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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.