iii$ WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY One Hundred Sixteenth Commencement I FALL CEREMONY 2013 I SUNDAY, THE FIFTEENTH OF DECEMBER Two THOUSAND AND THIRTEEN CHARLES KOCH ARENA Two-THIRTY IN THE AFTERNOON UNIVERSITY EMBLEMS CO MMENCEMENT GUESTS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ... ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Gary Bender grew up on a farm outside of Robba Moran was appointed Ulysses, Kan., where he first started broadcasting to the Kansas Board of Regents games on a tractor. He was an All-State high by Governor Sam Brownback in school football player and won a football 2011. She is presently serving as scholarship to Wichita State University. When a chair of the Board's Academic shoulder injury forced him off the field, he started Affairs committee and is the broadcasting games for l<MUW-FM, the university Regents' representative to the radio station. After graduation, he attended the Education System Coordinating University of Kansas, where he received a Master's Council and the Washburn Board degree in radio-televisfon-film and became the CiARV BENDER of Regents. Moran is also a ROBBAMORAN 2013 President's Medal radio voice of the Jayhawks. commissioner of the Education Kansas Board of Recipient Bender began his network television Commission of the States, Regents broadcasting career with CBS in 1975, serving an interstate compact that as a play-by-play announcer for the NFL, NBA, college football and works to help bridge the gap between good ideas and THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDALLION THE UNIVERSITY MACE THE UNIVERSITY SEAL basketball. During his 12 years at CBS, he had the opportunity to effective education policy. In 2013, Robba was elected broadcast 27 sports, working with such giants of the business as Johnny The presidential medallion is worn As the official symbol of the university's The seal of Wichita State University chairman of the Midwest Cancer Alliance Partners' Unitas, John Madden, Bill Russell, Dick Vermeil and Sonny Jurgensen. Advisory Board at the KU Cancer Center. She Is a past by the president of Wichita State authority and power, the mace is carried incorporates many Images. A In 1987. Bender joined ABC. His assignments included coverage of member of the Hays Medical Center Board of Directors University on significant or official by selected college faculty in the academic farmer and an Indian, representing baseball, college football, basketball and the 1988 Winter Olympics in and the Kansas Agriculture and Rural Leadership, Inc. ceremonial occasions as the symbolic procession. The mace was commissioned Kansas' rural background and Native Calgary. In 1991, he joined Turner Sports as the lead announcer for TNT's Board of Directors. manifestation of his role and in 1978 by Paul J. Magelli, former dean American heritage, are looking up at NFL Sunday Night Football and NBA Basketball. Moran holds a 8.5. in Business Administration from responsibility as the chief officer of of Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and seven stars above a lamp of learning. Bender has been inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of fame, the William Jewell College, and a J.D. from Duke University. the university. The official seal of Sciences, as a memorial to his twin brother, The university's name arcs above Phi Delta Theta Sports Hall of Fame and the Kansas Broadcasting Hall She practiced law in Kansas City at Stinson, Mag (now Wichita State University anchors the Peter M. Magelli, and presented for the first these images. Below them is a of Fame. He is author of, " The Call of the Game" and his second book Stinson Morrison Hecker) and later was assistant ceremonial anaglyph and is encircled time at the 1980 commencement. sunflower flanked by wheat, again "Beyond the Call" is ready to be published. professor of business at Fort Hays State University. by two hyperbolic forms designed to Designed by artist Jonathan Graham Bonner signifying Kansas, and a laurel, a Currently he is working with the KU Athletic Department as a She and her husband, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, complement the university mace. The of Providence. Rhode Island, the mace is symbol of learning. Three significant broadcaster in residence. Gary and his wife Linda, also a WSU graduate, have two daughters: Kelsey is a student at will celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. They live in Kansas City, presidential medallion is suspended executed primarily in stainless steel, gold and dates of the university's past also Georgetown Law School, and Alex is a student at Mo, and have two sons Trey and Brett. from black silk trimmed with gold. silver. The head of the mace is a gilt frame are included: 1895, Fairmount Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical School. with 22 st ainless steel spikes. The points College founding; 1926, University are sterling silver. A silver ball engraved with of Wichita reorganization date; and the three seals of Wichita State University­ 1964, the date the university entered COMMENCEMENT NOTES ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ .. Fairmount College, the Municipal University the Kansas Regents' system. of Wichita and Wichita State University-is DATE OF GRADUATION GRADUATION WITH HONORS suspended in the frame by two springs. The This program is not an official list of confirmed Degrees are conferred with distinction upon undergraduate students who have shaft Is a stainless steel spring, and the graduates for the 2013 fall commencement. shown exceptional scholarship in both their cumulative and WSU grade point handle is a gilt ball set with nine hematites. Students listed in this commencement program averages. Students with grade point averages of 3.90 out of a possible 4.00 receive are candidates for degrees in December 2013. the summa cum laude award; those with averages of 3.550 to 3.899 receive the ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Students' names are listed In this program magna cum laude; and those with averages of 3.250 to 3.549 receive the cum laude. as they appear on the graduation list provided Candidates for degrees and for university honors for December 2013 have been by the Office of the Registrar. Students' names tentatively determined on the basis of work completed through summer 2013. UNIVERSITY CHALLENCE COIN are read during the university commencement In addition to university honors, departmental honors are awarded to students ceremony as they appear on the graduation card who have met the appropriate requirements. Wichita State does not confer honors The Challenge Coin has its origins from early in WWI when a number of Americans flew with the Brits. provided by the graduates. upon students completing degrees in the Graduate School. One individual, from a wealthy family, had bronze medallions struck for his squadron. Out on a mission, he was shot down and captured by the Germans. They took his uniform and papers but let him keep the little leather sack where he kept his coin. He escaped during a night barrage, crossed no-man's land, and ACADEMIC DRESS was recaptured by the French. The French took him as a saboteur and were about to execute him. The 0 Today's academic dress evolved from caps and gowns worn in DRAB , W. Frank Barton School of Business young flyer showed them the medallion; they recognized the squadron emblem and confirmed his story. Obverse (heads) medieval universities. The academic gown is the basic garment LICHT BLUE ' College of Education Instead of a firing squad, they gave him a bottle of wine and eventually got him back to his squadron. and by tradition is black for all degrees and ranks. The square DRANCE , College of Engineering The coin saved his life. .. caps or mortarboards are part of the prescribed academic dress. BROWN ' College of Fine Arts The WSU Challenge Coin has the Seal of the University on the obverse (heads) and the Shocker brand Accompanying the gowns are hoods lined with silk in the official PINK , College of Fine Arts-School of Music on the reverse (tails). The coin of each college has a distinctive reverse side. The WSU Challenge Coin color of the institution conferring the degree and bordered in GREEN , College of Health Professions the color representing the discipline of learning. The co lor of the Is carried by our alumni, staff, faculty, and friends as a symbol of unity. Graduates receive theirs during APRICOT , College of Health Professions-School of Nursing tassel designates the student's degree and may vary from what is BLACK, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences commencement through a handshake. Shockers around the world are encouraged to carry their coin found on the hood. Students receiving graduate degrees wear the always, lest they be challenged by another Shocker. color appropriate to the degree emphasis.