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10:30 a.m., April 14, 1972 University Fieldhouse, University of North Dakota Grand Forks, North Dakota THOMAS J. CLIFFORD was appointed President of the University of North Dakota by the State Board of Higher Education January 13, 1971. He assumed the office of President July 1, 1971. Prior to the appointment, he had served as Dean of the College of Business and Public Administration since 1950 and Vice President for Finance since 1959.
Born at Langdon, President Clifford is the first native of North Dakota to serve as President of the Universiry. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce in 1942 and a Juris Doctor Degree in 1948, borh from the University of North Dakota He also holds a Master of Business Admin.istration Degree from Stanford University, where he was a Sranford Executive Fellow, 1957-1958. He has been a Certified Public Accountant, North Dakota ince 1949.
President Clifford was appointed to the University of North Dakota faculty as an lnstructor in Accounting and Business Law in 1945. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1948 and Professor in 1949. He served as Counselor of Men, [946-1949. President Clifford was a member of the United Stares Marine Corps, 1942-1946, rising from the rank of Private First Class to Major and earning the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Silver Star.
As the chief administrator of North Dakota's oldest and largest institution of higher learning, President Clifford directs a University whose teaching, research and public service efforts involve 8,400 students, a work force of 600 faculty and 2,000 supporting personnel, and buildings and equipment valued at more than $65 million.
President Clifford and his wife, Florence, have two sons, Stephen and Thomas. All four members of the family are University of North Dakota graduates.
2 3 PROGRAM INVOCATION The Reverend Russell A. Peterson OF INAUGURATION
Dean D. J. Robertson Pre1iding GREETINGS TO THE PRESIDENT
From the Students William F. DiBrita President, Student Body
OPENING CONCERT The University Carillon Mrs. Ronald (Lorraine) Bitter, Carilloneur From the Alumni Mrs. Lloyd ( Ruth) Everson Member, Alumni Association Board of D irectors
PRELUDE Universiry Wind Ensemble From rhe Faculry Dr. Olen Kraus Michael Polovirz, Conducror Chairman, University Senate
From rhe State of Norrh Dakora The Honorable W illiam L. Guy Governor of N orrh Dakota
PROCESSIONAL University Wind Ensemble Jack Pi!tingsrud, Student Conducror
Proceuion of Noble,, Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT The Reverend Peter Hinrichs President, Srare Board of H igher Education Order of March
Bearer of the Mace The Charge, Reverend Hinrichs Student Marshals Delegates of Colleges and Universities The Acceptance, President Clifford Delegates of Learned Societies and Educational Organizations Student Representatives Faculty and Administrative Officers Stare Board of Higher Education The President and Platform Guests INAUGURAL ADDRESS President Thomas J. Clifford
4 5 ALMA MATER Audience Philip B. Cory, Director INAUGURAL EVENTS
A lma Mater April 14, 1972 Music by Joseph Haydn Words by John Marnie
Hail to thee. 0 Alma Mater! PROGRAM OF INAUGURATION Hail to thee with heart and tongue' Pride we feel and love yet greater, 10:30 a.m. While we raise our grateful song. UniverS1ty Fieldhouse Home of lofty thoughr and learning, Beacon o'er our wesrcrn land, Shrine when Alma Mater, thine the glory, If a thought of ours or deed Find a place in song or story, Win endeavors glorious meed. Prosper ever, fost'ring mother; Down the ages long resound, INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM Loud rhy fame, while many another "The University and the State" Finds in thee what we have found. 2: 30 p.m. Leonard Hall Lecture Bowl BENEDICTION Reverend Peterson INAUGURAi. CONCERT RECESSIONAL University Wind Ensemble K 11Jg D<111d by Arthur Honegger David Bina, Student Conductor University Choral Union Crown imperial, William Walt0n Sebastion Cabot, Guest Artist 8:00 p.m. University Fieldhouse CLOSING CONCERT The University Carillon The audience is requested to please remain seated I m111ed1,1tel) follornng the cr,11cert there ,nil be ,1 during the processional and recessional and to stand during l?eceptron for PreJ1de11t ,111d /\Ir,. Or/ford 111 the U11i1 er sit) Center. the invocation, the benediction, and the singing of Al111a Mater. The publ,c rr cord1<1ll) 11/t 11ed to <1tte11d. 6 7 1850 ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY 186 1 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DELEGATES OF UNIVERSITIES J. Carleton Green Robert C. Eelkema 185 1 RIPON COLLEGE 1862 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND COLLEGES George F. Vesley Richard L. Bowen, Pre1ide111 185 1 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 1863 BOSTON CO LLEG E Ronald W. Reilly 1386 RUPRECHT-KARL-UNIVERSITY 1818 COLLEGE DE SAINT-BONIFACE Mrs. Loretta E. Fogle HEIDELBERG Roger Saint.Denis, Recteur Herbert Boswau 1851 NORTHWESTERN UN IVERSITY 1863 KANSAS STATE U N IVERSITY 1818 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY John E. Fields Robert M. Socolofsky 1464 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA Vera Facey John L. Wallace 1853 CE TRAL COLLEGE 1863 UNIVERSITY OF KAN SAS 1818 SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY Glenn H. Smith Paul H. Wright 1636 HARVARD UNIVERSITY Scanley J. Brumleve F. Y. St. Clair 1853 C.ORNELI, COLLEGE 1864 UNIVERSITY OF D EN VER 18 19 UNIVERSITY OF VlRGINIA Mrs. Carlewn Green Philip D. Stafne 1701 YALE UNIVERSITY Stephen C Markovich Paul J. Schwartz 1853 WHEATON COLLEGE 1865 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 1831 DENISON UNIVERSITY Frank R. Karner Manelle L. Cushman 1740 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Thelma E. Willen Eugene Grinbergs 1854 HAMLINE UNIVERSITY 1865 UNIVERSITY O F KENT UCKY 1834 TULANE UNIVERSITY Mrs. Warren Meintsm:i William T. Query, Jr. 17 54 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY John Oberpriller 1865 LEH IGH UNIVERSITY John L. Rowe 1855 MICHIGAN STAT E UNIVERSITY Thomas M. Scoono ver 1839 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Olen Kraus I 766 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Harold D. Bale Arthur F. Jacob 1865 WASHBURN UN IVERSITY 1855 PENNSYLVANIA ST ATE UNIVERSITY Robert E. Hollenbeck 1841 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY B. Seshagiri Rao 1769 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Duane Skidmore Ralph S. Roth 1866 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 1856 AUBURN UNIVERSI TY 1841 OH!O WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY PLATTEVILLE Carl R. Gipson 1787 FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE Roy Glenn Miller, Jr. Mukarrarn Al-Omari Theodore C. Sharpe 1845 BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE 1857 U PPER IOWA UN IVERSITY 1866 COLLl:0E O F W O OSTER 1787 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Robert S. Crissman Archie L. Gray Stephen R. Mo ran Gerard J. Obert 1846 GRINNELL COLLEGE 1858 WINONA STATE COLLEGE 1867 UNIVERSITY OF ILLI NO IS 1789 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Mrs. Russell H . Wilson Robert A. Dufresne, Pre1ident Frank R. Karner Glenn I. Lykken 184 7 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 1859 VA LP;\RAISO UNIVERSITY 1867 WEST VIRGINIA UN IVERSITY 179 1 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT Donald G. Anderson Harold C. Meyer Mrs. Rosa Thomas Smlzenberg T. H. Harwood 1847 LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY 1860 AUGUSTANA COLLEGE 1869 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 1793 HAMIL TON COLLEGE C. Nicholas Vogel Charles L. Balcer, PreJident Wallace W. Nelson John E. Bowes 1860 SIMPSON COLLEGE 1869 SOUTHERN ILLI NOIS UNIVERSITY 1801 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1848 UNIVERSITY OF W ISCONSIN D. L. Berryhill David B. Pariser William C. Roberts, Ill John S. Penn 1869 ST. CLOUD ST ATE COLLEGE 1809 MIAMI UNIVERSITY 1848 UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA 1861 UNIVERSITY O F COLORADO Lowell R. Gillett Richard Lyons James A. Stewart George A . Shipman 181 7 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 1849 EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY 186 1 LUTHER COLLEG E 1870 COLORADO STAT E UNIVERSITY Roy Glenn Miller, Jr. Virginia Hassoun Nelson F. Preus Ken E. Nicolls 8 9 18-o OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 1884 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY 1891 CONCORDIA COLLEGE 191 l ~tOUNT MART) COLLEGF Walter H. Moran Joseph Felix Schneider J L. Rendahl A.i:;nese Bartlett 18 7 1 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS 1885 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1892 ILLINOJS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY I JI - ANDERSON COLLEGE Mrs. Ruth W. Bateman Richard P. Potekhen Frank E. Hull Elsie E. Hehr 18-1 UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG 1885 MOORHEAD STATE COLLEGE 1892 WICHITA STATE LMVLRSITY l,! 18 DICKINSON STATE COLLEGE Richard V eacch R.olanJ Dille, Pres,dent James B. Mamo R (, GillunJ, President 18-2 VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE 1885 SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND STATE UNIVERSITY & TECHNOLOGY 1893 MONTANA STATL UNIVERSITY 1919 U'JIVl·RSITAT HAMBl.'RG Arnold E. Davis, Jr. John Paul Gries John P. Bluemle Bruno F 0. Hi!Jebrandr 18-l DRURY COLLEGE 1885 STANFORD UNIVERSITY 1894 UNIVERSITY OF WJSCONSll\ I,,, TEXA'> TH II C'IIVERSITY John D. Tabor GeralJ R. Basseu STEVENS POINT Larn Gdberr Charles Scone I COLORADO COLLEGE s-1 188- CNIVLRSITY OF WYOMING I'!>\ IIARDING COLLEGE Rober< A Caldwell Mark A I I offmann 189 BRADLLY LNl\'l RSITY Ben I Shewmakt•r, ;'\r H. Duane Luessenht:1de 18 , PARSONS COLLEGE 1888 NFW J\.IFXICO STATE UNIVERSITY I 1883 JAMFSTOWN COLLEGE Waiter W Fowkes I')J() B0\\0 1.l'\(, (;RI·l '\/ ST\ I l ',J\ rRs1JY 'rtphen C, (ir.10.L:<:r Roy Joe Stuckey. Pre1idem Mr~ . .\L.H1c Pi':ihko 1891 CALIFOR'ilA INSTITUTE OF <)1 1881 SIOUX FALLS COLLEGE l '.'sl\ 1.R,11 Y 01· .\11':S:l'OTA TE< HNOLOGY 191 i BI~t!DJI ST~H ((>lHl,I I l.C II'..!( AL ( OLLl:Gl Glenna Rundell George F Ve!>ley, Jr R 0 . Dttker Prc. ,Jc. ,,1 D ~ahbrr,)m, Jlr1 t O JI JO 11 DELEGATES OF LEARNED SOCIETIES STATE BOARD AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION [776 PHI BETA KAPPA 1895 NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF PETER HINRICHS, Dickinson, President R. F. Hampsten COLLEGES AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS Richard K. Klein HAROLD REFLING, Bottineau, Vice President 1852 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS 1901 AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL VINCENT BUCK, Jamestown Earl S. Mason ASSOCIATION Theodore Ives Messenger, Jr. ALAN H. HAUSAUER, Wahpeton 1869 AMERICAN Pl IILOLOGICAL 190(, PHI DELTA KAPPA ASSOCIATION C. Beverly Anderson ROBERT PAINTER, Grand Forks Louis Palanca 1908 NORTII DAKOTA ACADEMY OF MRS. ARTHUR (AILSA ) SIMONSON, Crosby 18-8 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION SCIENCE Harold D. Shafe Ben G. Gustafson GEORGE A. SINNER, Casselton 1882 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF 1'! 10 Pl LAMBDA THETA KENNETH RASCHKE, Bismarck, Commissioner MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Beulah Hedahl Niles H. Barnard 1911 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF 1883 THE MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH ASSOCIATION John Hove Catherine Cater 19 15 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF 1886 THE SOCIETY OF THE SIGMA XI UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS INAUGURATION COMMITTEE Jerry L. Sell Roben W . Olso n 19 18 AMl· RICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION . 1887 AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED L. D LoftsHa rd PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS D. J. Robertson, Chairman Ludwik Kulas Presd ent, Mth Dakota Srare University ] larry F. Rice Dean of the University College Chairman of the Department of A ccounting and B11Jiness Law 19 2 1 LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMtRICA 188 7 NORTH DAKOTA EDUCATION Kathleen Ryckman Anderson Roberr A. Caldwell David R. Olson ASSOCIATION Student from Pollock, South Dakota Adrian R. Dunn Student from Valley City, North DakoJa 1951 AMERICAN N AME SOCIETY D. ). Georgacas Martelle L. Cushman 1889 ASSOCIATIO O F COLLEGE AND John S. Penn Dean of the College of Education RESEARCH LIBRARIES Director of Summer Sessiom Kilbourn L. Janecek 1959 LINGUISTIC CIRCLE OF MANITOBA AND NORTH DAKOTA Vera Facey Gerald L. Porter ]. B. Rudnyckyj 1892 AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL Profeuor of Biology Chairman of the Department ASSOCIATION of Religious Studies Ralph H. Kolstoe 1963 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR Charles W. Goodman OUTER SPACE ONOMASTICS Businessman from Grand Forks, La Vonne K. Russell D. ). Georgacas 1895 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE repre1enti11g alum ni and Auistant Dean of the College of Nursing UNIVERSITIES AND LAND-GRANT the community COLLEGES 1969 ASSOCIATION O F DEPARTMENTS Earl S. Strinden OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES Durward B. Varner Harvey K. Jacobson Auistant Director President, U niversity o f Nebraska Herbert Boswau Director of University R elatiom of the A lum ni A uociation 12 13 PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM BLACKBURN, 1884-1885 HOMER SPRAGUE, 1887-1891 WEBSTER MERRIFIELD, 1891-1909 FRANK McVEY, 1909-1917 THOMAS F. KANE, 1918-1933 JOHN C. WEST, 1933-1954 GEORGE W. STARCHER, 1954-1971 Acting Presidents ,\lcVeL J.:.ane, \fi e.ff HENRY MONTC,OMERY, 1885-1887 .\ Ja rcher EARLE J. BABCOCK, 1917 1918 Bahcock, Montgomery 14 15 ACADEMIC REGALIA FORMAL GREETINGS Creeling, were recei1 ed from the followi11g i1wittttiom and orga11izatio11, not repre,ented by delegate!. The lift is complete as of March 31 , 1972. The pageantry and dress of American colleges and universities has been inherited from the medieval universities of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Academic life ALBION COLLEGE HURON COLLEGE as we know it today began in the Middle Ages, first in the Church, then in the guilds. Albion, Michigan Huron, South Dakota The teaching guild was the Guild of the Master of Arts, where the Bachelor was the ALFRED UNIVERSITY 10\Xl A ST A TE UNIVERSITY O F apprentice of the Master and the dress was the outward sign of privilege and responsi Alfred, New York SCI ENCE AND T ECHNOLOGY bility. Ame!I, Iowa AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES JOHN CARROLL UNIVER ITY Boston, Massachusetts Cle\·elanJ, Ohio Principal features of academic dress are the gown, the cap and the hood. Early it became necessary for universities to set rules to preserve the dignity and meaning of rhe aca AQUINAS COLLEGE KENYON COLLEGE demic dress. Both Cambridge and Oxford since the fifteenth century have made Grand Rapids, Michigan GJ.mbie r, Ohio academic dress a matter of university control even to its minor details, and have re peatedly published revised regulations. American universities agreed on a definite ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY LINCOLN UNIVFRSITY OF MISSOURI system in 1895. In 1932 the American Council of Education presented a revised code Tempe, Arizona Jefferson Ciry. Missouri which for che most part governs the sryle of academic dress today. BETHANY COLLEGE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY Bethany, West Virginia Chicago, lllinois THE GOWN: The flowing gown comes from the twelfth century. While it originally BLACK HILLS STATE COLLEGE MONMOUTH COLLEGE may have been worn as rrocection against che co!d of unheated buildings, today it Spearfish, South Dakota Monmouth, Illinois has become symbolic of che democracy of scholarship, for ic covers any dress of rank or social standing underneath. le is b!ack for all degrees wich pointed sleeves for the CALIFORNIA STATE COLLEGE MOUNT UNION COLLEGE Alliance, Ohio Bachelor degree; Jong closed sleeves with a slit ac che arm or wrist for che Masters Long Beach, California degree; and full bell double sleeves foe rhe Doccors degree. Bachelors and Masters CAPITAL UNIVERSITY NORTHEASTERN STATE COLLEGE degree gowns have no trimming. For che Doctors degree che gown is faced down che Columbus, Ohio Tahlequah, O klahoma front with velvet and has three bars o f velvet across rhe s'.eeves, in the color distinctive of the faculty or discipline to which the degree pertains. CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY NORTIIF.RN ILLINOIS UNIVl:RSITY Mount Pleasant, Michigan 0t'K.db, Illinois CHADRON STATE COLLEGE NORTI ILRN MICH IGAN UNIVERSITY THE CAP: When Roman law freed the slave he won the privilege of wearing a cap. Chadron, Nebraska J\1a rq uene, Michigan The academic cap is a sign of freedom nf scho!arship and che responsibility and dignity with which scholarship endows the wearer. Old poetry records the cap of scho!arship CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY RIO G RANDE COLLEGE as square to symbolize the book. The color of the tassel denotes .the discipline. Chicago, Illinois Rio G rande, Ohio COLORADO SCHOOL Of MINES OLiVET N AZARENE COLLEGE Golden, Colorado Kankakee, Il linois THE HOOD: The hood is trimmed wich one or more chevrons of a secondary color on the ground of che primary color nf che college. The color of che facing of the hood FINDLAY COLLEGE ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY denotes the discipline represented by che degree, the co'.or of the lining designates the Findlay, Ohio Chicago, Illinois university or college from which the degree was granted. GALLAUDET COLLEGE SA INT MARY'S COLLEGE Washington, D .C. N oue Dame, Indiana GENERAL MOT ORS INSTITUTE ST. NORBERT COLLEGE Flint, Michigan West DePere, Wiscons in 16 17 SAN DIL<,O STA f E COLLEGE l'l\;I\ ERSITY O F TOLEDO San Die~o. California Toledo, Ohio DELEGATES--ADDENDUM SOUTHEAST MJSSOL RI STAH ( OLUGE \X' ASIW,GTO'J l Nl\'LRSITY Cape; Girardeau, .Misc;oun :-,r Lou1,. Mic;,ouri The 1,amef of these delegates were 1101 recei1•ed in time for i11clufion in proper seq11e11ce i11 the program. SOLTHI RN COLORADO STAT! TAYLOR l N IVLRSITY \\'I LL!SLIY C OLLLG[ UNI VERSITIES AND COLLEGES Lpl.inJ, Indiana \X-'dlt:sl<:y, Ma::.,,Khui;;c.:rr,., l55l GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY 18- 2 UNIVERSITY O F O REGON \;N I\ I RSITY OF AKRO'-J \\ 11 TLNBLRG l ''\;l\'l-RSITY Gerald L. Porter Linda M. Ochs Akron, Oh111 ...,prin,d1el1\, Ohi1 1820 INDIANA UNIVERSITY 18'5 ALIGARH M USLI M UN IVERSITY l '-.IVI R\J"IY or l·LORIDA \\RIC,111 STAil l Nl\[RSITY Jerry E. Do bson Aqueil Ahmad (.J,HOt:\\·dlc, Flnn,l.1 D.t) [on, ( Jh o 1837 MAR HALL UN IVERSIT Y 1889 U NIVERSITY O F N EW M EX ICO Thoma, G. Light l '-.1\'I.RSITY <>~ ~lhSISSIPl'I XA\ rm l '-.1\'l'R,JTY Playford Vernon Thorson, JI l 'n1n•r<,iry. Mi,)1,,1ppi ( 111unnan, Ohio 1846 BELOIT COLLEGE H. E. E 1866 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 1918 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY Gardner L Robinson Helen Smiley SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS 1887 NORTH DAKOTA ST AT E 1888 AMcRICAN MATI IEMATICAL SOCIETY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Edward N elson Rohen C. Painter PROGRAM NOTES Student marshals are members of Mortar Board. Student ushers are members of Blue Key. Student representatives participating in the Processional and Recessional were selected by individual academic divisions of the University. This primed program was edited by the Office of University Relations and primed by the University Press. , •M 18 19