UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Two Hundred and Twenty-Third Commencement for the Conferring of Degrees PHILADELPHIA CIVIC CENTER CONVENTION HALL Monday, May 21, 1979 10:00 A.M. Guests will find this diagram helpful in locating in the Contents on the opposite page under Degrees the approximate seating of the degree candidates. in Course. Reference to the paragraph on page The seating roughly corresponds to the order by seven describing the colors of the candidates school in which the candidates for degrees are hoods according to their fields of study may further presented, beginning at top left with the Faculty of assist guests in placing the locations of the various Arts and Sciences. The actual sequence is shown schools. Contents Page Seating Diagram of the Graduating Students 2 The Commencement Ceremony 4 Commencement Notes 6 Degrees in Course 8 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences 8 The College of General Studies 16 The College of Engineering and Applied Science 17 The Wharton School 25 The Wharton Evening School 28 The Wharton Graduate Division 30 The School of Nursing 34 The School of Allied Medical Professions 36 The Graduate Faculties 37 The School of Medicine 42 The Law School 43 The Graduate School of Fine Arts 45 The School of Dental Medicine 48 The School of Veterinary Medicine 49 The Graduate School of Education 50 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 Occupational Therapy 54 Physical Therapy 56 Dental Hygiene 57 Advanced Dental Education 57 Social Work 58 Commissions 59 Army 59 Navy 59 Principal Undergraduate Academic Honor Societies 60 Prizes and Awards 63 Class of 1929 69 Events Following Commencement 71 The Commencement Marshals 72 Academic Honors Insert The Commencement Ceremony MUSIC Valley Forge Military Academy and Junior College Band CAPTAIN JAMES M. DERBY, Director STUDENT PROCESSION PROCESSION OF THE CLASS OF 1929 ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION PAUL F. MILLER, JR., Chairman of the Trustees INVOCATION STANLEY E. JOHNSON, Chaplain THE NATIONAL ANTHEM INTRODUCTION MARTIN MEYERSON, President THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TENNESEE WILLIAMS Playwright CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES The President RUTH JOSEPHINE DEAN Emeritus Professor of Doctor of Humane Letters English and Romance Languages Former Chairman, Medieval Studies Committee University of Pennsylvania IZRAIL MOISEEVICH GELFAND UniversityProfessor ofof MathematicsMoscow Doctor of Science Member, U.S.S.R. Academy of Science The audience is requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem and The Red and Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the Auditorium. WILLIAM THEODORE GOLDEN • Amateur of Science Doctor of Laws A.B., 1930 Financier JOSHUA LEDERBERG President, Rockefeller University Doctor of Laws Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine CHARLES BRELSFORD MCCOY Trustee Doctor of Laws University of Pennsylvania Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. WADE HAMPTON MCCREE, JR. Solicitor General Doctor of Laws of the United States ROBERT KING MERTON University Professor Doctor of Humane Letters Columbia University GARRY TRUDEAU Originator of "Doonesbury" DoctorDoctor of Letters of Laws Tennessee Thomas Lanier Williams Playwright Winner of Two Pulitzer Prizes in Drama THE LAST WORDS OF DAVID Ran all Thompson, Mus.D., 1969 The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club BRUCE MONTGOMERY, Director CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Deans PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTY-YEAR CLASS DAVID C. AUTEN, President of the General Alumni Society ACADEMIC HONORS VARTAN GREGORIAN, Provost 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 For the degree candidates of 1979, this year of culmination, and of begin- nings, will remain an important date in their lives. The year is significant to the University not only because of the celebration it shares today with its students but because it is a time of memorable anniversaries. Two hundred years ago no Commencement exercise was held. In 1779 poli- tical sentiment caused the Pennsylvania State Assembly to abrogate the Proprietary Charter of the College of Philadelphia and to organize as its successor the Univer- sity of the State of Pennsylvania in what was the first application of the title "uni- versity" to an American institution. A century ago this autumn the University enrolled its first black students, two in medicine, one in dentistry. In 1879 the Dental School also reached an academic milestone, the graduation of its first class. As if to point to the omission of the academic ceremony in the war year of 1779, the University held two commence- ments in the peaceful year of 1879, both at Philadelphia's Academy of Music. In March, the first dental candidates, 25 in number, and 91 medical students, among them men from Canada, Chile, Cuba, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Saxony, Scotland and Switzerland, marched to the Bridal Chorus from Wagner's Lohengrin to receive degrees and to listen to the conferral in absentia of an honorary doctorate of laws upon the Chancellor of the University of Melbourne in Australia. At the ceremony in June, 41 students in the College and the Towne School received their undergraduate degrees, seven alumni were advanced to the rank of Master of Arts, six candidates received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, one further Doctor of Dental Surgery was awarded, and 39 men were made Bach- elors of Laws. Several of the thesis titles listed in the Commencement program— The Rage for the Practical, Russian Nihilism, and Inequality in Americamight seem topical at Pennsylvania today. A half century ago, in a year that would be forever remembered as having seen the beginning of the greatest economic depression in the history of the nation, a greatly expanded University of Pennsylvania awarded its honors at four convo- cations and at the June Commencement held in the University Palestra. Notable among the recipients of honorary degrees in that year were pathologist Simon Flexner, a former faculty member and head of the Rockefeller Institute, alumnus Herbert Eugene Ives, whose research had led to the invention of television, and alumnus and future Law School dean Owen Josephus Roberts, soon to become Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. At two of those five academic cere- monies of 1929, some 2,105 men and women of the University received degrees in course. Today, approximately 3,500 degrees will be awarded to those who have successfully completed the degree requirements of the 14 schools and colleges which comprise the University. The order of the participants in the academic processions, since the first Commencement in 1757, has varied during these two centuries. During one period the Provost, Trustees, and visiting dignitaries led the procession, whereas at an- other time members of the graduating class entered the hall first. Of interest is the fact that in the early 1800's the janitor of the College led the procession carrying the diplomas for the graduates. The order for today's procession is as follows: the candidates for degrees by schools; the Fifty-Year Alumni Class; the Mace-bearer; the Marshals; the Faculties and their Deans; the Officers, Associate Trustees, and Trustees; the Candidates for Honorary Degrees; the Provost and the President. 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 Corpora- tion. The Mace was a gift of the family of William M. Gordon, School of Medicine 1910. It is adorned with the arms and seal of the University, the Penn and Franklin coats of arms, a depiction of the Rittenhouse Orrery, and a thistle symbolizing the University's early ties with Scotland. The academic dress stems from the monastic robes of the Middle Ages, when the hood was worn raised for protection in drafty halls. According to the inter- collegiate system of academic costume established in 1894, Bachelors' and Masters' gowns are made of cotton poplin or similar material, while silk or rayon is used for the Doctors' gowns. The latter are trimmed with a velvet facing down the front with bars of the same across the sleeves. The mortarboard cap has been standard in the United States though soft caps are coming into use; Doctors may wear a gold tassel, but all others wear black. Some institutions have in recent years authorized Doctors' gowns in colors other than the customary black; holders of the Pennsyl- vania Ph.D. degree may now wear red and blue gowns. The hood is lined with silk in the colors of the institution which granted the highest degree held by the wearer, and the color of the bordering velvet indicates the field of study to which the degree pertains. Degrees will be conferred today in: Arts, white; Science, golden yellow; Business Administration, mustard; Education, light blue; Fine Arts, brown; Philosophy, dark blue; Medicine, green; Law, purple; Dental Medicine, lilac; Veterinary Medicine, gray; Social Work, citron. With the exception of two Bachelor of Arts degrees, the Master of Arts was the only honorary degree conferred in the early years. In 1782 the first Doctor of Laws degrees were conferred on two distinguished Frenchmen, the Chevalier de Castellux, a Major General serving with the Continental Army, and Francois Barbé-Marbois, Consul General of France in this country.