Trustees Ronald J. Naples, Chairman Sean T. Buffington, President George A. Beach '58 Roger L. Bomgardner Ira Brind Ronald L. Caplan Jill R. Felix Colton Paul Curci Eleanor L. Davis Deanna DeCherney '66 Mark Donnolo '85 Carl E. Dranoff Brian Effron Daniel K. Fitzpatrick William R. Gast '68 Melissa Heller Richard P. Jaffe, Esq. Scott M. Jenkins Gail Kass Dr. Russel E. Kaufman Al Paul Lefton, Jr. Elaine C. Levitt Sueyun Pyo Locks Karen Lotman Seymour G. Mandell Dr. Noel Mayo '66 Thomas M. Miles '75 Francis J. Mirabello, Esq. Adolf A. Paier Lawrence S. Reichlin '57 Jerry J. Siano Judith F Terra James P. Vesey Harriet G. Weiss William Wilson Albert E. Wolf Life Trustees Dorrance H. Hamilton. Chairman Emerira Sam S. McKeel Trustees Emeriti Mary Louise Beitzel '51 Irvin J. Borowsky Anne F Elder Sondra Mvers The University of the Arts 132 nd commencement SlTV " '*OED \T» Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 20, 2010 Commencement Ceremony (iiii) Thursday, May 20, 2010 Processional 10:00 a.m. Ceremony 10:30 a.m. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets Processional* Pomp and Circumstance The University of the Arts Big Band Grand Marshal Karen Saler, Associate Professor, Foundation Marshals of Students Susan Glazer, Director and Professor, School of Dance Inge Druckrey, Professor, Graphic Design Jack DeWitt, Professor, Liberal Arts Michael Wellenreiter, Assistant Professor, Communication Graduating Class Marshals of the Faculty Meghan DeLuca, Assistant Dean, Division of Liberal Arts Krishna Dunston, Assistant Dean, College of Performing Arts Jeffrey Ryder, Deputy Dean, College of Media and Communication Adrienne Stalek, Deputy Dean, College of Art and Design University Faculty President's Council Board of Trustees Platform Party Ceremony America the Beautiful The University of the Arts Chorus Welcome Sean T. Buffington, President Valedictory Speaker Clare Ann O'Mallo ' Musical Theater 1 Student Awards Sean T. Buffington, President President's Awards Medals for Academic Achievement Faculty Awards Michael Nash, Ph.D., Provost The Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award Diane Walsh, Associate Professor, Writing for Film and Television The Richard C. von Hess Faculty Prize Randy Granger, Associate Professor, Art Education Mary Louise Beitzel Award for Distinguished Teaching Polly McKenna-Cress, Associate Professor, Museum Studies The President's Distinguished Teaching Award Mikhail Sergeev, Adjunct Associate Professor, Liberal Arts Performance Transfusion Ensemble Greetings from Alumni Council Lisa Oster '99 Silver Star Outstanding Alumni Awards Presented by Richard Lawn Dean of the College of Performing Arts Awarded to Renee Jaworski '94 Presented by Don Miller Assistant Professor of Crafts Awarded to Alphonse Mattia '69 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degrees Presented by Sean T. Buffington, President Awarded to Peggy Amsterdam, Posthumously Presented by Marc Dicciani Director of the School of Music Awarded to Robert Capanna '74 Presented by Susan Glazer Director of the School of Dance Awarded to Moses Pendleton Commencement Address Moses Pendleton Conferral of Degrees and Other Academic Attainments Presentation of Diplomas Sean T. Buffington, President Michael Nash, Ph.D., Provost Ronald J. Naples, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Closing Remarks Sean T. Buffington, President Recessional* A16 Brazil * Audience will rise mi : Past Silver Star Alumni Award Recipients 1955 1974 1994 Tina Leser Barry Wilke Ruth E. Fine Irving Penn Eugene Feldman Florence Quivar 1956 1975 1995 Raymond Ballinger Richard Reinhardt John E. Davis Henry Pitz Deborah Willis 1976 1957 Olaf Skoogfors 1996 Wharton Esherick Tom Butter Charles Sheeler 1977 Janine Cappello Elaine Kurtz 1958 1997 Earl Milliette 1978 Edd Kalehoff Sol Mednick Albert Gold Kathy Rose 1959 1979 1998 Frances Lichten Charles Santore Janice & Stanley Warren Blair Berenstain 1980 William R. McCann 1960 Evelyn Copelman John Williams Brown 1999 Marguerite Gaudin 1981 Irene Bedard Dana P. Vaughn Marguerite Walter Johnny Irizarry 1961 1982 2000 Irene Laverty Philip Eitzen C. Samuel Micklus Boris Drucker Brian T. Vernon 1983 1962 Thomas F. Schutte 2001 Mildred Jantzen Margaret Garwood 1984 Myra Mimlitsch-Gray 1963 Kevan Moss Virginia Gifford 2002 1985 Diane Monroe 1964 Jacob Landau Eileen Neff Al Bendiner Jerome Kaplan 1986 2003 Wesley W Emmons Jennifer Childs 1965 Richard Kidney Joseph Kramer 1987 Theodore Miller Robert Capanna 2004 Morris Lomden Steve &c Peggy Zablotny Donald Chittum Bernard Glassman Joseph Musso 1988 1966 William G. Krebs 2005 Rudolph Freund Barbara Silverstein Riitta Vainio Susan B. Welchman 1967 1989 Morris Berd Stephen Albert 2006 Kenneth Carbone KaDee Strickland 1968 Leslie Smolan Don Mover Arnold Roth 1990 2007 1969 Marjorie Levy Daniel Owen Dailey William Stephens Vincent J. Trombetta 1991 1970 Lydia Artymiw 2008 George Krause Ed Colker Charles Long Jackson Grace Gaj 1971 1992 Sidney Goodman Jerrv Pinkney 2009 Pearl B. Schaefter Richard Amsel 1972 Stephen and Paul Keene, Jr. 1993 Timothy Quay Stanley Clarke 1973 Joseph Dante Noel Mayo '."".• Silver Star Outstanding Alumni Award Recipients Renee Jaworski Renee Jaworski '94 (Modern Dance) is the rehearsal director and artistic associate for Pilobolus Dance Theater. After receiving her BFA from the University of the Arts, she connected with Moses Pendleton, founder of the MOMIX and Pilobolus dance companies, performing and teaching throughout the world with MOMIX. In 1997, she took a brief hiatus to give birth to her daughter. Returning to her career, she created and performed her own work in Philadelphia while working for Group Mo- tion and touring part time with MOMIX. 1998 brought Renee to NYC where she began working with Carolyn Dorfman. She has been working with Pilobolus since 2000, performing, creating, teaching, directing, associating and, most recently, coordinating residencies for the Pilobolus Institute. Alphonse Mattia A nationally-recognized educator and studio furniture maker, Alphonse Mattia'69 (Dimensional Design) has work in many private collections, and in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Yale University Art Gallery; and the Phillip Morris Corporation. He teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mas- sachusetts Artists Foundation. Mattia dismisses the dichotomy between functional and nonfunctional objects, preferring instead the concept of "usefulness," the conveying of meaning and emotion along with utility. He is the co-founder of Smokestack Studios in Fall River, Mass. -.""J Past Honorary Degree Recipients 1961 1979 1993 Harold Taylor Paul Rand Claire Van VTiet Renzetti Aurelius Richard Rogers William H. Cosby, Jr. Liv Ullman 1962 1994 Benton Spruance 1980 Joan Myers Brown Helen Frankenthaler William P. Daley 1963 Rudolf Nureyev Richard Saul Wurman Karl Sherman 1981 1995 1964 H. Ober Hess Joel N. Bloom Saul Bass Leo Steinberg Philip Glass Victor D'Amico Walter Terry 1996 1965 1982 Robert M. Greenberg Eugene Grigsby Placido Domingo Marjorie Samoff Edward Hopper Jack Lenor Larsen Erwin Panofsky Harvey K. Littleton 1997 Mrs. Malcom Lloyd Robert Oldenburg 1983 Edward G. Rendell 1966 George Crumb Grover Washington, Jr. Edwin Dickinson Alwin Nikolais Henry Holmes Smith 1998 1967 Richard S. Gurin Edmund Bacon 1984 Peter Nero Paul Froelaich Joseph Castaldo Susanne Langer Alice Neal 1999 Arthur Mitchell 1968 1985 Arnold Newman Thomas Wilfred Andrew Heiskell Louise Nevelson Denise Scott Brown 2000 Lessing J. Rosenwald Robert Venturi Lily Yeh 1969 1986 2001 R. Sturgis Ingersoll Roger L. Stevens Helen W. Drutt English Howard Mitchell Judith Jamison Jane Golden Richard Reinhardt 1970 2002 Berthe von Moschzisker 1987 Walter E. Dallas Laurie Anderson 1971 J. Carter Brown 2003 Alexey Brodovich Joseph Papp Mildred Constantine (posthumously accepted by Robert A. Moog Irving Penn) 1988 Edward R. Tufte Howard A. Wolf Dorrance H. Hamilton Armin Hofmann 2004 1972 Sam S. McKeel Leilani Lattin Duke G. Robert LeRicolais John W. Merriam Roberto Memmo John Szarkowski Thomas M. Messer Howard A. Wolf 2005 1973 Rexford T, Cardwell, Jr. Anais Nin 1989 Kal Solomon Rudman Martin Friedman Dominick Peter Stuccio 1974 Maurice Sendak Herbert Bayer Meredith Monk 2006 Pater DeGelleke William M. Hurt 1990 1975 Katherine Dunham 2007 Milton Glaser Lukas Foss Rosalyn Drexler Nam June Paik 1976 Senator Claiborne Pell 200S Anni Albers Edna Andrade Josef Albers 1991 Ira Brind Ivan Chermayeff Stanley Clarke 1977 Willard G. Rouse, III Miguel Angel Corzo Saul Steinberg Ellen Stewart 2009 1978 1992 Portia Hamilton Sperr Mercedes Matter Mary Ellen Mark James Lapine Bernard C. Watson fiiii; Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa It is a University of the Arts tradition that during its Commencement ceremony the institution bestows its highest honorary degree, the Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, on one or more distinguished individuals. Honor- ary degrees are conferred honoris causa, "for the sake of honor." Honor- ary degrees are generally awarded for one of three reasons: To recognize extraordinary intellectual or artistic achievement; to honor service to the University and to the wider society; and to recognize men and women who might serve as examples to the institution's student body. The Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, honors both the grantee and the spirit of the institution. Peggy Amsterdam, posthumously Peggy Amsterdam (1949-2009)