Clemson University TigerPrints Clemson Commencement Programs Academic Affairs 8-10-1996 Clemson Commencement Program, August 1996 Clemson University Follow this and additional works at: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/comm_programs Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. code). Use of these materials beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. For additional rights information, please contact Kirstin O'Keefe (kokeefe [at] clemson [dot] edu) For additional information about the collections, please contact the Special Collections and Archives by phone at 864.656.3031 or via email at cuscl [at] clemson [dot] edu Recommended Citation University, Clemson, "Clemson Commencement Program, August 1996" (1996). Clemson Commencement Programs. 83. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/comm_programs/83 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Academic Affairs at TigerPrints. It has been accepted for inclusion in Clemson Commencement Programs by an authorized administrator of TigerPrints. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Graduation Exercises August 10, 1996 Clemson, South Carolina Congratulatory Applause You are requested to refrain from loud expressions of pleasure for individual graduates. Such expressions frequently detract from the recognition due the next graduate in line. Your cooperation is respectfully requested. Graduation Saturday, August 10, 1996 11:00 a.m. Littlejohn Coliseum ORDER OF CEREMONIES (Audience will please stand as faculty and candidates march in and remain standing for the invocation.) Invocation Heather A. McMurray, Student Representative Introduction of Trustees President Constantine W. Curris Conferring of Honorary Degree President Constantine W. Curris Address to Graduating Class Dr. Holley H. Ulbrich Recognition of the Deans of the Colleges Senior Vice Provost Jerome V. Reel Conferring of Degrees and Delivery of Diplomas President Constantine W. Curris Recognition and Presentation of Awards Board of Visitors Graduate Teaching Assistant Frank W. Breazeale, Organist Kevin Davidson, Soloist Dr. Harold Garth Spencer, University Marshal HONORARY DEGREE JERE B. RATCLIFFE DOCTOR OF HUMANITIES Jere B. Ratcliffe, America's number one Boy Scout, began his career in South Carolina and went on to become the top professional leader of the Boy Scouts of America in 1993. As Chief Scout Executive (CEO) of the Scouting organization, he directs the activities of more than ten thousand employees and more than one million adult volunteer leaders who deliver Scouting to more than four million youth across the country. Mr. Ratcliffe has been active in Scouting since his youth. A distinguished Eagle Scout, he has held the adult volunteer positions of council executive board member, wood badge instructor, assistant post adviser, and district chairman. He has held the national council positions of director, Finance Support Division, and regional director, East Central and Central regions. He also has served on several professional conference steering committees in regional Top Hands conferences. His professional career began in South Carolina, first in Greenville as a district Scouting executive and then in Columbia. He later served as Scout executive in several areas of the nation, including Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and Missouri. Mr. Ratcliffe, who resides in Southlake,Texas, was born in Tennessee. He attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and holds a bachelor's degree in business administration. His wife is the former Judy Jones of Springfield. They have two grown children, Brian and Susan. He has long maintained an active role in business, church, social, civic, and fraternal organizations. In South Carolina he served as a member of the Carolina Academy of Performing Arts; District Representative for U.S. Congressman Floyd D. Spence from 1971-74; and member, South Carolina Governor's Conference on Physical Fitness and Council on Minority Businessmen's Enterprise. He was a member of the organizing committee on National Philanthropy Day and advisor, Alpha Phi Omega. He currently is an Advisory Council member of Character Education Partnership and a board member of American Humanics, Inc. Mr. Ratcliffe has spent his life dedicated to the service of mankind through his professional career in Scouting and his volunteer efforts in various philanthropic and humanitarian organizations. His many honors and awards include Exploring's Silver Award, the Scouter's Award and the God and Life Award. In 1995 he received the Livy of Honour in Trefoil award. We hold Jere Ratcliffe, his lifetime achievements and service to the youth of South Carolina, and to all of the citizens of the nation, in the highest esteem. It is a distinct privilege to honor him with the presentation of the honorary degree, Doctor of Humanities. DR. HOLLEY H. ULBRICH Dr. Holley Ulbrich is an Alumni Professor of Economics and coordinator of the Community and Economic Development Program at the Strom Thurmond Institute. She is especially interested in state and local public finance. Among her publications in this area are a comprehensive 1991 study of the South Carolina tax system for the S.C. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, a number of articles and reports related to taxation of interstate mail order sales, a study of exemptions from the South Carolina sales tax, a recent report for the S.C. Chamber of Commerce on business impact of proposed property tax reforms, and two monographs on alternative local revenue sources in the various states, one on local sales taxes and one on local income taxes. Dr. Ulbrich has worked as a policy analyst for the federal government, advised state agencies and local governments and has taught public sector short courses for five years at the World Bank in Washington. She has been heavily involved in the Palmetto Leadership program in 17 rural counties in South Carolina and works with the S.C. Association of Counties and the Municipal Association of South Carolina in analyzing trends in local government finance in South Carolina. She also has worked with many individual communities and counties on issues such as incorporation, annexation, economic development, and community needs assessment, including a recent feasibility study of the Pacolet consolidation proposal. A strong believer in community involvement, she has served both on local and state boards of the League of Women Voters, is active in her church in many capacities and chairs the city of Clemson's Accommodations Tax Committee. She has served as president of the Clemson Faculty Senate and the Clemson Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Connecticut and joined the Clemson faculty in 1967. She is the author of five books and numerous journal articles and technical reports. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Lawrence M. Gressette, Jr., Chairman ______Columbia Allen P. Wood, Vice Chairman Florence Bill L. Amick Batesburg Louis P. Batson, Jr. Greenville J. J. Britton Sumter Leon J. Hendrix, Jr. New York, NY Harold D. Kingsmore Aiken Louis B. Lynn Columbia Patricia H. McAbee McCormick Leslie G. McCraw Greenville Thomas B. McTeer, Jr. Columbia William C. Smith, Jr. Columbia Joseph D. Swann Greenville Trustees Emeriti Fletcher C. Derrick, Jr. ____________Charleston W. G. DesChamps, Jr. Bishopville William N. Geiger, Jr. Columbia Paul W. McAlister Laurens Buck Mickel Greenville Paul Quattlebaum, Jr. Charleston James C. Self Greenwood D. Leslie Tindal Pinewood James M. Waddell, Jr. Columbia Executive Secretary to the Board of Trustees Manning N. Lomax ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Constantine W. Curris ____________ President J. Charles Jennett Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs B. K. Webb __________lnterim Vice President for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Research Gary Ransdell ______Vice President for Administration and Advancement Almeda Jacks ______ Vice President for Student Affairs Scott Ludlow Chief Financial Officer The Academic Procession The Academic procession is composed of the faculty, staff, officers, trustees, and honored guests of the University. Faculty enter by college and each college is preceded by its marshal, a senior faculty member, with the college baton, described under University Regalia. Following the marshal is the college banner bearer. Each banner is a combination of colors that declare the disciplines taught in chat college. These colors, which were established by the American Council on Education, are as follows: College Colors Discipline Agriculture, Forestry and Life Maize Agriculture Sciences Brown Forestry Golden Yellow Life Sciences Architecture, Arts and Lilac Architecture Humanities Brown Arts White Humanities Dark Blue Philosophy Business and Public Affairs Drab Accounting and Business Copper Economics Peacock Blue Public Administration Cream Social Sciences Engineering and Science Orange Engineering Golden Yellow Science Health, Education and Human Light Blue Education Development Apricot Nursing Cream Social Sciences Library Lemon Yellow Library Staff Purple and Orange A cad em ic Support Collegiate faculty follow their banner in order of academic rank wearing academic costumes of medieval origin. Those who have received their degrees from institutions outside the United States wear costumes specified by the awarding institutions. The academic costumes of faculty whose