Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Commencement Programs Students 5-2019 Utah State University Commencement, 2019 – 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, 2019 – Main Campus" (2019). Commencement Programs. 120. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/commencement/120 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]. 2019 Commencement Utah State University 132nd — May 2nd & 3rd, 2019 Utah State University is one of the nation’s premier student-centered land-grant and space-grant universities. We foster the principle that academics come first; we cultivate diversity of thought and culture; and we serve the public through learning, discovery and engagement. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday, May 2, 2019 ACADEMIC ASSEMBLY 8:00 a.m. Undergraduate Students and Graduate Students assemble on the University Quad; Faculty assemble in the Taggart Student Center, second floor ACADEMIC PROCESSION 8:30 a.m. Taggart Student Center and University Quad to Dee Glen Smith Spectrum COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY 9:00 a.m. Dee Glen Smith Spectrum COLLEGE CONVOCATIONS 12:00 noon College of Engineering – Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Caine College of the Arts – Newel & Jean Daines Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources – Morgan Theatre, Chase Fine Arts Center 2:30 p.m. College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences – Dee Glen Smith Spectrum College of Science – Newel & Jean Daines Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center Office of the Provost (Integrated Studies and Associates Degrees) – Morgan Theatre, Chase Fine Arts Center Friday, May 3, 2019 COLLEGE CONVOCATIONS 9:00 a.m. College of Humanities and Social Sciences – Dee Glen Smith Spectrum Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services Graduate Hooding Ceremony – Newel & Jean Daines Concert Hall, Chase Fine Arts Center 11:30 a.m. Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services Undergraduate Ceremony – Dee Glen Smith Spectrum 2:00 p.m. Jon M. Huntsman School of Business – Dee Glen Smith Spectrum 2 3 UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY Thursday, May 2, 2019 CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES President Noelle E. Cockett, Conducting President Noelle E. Cockett 8:30 a.m. Eric E. Hipple, citation read by Kent K. Alder, Trustee ACADEMIC PROCESSION Mehdi Heravi, citation read by John Y. Ferry, Trustee USU Scotsman Bagpipe and Drum Corps Ronald W. Jibson, citation read by Crystal C. Maggelet, Trustee James Pitts, Professor of Biology, Director Andrew Earl, Pipe Major ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES Mara Ferrin, Pipe Sergeant Abigail Bennion Erickson, Valedictorian – Caine College Emily Densley, Drum Sergeant of the Arts Squire Augustine, Andrew Earl, Mara Ferrin, Owen Lambert, Casey Peterson, Bagpipers REMARKS AND PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES Emily Densley, Jacob Pedersen, Courtney Sorenson, Drummers FOR GRADUATION Francis D. Galey, Executive Vice President and Provost 9:00 a.m. PROCESSIONAL CONFERRING OF DEGREES “Highland Cathedral,” Traditional; arr. Chad S. Steffey President Noelle E. Cockett Featuring USU Scotsman Pipe and Drum Corps USU Wind Orchestra, directed by Dr. Thomas P. Rohrer CONCLUDING REMARKS USU Chamber Singers, directed Dr. Cory Evans President Noelle E. Cockett PRESENTATION OF COLORS MUSICAL SELECTIONS Air Force and Army ROTC “Homeward Bound,” words and music, Marta Keen; arr. Mack Wilberg NATIONAL ANTHEM Soundtrack prepared by Dr. Michael Huff and the Fry Street “Star Spangled Banner,” Francis Scott Key Quartet Savanah Despain Flute, Leslie Timmons USU Chamber Singers, directed by Dr. Cory Evans PRESIDENT’S GREETING President Noelle E. Cockett “Alma Mater Hymn,” Theodore M. Burton USU Chamber Singers and USU Wind Orchestra, MUSICAL SELECTION directed by Dr. Thomas P. Rohrer “Rise Up,” Andra Day, arranged by Mac Huff USU Chamber Singers, directed Dr. Cory Evans RECESSIONAL “Regal Procession,” Clifton Williams ADDRESS TO GRADUATES USU Wind Orchestra, directed by Dr. Thomas P. Rohrer Eric E. Hipple RECOGNITION OF SPECIAL AWARDS President Noelle E. Cockett 3 UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY’S CEREMONIAL MACE The top of the mace depicts the circle of learning, the cycle of study, practice and tradition in which we learn, grow and teach. In the same way the students, alumni, professors and practitioners of Utah State University represent our highest achievements, the brushed copper disk emblazoned with the university’s official seal crowns the mace and sends light upward in every direction, symbolizing the illumination of truth reaching out across our community, our state and our world. The copper bezel has thirteen sunstones set into it. These symbolize the thirteen presidents who guided the institution through its first century. The white oak shaft comes from wood that was originally part of the banisters of Old Main and rescued from the building after the fire of 1983. The base consists of limestone provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and taken from the same quarry that was used to build the Logan Temple. The mace of Utah State University envisions the very essence of our land-grant institution: seated in the bedrock of our community, striving and growing ever higher, sealed on top by a ring of metal, an emblem of our timeless quest for the merits born of learning. A BRIEF HISTORY OF MACES Maces have long been part of academic heraldry, though their function was not always ceremonial. Originally weapons of war, maces are featured often in ancient Egyptian art where kings are shown ritually smiting their foes. This original function has not been entirely lost. Campus officials in the Middle Ages more than once kept students in line by employing their university’s mace in a manner recalling its primitive function. Even in the modern age, it is not unknown for a university mace to be used in this way. For instance, during the commencement ceremonies at Cornell in 1973, when a professor of medieval studies who was carrying the university’s mace in a procession was confronted by protesters, he wielded his academic training and the mace in its original fashion. University maces today are, for the most part, treated as decorative emblems symbolizing the institution’s authority. Seen most often at commencement and other solemn occasions, they remind those in attendance of the deep traditions inherent in a student’s journey through university studies. Like the word for the ceremony itself, “commencement”—which admonishes its participants to remember that this is a celebration of beginnings, not endings—the mace turns the eye forward to the life to come by recalling the rich academic heritage of higher learning and the promise of attainment that comes through education and self-betterment. Our mace, thus, combines elements of both the old and the new, traditional features like gems and stone enhanced with modern designs such as arcs of faceted crystal. Both an impressive work of art and a hallmark of the university’s history, this mace brings to light everything that is best about Utah State University. 4 5 ACADEMIC HERALDRY The history of academic heraldry reaches COLORS back into the early days of the university. For all academic purposes, including trimmings of doctoral gowns, edging of hoods A statute of 1321 required that all and tassels of caps, the colors associated with the different academic disciplines are “Doctors, Licentiates and Bachelors” of as follows: the University of Coimbra wear gowns. In England, in the fourteenth century, Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Maize the statutes of certain colleges forbade Arts, Brown “excess in apparel” and prescribed the Business, Drab wearing of a long gown, necessary, Education and Human Services, Light Blue no doubt, for warmth in the unheated Engineering, Orange buildings frequented by medieval Humanities and Social Sciences, White scholars. Hoods were used to cover the Natural Resources, Russet head until replaced by the skull cap and Science, Gold-Yellow later academic caps. Both Cambridge School of Graduate Studies, Black and Oxford have made academic dress a Associates Degrees, Black matter of university control down to the most minor detail, and in Oxford during The white ribbon with the Greek key on the robe of a graduate identifies an inductee the seventeenth century any tailor who into Phi Kappa Phi, the National Scholastic Society. Those wearing gray collars and changed the authorized design “even a medallion are Mortar Board Senior Honor Society members. A gold braided cord by a nail’s breadth” was punished by the draped over the cowl distinguishes a graduate of Honors. vice-chancellor of the university. When American colleges and universities HOODS decided to adopt some suitable system Academic hoods are worn by recipients of advanced degrees. The master’s degree of academic apparel, it seemed best hoods are three-and-one-half feet in length and are lined with the official color or to agree on one that all might follow. colors of the college or university conferring the degree, which at Utah State University Accordingly, there was held on May are navy blue and white, displayed in a heraldic chevron. The doctoral hood consists 16, 1895, at Columbia University, a of a larger and longer assemblage of institutional color draped over the recipient’s conference of representatives of the shoulders and falling well down the back. The binding or edging of the hoods is of boards of various interested institutions. velvet or velveteen, three inches wide for the master’s degree and five inches wide for From that meeting came a code of the doctoral degree. academic dress for the colleges and universities of the United States, which CAPS most institutions of higher learning Academic caps come in two forms: the traditional mortarboard (from Oxford) or have adopted.