members are Emory University alumni from the Class of 1963 Professor Nancy J. Newman, Medicine or earlier. They are attired in distinctive golden robes. Assistant Professor Carolyn Clevenger, Nursing Emory University Commencement 2013 3 Associate Professor Rex D. Matthews, Theology PRESENTATION OF THE Professor Richard Freer, Law UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR/TEACHER AWARD Professor Doug Bowman, Business Associate Professor Nancy J. Thompson, Public Health Chosen by the university president from nominations by the Associate Professor Vicki S. Hertzberg, Graduate School deans on behalf of the United Methodist Church Board of Dirk L. Brown 90B, Alumni Higher Education and Ministry. Leslie Harris Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities PRESENTATION OF THE MARION LUTHER Associate Professor of History and African American Studies BRITTAIN SERVICE AWARD Leslie Harris, an internationally recognized expert in This award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on students nineteenth-century US and African American history, plays an by the university, is an expression of gratitude for service influential role in the university community’s constructive performed without expectation of reward or recognition. The examination of and evolution on issues of race and difference. award was established at Emory in 1942 through a bequest With a BA from Columbia University and an MA and PhD from a distinguished Emory alumnus, former President Brittain from Stanford University, Harris focuses on the pre–Civil War of the Georgia Institute of Technology. history of African Americans in the United States. Her award- winning book In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans Katherine Leah Dickerson 13C
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