Emory University The One Hundred Sixty-Third Commencement The Twelfth of May Two Thousand Eight The Alma Mater Table of Contents In the heart of dear old Emory Where the sun doth shine, Order of Exercises .................................................................... 2 That is where our hearts are turning ’Round old Emory’s shrine. Musical Selections .................................................................... 3 Order of Procession ................................................................. 3 We will ever sing thy praises, Sons and daughters true. Award Recipients ..................................................................... 4 Hail we now our Alma Mater, Honorary Degree Recipients .................................................... 5 Hail the Gold and Blue! Diploma Ceremonies ................................................................ 7 Tho’ the years around us gather, Retiring Faculty and Staff ........................................................ 7 Crowned with love and cheer, Still the memory of Old Emory Recipients of Degrees-in-Course ............................................... 9 Grows to us more dear. Emory College ..................................................................... 9 We will ever sing thy praises, Oxford College .................................................................. 13 Sons and daughters true. Hail we now our Alma Mater, School of Medicine ............................................................ 13 Hail the Gold and Blue! Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing ....................... 15 —J. MARVIN RAST 1918C Candler School of Theology .............................................. 15 School of Law .................................................................... 16 Roberto C. Goizueta Business School ................................ 17 Rollins School of Public Health ......................................... 20 Graduate School ................................................................ 22 Recipients of the Doctor of Philosophy Degree ...................... 23 Recipients of Honors and Prizes ............................................ 34 A Commentary on Commencement ....................................... 45 Emory University Commencement 2008 1 Gathering Music Chief Marshal of the University The Order of Exercises Professor Raymond C. DuVarney Gathering Music Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Fancies, Toyes and Dreames ................................ Giles Farnaby Fire Dance ............................................................. Tony Di Lorenzo The Platform Party Processional Atlanta Pipe Band Morning Song .......................................... Alexander Arutuinian Vice President and Secretary of the University Rosemary M. Magee Suite from the Moneregian Hills ........................ Morley Calvert Vice President and Deputy to the President Gary S. Hauk Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet When Sunny Gets Blue ............................ Jack Segal, arr. Sellers Chancellor Michael M.E. Johns Welcome James W. Wagner Trumpet Soliloquy Cor Prudentis ...........John Anthony Lennon University Trustees President of the University Recipients of Special Awards The Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet performs this morning’s Vice President for Communications and Marketing Ron Sauder Invocation Susan Henry-Crowe 76T commencement music, which includes arrangements Senior Vice President for Development Dean of the Chapel and of Religious Life by Michael Moore. and Alumni Affairs Susan Cruse Michael Tiseione and Mark Hughes, trumpet Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent B. Alexander Presidential Address James W. Wagner Richard Deane, horn President of the Emory Alumni Board of the Colin Williams, trombone Emory Alumni Association J. Davidson Porter Presentation of the Marion Luther Brittain Service Award John L. Ford Michael Moore, tuba and artistic director President of the University Senate Nadine Kaslow Senior Vice President for Campus Life Registrar Thomas J. Millen Dean Susan Henry-Crowe (Chapel and Religious Life) Presentation of the Scholar/Teacher James W. Wagner Processional Senior Vice President John L. Ford (Campus Life) and Thomas Jefferson Awards Dean James W. Curran (Public Health) Emory and Old St. Andrews ............. Henry Frantz, arr. Moore Dean Lawrence Benveniste (Business) Authorization to Confer Degrees Ben F. Johnson III An Academic Procession .............. Johannes Brahms, arr. Moore Dean Lisa A. Tedesco (Graduate School) Chair of the Board of Trustees Prelude do Te Deum ......Marc-Antoine Charpentier, arr. Moore Dean David Partlett (Law) Dean Jan Love (Theology) Conferral of Honorary Degrees James W. Wagner Please remain seated while the platform party, faculty, and Dean Marla E. Salmon (Nursing) graduates process into the Quadrangle. Dean Thomas J. Lawley (Medicine) Keynote Address Bernard Marcus Dean Stephen H. Bowen (Oxford College) Conferral of Degrees James W. Wagner Dean Robert A. Paul (Emory College) Recessional Executive Vice President for Finance Welcome to the Association of Emory Alumni J. Davidson Porter 85C and Administration Michael J. Mandl President, Emory Alumni Board La Rejouissance from Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Fred Sanfilippo “Royal Fireworks Music” ...................George Frederick Händel, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Emory Alumni Association arr. Moore and Provost Earl Lewis Closing Remarks James W. Wagner Mary Jane England Please remain seated until the platform party, faculty, and Ernest J. Gaines Benediction Siobhan Rivera, Bahai Blessing graduates have departed. Edward O. Wilson Namrata Muthinti, Hindu Blessing Bernard Marcus Saima Zuberi, Islamic Blessing Board of Trustees Chair Ben F. Johnson III Brendon Ozawa-de Silva, Buddhist Blessing Order of Procession Bedel of the University Emily Ann Margaret Allen President James W. Wagner Michael Silverman, Jewish Blessing The Atlanta Pipe Band Liza Butler, Christian Blessing Deputy University Marshals Alma Mater Ashish Ankola 08C Candidates for Baccalaureate and Professor Nadine J. Kaslow, Faculty Marshal Professional Degrees Professor Karen A. Hegtvedt, Faculty Right Brendan Dolan 08C Professor Edgar W. Leonard, Faculty Left Alec Galambos 09C Each school is preceded by the bearer of its gonfalon. Professor Kenneth E. Carter, Oxford College Julius Oatts 08C Professor James Larry Taulbee, Emory College Nicolaas van Vliet 09C Candidates for Master’s Degrees Professor Bhagirath Majmudar, Medicine Professor Patricia H. Bridges, Allied Health Recessional Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet Candidates for the Degree of Professor Marcene L. Powell, Nursing Doctor of Philosophy and Faculty Sponsors Professor Walter T. Wilson, Theology Professor Thomas C. Arthur, Law Corpus Cordis Aureum (The Golden Corps of the Heart) Professor Klaas Baks, Business Members are Emory University alumni from the Class of 1958 Professor Nancy J. Thompson, Public Health or earlier. They are attired in distinctive golden robes. Professor Vicki S. Hertzberg, Graduate School Guests are asked please to remain seated during the processional and recessional. Walker Ray 62C 65M 68MR, Alumni Please silence any cell phones, pagers, or electronic devices and refrain from talking during the ceremonies. The Faculties The central ceremony will be broadcast live on Emory Vision, Channel 53, in rooms 206, 207, and 208 of White Hall, and on the web at www.emory.edu/COMMENCEMENT. 2 Emory University Commencement 2008 Emory University Commencement 2008 3 Presentation of the Marion Luther Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. the university, Southern women writers, religion in America, and Nicholas Valerio III Brittain Service Award A nationally recognized scholar on civil procedure, Freer has biography and autobiography. Magee is a valued adviser to vari- Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance authored or coauthored eleven books, including a popular case- ous governing groups on campus including the University Senate, Goizueta Business School This award, symbolic of all honors bestowed on students by the book on civil procedure and two volumes of Moore’s Federal the Alumni Board of Governors, and the Student Government University, is an expression of gratitude for service performed Practice, a multivolume treatise, and approximately thirty arti- Association. She serves on the board of directors for the Art William W. Buzbee without expectation of reward or recognition. The award was cles. When Congress passed the supplemental jurisdiction statute Papers and is a trustee of the Halle Foundation as well as the Professor of Law established at Emory in 1942 through a bequest from a dis- in 1990, his scholarly critique provoked a national debate that Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. A gifted schol- School of Law tinguished Emory alumnus, former President Brittain of the included the United States Supreme Court. Freer serves as an ar and creative writer, Magee has published books on Southern Georgia Institute of Technology. adviser to the American Law Institute’s Federal Judicial Code women writers and Flannery O’Connor and also has written Project and is on the Advisory Board for LexisNexis Law School fiction and creative nonfiction published in Southern Humanities The George P. Cuttino Award Zain Ahmed Publishing. Review, Atlanta Magazine, and Fiction Magazine. for Excellence in Mentoring Emory College Exemplifying the highest ideals of pedagogy, Freer’s demand- Presented by Senior Vice President for Campus Life ing yet captivating