UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Two Hundred Thirty-Third Commencement for the Conferring of Degrees FRANKLIN FIELD Monday, May 22, 1989 SEATING DIAGRAM Guests will find this diagram helpful in locating the approximate seating of the degree candi- dates. The seating roughly corresponds to the order by school in which the candidates for degrees are presented, beginning at top left with the College of Arts and Sciences. The actual se- quence is shown in the Contents on the oppo- site page under Degrees in Course. Reference to the paragraph on page eight describing the colors of the candidates hoods according to their fields of study may further assist guests in placing the locations of the various schools. Contents Page Seating Diagram of the Graduating Students 2 The Commencement Ceremony 4 Commencement Notes 6 Degrees in Course 9 The College of Arts and Sciences 9 The College of General Studies 18 The School of Engineering and Applied Science 19 The Wharton School 26 The Wharton Evening School 30 The Wharton Graduate Division 32 The School of Nursing 37 The School of Medicine 39 The Law School 40 The Graduate School of Fine Arts 42 The School of Dental Medicine 45 The School of Veterinary Medicine 46 The Graduate School of Education 47 The School of Social Work 49 The Annenberg School of Communications 50 The Graduate Faculties 51 Certificates 57 General Honors Program 57 Advanced Dental Education 57 Social Work 58 Education 58 Fine Arts 58 Commissions 59 Army 59 Navy 59 Air Force 59 Principal Undergraduate Academic Honor Societies 60 Faculty Honors 62 Prizes and Awards 65 Class of 1939 73 Events Following Commencement 74 The Commencement Marshals 76 Academic Honors Insert The Commencement Ceremony MUSIC The First United States Army Band EDWARD A. GREENE, Conductor and Commander STUDENT PROCESSION PROCESSION OF THE CLASS OF 1939 ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION ALVIN V. SHOEMAKER, Chairman of the Trustees INVOCATION STANLEY E. JOHNSON, Chaplain THE NATIONAL ANTHEM GREETINGS SHELDON HACKNEY, President ACADEMIC HONORS MICHAEL T. AIKEN, Provost CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES The President E. DIGBY BALTZELL Professor Emeritus of Sociology Doctor of Humane Letters B.S. IN ECON. 1940 RUTH WRIGHT HAYRE Retired Public School Teacher and Doctor of Laws B.S. IN ED. 1930, PH.D. 1949 Philanthropist ARNOLD S. RELMAN Editor, New England Journal of Medicine Doctor of Laws Former Frank Wistar Thomas Professor and Chairman of Medicine University of Pennsylvania JANET DAVISON ROWLEY Cytogeneticist and Professor of Medicine Doctor of Science University of Chicago MIKE WALLACE Television Journalist Doctor of Laws The audience is requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem and The Red and Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the field. THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID . Randall Thompson The Commencement Chorus and First Army Band BRUCE MONTGOMERY, Conductor INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER The Provost COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS MIKE WALLACE, Television Journalist GREETINGS ROBERT E. DAVIES, Chair, Faculty Senate PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTY-YEAR CLASS The President CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Deans and the Deputy Provost CLOSING REMARKS The President THE RED AND BLUE (By William J. Goeckel, '96 and Harry E. Westervelt, '98) Come all ye loyal clansmen now, in hall and campus through, Lift up your hearts and voices for the royal Red and Blue. Fair Harvard has her crimson, old Yale her colors too, But for dear Pennsylvania we wear the Red and Blue. Hurrah! Hurrah! Pennsylvania! Hur- rah for the Red and the Blue: Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah for the Red and the Blue. BENEDICTION The Chaplain RECESSIONAL The new campus carillon system being used today is a memorial gift by the families and friends of Michele Huber and Bryan D. Giles. Cum laude graduates in 1987 of both the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School through the Management and Technology program, they were engaged to be married when they died in an automobile accident on June 2, 1988. Commencement Notes Commencement exercises at American universities and colleges are traditionally composed of three essential elements: the academic procession, the conferring of degrees and the commencement address. This practice has been codified since 1895, when a national conference on academic costume and ceremony was proposed and a plan known initially as the "Intercollegiate System" was formally adopted. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania incorporated this code in the statutes of the University in November 1896. Now under the aegis of the American Council of Education, the "Academic Costume Code and Academic Ceremony Guide" has been revised in 1932 and 1960 Throughout the 20th century commence- ment at Penn has, with minor modifications, followed the dictates of the code and its revisions. By 1896, however, Penn had been granting degrees for nearly one hundred forty years. Like other American colonial colleges, Penn borrowed its 18th century commencement rituals directly from the English universities. In England the history of academic dress reaches back to the early days of the oldest schools. As early as the second half of the fourteenth century, the statutes of certain colleges prohibited "excess in apparel" and required the wearing of a long gown. It is still an open question as to whether academic dress finds its sources chiefly in ecclesiastical or in civilian dress. It is often suggested that gowns and hoods were the simplest, most effective method of staying warm in the unheated, stone buildings which housed medieval scholars. In any case academic costume had evolved to contemporary familiarity by the time Benjamin Franklin was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St. Andrews in Edinburgh in 1759. A replica of what is thought to be his gown—plain black faille, without trimmings except for red buttons fastening the front and the bell shaped sleeves—his hood—solid red faille, lined with ivory silk—and his cap—soft black velvet in square-topped form—is on exhibition at the Penn Infor- mation Center. Two hundred years ago, as Americans inaugurated a new national order, the University was caught in the turmoil of political re-alignment in Pennsylvania. In March 1789, an act of the state Assembly expelled the Trustees and Faculty from the campus at 4th and Arch Streets. The old College of Philadel- phia was re-instituted and the former Provost, William Smith, resumed charge of the buildings and equipment. The College of Philadelphia had no students, however, and the Trustees and Faculty of the University, undaunted by their eviction, continued to administer and teach. They soon entered into an agreement with the American Philosophical Society to conduct the Universitys several departments from the Societys building on Independence Square, Fifth Street below Chestnut. On 20 June 1789, the city newspapers advertised: "The trustees of the University having fitted up the rooms of the Philosophical Hall on Fifth Street, on the State House Square, for the accommodation of the several schools, the busi- ness of that Institution will be hereafter carried on at that place, and the Students are desired to attend their respective Professors and Tutors on Monday next at eight oclock in the morning." In this way Penn would continue as two separate institutions for the next two and one-half years. The Commencement of 1789 (see accompanying illustration) was quite unusual as it required two days to complete! Nevertheless it was a magnificent, traditional affair, beginning at 10 a.m. each day with a procession of students, alumni, faculty, trustees and public officials from "the Hall of the University" to the German Reformed Church at 4th and Race Streets, a distance of four city squares. The program was directed by the Provost, the chief University officer at that time, and was doubtless extended to two days by the inclusion of no less than fifteen student orations. At the conclusion of the second day, the Provost conferred a total of thirty-two degrees—seventeen Bachelors of Arts, eleven semi-honorary Masters of Arts, three Bachelors of Medicine and one Doctor of Medicine—and the class valedictorian deliv- ered the commencement address. The city newspapers were delighted, reporting: "A splendid and very large assembly were present each day, and in particular the Corporation of the city; The German Society, the Faculty, and some of the Trustees of the College of Philadelphia. The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church now sitting did also honor the exhibition by their presence. The attention and complacency shown by such a multitude of citizens and strangers, among whom were many of the most This and additional material which follows is taken from "An Academic Costume Code and an Academic Ceremony Guide" in American Council on Education, American Universities and Colleges, 12th ed. (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1983), pp. 2069-72. Commencement of 1789 Broadside commencement program from the collections of the University Archives and Records Center. Annotations made some years later by one of the graduates. approved taste and understanding, gave a decided attestation to the high merit of the several young gentlemen who spoke; and indicated their sentiments of the Institution in general." One hundred years later Penns commencement exercises remained nearly identical. The Commence- ment of 1889 was held at the Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets. The program began at 11 a.m. with music by the University orchestra, followed by the academic procession, an invocation, two student orations, the conferring of degrees and the valedictory address. A benediction and a final orchestral selection concluded the ceremony. The number and variety of degrees, however, reveal a maturing univer- sity, one where the student could advance along any of several courses of study.