COMMENCEMENT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 1978 THE COMMENCEMENT COMMITTEE THEODORE CllA VIS U LREH MOSTOSKY DONALD DUNBAR HERBERT OYER HERMAN L. KING, Chairman JEAN PAGE HORACE C. KING KERMIT H. SMITH JOHN G. LAETZ BRUCE LEECH Student Representative SUE STINSON Student Representative GORDON L. THOMAS DIPLOMAS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PICKUP AS FOLLOWS: Advanced Graduate degrees .... beginning Mar. 28 - Room 50 Hannah Administration Building Master degrees ............ ................ beginning Apr. 5 - Room 50 Hannah Administration Building Bachelor degrees ........................ beginning Apr. 5 - Room 50 Hannah Administration Building Diplomas will be released to the degree recipients upon presentation of identification. In the event the degree recipient cannot personally alTange to pick up the diploma, he/she may provide written authorization for the Office of the Registrar to release the diploma to a specific third party. Presentation of identification is required. Diplomas not picked up during the term following Commencement will be mailed. COMMENCEMENT 1978 Saturday, March 11 University Auditorium, East Lansing Conferral of Graduate Degrees, 10 A.M. Conferral of Baccalaureate Degrees, 3 P.M. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Michigan State University operates under the jurisdiction of a constitu tional body known as the Board of Trustees. The eight elected members serve eight-year terms. Two are elected biennially from the state at large. The President of the University is appointed by the Board and is by constitutional provision the presiding member of the body. The Board likewise appoints a Secretary and a Treasurer. The Board has general supervision of the University and the control and direction of all expenditures of University funds. THE HONORABLE PATRICIA CARRIGAN-STRICKLA1'.'D, Chairperson Farmington Hills THE HONORABLE JOHN BRUFF, Vice Chairperson .................................. Fraser THE HONORABLE RAYMOND KROLIKOWSKI ...................................... Birmingham THE HONORABLE BLANCHE MARTIN .............................................. East Lansing THE HONORABLE AUBREY RADCLIFFE ............................................ East Lansing THE HONORABLE MICHAEL SMYDRA ....................................................... .Lansing THE HONORABLE JACK STACK ........................................................................ Alma THE HONORABLE ,DON STEVENS ................................................ Bloomfield Hills EDGAR L. HARDEN, Ex Officio, Acting President ...................... East Lansing CLARENCE L. WINDER, Provost ...................................................... East Lansing JACK BRESLIN, Executive Vice President .................................... East Lansing ROGER WILKINSON, Treasurer ............................................. __ .. __ ............ __ .Okemos ELLIOTT BALLARD, Secretary ............................... __ ......................... East Lansing 2 ACADEMIC COSTUME The pageantry and color at commencement exercises reveal a record of academic achievement of the various individuals taking part in the exercises. The following brief description is given so that the audience may more readily interpret such achievement. In 1895, the Intercollegiate Commission, a group of leading American educators, met at Columbia University to draft a code which would serve to regulate the design of gowns and hoods indicating the various degrees as well as the colors to indicate the various faculties . This code has been adopted by most of the colleges and universities in America and its use has made identification of scholastic honors an immediate activity. Three types of gowns are indicated by the code. Those worn by the bachelors have long, pointed sleeves. Those worn by masters have long, closed sleeves with the arc of a circle near the bottom. Doctor's gowns are faced with velvet. The sleeves are full, round and open with three bars of velvet on each sleeve. The velvet facing of bars on the sleeves may be black or the same color as the binding of the hood. Hoods are made of material identical with the gown and are lined in the official academic color of the institution conferring the degree. If the institution has more than one color, the chevron is used to introduce the second color. Colored velvet or velveteen binds the hoods and indicates the department or faculty to which the degree p ertains. Historical associations of color have been continued to signify the various faculties. Arts and letters can be recognized by the white, taken from the traditional white fur trimming of the Oxford and Cambridge Bachelor of Arts hoods. Red, long traditional of the church, indicates the ology. The royal purple of the King's court signifies law. The green of medicinal herbs immediately identifies a medical degree. Philosophy is signified by the color of wisdom and truth, blue. Because through re search untold wealth has been released to the world, science is identified by golden yellow. Oxford pink indicates music, and russet brown, the color of dress worn by ancient English foresters, indicates forestry . The color of the velvet of the hood is distinctive of the subject to which the degree pertains. For example, the trimming for the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture should be maize, representing agricul ture, rather than golden yellow, representing science. At Michigan State University, it is customary to identify the candidates graduating from the different departments of study by tassels of the of ficial department color as established by the Intercollegiate Code. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES ...... Maize Forestry, Packaging .......... Russet COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS . ____ ___ . _____ .... ... .... _ .. White Music ............ _____ .. __ ............. _ ... Pink Philosophy ...... __ ............ Navy Blue COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Economics ............ _ . .. __ .................. Drab ........ __ .. ___ ......... Copper COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION ARTS AND SCIENCES _._ .. ... Royal Blue Journalism ... ___ .. _._ .. _ .......... Crimson Speech . __ ......... _ .......... .5ilver Gray COLLEGE OF EDUCATION . .Light Blue COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING .... Orange COLLEGE OF HUMAN MEDICINE _________ ._._._._.Green .... Citron JAMES MADISON COLLEGE JUSTIN MORRILL COLLEGE . __ .White LYMAN BRIGGS COLLEGE _____ ... .. .. _____ ___ Golden Yellow COLLEGE OF NATURAL SCIENCE ___ .Golden Yellow Nursing ....... __ ______ ._ ... ___ ....... Apricot COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ....... ... Green COLLEGE OF SOCIAL ScmNCE .. _ ..... ... .... ....... Citron COLLEGE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT ___ ......... Citron COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY . __ . ___ ......... Maroon COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE __ ._Dark Gray 3 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Michigan State University, one of the leading land-grant universities and the first agricultural college in America, strives for excellence in af fording liberal and practical education for its students in a broad range of human endeavor. MSU also serves people of the state, nation and world through its numerous research, extension and international programs. Now in its 124th year, Michigan State University has grown from three buildings and six faculty members to one of the largest universities in the nation. It has more than 3,000 faculty/ staff engaged in teaching, research and public service, 386 campus buildings, and more than 5,100 acres of land of which 2,010 acres are in existing or planned campus development. Today, more than 44,000 students attend the University at East Lan sing. About 85 percent are from Michigan; the remainder includes more than 1,200 foreign students from 85 countries. Founded in 1855 to educate youth for the major occupation of that day farming - MSU has broadened its offerings to meet the educational - needs of today. The University now has a Graduate School and 17 col leges - Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arts and Letters, Business, Communication Arts and Sciences, Education, Engineering, Human Ecol ogy, Human Medicine, James Madison, Justin S. Morrill, Lyman J. Briggs, Natural Science, Osteopathic Medicine, Social Science, University College, Urban Development, and Veterinary Medicine. Some 200 programs of in struction are available to undergraduates; 76 departments offer graduate studies. MSU has embarked on a $17 million privately-funded capital program to provide greater academic excellence in four key areas. The objectives of the program are: To build and equip a new major performing arts center; To complete the first construction phase of a new museum building; To strengthen the present Library and to establish a "Library of To morrow" on campus; and To endow a number of faculty chairs in pivotal academic disciplines. The campaign is under the direction of the Office of University De- velopment. MSU is unique nationally in that the Colleges of Human Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine are located on the single campus. The Honors College, which enables superior undergraduate students to waive normal graduation requirements and undertake individual pro grams, attracts many of the nation's finest young scholars. Michigan State University also is a prominent sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program, which includes an unusually select group of scholars. One of the many innovations in higher education made by Michigan State University is its system of academic-residence halls. Incorporation of classrooms a