UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Two Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Commencement for the Conferring of Degrees PHILADELPHIA CIVIC CENTER CONVENTION HALL Monday, May 1Z 1982 10 : 00 A. M. Guests will find this diagram helpful in locating shown in the Contents on the opposite page under the approximate seating of the degree candidates. Degrees in Course. Reference to the paragraph on The seating roughly corresponds to the order by page seven describing the colors of the candidates school in which the candidates for degrees are hoods according to their fields of study may fur- presented, beginning at top left with the College ther assist guests in placing the locations of the of Arts and Sciences. The actual sequence is various schools. Contents Page Seating Diagram of the Graduating Students 2 The Commencement Ceremony 4 Commencement Notes 6 Degrees in Course 8 The College of Arts and Sciences 8 The College of General Studies 16 The School of Engineering and Applied Science 18 The Wharton School 26 The Wharton Evening School 29 The Wharton Graduate Division 31 The School of Nursing 35 The School of Allied Medical Professions 38 The Graduate Faculties 38 The School of Medicine 43 The Law School 44 The Graduate School of Fine Arts 46 The School of Dental Medicine 49 The School of Veterinary Medicine 50 The Graduate School of Education 51 The School of Social Work 52 The Annenberg School of Communications 53 The School of Public and Urban Policy 53 Certificates 54 General Honors Program 54 Medical Technology 54 Dental Hygiene 54 Advanced Dental Education 55 Social Work 55 Commissions 56 Army 56 Navy 56 Principal Undergraduate Academic Honor Societies 57 Faculty Honors 60 Prizes and Awards 62 Class of 1932 69 Events Following Commencement 71 The Commencement Marshals 72 Academic Honors Insert The Commencement Ceremony MUSIC Pennsylvania Pro Musica Brass and Percussion Ensemble FRANKLIN B. ZIMMERMANN, Conductor STUDENT PROCESSION PROCESSION OF THE CLASS OF 1932 ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION PAUL F. MILLER, JR., Chairman of the Trustees INVOCATION STANLEY E. JOHNSON, Chaplain THE NATIONAL ANTHEM INTRODUCTION SHELDON HACKNEY, President THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS SOL M. LINOWITZ Former Ambassador to the Organization of American States Former Chairman of Xerox Corporation CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES The President STERLING A. BROWN Poet, critic, scholar Doctor of Letters Former Professor of English Howard University HELEN OCTAVIA DICKENS Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics Doctor of Science M.S. in Medicine, 1945 and Gynecology University of Pennsylvania NELSON GOODMAN Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Doctor of Humane Letters Harvard University ESKIA MPHAHLELE Professor of African Studies Doctor of Humane Letters University of the Witwatersrand Former Professor of English University of Pennsylvania The audience is requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem anc The Red and Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the Auditorium. ROBERT LINCOLN TRESCHER Partner Doctor of Laws B.S. in Economics, 1934 Montgomery, McCracken, Walker LL.B., 1937 and Rhoads Vice-Chairman of the Trustees University of Pennsylvania JEROME B. WIESNER President Emeritus Doctor of Science Institute Professor School of Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology EDWIN WOLF, 2ND Librarian Doctor of Laws Library Company of Philadelphia Author C. VANN WOODWARD Sterling Professor Emeritus Doctor of Laws of History Yale University CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Deans ACADEMIC HONORS THOMAS EHRLICH, Provost PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTY-YEAR CLASS SARAH SPEDDEN SENIOR, President of the General Alumni Society CLOSING REMARKS The President THE RED AND BLUE (By WILLIAM J. GOECKEL, 96 and HARRY E. WESTERVELT, 98) Come all ye loyal classmen 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 Commencement Notes A commencement, plainly a beginning, is at the same time a commemorative occasion. No graduation ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania could have more anniversary implications than that in which we participate today. This year of 1982 marks the three hundredth birthday of Philadelphia, founded by William Penn on the edge of the rich forested land of the Lenni Lenape Indians, and of the commonwealth which, together with the University, bears the name of the Quaker colonizer and man of peace. Although it was the sons of the founder of our city and state who, in 1755, chartered the young College and nurtured the growth of Benjamin Franklin's edu- cational project with gifts of land, books, and scientific apparatus, it was the philosophy of toleration and the nonsectarian spirit of their father (to which Franklin's own beliefs were, of course, akin) which gave the College, later the University of Pennsylvania, a character unique among the infant academies of learning in the New World. As the Class of 1982 recalls the tercentenary of the settlement of the city in which they have received their education, it can also look back to a bicentenary of the University's own—the Commencement of 1782. On March 21 in that year, a century after the landing of Penn and while the American nation was still at war with Great Britain, the University of Pennsylvania graduated in its hall on Fourth Street sixteen Bachelors of Arts and eight Doctors of Medicine and conferred six honorary degrees. The ceremony was attended by "his excellency general Washington, and his family" in the company of the Minister of France and of Major General Baron von Steuben. Another convocation in the same year should be noted as a second important anniversary. In December, the University con- ferred its first two Doctor of Laws degrees. The recipients were the Chevalier (later Marquis) de Chastellux, Major General of the French forces in America, and Francois Barbé-Marbois, Consul of France. By the time another century had passed, the University of Pennsylvania had been for ten years at home on a new campus across the Schuylkill River in West Philadelphia. Lacking an auditorium larger than the chapel in College Hall, Com- mencement exercises were held at the Academy of Music in the center of the city and degree candidates, in procession, walked twenty blocks to receive their aca- demic rewards. The trustees and faculty, older and in some cases frailer, rode in horse-drawn carriages. They made the trip twice for two ceremonies were held in 1882. The first, in March, graduated the majority of the medical candidates. Among the 118 Americans, three Canadians, and one Brazilian seated on the stage that day was Nathan Francis Mossell, of Lockport, New York, Penn's first black medical degree recipient, later a distinguished Philadelphia physician and hospital founder. As the diploma was handed to the man who had faced and conquered overt prejudice during much of his student career, the entire audience accorded him an immense ovation. At the principal Commencement, held on June 15, the University bestowed forty-eight undergraduate degrees, seven certificates of proficiency, and fifteen Master of Arts degrees. In addition, thirty-seven Bachelors of Law, five Doctors of Medicine, and four Doctors of Philosophy received their honors and three Doctor of Laws degrees were conferred. Among the candidates was one woman. Martha P. Hughes was there as recipient of the B.S. degree given, in fact, for graduate work, by the Auxiliary Faculty of Medicine. It was but the second degree of any kind awarded by the University to a woman. Already M.D. of Michigan, Dr. Hughes was a Welsh-born Mormon who, at the age of five, crossed the Great Plains with her family enroute to Utah. She was later elected to the Utah Legisla- ture, and is believed to have been the first woman in the world to hold such an office. A half century later, women were numbered in the hundreds among the 1600 degree candidates from the College and twelve Schools and programs of the Uni- versity who assembled in "the Municipal Auditorium," as Convention Hall was then called, for the 1932 Commencement. The ten recipients of honorary degrees included Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, president of the Curtis Institute of Music, who was given a doctorate of humane letters, and Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, of the United States Supreme Court, who received a doctor of laws degree. The University mace, the symbol of authority of the University Corporation, is carried at the head of the academic procession by the Secretary of the University. It was the gift of the family of William Morrison Gordon, M.D. 1910. It is adorned with the seal and arms of the University, the Penn and Franklin coats- of-arms, a depiction of the Rittenhouse orrery, and a thistle symbolizing the early ties of the University with Scotland. New to the ceremony this year will be the wearing by the President of his badge of office, a silver medallion of which one face is engraved, like the mace, with the University seal. The obverse of the President's badge bears the "orrery seal," designed in 1782—another anniversary for the Class of 1982—by Francis Hopkinson, A.B. 1757, signer of the Declaration of Independence. The badge, suspended on a chain composed of silver links, was given by the Honorable Thomas S. Gates, A.B. 1928, LL.D. 1956, trustee emeritus. Academic dress stems from the clerical robes of the Middle Ages, when the hood was worn raised for protection in drafty halls.