UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA Two Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Commencement for the Conferring of Degrees PHILADELPHIA CIVIC CENTER CONVENTION HALL Monday, May 23, 1983 10:00 A.M. Guests will find this diagram helpful in locating shown in the Contents on the opposite page under the approximate seating of the degree candidates. Degrees in Course. Reference to the paragraph on The seating roughly corresponds to the order by page seven describing the colors of the candidates school in which the candidates for degrees are hoods according to their fields of study may fur- presented, beginning at top left with the College ther assist guests in placing the locations of the of Arts and Sciences. The actual sequence is various schools. Contents Page Seating Diagram of the Graduating Students 2 The Commencement Ceremony 4 Commencement Notes 6 Degrees in Course 8 The College of Arts and Sciences 8 The College of General Studies 16 The School of Engineering and Applied Science 17 The Wharton School 26 The Wharton Evening School 30 The Wharton Graduate Division 32 The School of Nursing 36 The School of Medicine 39 The Law School 40 The Graduate School of Fine Arts 42 The School of Dental Medicine 45 The School of Veterinary Medicine 46 The Graduate School of Education 47 The School of Social Work 49 The Annenberg School of Communications 50 The School of Public and Urban Policy 50 The Graduate Faculties 51 Certificates 56 General Honors Program 56 Dental Hygiene 56 Advanced Dental Education 56 Social Work 57 Commissions 57 Army 57 Navy 57 Principal Undergraduate Academic Honor Societies 58 Faculty Honors 61 Prizes and Awards 64 Class of 1933 70 Events Following Commencement 71 The Commencement Marshals 72 Academic Honors Insert The Commencement Ceremony MUSIC Valley Forge Military Academy and Junior College Regimental Band FRANK M. SCHOENDORFER W '54, Conductor STUDENT PROCESSION PROCESSION OF THE CLASS OF 1933 ACADEMIC PROCESSION OPENING PROCLAMATION JOHN W. ECKMAN, Vice Chairman of the Trustees INVOCATION STANLEY E. JOHNSON, Chaplain THE NATIONAL ANTHEM HAIL! PENNSYLVANIA! (By Edgar M. Willey, '97) Hail! Pennsylvania! Noble and strong; To thee with loyal hearts we raise our song. Swelling to heaven, loud our praises ring; Hail! Pennsylvania! Of thee we sing. INTRODUCTION SHELDON HACKNEY, President THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS ELLEN H. GOODMAN Syndicated Columnist CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES The President HENRY MARTYN CHANCE II Former Chairman Doctor of Laws B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1934 United Engineers and Constructors, Inc. Trustee Emeritus University of Pennsylvania ANSLEY J. COALE Professor of Economics Doctor of Laws William Church Osborn Professor of Public Affairs Princeton University NORMAN FRANCIS President Doctor of Laws Xavier University New Orleans SHELOMO D. GOITEIN Emeritus Professor of Arabic Doctor of Humane Letters University of Pennsylvania Visitor Institute for Advanced Study The audience is requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem, Hail Pennsylvania, and The Red and Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the Auditorium. ELLEN HOLTZ GOODMAN Syndicated Columnist Doctor of Letters CHAIM POTOK Writer Doctor of Letters Ph.D., 1965 JESSIE M. SCOTT Retired Assistant Surgeon General Doctor of Science B.S. in Nursing, 1943 United States Public Health Service Member of the Board of Overseers School of Nursing University of Pennsylvania ISAAC STARR Former Dean Doctor of Science M.D., 1920 School of Medicine Emeritus Professor of Therapeutic Research University of Pennsylvania JEROME B. WIESNER Institute Professor and Former Doctor of Science President Massachusetts Institute of Technology ESMOND WRIGHT Director Doctor of Humane Letters Institute of United States Studies University of London GLEE CLUB LET US NOW PRAISE GREAT AND FAMOUS MEN . Bruce Montgomery The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club BRUCE MONTGOMERY, Director CONFERRING OF DEGREES IN COURSE The President Candidates are presented by the Associate Provost and Deans ACADEMIC HONORS THOMAS EHRLICH, Provost PRESENTATION OF THE FIFTY-YEAR CLASS SARAH SPEDDEN SENIOR, President of the General Alumni Society 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 The most significant day in the American national calendar, the Fourth of July, was chosen by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for the Com- mencement exercises of 1783 so that on the seventh anniversary "of declared Inde- pendence, the wreath of Science should be conferred on the deserving." While the bells of every church in the city pealed outside, and the harbor was decorated with the colors of friendly nations belonging to the ships in the port, graduation took place in the then College building on Fourth Street. The prin- cipals in the ceremony moved in procession from the apparatus chamber to the great hall. There the "deserving"—eleven Bachelors of Arts, four Bachelors of Medicine, eight Masters of Arts, one Doctor of Medicine (ad eundem), and two Doctors of Divinity—received the honors of the first educational institution in the United States to bear the title of University. Another degree was conferred, but in absentia, a Doctorate of Laws awarded to His Excellency General George Washington, Esquire, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States. This great moment in the program was preceded by student orations, several of which touched on "the democratic form of govern- ment," on patriotism and the generosity of France towards the United States (the French Minister was, happily, in the audience), and by a forensic disputation on duelling, an occasional practice of the students and a cause of grave concern to the faculty. General Washington, who had attended the University's Commencement the year before, and would receive his diploma privately five months later, could not be present on July 4, 1783, but the audience heard the stirring words of the degree citation. In the accolade, the trustees and faculty spoke of the arduous struggle for "peace, liberty, and safety," with which the welfare of the arts and sciences was intimately concerned; they trembled at the dangers that surrounded them—they crowded to your standard for safety—and in you they have found an illustrious protector. Sensible of her obligations—and ambitious of inrolling your justly celebrated name in the catalogue of her sons, this uni- versity presents your excellency with her highest honours. Graduates of the Class of 1983 may not realize that the Master of Arts degree of two centuries ago was not earned; it was bestowed upon graduates of three years' standing who were judged worthy and paid a fee. This ancient custom, inherited from English academic practice, was to continue for exactly a century. The Com- mencement of 1883, of which the ceremony today represents the centenary, wit- nessed, for the last time, the award of (again, exactly eight) such degrees. The facilities of the new West Philadelphia campus could not accommodate a graduation ceremony in 1883, and, in the pattern of the time, the two exercises— the first in April for the Medical and Dental Departments, the second in June for arts, medical, legal and honorary candidates—, were held at the Academy of Music where the Germania Orchestra provided the lively and brassy sound effects then so popular. The student body had grown, and diversified, in the intervening century. The recipients of the M.D. degree in April numbered 99, 59 of them, to be sure, Penn- sylvanians, but with citizens of Brazil and the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Bar- bados among them. The 34 graduating dentists included a Colombian, a German, a Puerto Rican and a Norwegian. At the June ceremony, the Bachelors of Laws had the largest representation (51 degree candidates, including Messrs Ballard, Gest and Price, all to be prominently associated with the subsequent development of their School and University). With them were 45 collegians, who received the Bachelors degree, together with 20 recipients of certificates of proficiency, two medical graduates, and three professional men who secured honorary degrees. Among the College candidates was William Adger, the first black to receive an Arts degree from Pennsylvania, and Edward Potts Cheyney, the future historian of the University. Five women were in the academic procession, four of them taking certificates in Music; the fifth, Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore, was the first woman to receive the LL.B. of the University. The struggle of Carrie Kilgore for a law degree in 1883 has been marked in 1983 by a significant anniversary exhibition in the Law School. In 1933, University honors were awarded at the Midyear Convocation in Feb- ruary and at the June Commencement; then, in November, diploma exercises were held for the Hospital Training School for Nurses. At Convocation, the degrees received by the 345 candidates (150 of them graduate students) included many which had been added to the academic cornucopia during the intervening half cen- tury: the Master of Business Administration, the M.S. in Education and the same degree in Electrical Engineering, the Bachelor and Master of Architecture, the Master of Medical Science, and the doctorate in Philosophy—one of whose proud recipients was blind. R.O.T.C. commissions were awarded. At the June, 1933 Commencement, held then, as today, in Convention Hall, Arts, Medical, and Dental seniors received diplomas, and certificates went to candi- dates from the Evening School of Accounts and Finance, another educational opportunity developed in the twentieth century.