Table Of ContentINAUGURATION AND
COMMENCEMENT
SPRING
EXERCISES
Brigham Young University • April 25, 1996
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INAUGURATION OF
PRESIDENT MERRILL BATEMAN
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST
SPRING COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Brigham Young University • Provo, Utah • April 25, 1996
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Contents
Procession 1
Program 2
Tradition 4
Merrill Bateman 10
J.
Participants 21
Doctoral Degrees 32
Master's Degrees 40
Baccalaureate Degrees 65
Scholastic Recognition 97
Associate Degree 104
Air Force and Army ROTC Graduates 105
College Convocation Schedule 106
Inauguration and Commencement Committee 107
Acknowledgments 107
Procession
Order ofthe Procession
President, Board ofTrustees, and Administrative Officers
Official Guests
Faculty
Candidates for Advanced Degrees
Class of 1996
Significance ofthe Academic Costume
The significance of the academic costume is determined especially by the sleeves
and hoods.
Doctors wear the round bell sleeve; the gown is faced down the front and
barred on the sleeves with black velvet or color indicating the degree; the doctor's
hood is large. The doctor may choose to wear the gold tassel on the cap.
Masters wear the long closed sleeve, with a slit near the upper part of the arm;
the master's hood is of more moderate size.
Bachelors wear the long or pointed sleeve. The color of the tassel indicates
whether the degree is in the field of arts (white), fine arts (brown), music (pink),
or science (golden yellow).
Program
Thursday • April 25, 1996 • Marriott Center
Presiding and Conducting President Gordon B. Hinckley,
President ofThe Church ofJesus Christ
ofLatter-day Saints and Chairman
of the Board ofTrustees,
Brigham Young University
2:15 p.m.
Prelude Carillon Bells and Organ
2:45 p.m.
Procession Color Guard, President, Board of
Trustees, Administrative Officers,
Official Guests, Faculty, and
—
Graduates from the Smoot
Administration Building to
the Marriott Center
3:00 p.m.
Processional Parley L. Belnap, Organ
Chamber Orchestra Andante con moto,
from Symphony no. 7, op. 92
by Ludwig van Beethoven
4:00 p.m.
Presentation ofColors Air Force and Army ROTC
Invocation H. Reese Hansen, Dean
Reuben Clark Law School
J.
Greetings to the President Eric B. Shumway, President
—
BYU Hawaii Campus
Earlene Durrant, Co-Chair
Faculty Advisory Council
Raylene Hadley, Chair
Administrative Advisory Council
WesleyJ. McDougal, President
BYU Student Service Association
Thomas W. Hart, President
Alumni Association
University Singers "And What Is It We Shall Hope For?"
from TheRedeemer
by Robert Cundick
Installation and Charge to the President Thomas S. Monson, First Coixnselor of
The Church ofJesus Christ ofLatter-day
Saints and First Vice Chairman of
the Board ofTrustees of
Brigham Young University
Response Merrill Bateman, Eleventh President
J.
Brigham Young University
University Singers and Chamber Orchestra "Onward, Ye Peoples!"
byJean Sibelius
Conferring ofDegrees President Merrill Bateman and
J.
Academic Vice President Alan L. Wilkins
Expression from Gradtiate Jennifer B. Smith
Concluding Remarks President Gordon B. Hinckley
Benediction Merri Herbst Sorensen, President
Student Alumni Association
Recessional Chamber Orchestra
Parley L. Belnap, Organ
Carillonneurs Don Cook
Russell Sorensen
Lisa Olcott Glade
University Singers and Ronald Staheli
J
Chamber Orchestra Director
Tradition
The Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints estabUshed its first university on the
banks of the Mississippi River in 1841. The purpose of the University of the City of
Nauvoo, said the Prophet Joseph Smith, was "to teach our children wisdom, to
instruct them in all the knowledge and learning, in the arts, sciences, and learned
professions. We hope to make this institution one of the great lights of the world,
and by and through it to diffuse that kind of knowledge which will be of practica-
ble utility, and for the public good, and also for private and individual happiness."
That dream was never fully realized by the frontier university. But the mission
of the University of the City of Nauvoo lived on in the hearts of early Church mem-
bers as they left their city behind five years later. WTien they arrived in Utah, the
Saints quickly established schools, and, in 1875, Brigham Young founded an acad-
emy in the small pioneer town of Provo.
—
Brigham Young Academy's first term was poorly attended only about seventy
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students and the sessions were held in a single building. Now, more than 28,000
students and almost 500 buildings the 638-acre campus of Brigham Young
fill
University, the flagship of the Church's educational system. Although the first
classes foreshadowed little of what the future held, each of the school's leaders
contributed to fiilfillingJoseph Smith's dream and vision for a Church university.
Warren Dusenberry, the first principal, formed the school from a land grant
given by Brigham Young. Having previously founded and operated a successful
