1999 Fall Graduation Exercises North Carolina State University Wednesday, December 15 Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine
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1999 Fall Graduation Exercises North Carolina State University Wednesday, December 15 Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine DEGREES TO BE CONFERRED Wednesday, December 15 Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine This program is prepared for informational purposes only. The appearance ofan individual's name does not constitute the University's acknowledgement, certification, or representation thatthe individual has fulfilled the requirements for a degree. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Alma Mater iii Musical Program .................................................................................................iv Exercises OfGraduation v Mr. Gerald J. Butters vi Dr. John Thomas Biggers .................................................................................. vii Time And Location For College and Departmental Ceremonies ..................... viii ROTC Commissioning Ceremony x Graduation Ushers ...............................................................................................xi Graduation Marshals xi Academic Costume............................................................................................ xii Academic Honors .............................................................................................. xii Undergraduate Degrees ........................................................................................ 1 Graduate Degrees 48 Master‘s Degrees.................................................................................48 Master ofArts Degrees .......................................................................60 Master ofScience Degrees..................................................................61 Doctor of Education Degrees 74 Doctor ofPhilosophy Degrees................................................................76 Doctor ofVeterinary Medicine Degrees 93 1999 Graduation Acknowledgements ................................................................94 ii The Alma Mater Words by: Music by: ALVIN M. FOUNTAIN, '23 BONNIE F. NORRIS, IR, '23 Where the winds ofDixie softly blow o'er the fields of Caroline, There stands ever cherished NC. State, as thy honored shrine. So lift your voices; Loudly sing from hill to oceanside! Our hearts ever hold you, NC. State in the folds ofour love and pride. iii Musical Program EXERCISES OF GRADUATION December 15, 1999 British Brass Band Concert 8:30 am. Music for the Royal Fireworks George F. Handel Allegro (La Réjouissance) arr. Lt. Col. Charles Skinner Coliseum........................................................................................... Gareth Wood Devon Fantasy ......................................................................................... Eric Ball Moorland Song The Fair Quiet Village Seafarers Overture ‘Provence’ ............................................................................ Brian Kelly PROCESSIONAL: 9:00 a.m. Ceremonial March ...................................................................... Robert B. Petters RECESSIONAL (Platform Party Only) Ceremonial March ...................................................................... Robert B. Petters NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY BRITISH BRASS BAND Dr. Robert B. Petters, Director iv Exercises of Graduation Entertainment and Sports Arena Chancellor Marye Anne Fox Presiding December 15, 1999 PROCESSIONAL. 9:00 am...............................................................Dr. Robert B. Petters Director, North Carolina State University British Brass Band The audience isrequestedtoremain seated duringthe Processional WELCOME ............................................................................Chancellor Marye Anne Fox INVOCATION ....................................................................... The Reverend Allen Proctor Presbyterian Campus Pastor NATIONAL ANTHEM The Grains ofTime INTRODUCTIONS Chancellor Fox ADDRESS ..........................................................................................Mr. Gerald J. Butters President, Lucent Technologies’ Optical Networking Group CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Chancellor Fox Dr. John Thomas Biggers Doctor ofHumane Letters CONFERRING OF DEGREES ...................................................................Chancellor Fox Candidates for advanced degrees presented by Dean ofGraduate School. degreespresentedby Deans ofColleges/Schools, Candidates forbaccalaureate ADDRESS TO FELLOW GRADUATES.........................................Lori Denise Wagoner Class of 1999 RECOGNITIONS........................................................................................Chancellor Fox VALEDICTORIANS................................................................................CLASS OF 1999 Derek Michael Foster Phyllis Monteith Richardson Tonia Decker Garrard Katie Elizabeth Robinson Stanley Kermit Hall Magdalena Martha Wiktor Barbara Jean Mills TURNING OF THE TASSEL ...........................................................Lori Denise Wagoner ALMA MATER....................................................................................The Grains ofTime RECESSIONAL (Platform Party only) MR. GERALD J. BUTTERS Gerald J. Butters is group president ofLucent Technologies’ Optical Networking Group. His selection as commencement speaker at the first graduation ceremonies held in the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena marks the second time this year he has played a central role in a historic NC State event. In April, Butters joined Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. to announce that Lucent would build a 120,000-square-foot optical networking research and development facility on NC State’s Centennial Campus. The new facility, slated to open in spring 2000, will employ 500 research and development professionals, making Lucent the largest corporate partner yet to locate on Centennial Campus. As president ofLucent’s Optical Networking Group, Butters is responsible for all development, manufacturing, product marketing and management for Lucent’s optical networking product line, including Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) systems, SONET/SDH, and Bandwidth Management elements. He previously was president ofthe North American Region ofLucent Technologies' Network Systems business. Prior tojoining Network Systems in I994, he was president ofNorthem Telecom Inc. in Research Triangle Park. Butters is a member ofthe Industrial Strategy Council ofthe Internet 2 Board of Trustees and the Business Advisory Board of the College of Business Administration of Rider University. He also is a board member of Junior Achievement ofNew York. The Mississippi University for Women awarded him the Medal ofExcellence for his leadership in the development of new technology applications to augment high school education in Mississippi. Earlierthis year, Butters was named a Fellow by the International Engineering Consortium. His previous affiliations include a board membership at the North Carolina Museum ofArt. Butters attended Mount San Antonio College, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and the University of Western Ontario Advanced Management Program. He and his wife, Carolynne, live in New Jersey. vi DR. JOHN THOMAS BIGGERS In 1941, John Thomas Biggers enrolled at the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, intending to become a plumber. Luckily for the world ofart, things worked out a little differently for the 17-year-old boy from Gastonia, North Carolina. Today, Biggers is one ofour country's most accomplished artists. His paintings and drawings hang in museums and private collections nationwide, and his murals -- including two at Winston-Salem State University, and one in theNorth Carolina Legislative Building on which he advised his nephew, James Biggers -- are widely considered to be the finest painted by any artist ofhis generation. Throughout his long and productive career, Biggers has created works that draw upon the experiences ofAfrican Americans in the rural South to illustrate and celebrate the richness ofdiversity and the commonality ofall human experience. He has said, "I'm not a big-city artist telling a big-city story; I'm a Southern man telling a story about home." Biggers was born in Gastonia on April 13, 1924, the seventh and youngest child ofPaul and Cora Biggers. Overcoming poverty, racism and personal tragedy -- his father died in I937 when his youngest son wasjust l3 -- Biggers persevered, and enrolled as a freshman at Hampton Institute in 1941. There, despite his initial goal of becoming a plumber, he was drawn to art and began to develop his own personal style, a bold synthesis ofAfrican and African-American folk cultures with Western modernism. By 1943, one of his earliest and most famous murals, Dying Soldier, was exhibited in a show, "YoungNegro Art," at the Museum ofModern Art in New York City. Following two years ofservice in the US. Navy during World War II, Biggers returned to college and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in art education from Pennsylvania State University in 1948. With the exception of 1954, when he returned to Penn State to complete work on his doctorate in art education, Biggers spent the next 34 years ofhis life as a professor ofart at Texas Southern University in Houston, where he directed a program that has produced many ofAmerica's most prominent black artists, art historians and teachers. Biggers retired from his teaching post at Texas Southern in 1983, but continues to serve the university as professor emeritus, and to paint and inspire new generations of artists. He and his wife ofnearly 51 years, Hazel Hales Biggers, live in Gastonia and in