Commencement 1983
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Commencement Exercises 1983 Marshall University t \ 1 I Marshall University Saturday, May 7, 1983 at 11:00 a.m. in the Huntington Civic Center Disclaimer The list of May degree candidates in this program is tentative and is based upon the anticipated successful completion of work undertaken during the Second Semester 1982-83. This document should not be taken as an official record that degrees have in fact been awarded. Welcome Marshall University welcomes those attending the 146th Commencement Exercises. Academic Procession Faculty Marshals Candidates for Bachelor Degree Candidates for Associate Degree Candidates for Master Degree Candidates for Medical Degree Candidates for Doctoral Degree Assistant Chief Faculty Marshal Members of the Faculty Chief Faculty Marshal Commencement Officials Alma Mater Marshall Gracious Alma Mater, We thy name revere: May each noble son and daughter Cherish thine honor dear. May thy lamp be ever bright In I Guiding us to truth and light; As a beacon o'er dark water This is forthee our prayer. ,,, May the years be kind to Marshall; May she grow in fame; May her children fail her never, True to her beacon flame. May her spirit brave and strong Honor right and conquer wrong; This the burden of our song Ever her truth proclaim. Commencement Officials Chief Marshal: Professor T. S. Bishop Assistant Chief Marshal: Professor George Ward, II Assistants: Prof. Robert P. Alexander Prof. Kenneth Guyer Prof. Bruce J. Ardinger Prof. Louise Hoy Prof. William F. Ashford Prof. Howard L. Mills Prof. Richard Bonnett Prof. Giovanna Morton Prof. Mahlon Brown Prof. Ralph E. Oberly Prof. David Dawson Prof. Wayne Taylor Prof. Sarah Denman Prof. Ruth T. Wellman Prof. Jeanne DeVos Prof. David Woodward Chief Usher: Professor Ernest W. Cole Assistant Chief Usher: Professor Charles Webb Assistants: Prof. Dean Adkins Prof. William Kearns Prof. Howard Adkins Prof. Nicholas Kontos Prof. Neal Adkins Prof. Michael Little Prof. Robert Dils Prof. Philip Modlin Prof. Dan K. Evans Prof. William Radig Prof. Mack Gillenwater Prof. Jim Rogers Prof. Charles F. Gruber Prof. Harry Sowards Prof. Ralph Hall Prof. James Stone Prof. Carl Johnson Prof. Donald Tarter Prof. Bosworth Johnson Prof. Luther White Prof. Richard Jones r The 146th Commencement Program President Robert B. Hayes, Presiding Precommencement Concert Marshall University Wind Symphony Professor W. Richard Lemke, Conductor Processional - Ceremonial Marches Invocation . .........................The Reverend Martha E. Loyd Methodist Minister Campus Christian Center 111 I Music ' "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" ... .Arranged by G. M. Martin ''Battle Hymn of the Republic" . .......Arranged by Peter Wilhousky The Symphonic Choir and A Cappella Choirs The Wind Symphony Professor Wendell Kumlien, Conductor Linda Curtis, Accompanist Introduction of Guests Special Guest E. Gordon Gee President, West Virginia University Conferring of Academic Degrees The President of the University Recognition of Honor Graduates Conferring of the Honorary Degrees Candidates Presented by ...............Olen E.Jones, Jr., Provost A. Mervin Tyson , Doctor of Humanities William J. L. Wallace , Doctor of Pedagogy Robert E. Yancey , Doctor of Science Greetings ................................Karen Curnutte Thomas Director, Marshall University Alumni Association The President's Charge "Alma Mater" .............................C.E. and James Haworth Professor Leo V. lmperi Benediction ''The Lord Bless You and Keep You" ...............John Rutter Recessional - Ceremonial Marches The audience is requested to be seated following the Benediction and remain l seated until the class has recessed. " l 1·11 Profile of Marshall University Marshall College had a problem with by the one and one-fourth acre lot con its students: taining their log "academy." The price: "The most decided objection we have $40. to find to any considerable number (of That land is now the site of Old the students) is the tendency to study too Main. long hours, a tendency we are trying to The trustees proceeded to build a new correct. " two-story, brick building, 22 feet wide The quotation comes from the and 50 feet long, containing four rooms. 1909-10 Marshall College Catalog and It was completed by February, 1839. one historian has attributed it to Presi The first full school term was con dent Lawrence J.Corbly. The historian ducted in 1838-39 with Peck serving as added his own wry comment:"President principal for a salary of $500. Corbly and his successors evidently met In 1850, the academy and its financial with considerable success in correcting obligations were accepted by the Con this tendency." ference of the Methodist Episcopal The problem of overzealous students Church, South. In 1858, Marshall may have been exaggerated. In any Academy was renamed Marshall Col event, Marshall has had more serious lege. problems in an often-turbulent history The coming of the Civil War nearly extending back to 1837--some 26 years spelled the end of the young college. before the state of West Virginia was Lack of financial support, accumulated born. debts, court action and the war itself The early history of Marshall is filled forced the school to close its doors in with colorful events and people. 1861.The property was sold at public To put things in chronological auction. perspective, the academic melodrama Mrs.Salina Mason bought the land started in 1837 when the good citizens of and building for $1,500 for her father, Guyandotte and the farming country to John W. Hite. He was a Confederate the west--now the city of Huntington- sympathizer and could not appear in decided they needed an annual school to court in his own behalf.For the next few provide for the education of their years, Hite and his family lived in the youngsters. college building. Tradition records they met at the During at least part of the war, a home of John Laidley, who assumed small school, probably a subscription leadership of the project and named the school, was maintained at the college- new school Marshall Academy in honor fulfilling a provision in the original deed of his friend, the late Chief Justice John from James Holderby which specified it Marshall. was to be used" ...for the express pur They decided to locate their new pose of an Accademy (sic) and for no school on a knoll known as "Maple other use." The building also was used as Grove," site of a small log building called a hospital during part of the conflict. Mount Hebron Church. The structure In the fall of 1866, the Southern also has served for some time as a Methodists made an attempt to regain subscription school for the area, open control of the property, but were unable but three months each year. to raise enough money. It remained a subscription school that Meanwhile, the new state of West summer, conducted by Isaac H. Peck.It Virginia had recognized the need foran wasn't until March 30, 1838, that the institution to train teachers to serve the General Assembly of Virginia passed an state's public schools. After many act formally incorporating Marshall months of wrangling over location, the Academy and appointing Laidley and Legislature on Feb. 27, 1867, voted ap eight other men as trustees. proval of a bill establishing a "state On June 30 of that year, the trustees purchased fromJames and Lucy Holder- (continued) normal school" to be located at Marshall the finalsection of Old Main.This is the College. familiar "towers" segment facing the In order to get the college reopened, main entrance to the campus on 16th the voters of Cabell County approved a Street.With its completion, Old Main property tax levy amounting to $5,000. consisted of five sections. Reading from The state also appropriated fundsand on the east, these were completed in 1898, Aug.1, 1867, the schools' regents pur• 1870, 1899, 1896 and 1907. chased the lot and building from Mrs. The first edition of the campus Mason for $3,600.The regents of the newspaper, The Parthenon, was pub state normal school also authorized ad lished in 1898, although there had been ditions and repairs amounting to about an earlier newspaper with a different $3,800. name. During that period, the regents pur• Intercollegiate athletics got their start chased an additional 10 acres land from at Marshall during this period, with the William P.Holderby for$1,000. lt turned first football team being fielded in 1898. out that there was a lien against the land The Marshall teams originally were and the regents had to ask the known as the Blue and Black, but the Legislature to authorize condemnation now-familiar Green and White colors in order to obtain a valid title. In had been adopted by 1904. September, 1868, they obtained 13 and In May, 1907, the board of regents three-quarters acres at a price fixed at adopted a plan for the reorganization of $1,375. This brought the college the college. Among other things, the holdings to a total of 15 acres in order plan changed Corbly's title from "... that there might be ample room "principal" to "president" and raised his around the buildings, and that the salary to $2,500 a year. Steward of the College might be able to In 1907, Marshall was still strictly a provide material for his table ..." secondary school.By 1912, the regents In 1868, Marshall needed land for had added two years of study to the farming.A hundred years later, the pro• school's program, equivalent to the blem was parking. freshman and sophomore years in col The first session of Marshall College lege. In 1914, President Corbly recom• as a state normal school began June 15, mended that "... Marshall College 1868, and lasted 10 weeks, but financial should be made a 'college' in fact as well problems continued to plague the as in official name--a degree--conferring school.