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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Commencement Programs Students 5-2002 Utah State University Commencement, 2002 – Main Campus Utah State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/commencement Recommended Citation Utah State University, "Utah State University Commencement, 2002 – Main Campus" (2002). Commencement Programs. 93. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/commencement/93 This Commencement Program - Main Campus is brought to you for free and open access by the Students at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Commencement Programs by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 109th Commencement Utah State UNIVERSITY One H undred and Ninth Annual Commencement Ceremonies 4 May 2002 Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Utah State UNIVERSITY Academic procession route and locations of college graduation ceremonies. 2 chedule of Events Friday, M ay 3, 2002 Spouse. Recognition Ceremony 10:00 am., Chase Fine Arts Center, Morgan Theatre Hooding Ceremony for Master's and Doctoral Candidates 1:30 p.m., Dee Glen Sm ith Spectrum College Open Houses 3:30-5:00 p.m. Graduation Dinner and Collage o f Sounds Concert 6:00 to 7:45 p.m., Graduation dinner, Taggart Student Center, Evan N . Stevenson Ballroom (Tickets Required) 8:00 p.m., Collage o f Sounds Concert, Chase Fine Arts Center, Kent Concert H all Saturday, M ay 4, 2002 Academic Assembly 8:30 am., Graduate Students in the Taggart Student Center Juniper Lounge and Undergraduates on the University Quadrangle in Colleges Academic Procession 8:43 am., Taggart Student Center and University Quadrangle to Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Commencement Ceremony 9:30 a.m., Dee Glen Sm ith Spectrum College Graduation Ceremonies 12:00 noon College o f Family Life, Chase Fine Arts Center, Kent Concert H al l College o f HA SS, Dee Glen Sm ith Spectrum College o f N atural Resources, Chase Fine Arts Center, Morgan Theatre College o f Science, Taggart Student Center, Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom 2:00 p.m. College o f Business, Dee Glen Sm ith Spectrum College o f Engineering, Chase Fine Arts Center, Kent Concert H all 4:00 p.m. College o f Agriculture, Chase Fine Arts Center, Kent Concert H al l College of Education, Dee Glen Sm ith Spectrum A lumni Graduation Picnic 11:00 am. - 2:30 p.m., University HPE R Field (Tickets Required) Alumni Reception 11:00 am. - 3:00 p.m., Open H ouse in the D avid B. Haight Alumni Center 3 Commencement Ceremony Saturday, May 4, 2002 President Kerm it L. H all, Conducting 8:45 a.m. A cademic Procession Old Main to Dee Glen Smith Spectrum 9:30 a.m. Processional “The Crown of Chivalry” University W ind Orchestra Perry F letcher 9:35 a.m. Presentation of the Colors A ir Force and Army ROTC National Anthem “Star Spangled Banner" University W ind Orchestra F rancis Scott K ey President’s Greeting President Kermit L. Hall Musical Selection “Cakewalk" Suite of Old University W ind Orchestra American Dances— Robert Russell Bennett A ddress to Graduates Carolyn Tanner Irish Bishop of Episcopalian Church-Sal t L ake City Musical Selection "Fanfare and Allegro” University W ind Orchestra Clifton W illiams Presentation of the D. Wynne Thorne President K ermit L. Hall Research A ward Presentation of the University President Kermit L. Hall Outstanding Graduate Mentor A ward Presentation of the E . G. Peterson President Kermit L. Hall Extension A ward Recognition o f the Colleges’ President Kermit L. Hall Professors o f the Y ear and Presentation o f the E ldon J. Gardner University T eaching A ward Conferring o f Degrees President Kermit L. Hall Conferring o f Honorary Degrees President Kermit L. Hall Citations read by: Carolyn Tanner Irish Gayle M cK eachnie Chairman, Board of Trustees Oren L. Brown Barre Burgon Member, Board of Trustees Patricia Cornwell W illis G. Candland V ice Chair, Board of Trustees Barry Lopez Linda Eyre Member, Board of Trustees Mario J . Molina Dinesh Patel Member, Board of Trustees H arry Reid (by video) Gayle M cK eachnie Chairman, Board of Trustees Concluding Remarks President Kermit L. Hall A lumni Association W elcome Dennis L .Sessions, Member Board of Trustees Musical Selection “Alma Mater Hymn” University W ind Orchestra Theodore M . Burton Recessional “Regal Procession" University W ind Orchestra Clifton W illiams University W ind Orchestra Conductor Dr. Thomas P. Rohrer Director o f Bands Broadcast live on K U E D, Salt Lake City Public Broadcasting Station Rebroadcast o f Graduation Ceremony on the V alley Channel Saturday, May 4, 2002 from 8-9:30 p.m.; and Sunday, May 5, 2002 from 8-9:30 a.m., 12-1:30 p.m., 9-10:30 p.m. 4 The history of academic heraldry reaches Science Gold-Yellow Academic back into the early days of the univer School of Graduate sity. A statute of 1321 required that all Studies (EdD, PhD) Gold "Doctors, Licentiates, and Bachelors" of Heraldry the University of Coimbra wear gowns. The white ribbon with the Greek Key In England, in the fourteenth century, on the robe of a graduate identifies an the statutes of certain colleges forbade inductee into Phi Kappa Phi, the Na "excess in apparel" and prescribed the tional Scholastic Society. Those wear wearing of a long gown, which may ing gray collars and a medallion are have been counted necessary for warmth Mortar Board Senior Honor Society in the unheated buildings frequented members, the National and Academic by medieval scholars. Hoods were used & Service Society. A gold braided cord to cover the head until later replaced by draped over the cowl will distinguish a the skull cap and eventually by aca graduate of Honors. demic caps. Both Cambridge and Ox ford have made academic dress a mat ter of university control to the inclusion Moods of even its minor details; and in Laudian Academic hoods are worn by recipients days in Oxford, any tailor who changed of advanced degrees. The master de the authorized design "even by a nail's gree hoods are three-and-one-half feet breadth" was punished by the vice-chan in length and are lined with the official cellor of the University. When Ameri color or colors of the college or univer can colleges and universities desired to sity conferring the degree, which at Utah adopt some suitable system of academic State University are navy blue and white, apparel, it seemed best to agree on a displayed in a heraldic chevron. The system which all might follow. Accord doctoral hood consists of a larger and ingly, there was held on May 16,1895, at longer assemblage of institutional color Columbia University, a conference of draped over the recipient's shoulders representatives of the boards of various and falling well down the back. The interested institutions. From that meet binding or edging of the hoods is of ing came a code of academic dress for velvet or velveteen, three inches wide the colleges and universities of the and five inches wide for the masters and United States, which most institutions doctors degree, respectively. of higher learning have adopted. Caps G o w n s Academic caps come in two forms: the The academic gown for the bachelors traditional mortarboard (from Oxford), degree has pointed sleeves and is de a square cap; and a soft cap which re signed to be worn closed. The gown for sembles an oversized beret (the Cam the masters degree has an oblong sleeve, bridge model). The mortarboard, used open at the wrist. The sleeve base hangs by Utah State University, is worn with a down in the traditional manner. The tassel. Black tassels designate any de rear part of its oblong shape is square gree; colored tassels designate major cut, and the front part has an arc cut field of learning, and gold tassels indi away. The gown is so designed to be cate doctors and governing officials of worn open or closed. The gown for the institutions. doctors degree has bell-shaped sleeves and may be worn open or closed. Academic Procession Colors The commencement procession origi nates at the University quadrangle and For all academic purposes, including the line of march then extends west trimmings of doctoral gowns, edging of around Old Main and then north to the hoods, and tassels of caps, the colors Spectrum. The procession is composed associated with the different academic of three divisions: (1) color guard, Uni disciplines are as follows: versity president, Regents and the Board of Trustees, administrative officers, and Agriculture Maize special guests; (2) the faculty; and (3) Business Drab candidates for degrees, with candidates Education Light Blue for advanced degrees in the lead and Family Life Maroon others in groups according to the de Engineering Orange grees for which they are candidates. Humanities, Arts The procession will stop at the tunnel and Social Sciences White entrance to the Spectrum, the first two Natural Resources Russett divisions dividing so that the candi dates for graduation pass between them and enter the hall first. 5 Commencement Speaker H onorary Degree arolyn Tanner Irish chas been lauded as a woman of integrity and courage who works tirelessly for the benefit of humanity. □ As Bishop o f the Episcopal Diocese o f Utah and a Trustee o f the Tanner Charitable Trust, her life has been devoted to imparting spiritual well being, humanitarian goodwill, and uplifting aesthetic experiences for all people in Utah and beyond. □ Under the guidance o f Bishop Irish, the Tanner Charitable Trust continues to greatly enrich college campuses in Utah, across the United States, and the world.