F ortieth Sacred H eart U niversity Fortieth U ndergraduate Commencement The Fourteenth of May Two Thousand and Six Eleven O'clock Fairfield, Connecticut Sacred Heart University Program Processional Nicole X. Cauvin, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology Mace Bearer and Marshal Words of Welcome Thomas V. Forget, Ph.D. Vice President for Academic Affairs National Anthem Michael Johnson Class o f2006 Invocation Jennifer Shackett Class of 2006 Presidential Welcome Anthony J. Cernera, Ph.D. President Conferral of Honorary Degrees Anthony J. Cernera, Ph.D. Maureen Howard Citation read by Michelle Loris, Ph.D. Professor of English Hood vested by Mr. James T. Morley, Trustee Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D. Citation read by Matthew D. Semel, J.D. Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Hood vested by Mr. Howard J. Aibel, Trustee 2 Program Commencement Address Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D. President, Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation Presentation of Candidates fo r Undergraduate Degrees Reading of the candidates’names hy Department Chairs or their representatives Claire J. Paolini, Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Stephen M. Brown, Ed.D. Dean of the John F. Welch College of Business Patricia W. Walker, Ed.D. Dean of the College of Education and Health Professions N ancy L. Sidoti, M.A.T. Dean of University College Conferral of Degrees and Presentation of Diplomas and Awards Anthony J. Cernera, Ph.D. class Presidents Greeting Amy E. N ardone Class of 2006 Alm a M ater Benediction Reverend Jean Ehret, Ph.D. University Chaplain Recessional 3 Alma Mater — It. V K K ____ n — • — p — '— o ------------------ 1. Hail to thee, our A1 - ma Ma - ter, Pi - o - neers are we. 2. A1 - ma M a-ter, grant us wis-dom. Heart and mind re - new. 1. Sa - cred Heart's proud sons and daugh - ters Stand in u - ni - ty. 2. Love and Truth, her guid - ing vi - sion. Hail to S - H - U. CHORUS S 22 ~ w w Swell the cho-rus, praise her glo - ry. On our fields and in these halls. z TZ #- o -0- Loy - al hearts pro - claim her----- sto - ry. Red and White o'er all. Copyright 1998, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 06825-1000. Words: Ralph L. Corrigan et al. Music: Margaret A. Palliser, OR All rights reserved. M usk Nutmeg Brass Commencement Choir under the direction of Margaret A. Palliser, OP, S.T.D. Assistant Vice President fo r Mission Director, Center fo r Mission Education and Reflection 4 Board of Trustees Chair Most Reverend William E. Lori, S.T.D. Vice Chair James 7 Motley, Jr. Secretary Treasurer Robert L. Julianelle, J.D. James J. Costello Howard J. Aibel, Esq. Frank R. Martire Rosanne Badowski ’79 Robert J. Matura Mary-Ann Bunting, C.ER Christopher K. McLeod Anthony J. Cerneta, Ph.D. Linda E. McMahon William J. Conaty Fred J. Meyer Ktis E. Dutmer, Esq. William E. Mitchell Mark E. Freitas Lois G. Schine Rev. Msgr. William A. Genuatio, RA., J.C.D. Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, D.B.A. Hans Gram Rev. Msgr. Kevin W. Wallin Paul W. MacAvoy, Ph.D. Rev. Msgr. Francis Wissel, D. Min. Vincent Maffeo o f Trustees Emeriti President Em eritus Thomas P. Melady, Ph.D. Prescott S. Bush, Jr. Thomas L. Kelly J. Edward Caldwell, J.D. Michael J. Kinney ’72 David E. A. Carson John Klein A. Joan Connor John McGough Victor R. Coudert, Jr. Manning Pattillo, Ph.D. Robert Delaney, L.L.B., C.P.A. Gloria Paul Lester Dequaine, L.L.B. William V. Roberti ’69 Fred Frassinelli, Jr. Ralph L. Rossi Charles Grace Robert D. Scinto ’71 Romelee Howard, M.D. Lloyd P. Stauder Robert W. Huebner 5 Maureen Howard Author; Adjunct Professor Department of the Arts, Columbia University aureen Howard is the author of nine nov­ Weekly has said her “vigorous prose - at once earthy els, three of which, Grace Abounding, and sophisticated - is a graceful, arresting mix of MExpensive Habits and Natural History, were metaphor, ironic humor and glistening images.” Her nominated for the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award. most recent work, published in 2004, is The Silver In fact, the New York Times, which named Natural Screen, the third book of what she calls a “quartet” History a “Notable Book of the Year,” praised the based on the four seasons. Ms. Howard’s literary out­ author for her “vision and story-telling immediacy” put has included a variety of distinct genres. In addi­ while singling out her “alert heart.” Shaped in her tion to her novels and memoir, she has written essays, native Bridgeport, Connecticut, that vision, immedia­ magazine pieces, short stories and two plays, and her cy and heart have served her well in a career that has editing includes the works of Fdith Wharton. Clearly, spanned an amazing 45 years. Her 1975 memoir Facts her heart is still on the alert. o f Life won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Maureen Howard graduated from Smith College. Non-Fiction, and caused the Boston Globe to rank her She has taught at Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, as “one of our most significant writers.” She received Amherst College, and Boston University. She has the 1997 Award in Fiction from the American served as executive vice-president of PEN and as a Academy of Arts and Letters, which said she “com­ judge for the National Book Award, the Hemingway mands what may he the most sublime lyric prose style First Novel Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the in America. Maureen Howard is an American original Brandeis Medal. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, of inimitable, prodigious talent, a major poet of the Ingram Merrill, Bunting, and National Endowment for novel.” The Chicago Sun-Times put it this way: the Arts fellowships. She is a member of the American “Maureen Howard belongs to any list of the best Academy of Arts and Sciences. American novelists practicing today.” Publishers 6 Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D. President of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation abbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg is the president of the Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World (1998); and the Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation. The recently published For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The RJewish Life Network’s mission is to create new New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity (Jewish institutions and initiatives to enrich the inner life - reli­ Publication Society, 2004). From 1974 through 1997, he gious, cultural, institutional - of American Jewry. He served as founding president of the National Jewish Center served as chairman of the United States Holocaust for Learning and Leadership (CLAL), a pioneering institu­ Memorial Council from 2000-2002. He has written exten­ tion in the development of adult and leadership education sively on the theory and practice of pluralism and on the in the Jewish community. It is a leader in intra-Jewish reli­ theology of Jewish-Christian relations. An ordained gious dialogue and the work of Jewish unity. Before CLAL Orthodox rabbi, a Harvard Ph.D. and scholar. Rabbi was founded, he served as rabbi of the Riverdale (New Greenberg has been a seminal thinker on confronting the York) Jewish Center, as associate professor of History at Holocaust as a transforming historical event and on Israel Yeshiva University, and as founder, chairman and professor as the Jewish assumption of power and the beginning of a in the Department of Jewish Studies of City College at the third era in Jewish history. In his book. Interpreters of City University of New York. Goaded by his encounter with Judaism in the Late Twentieth Century, Professor Steven T. the Holocaust, Rabbi Greenberg joined the Jewish- Katz wrote, “No Jewish thinker has had a greater impact on Christian dialogue in the 1960s, initially to challenge the American Jewish community in the last two decades Christians to overcome the legacy of the teaching of con­ than Irving Greenberg.” Rabbi Greenberg has published tempt. In the course of this dialogue, he was moved to a numerous articles and monographs on Jewish thought and new appreciation of Christianity and began a decades-long religion, including The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays project of developing a positive Jewish theology of (1988), a philosophy of Judaism based on an analysis of Christianity. the Sabbath and holidays; Living in the Image of God: 7 University History The Seal The official seal of Sacred Heart University was introduced disciplines of academic inquiry. The Cross of Our Faith on July 22,1963. It was designed by Frank Sullivan, an art above the bridge dignifies the other symbols and identifies teacher in New Jersey. Sullivan had been commissioned to the University as a community that celebrates the richness design the seal hy his friend. Dr. Maurice J. O’Sullivan, of the Catholic intellectual tradition. Sacred Heart University’s first academic dean. The original The sinister impalement displays the personal coat of pen and ink hangs in the diocesan museum at The Catholic arms of the Most Rev. Walter W. Curtis, S.T.D., the founder Center in Bridgeport. of Sacred Heart University and the second Bishop The original seal consists of a shield, a of the Diocese of Bridgeport. The central surrounding wreath of hearts and flow­ checkered bar, taken from the Curtis fam­ ers, and the inscription “Universitas ily coat of arms, suggests the collabora­ Sacri Cordis” in large letters on the tive nature of the learning community outside of the seal and “Dioecesis in which each individual member Bridgeportensis, 1963” on the inner contributes to the integrity of the circle. whole. The two diamond-shaped lozenges, taken from the Costello The shield consists of a dexter — the right-hand side of a shield (the left family shield to honor the Bishop’s as seen by the viewer) — and a sinister, mother, are placed in the upper portion the left-hand side of a shield.