UNIVERSITY Of PENNSYLVANIA ommencement MONDAY, MAY 15 , 2006 Celebrating our Founder's 300th birthday in 2006 b 250th Commencement 2006 175 6 wo hundred and fifty years ago Philadelphia was the largest city in the British colonies of North America. The Delaware River waterfront was the very heart of the - - . industry. This view identifies the s ires of the city churches and public buildings, including that of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. ENGRAVING BY NICHOLAS SCULL & GEORGE HEAP. COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA . THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Keeping Franklin's Promise Two thousand and six represents a milestone in the life of the University and our graduates. Not only is it Penn's 250th Commencement, but it is also the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. We are proud to claim Franklin as our founder. He continues to dazzle us with his genius and enrich our lives. We still make use of his scientific breakthroughs and inventions and the civic institutions that he established. We enjoy the bless- ings of freedom in an American democracy he helped to create. We draw pleasure and inspiration from his writings. Nowhere does Franklin feel more contemporary, more revolutionary, and more alive than at the University of Pennsylvania. His startling vision of a secular, nonsectarian Academy that wouldfoster an "Inclination join 'd with an Ability to serve Mankind, one's Country, Friends and Family" has never ceased to challenge Penn to redefine the scope and mission of the modern American university. When pursued vigorously and simultaneously, the two missions — developing the inclination to do good and the ability to do well — merge to help form a more perfect university that educates more capable citizens for our democracy. Ann has embodied and advanced Franklin's revolutionary vision for more than 250 years. Throughout its history, Penn has extended the frontiers of higher learning and research to produce graduates and scholars whose work has enriched the nation and all of humanity. The modern liberal arts curriculum as we know it can trace its roots to Franklin's innovation to have Penn students study international commerce and foreign languages. The first medical and business schools in the United States were launched here. And the first general-purpose electronic, digital computer — &WAG' — was invented right here at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, the never-ending quest for innovation and academic distinction has found perfect Franklinian expression in "The Penn Compact," President Amy Gutmann's bold vision for propelling our University from excellence to eminence in all our core endeavors. Fulfilling the goals of the Compact — cultivating eminent faculty, increasing access for talented students of all backgrounds, integrating knowledge across multiple disciplines, and engaging our knowledge with communities locally and globally — will position limn to make the greatest possible contribution to our society and our world. Today, Penn proudly graduates a class of men and women who have shown the intelligence, drive, integrity, and character to become engaged citizens who will serve humanity with distinction. Our Penn graduates are poised to take their place as pro- ductive democratic citizens and as just and humane stewards of our world. In these challenging and perilous times, a world in need of young men and women who are willing to shoulder the moral responsibilities of leadership can look to Penn. Franklin wrote: "We may make these times betterif we bestir ourselves. The noblest question in the world is 'What good may I do in it?" The answer to this question will be furnished by Franklin's newest heirs, the graduates of 2006. 1 FRANKLIN FIELD Commencement Seating Guests will find this diagram helpful in locating the approximate seating of the degree candidates. The sequence in which the candidates are presented for degrees is shown on the next page. The list on page 13, detailing the colors of the candidates' hoods according to their fields of study, may further assist guests in identifying the locations of the various schools. In case of emergency, evacuation procedures will be announced. 1 CONTENTS Keeping Franklin's Promise Franklin Field Commencement Seating The Commencement Ceremony Historical Notes Academic Ceremony and Regalia The Schools of the University Honorary Degree Citations Degrees in Course The School of Arts and Sciences The College of Arts and Sciences The Graduate Division The College of General Studies The School of Engineering and Applied Science . The Wharton School The Wharton Undergraduate Division The Wharton Evening Division The Wharton Graduate Division The School of Nursing The School of Medicine The Law School The School of Design The School of Dental Medicine The School of Veterinary Medicine The Graduate School of Education The School of Social Policy and Practice The Annenberg School for Communication The Graduate Faculties ROTC Commissions Principal Academic Honor Societies Prizes and Awards Faculty Honors Alumni Representatives Commencement Marshals Trustees of the University Officers of the University School Ceremonies The Commencement Program is produced by the Office of the University Secretary: Leslie Laird Kruhly, University Secretary and Alison McGhie, Coordinator. For additional copies, please call 215/898-7005 or email [email protected]. 3 THE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY The audience a requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the singing of the National Anthem, the Invocation, the Dismissal and the singing of "The Red and Blue," and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the field. MUSIC Westminster Brass James W. Hala, Director STUDENT PROCESSION ALUMNI PROCESSION Procession of Alumni Class Representatives Procession of the Class of 1981 Procession of the Class of 1956 ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION James S. Riepe, Chairman of the Board of Trustees THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Andrew Gee Wai Chung, WG'06 Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight' O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? INVOCATION William C. Gipson, Chaplain GREETINGS Amy Gutmann, President Presentation of the 25th and 50th Reunion Classes Remarks ACADEMIC HONORS Ronald Daniels, Provost GREETINGS Vincent Price, Chair, Faculty Senate CONFERRAL OF HONORARY DEGREES The President Jodie Foster Doctor of Arts Actress, Producer and Director Henry Louis Gates, Jr Doctor of Humane Letters Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University 4 The Commencement Ceremony (continued) Shirley Ann Jackson Doctor of Science Eighteenth President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lawrence R. Klein Doctor of Science Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics, Emeritus University of Pennsylvania Recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Economics Judith Pollock 'Unman, CW'62, Gr'66 Doctor of Science Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology Professor of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley Stephen A. Wynn, C'63 Doctor of Laws Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Wynn Resorts, Limited INTRODUCTION OF THE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER The Provost COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Jodie Foster, Actress, Producer and Director CONFERRAL OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Deans and the Deputy Provost CLOSING REMARKS The President DISMISSAL The Chaplain THE RED AND BLUE By William J. Goeckel, Class of 1896, and Harry E. Westervelt, Class of 1898 Come all ye loyal classmates 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. (Chorus) Hurrah! Hurrah! Pennsylvania! Hurrah for the Red and the Blue; Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah for the Red and the Blue. RECESSIONAL 5 HISTORICAL NOTES 1756: The Legacy of Benjamin Franklin o the PRINTERS of the PENNSYLVANIA T GAZETTE. BY Order of the Trustees, we send you the following PLAN of EDUCA- TION, now fixed by them for a three Year Trial, in the LATIN, GREEK, and PHILOSOPHY SCHOOLS, of the College and Academy of this City; by a bare Inspection of which, any Parent may know what Progress his Son makes, and what is his Standing, as well as what Books to provide, from Time to Time. The Plan of the English School, and the School for the practical Branches of the Mathematics will also be laid before the public as soon as possible. ... Thus it is hoped the Student may be led thro' a Scale of easy Ascent, till finally rendered capa- ble of Thinking, Writing and Acting well, which is the grand Aim of a liberal Education. WILLIAM SMITH, Provost of the College and Academy FRANCIS ALISON, Vice Provost of the College, and Rector of the Academy EBENEZER KINNERSLEY, Professor of English and Oratory THEOPHILUS GREW, Professor of the Mathematicks PAUL JACKSON, Professor of Languages "Plan of Education in the College," August 1756. Philadelphia, College and In the spring of 1756, Perm's first Provost, Reverend William Smith, reorganized the curriculum of the Academy Hall, August 5, 1756 College of Philadelphia along the lines of the traditional English college. The Trustees, after a full review, approved the proposal and voted that the new curriculum be published in the Philadelphia newspapers. The syllabus pictured here was published on the front page of Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette for 12 August 1756. COLLECTIONS OF THE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 6 Historical Notes (continued) Beginning in 1749 and continuing over a 1756.