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UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION
MATRICULATION
CONVOCATION
"Sesquicentennial"
Richard Warch
University President
Thursday, September 26, 1996
11:10 a.m.
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
6
LAWRENCE
UNIVERSITY
PROGRAM
OPENING VOLUNTARY
Allegro vivace (Variations),
Symphony No. 5, op. 42
Charles-Marie Widor
(!844-I937)
PROCESSIONAL*
Improvisation on Thaxted
Gustav Holst
(the Lawrence Sesquicentennial Anthem)
(!847-1934)
(arr. G. Damp)
George Edward Damp, Associate Professor of Musi_c,
University Organist
OPENING WORDS
INTRODUCTION OF
PRESIDENT WARCH
Howard Niblock
Associate Professor of Music
Terry Rew-Gottfried
Associate Professor of Psychology
Chair, Committee on Public Occasions
ADDRESS
"Sesquicentennial"
Richard Warch
University President
SESQUICENTENNIAL ANTHEM
(all rise and sing)
CLOSING WORDS
RECESSIONAL
Allegro (Toccata),
Symphony No. 5, op. 42
Howard Niblock
Associate Professor of Music
Charles-Marie Widor
(!844-1937)
SESQUICENTENNIAL ANTHEM
In recognition of the place and prominence of music and music education
in the traditions of Lawrence and Milwaukee-Downer College, Lawrence
commissioned a new college song to be introduced during Lawrence's
sesquicentennial celebration. This piece will serve to complement the
songs ("Hail to Our Alma Mater," introduced by William E. Harper in
1908-09 and the "Alma Mater" of Milwaukee-Downer, introduced by
The Class of 1908) that have been a part of the college's traditions for
many years. The words for this special sesquicentennial song,
"In the Quest for Understanding," were crafted by the Reverend
Carl P. Daw, professor of the School of Theology at Boston University
and incoming executive director of The Hymn Society in the
United States and Canada. Reverend Daw also serves as a frequent
contributor to many new hymnals, including the recent
A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools (Yale University Press).
The music is based on the traditional melody, "Thaxted," which was
popularized earlier in this century in Gustav Holst's epic orchestral suite,
The Planets, 1916.
Lawrence University gratefully acknowledges Reverend Daw for this
contribution to the college's sesquicentennial and extends special
thanks to George Damp, associate professor; Patrice Michaels Bedi,
assistant professor; and Eunice Schroeder, music librarian for conceiving
of and undertaking this important project.
*Please stand for the processional and stand and remain in place during the
recessional.
Ushers for today's convocation are members of Lambda Sigma, an honor
society for sophomore men and women.
RICHARD WARCH
Richard Warch has served as president of Lawrence since 1979.
Immediately prior to this appointment as president, he served as vice
president for academic affairs and professor of history.
Warch earned the bachelor of arts degree at Williams College in 1961
and followed that with two years of study abroad at Edinburgh University.
An ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, he earned the
bachelor of divinity degree at the Yale Divinity School in 1964. He
continued study at Yale University and earned the doctor of philosophy
degree in American studies in 1968.
For the next ten years, Warch served Yale in a number of capacities,
including associate professor of history and American studies, director of
the National Humanities Institute program, assuciate dean of the college,
and director of the Visiting Faculty Program.
At Yale, he was awarded the Rockefeller Brothers Theological
Fellowship, the Mary Cady Tew Prize, the William Robertson Coe
Fellowship, and the Morse Fellowship.
Warch has written the book School of the Prophets: Yale College,
1710-1740 and co-edited John Brown, Great Lines Observed Series,
published by Prentice-Hall, along with more than a score of articles
and reviews addressing issues in higher education.
Next Convocation
Gunther Schuller
"New Dimensions in Jazz and Modem Music"
Thursday, November 14, 1996, 11:10 a.m.
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Gunther Schuller's remarkable career has embraced nearly
every aspect of music, from educator and jazz historian to
world-renowned conductor, record producer, author, and
composer. Principal French hom with the Cincinnati
Symphony at the age of seventeen, he turned his attention
from performing to composing in 1959. Recipient of two
Guggenheim fellowships, lifetime achievement awards from
Downbeat magazine and Columbia University, Schuller was
awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. His latest book,
The Compeat Conductor, a primer on the art of conducting,
was published earlier this year.