ST. OLAF COLLEGE HONORS DAY FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 BOE MEMORIAL CHAPEL NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA THE PROGRAM President David R. Anderson ’74, presiding The Academic Procession The St. Olaf Faculty Trumpet Tune in D Major by David N. Johnson Catherine Rodland ’87, Organist Artist in Residence, Organ and Music Theory Invocation Matthew J. Marohl College Pastor Hymn For the Splendor of Creation by Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1989 Music by Gustav Holst Recognition of Honorees Marci Sortor Provost and Dean of the College Address Meg Ojala, Professor of Art/Art History John Barbour, Professor of Religion Honor and Coming of Age College Hymn Fram! Fram! St. Olaf! Benediction Katherine E. Fick Associate College Pastor Recessional Widor Symphony no. 5, op. 42: Toccata by Charles-Marie Widor During the faculty procession and recession, the audience is asked to stand in place. 3 ADDITIONAL EVENTS ON CAMPUS Friday, May 4, 2018 6 p.m. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. The Northfield Experience Center for Art and Dance Students and faculty from St. Olaf and Carleton colleges, as well as The 2018 Senior Show features 29 student artists, with artwork span- local Northfield residents, are collaborating on a historic site-specific ning two galleries, the central corridor, and several installation spaces event to immerse audiences in theater, dance, music, and visual and throughout the building. This is an annual exhibition and culminat- digital art. The Northfield Experience will take audience members on a ing event in the curriculum of St. Olaf studio art majors. Themes from walking tour to several locations throughout Northfield, where the diverse disciplines run through the young artist’s work as they draw spirit of history, industry, and scholarship will come alive through on academic influences from their four years on the Hill. Nearly all the direction of award-winning Artistic Director Stephan Koplowitz. the artwork is for sale, making this a great time to buy one-of-a-kind This is a promenade performance event in which the audience will work by emerging artists. take part in a progressive walking tour that begins at The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street in downtown Northfield. Lasting Legacy is an annual exhibition series curated by senior art Performances cost $6 and run from Friday, May 4, through Sunday, history majors. This year’s show is titled Anti-Aura: Interrogating May 6. For tickets or more information, visit The Northfield Experience Authenticity and is co-curated by art history majors, Class of 2018. at www.thenorthfieldexperience.com. Starting with Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura — an object’s con- nection to space, time, and ritual — this exhibition investigates the notion of authenticity in art. By purposely choosing works with ques- tionable authenticity, this exhibition features works that complicate Saturday, May 5, 2018 the perceived authority of an original work of art. With works from 9 p.m. Flaten Art Museum’s collection attributed to Georgia O’Keeffe, Buntrock Commons, The Pause Eugène Delacroix, and Wassily Kandinsky, the exhibition delves into Jazz I Concert fakes, forgeries, and formulations of cultural identity. The exhibition considers the authentic, or the “real,” which encompasses authorship, style, and use of medium to interrogate the multiplicity of authenticity. (Center for Art and Dance 205) 3:30 p.m. Buntrock Commons, Heritage Room A reception to recognize significant student achievements in economics and management studies. 3:30–5 p.m. Holland Hall 111 The Asian Studies Department will present students’ distinction projects. 4 p.m. Regents Hall, 4th Floor Student Research Poster Session, a celebration. 4 JOHN BARBOUR AND MEG OJALA Honor and Coming of Age Professors John Barbour and Meg Ojala will explore the complexity and Professor of Art and Art History Meg Ojala received her B.A. from the multiple meanings of honor and its relationship to coming of age. Coming University of Minnesota and her M.F.A. from The School of The Art of age doesn’t happen suddenly or only once, but many times in the course Institute of Chicago. Ojala closely observes, draws, and photographs of a life. What is the meaning of honor and coming of age in the context of the landscape, exploring perceptions of space, the visual poetry of a liberal arts education at St. Olaf College? representation and abstraction, and the ways in which photographs transform the world. She joined the St. Olaf art and art history faculty Professor of Religion John Barbour graduated from Oberlin College in 1983, where she developed the photography curriculum, and served and received his Ph.D. in the field of Religion and Literature from the as department chair from 2006–08. University of Chicago Divinity School. His teaching and research interests center on ethical and theological issues raised in fiction and Ojala’s landscape projects include photographs for conservation autobiography, such as the ways narratives explore the meanings of and protection efforts such as This Perennial Land, a book project sin, grace, and community. encouraging conservation of the Blue Earth watershed, and an interdisciplinary project with St. Olaf colleagues and students Since coming to the St. Olaf Religion Department in 1982, Barbour retracing the 1838 expedition route of Joseph N. Nicollet. She is the has served as department chair (1998–2001), the first Martin Marty recipient of numerous awards, including multiple McKnight Regents Chair in Religion and the Academy (2004–08), and the O.C. Foundation Artist Fellowships for Photographers, Minnesota State and Patricia Boldt Chair in the Humanities (2012–15). In addition to Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants, and a grant from the Southeastern teaching 20 different religion courses, Barbour has taught in the Minnesota Arts Council. She has exhibited nationally and interna- Paracollege and the Great Conversation. tionally, and is represented by Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis. Barbour has written four scholarly books: Tragedy as a Critique of Together, Barbour and Ojala were field supervisors for the Global Virtue: The Novel and Ethical Reflection (1984), The Conscience of the Semester program in 2001–02 and Term in Asia in 2008–09. Barbour Autobiographer: Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Autobiography led seven January Interim courses in Rome, Mexico City, Chicago’s (1992), Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith Newberry Library, and Holden Village, and Ojala twice led the New (1994), and The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness York Art Interim. In 2017, they also led the Alumni and Family Travel in Autobiography (2004). He also published Renunciation: A Novel program, “Hiking Scotland’s Islands.” They have two sons and a in 2013. Barbour currently is writing a book entitled Travel and grandson. Transformation: No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives. 5 THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION The traditional academic procession introduces many of the more distinctive of the subject to which the degree pertains, as follows: formal and significant events at St. Olaf, as it does on most college and economics, copper; education, light blue; fine arts, brown; humanities, university campuses. Leading the faculty procession and seated in the white; law, purple; library science, lemon; medicine, green; music, front rows of the faculty are the current holders of distinguished pink; nursing, apricot; philosophy, dark blue; physical education, sage professorships and endowed chairs. green; science, golden yellow; social science, cream; social work, citron; speech, silver gray; and theology, scarlet. Although the history of wearing distinctive apparel as an indication of scholarship and academic rank dates back to 1321, the practice was not adopted throughout the United States until about 1900. The cap worn IN EXPLANATION almost universally in academic processions is the Oxford cap, better The general honors list includes all full-time students who have a known as the mortarboard. It is always black. A different style, called cumulative grade point average, through Interim, of cum laude (3.60) the Cambridge cap, resembles a large beret. or above. The use of a dark robe in academic processions is thought to have For further information on GPA requirements, visit the St. Olaf arisen from the clerical practice of wearing a cape or mantle in reli- Registrar’s website at stolaf.edu/offices/registrar. gious processions in the 12th and 13th centuries when universities arose from cathedral schools. The St. Olaf scholarships and awards that are listed are provided in large measure by specially designated gifts to the college. Traditionally, gowns are also black. However, a number of universities have adopted alternate gowns that use their traditional school colors, such as crimson for Harvard, blue for Yale, maroon for Chicago, and orange hashmarks and lining for Princeton. THE RECEPTION All students, visiting parents, donors of scholarships and awards, and The academic hoods, worn around the neck and down the back of faculty and staff are invited to a reception in the Crossroads of Buntrock the gown, are lined with the official colors of the college or university Commons immediately following the Honors Day convocation. conferring the degree. The binding or edging of the hood is usually DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIPS AND ENDOWED CHAIRS Robert Scholz Endowed Chair in Music — Steven Amundson, Music Harry R. and Thora H. Tosdal Professor of Music — Anton Armstrong ’78, Music Husby-Johnson Endowed Chair of Business and Economics — Anthony Becker, Economics Grace A. Whittier Endowed Chair in Science — Douglas Beussman ’92, Chemistry Marie M. Meyer Distinguished Professor — Anne Groton, Classics Martin E. Marty Chair in Religion and the Academy — Daniel Hofrenning, Political Science Harold Ditmanson Distinguished Professor of Religion — L. DeAne Lagerquist, Religion King Olav V Chair in Scandinavian-American Studies — Margaret O’Leary, Norwegian O.C. and Patricia Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities — Steve Reece, Classics Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor — Barbara Reed, Asian Studies Kenneth Bjork Distinguished Professor — Corliss G.