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Campus ready to send off graduates
by Barbara
Pitoniak, News Office staff
lumnus Kenneth Feinberg, nationally known attorney
and special master of the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, will
be the principal speaker at the 132nd Commencement ceremony this
Sunday at 10 a.m. in McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Approximately 4,000
graduates will receive their bachelor's degrees.
Interim Chancellor Marcellette
G. Williams will give the welcome and President William M. Bulger
will offer remarks. The student speaker is Anthropology major Brandy
L. Curtis, of Greenville, R.I.
Feinberg will receive
an honorary degree during the ceremony. Two others will also be
awarded honorary degrees: Michael J. Kittredge, entrepreneur and
founder of Yankee Candle Company; and Blenda J. Wilson, president
and CEO, Nellie Mae Education Foundation.
Greetings from the Alumni
Association will be offered by new president Jess Kane, '70.
The processional will
be led by mace bearer George R. Richason, Jr., professor of Chemistry.
Mary V. Andrianopoulos, assistant professor of Communication Disorders,
and Preston Green, assistant professor of Educational Policy, Research,
and Administration, will be the faculty marshals. The alumni marshals
will be Gordon E. Taylor and John W. Bennett of the Class of 1952,
Marion J. Taylor, '54, and Stacey B. Whitbourne, '00.
The platform party will
include campus administrators, trustees and area legislators.
Following the undergraduate ceremonies, a special School of Education
undergraduate commencement ceremony will take place at 1 p.m. in
the Student Union Ballroom.
Graduate School
The Graduate School
will hold its Commencement ceremony on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in
the Mullins Center. Approximately 1,250 graduate students are candidates
for master's or doctoral degrees. Honorary degrees will be conferred
upon Jacquelyn C. Campbell, professor and associate dean for the
Ph.D. program and research, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University,
and George W. Faison, award-winning dancer and choreographer. There
will be no keynote speaker.
James Walker Jr., interim
dean of the Graduate School, will offer a welcome. Interim Chancellor
Williams will address the candidates.
Stockbridge School of Agriculture
The Stockbridge School of Agriculture
will hold its Commencement on Saturday at 2 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium.
Approximately 115 students are candidates for the two-year associate
of science degree in six different majors. The keynote speaker is
alumna Kirsten Lundgren Brodie, a member of the first graduating
class in Equine Industries in 1991.
Phi Beta Kappa installation
The annual induction ceremony for
juniors and seniors elected to the campus chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Campus Center
Auditorium. A total of 262 new members, the highest number ever,
will be inducted into the nation's most prestigious undergraduate
honor society. The keynote speaker is Margo Crist, director of Libraries;
the occasional poet is Peter Gizzi, assistant professor of English.
A reception for new members and their families will follow the ceremony.
All Phi Beta Kappa members and members of the University community
are invited to attend.
School of Nursing
The School of Nursing will hold its
pinning and hooding ceremony Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Fine Arts
Center Concert Hall. A total of 108 undergraduate students will
receive their nurse's pins and 25 students will receive their master's
and doctoral hoods during the program. The keynote speaker for the
event is Commander Mary W. Chaffee, U.S. Navy Nurse Corps, deputy
director of the Navy Medicine Office of Homeland Security, and a
1983 alumna. Dean Eileen Breslin will deliver a welcome, and interim
Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Charlena
Seymour will address the students.
ROTC commissioning
The Reserve Officers Training Corps
(ROTC) will hold its joint Army-Air Force commissioning at 5 p.m.
on Saturday in Bowker Auditorium. Col. Thomas Boyd, Chief of the
Resources and Readiness Division, Secretary of the Air Force, Office
of Public Affairs, the Pentagon, will be the main speaker. Interim
Chancellor Williams will also address the cadets.
At the ceremony, 12
cadets will be commissioned as second lieutenants. The Army ROTC
will commission seven cadets; the Air Force ROTC will commission
five. All the cadets are from UMass.
Isenberg School
The Isenberg School of Management
graduation celebration will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Fine
Arts Center Concert Hall
College of Engineering
The College of Engineering commencement
ceremony will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Lincoln Campus Center
Auditorium.
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