MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE COMMENCEMENT H UN UT IV O E M R S N I O T Y M N 3 3 E 9 W 1 J E R S E Y WEDNESDAY,2 MAY 01FIFTEENTH, TWO9 THOUSAND NINETEEN WEST LONG BRANCH, NEW JERSEY THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION AND REGALIA The commencement ceremony processional begins with faculty marshals designated by the provost leading the faculty, followed by the student marshals who lead the candidates for degrees. The platform party follows and consists of honorees, members of the Board of Trustees, the president, president’s cabinet, academic school deans, faculty council chair, and the senior class president. The history of academic dress reaches far back into the earliest days of the oldest universities. A statute of 1321 required that all “Doctors, Licentiates, and Bachelors” of the University of Coimbra wear gowns. In England, in the second half of the fourteenth century, the statutes of certain colleges prescribed the wearing of a long gown. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, the wearing of a robe often signified a degree candidate’s political or religious affiliation; in the northern universities and those of the British Isles, the robes signified that tuition and boarding fees of the wearer had been paid and also entitled him to special immunities in civil law, as well as providing him warmth at lectures and chapel. When American colleges and universities desired to adopt some suitable system of academic apparel, a conference held at Columbia University in 1895, made up of representatives from various institutions, drew up a “By-Law, Regulation, or Statute” for the establishment of a suitable code of academic dress for colleges and universities in the United States. This code, with modifications made in 1959 by the Committee on Academic Costumes and Ceremonies of the American Council on Education, is still in force; the costumes and colors, trimmings, and patterns you will see are traditional, and interpret both the degree and field of learning. The bachelor’s gown, designed to be worn closed, has pointed sleeves; the master’s gown, which may be worn open or closed, has an oblong sleeve open at the wrist that hangs down in the traditional manner. The rear part of its oblong shape is square cut, and the front part has the arc cut away. The doctor’s gown has bell-shaped sleeves. It may be worn open or closed. Black is the recommended color for all academic gowns. Bachelor’s and master’s gowns are untrimmed. Doctor’s gowns are faced with black velvet, with three bars across the sleeves; the color of the velvet may also be that which is distinctive to the degree, agreeing with that of the edging of the hood. In the 1960s, many American land-grant universities adopted the British and the Scottish tradition of using the official school color(s) for the robes of their doctoral recipients—for instance, Yale: sky blue; Harvard: crimson; University of Pennsylvania: scarlet and blue; Columbia: slate gray; Rutgers: deep red and black. The colors you will see in the hoods of our faculty represent the various fields in which the degrees were taken: Apricot: Nursing Orange: Engineering Brown: Fine Arts Pink: Music Citron: Social Work Purple: Law Crimson: Journalism Sage Green: Physical Education Dark Blue: Philosophy Salmon Pink: Public Health Golden Yellow: Science Scarlet: Theology Green: Medicine Yellow-Brown: Commerce, Business, Accountancy Lemon-Yellow: Library Science White: Arts, Letters, Humanities Light Blue: Education The hoods, differing in length for the three degrees—bachelor’s, master’s, and doctor’s—are lined with the official colors of the university or college conferring the degree, usually with one color forming a chevron pattern over the other. Hoods are edged and bound with velvet or the color appropriate for the degree. You will see in our procession many hoods edged with dark blue, representing doctor of philosophy. Mortarboards are the approved headgear. The tassel, worn on the left side of the cap, may be gold if the holder has a doctor’s degree. H UN UT IV O E M R S N I O T Y M N 3 3 E 9 W 1 J E R S E Y Founded in 1933, Monmouth is a private, mid-sized, comprehensive university with a broad commitment to the liberal arts. Monmouth University offers 33 undergraduate and 26 graduate degree programs, including two doctoral programs. Students benefit from a rigorous academic experience, small classes, and professors who meet the highest standards for scholarship and teaching. Our students participate in more than 120 active clubs and organizations, including 15 fraternities and sororities, six media organizations, and an NCAA Division I athletics program fielding 23 teams. Monmouth’s beautiful 168-acre coastal campus, close to New York City and Philadelphia, includes a blend of historic landmarks and state-of-the-art facilities. 1 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Michael A. Plodwick '82, Chair Jeana M. Piscatelli '01 '02M, Vice Chair Christopher D. Maher, Treasurer Michelle Spicer Toto '94M, Secretary Francis V. Bonello, Esq. Marianne C. Hesse Henry D. Mercer, III '87 '17HN John A. Brockriede Jr. '07 '10M Leslie Hitchner Thomas J. Michelli Thomas D. Byer '67 Frederick J. Kaeli Jr. '61 Valerie Montecalvo John C. Conover III Raymond G. Klose '77 Antoinette M. Musorrafiti Karyn F. Cusanelli '89 (Ex officio) Nancy A. Leidersdorff '97 Tavit O. Najarian, Sc.D. Grey J. Dimenna, Esq. (Ex officio) Dean Q. Lin, MHA, MBA, Robert B. Rumsby '77 (Ex officio) Marti S. Egger '81 FACHE Christopher W. Shaw Mary Vaden Eisenstadt Erik W. Matson '88M Carol A. Stillwell William O. George III '97M Lisa McKean Webster B. Trammell Jr., Psy.D. '70 '73M Stephen E. Gerard '89M LIFE TRUSTEES Paul W. Corliss Robert E. McAllan '69 Harold L. Hodes '65 William B. Roberts TRUSTEES EMERITI Stanley S. Bey '59 Alfred L. Ferguson, Esq. '13HN Thomas A. Porskievies '82 '86M Alan E. Davis, Esq. John H. Kessler '69 Steven J. Pozycki '73 Paul S. Doherty Jr. '67 '04HN Stephen M. Parks '68 '07HN Alfred J. Schiavetti Jr. '11HN Judith Ann Eisenberg Charles T. Parton '01HN Robert B. Sculthorpe '63 '15HN STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Syed Husaini, President Leslie Valdez, Vice President Kailee Forlai, Director of Budgets Phoebe Nielson & Adham Hassan, Co-Chairs, Academic Affairs Committee Cassondra Giarrusso, Director, Student Affairs Committee CLASS OF 2019 OFFICERS Nicholas Verzicco, President Phoebe Nielson, Vice President Dana Pizzuti, Secretary Alyssa DellaVecchia, Treasurer FACULTY MARSHALS STUDENT MARSHALS Vincent Dimattio, Ken Mitchell Michael Fazzino, Christine T. Santoriello 2 MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE COMMENCEMENT May 15, 2019 Twelve-Thirty p.m. President Grey J. Dimenna, Presiding ACADEMIC PROCESSION ..........................................Pomp and Circumstance, Sir Edward Elgar NATIONAL ANTHEM ............................................. The Monmouth University Chamber Choir GREETINGS ............................................................................................ Michael A. Plodwick '82 Chair, Monmouth University Board of Trustees SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS ...........................................................................President Dimenna CLASS OF 2019 REMARKS ...............................................................................Nicholas Verzicco President, Class of 2019 CONFERRAL OF HONORARY DEGREE ............................................................ Carolyn Porco ...................................................................................Presented by Trustee Michelle Spicer Toto '94M COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS ..................................................................................Ms. Porco CONFERRAL OF DEGREES IN COURSE School of Social Work School of Education Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing and Health Studies School of Science Leon Hess Business School Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences ALMA MATER ........................................................... The Monmouth University Chamber Choir RECESSIONAL ..........................................................................Trumpet Voluntary, Henry Purcell All Commencement participants and guests are requested to remain in their seats until the conclusion of the ceremony and after the faculty and platform party processes out. You are to please refrain from the use of cellphones and other electronic devices during the ceremony. 3 HONORARY DEGREE Carolyn Porco, Ph.D. Doctor of Science, honoris causa Presented by Trustee Michelle Spicer Toto '94M Carolyn Porco is a planetary scientist who served as the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission to Saturn from 2004 to 2017 and as the imaging scientist on the celebrated Voyager mission to the outer solar system in the 1980s. Asteroid Porco 7231 is named in her honor. Porco received her doctorate in 1983 from the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. In the fall of 1983, she joined the faculty in the department of Planetary Sciences within the University of Arizona. She was the director of CICLOPS, the center of imaging operations at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, from 2003 to 2018. She is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. She has co-authored 130 scientific papers in the planetary sciences, including a large suite of findings on Saturn and its rings and moons as a result of her leadership of the Cassini imaging experiment. Her team was responsible for discovering lakes and