Trustees Ronald Naples, Chairman J. SeanT. Buffington,President GeorgeA. Beach '58 RogerL. Bomgardner Ira Brind RonaldL. Caplan JillR. FelixColton JosephE Coradino PaulCurci EleanorL. Davis Deanna DeCherney '66 MarkDonnolo '85 BrianEffron Michael C. Eorman WilharnR. Cast'68 Mehssa Heller Richard P.Jaffe,Esq. ScottM.Jenkins GailKass Dr. Russel E. Kaufman AlPaul Lefton,Jr. Elaine C. Levitt SueyunPyoLocks KarenLotman JeffreyA. Lutsky SeymourG. Mandell Dr.NoelMayo '66 ThomasM. Miles '75 Francis Mirabello, Esq. J. AdolfA. Paier LawrenceS. Reichlin JerryJ. Siano '57 JudithF.Terra JamesP.Vesey FiarrietG.Weiss WilliamWilson AlbertE. Wolf LifeTrustees DorranceH. Fiamilton, ChairmanEmerita SamS. McKeel Trustees Emeriti MaryLouiseBeitzel '51 IrvinJ. Borowsky AnneF. Elder Sondra Myers The University of the Arts COMMENCEMENT 133''° siTV Commencement Ceremony Thursday, May 19,2011 Commencement Ceremony (lllii ""'•Oct,.»"'^ Thursday, May 19,2011 Processional 10:00 a.m. Ceremony 10:30 a.m. AcademyofMusic, Broad and LocustStreets Processional* "PompandCircumstance" TheUniversityoftheArts BigBand GrandMarshal JackDeWitt, Professor, LiberalArts MarshalsofStudents DavidHowey,AssociateProfessor,TheaterArts Phyllis Purves-Smith,AssociateProfessor,Illustration Christa DiMarco,AssistantProfessor, LiberalArts NeilKleinman,Professor,Multimedia and Communication SeniorFellow,the Corzo Centerforthe CreativeEconomy Graduating Class MarshalsoftheFaculty MeghanDeLuca, AssistantDean, DivisionofLiberalArts KrishnaDunston,AssistantDean, CollegeofPerformingArts JeffreyRyder,DeputyDean, CollegeofMedia and Communication Adrienne Stalek, DeputyDean, CollegeofArtandDesign UniversityFaculty President's Council BoardofTrustees PlatformParty Ceremony "America theBeautiful' GraduatingVocalPerformanceMajors \ ^'\ fiL J vT s^ SeanT BufWfeilncgtoomne, President J\X' ^ VV ^K,^. ValedictorySpeaker J\\Xe/ A^ h*^'^Y«^'^_A\ AMsohldeeirgnhWDhaintcweo'r1t1h \ //^\O\vv" v\Q'•)"^^.V ^^(^^\4CdLrnj„, StudentAwards / vJ^. Vv^ ^^>, -T-L '/'^f'^cS-/,/, SeanT Buffington, President ^^xCV^ ^ /L "T if^'^Q^r President'sAwards , ' ' A^)^yf MedalsforAcademicAchievement FacultyAwards Kirk E. Pillow, Provost TheLindbackDistinguishedTeachingAward JohnM. Baker,AssociateProfessor,LiberalArts The Richard C. von HessFacultyPrize Joseph L. Girandola,AssistantProfessor, MFA/CPS MaryLouise Beitzel Award forDistinguishedTeaching KimY. Bears-Bailey,AssociateProfessor, Dance ThePresident's DistinguishedTeachingAward LowellBoston,AdjunctAssociateProfessor,MediaArts Performance Transfusion Ensemble GreetingsfromAlumni Council Lisa Oster '99 SilverStar OutstandingAlumniAwards Presented byMarcDicciani Director, School ofMusic MM Awardedto Evan Solot'67, '75 Presented byLori Spencer AssociateProfessor, FineArts Awardedto Leonard Lehrer'56 HonoraryDoctorofFineArtsDegrees Presented byWendyWeinberg AssociateProfessor,Media Arts AwardedtoLouisJ. Massiah Presented byNeil Kleinman Professor, Multimedia andCommunication SeniorFellow, the Corzo CenterfortheCreativeEconomy Awardedto BillMoggridge CommencementAddress BillMoggridge ConferralofDegreesandOtherAcademicAttainments PresentationofDiplomas SeanT. Buffington, President Kirk E. Pillow,Provost RonaldJ. Naples, ChairmanoftheBoardofTrustees ClosingRemarks SeanT. Buffington, President Recessional"" A16Brasil *Audiencewillrise I""/ Past Silver Star Alumni Award Recipients 1955 1974 1994 Tina Leser BarryWilke Ruth E. Fine IrvingPenn EugeneFeldman Florence Quivar 1956 1975 1995 Raymond Ballinger Richard Reinhardt John E. Davis HenryPitz DeborahWillis 1976 1957 OlafSkoogfors 1996 WhartonEsherick Tom Butter Charles Sheeler 1977 Janine Cappello ElaineKurtz 1958 1997 EarlMilhette 1978 Edd Kalehoff SolMednick AlbertGold KathyRose 1959 1979 1998 & Frances Lichten Charles Santore Janice Stanley Warren Blair Berenstain 1980 WilliamR.McCann 1960 EvelynCopelman JohnWilliamsBrown 1999 MargueriteGaudin 1981 IreneBedard Dana P.Vaughn MargueriteWalter JohnnyIrizarry 1961 1982 2000 Irene Laverty Philip Eitzen C. SamuelMicklus BorisDrucker BrianT.Vernon 1983 1962 Thomas F. Schutte 2001 MildredJantzen MargaretGarwood 1984 MyraMimlitsch-Gray 1963 KevanMoss Virginia Gifford 2002 1985 DianeMonroe 1964 Jacob Landau EileenNeff AlBendiner JeromeKaplan 1986 2003 WesleyW. Emmons Jennifer Childs 1965 RichardKidney JosephKramer 1987 TheodoreMiller RobertCapanna 2004 MorrisLomden Steve & PeggyZablotny Donald Chittum Bernard Glassman Joseph Musso 1988 1966 William G. Krebs 2005 Rudolph Freund Barbara Silverstein Riitta Vainio Susan B.Welchman 1967 1989 Morris Berd StephenAlbert 2006 Kenneth Carbone KaDee Strickland 1968 Leslie Smolan Don Moyer Arnold Roth 1990 2007 1969 MarjorieLevy Daniel OwenDailey William Stephens VincentJ.Trombetta 1991 1970 Lydia Artymiw 2008 GeorgeKrause Ed Colker Charles Long Jackson GraceGay 1971 1992 SidneyGoodman JerryPinkney 2009 Pearl B. Schaeffer Richard Amsel 1972 Stephen and Paul Keene,Jr. 1993 Timothy Quay StanleyClarke 1973 JosephDante 2010 NoelMayo ReneeJaworski AlphonseMattia Silver Star Outstanding Alumni Award Recipients EvanSolot TheworkofcomposerEvan Solot, aUniversityoftheArts professor and Compositiondepartmentchair, hasearnedaccoladesand support fromtheNational EndowmentfortheArts, theRockefellerFoundation, theMcKnightFoundation,andtheAmerican ComposersForum,to namejusta few. AFulbrightScholar, hecomposesfororchestras, jazzgroups, poprecordings,dance,theater, filmandcommercials, collaboratingwithpoetSonia Sanchez, playwrightNtosake Shange, StevieWonder,andUniversityalumni includingbassistStanley Clarke '71 (Bass) andchoreographerJudithJamison '64 (Dance). Hismusichas beenperformed by leadingjazz and pop performers includingRandy andMichael Brecker, KurtFiling, MelTormeand BenVereen. A formertrumpetplayer, Solottoured with Bette Midler, Burt Bacharach, Frank Sinatra and Lou Rawls, and served as lead trumpetin morethan 50 Broadwayshows. Fiismusic underscorestheaward-winningdocumentary "Standing in theShadowsofMotown" and ispartofNaxos Records'American EssentialsserieswiththeChestnutBrass. Healsoorchestrated thenew NBCNightlyNewsTheme. Solotearned B.M., andM.M. degrees from the Philadelphia Musical Academy, nowthe UniversityoftheArts. LeonardLehrer Leonard Lehrer is an award-winningpainterand printmaker. Hiswork is in thecollectionsoftheMuseumofModernArt, theMetropolitan Museum ofArt,TheNational Gallery, thePhiladelphiaMuseumof Artand manyotherinstitutions. Lehrerwas presentedwitha Lifetime AchievementAward inPrintmakingfromthe Southern Graphics Council International in 2009. AFulbrightScholar, LehrerreceivedhisBFAfromthePhiladelphia College ofArt (nowtheUniversityoftheArts) in 1956 andhis MFA fromtheUniversityofPennsylvaniain 1960. Heserved asco-director oftheFoundation Program atPCA. Lehrerhasalsoledtheschoolsor departmentsofartattheUniversityofNewMexico,theUniversity ofTexas atSanAntonio,Arizona StateUniversity, andNewYork University; heserved as deanandassociateprovostatColumbia College Chicago; and heiscurrentlya visitingprofessoranddirector ofthe Printmaking ConvergenceProgram attheUniversityofTexas at Austin. LehrerisaFoundingTrusteeoftheInternational PrintCenter NewYork,andwasa memberoftheoriginal CollegeArtAssociation Committeechargedwithdevelopingnational guidelinesfortheMFA andtheBFAdegrees. ."".• Past Honorary Degree Recipients 1961 1980 1995 HaroldTaylor HelenFrankenthaler JoelN. Bloom AureliusRenzetti RudolfNureyev PhilipGlass 1962 1981 1996 BentonSpruance H. OberHess RobertM. Greenberg LeoSteinberg MarjorieSamoff 1963 WalterTerry Karl Sherman 1997 1982 RobertOldenburg 1964 PlacidoDomingo EdwardG. Rendell SaulBass JackLenorLarsen GroverWashington,Jr. VictorD'Amico HarveyK. Littleton 1998 1965 1983 RichardS. Gurin EugeneGrigsby GeorgeCrumb PeterNero EdwardHopper AlwinNikolais ErwinPanofsky HenryHolmesSmith 1999 Mrs. MalcomLloyd ArthurMitchell 1984 ArnoldNewman 1966 JosephCastaldo EdwinDickinson AliceNeal 2000 LilyYeh 1967 1985 EdmundBacon AndrewHeiskell 2001 PaulFroelaich DeniseScottBrown HelenW. DruttEnglish SusanneLanger RobertVenturi JaneGolden 1968 1986 2002 ThomasWilfred RogerL. Stevens WalterE.Dallas LouiseNevelson JudithJamison LessingJ. Rosenwald RichardReinhardt 2003 Mildred Constantine 1969 1987 RobertA.Moog R. SturgisIngersoll LaurieAnderson EdwardR.Tufte HowardMitchell CarterBrown J. JosephPapp 2004 1970 LeilaniLattinDuke BerthevonMoschzisker 1988 RobertoMemmo DorranceH.Hamilton 1971 ArminHofmann 2005 AlexeyBrodovich SamS. McKeel RexfordT. Cardwell,Jr. (posthumouslyaccepted by JohnW. Merriam KalSolomonRudman IrvingPenn) ThomasM. Messex DominickPeterStuccio HowardA.Wolf HowardA.Wolf 2006 1972 1989 WilliamM.Hurt G. RobertLeRicolais MartinFriedman JohnSzarkowski MauriceSendak 2007 MeredithMonk RosalynDrexler 1973 AnaisNin 1990 2008 KatharineDunham EdnaAndrade 1974 LukasFoss Ira Brind HerbertBayer NamJunePaik StanleyClarke PaterDeGelleke SenatorClaibornePell MiguelAngelCorzo 1975 1991 2009 MiltonGlaser IvanChermayeff PortiaHamilton Sperr WillardG.Rouse,III JamesLapine 1976 EllenStewart AnniAlbers 2010 JosefAlbers 1992 PeggyAmsterdam MaryEllenMark RobertCapanna 1977 BernardC.Watson MosesPendleton Saul Steinberg 1993 1978 ClaireVanVliet MercedesMatter WilliamH. Cosby,Jr. 1979 1994 PaulRand JoanMyersBrown , RichardRogers WilliamP Daley LivUUman RichardSaulWurman .""/ Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa Itis a UniversityoftheArtstraditiontliatduringitsCommencement ceremonythe institution bestowsitshighesthonorarydegree,the Doctor ofFineArts,honoriscausa, ononeormoredistinguishedindividuals. Honorarydegreesareconferredhonoriscausa, "forthesakeofhonor." Honorarydegrees aregenerallyawardedforoneofthreereasons: To recognizeextraordinaryintellectualorartisticachievement;tohonor servicetotheUniversityand tothewidersociety; andtorecognizemen andwomenwho mightserveasexamplestothe institution'sstudent body.TheDoctorofFineArts,honoris causa, honors boththegrantee and thespiritofthe institution. Louis Massiah LouisJM.assiahis an Emmy Award-winningindependentdocumentary filmmakerwhosefilms often explore historicaland political subjects, and areseenwidelyon publictelevision and atfilm festivals internationally. He isthefounderand executivedirectorofthe Scribe Video Centerin Philadelphia, a media arts organization thatprovides low-costworkshopsandequipmentaccesstoemergingvideo/filmmakers andcommunityorganizations. Hehashelpedcommunitymembers create morethan200 documentarieschroniclingmajorissuesand concernsfacing urbancommunities. Massiahistherecipientofa MacArthurFoundation Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, andtwo RockefellerIntercultural Fellowships forhis documentaryfilmmaking,andhehas received awards froma widerange ofotherorganizations. Hereceived a B.A. from CornellUniversityand anM.S. in documentaryfilmmakingfrom MassachusettsInstituteof Technology. He iscurrentlytheEugeneM. LangVisitingProfessorfor IssuesofSocial Change atSwarthmore College, and has been an artist- in-residenceand onthe facultyofCity College ofNewYork, Princeton University,Ithaca College, the CenterforAfricana Studiesatthe UniversityofPennsylvania, American Universityand Haverford College. BillMoggridge Bill Moggridge isthedirectorofthe SmithsonianInstitution's Cooper-HewittNational DesignMuseum, theonly museuminthe UnitedStates devotedexclusively to historicandcontemporary design. Adesign pioneer, hedesignedthefirstlaptopcomputer,the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. Moggridge isaco-founderofthe groundbreakingdesignfirmIDEO,wherehedevelopeddesign methods forinterdisciplinarydesign teams. He is a leadingspokespersonforthe valueofdesignineveryday life. ARoyalDesignerforIndustry, Britain's highestaccoladefordesigners, Moggridgepioneeredinteraction designand isone ofthe firstpeopleto integrate human factors intothedesign ofsoftwareandhardware. He has been a trustee oftheDesign Museum in London,visitingprofessor inInteraction DesignattheRoyal CollegeofArt, andconsulting associateprofessorinthedesignprogram atStanfordUniversity. He was honoredwith theLifetimeAchievementAward at Cooper-Hewitt's National DesignAwards in2009,andthePrincePhilip DesignersPrize in2010 Degree Candidates I"".- COLLEGE OF ChristineLeilaniYukaPetz ThomasM.Doerrer ART & DESIGN JamieLynnSchilling KevinEmmanuel Dossantos MasterofArtsin MasterofFineArts KarenaFeng ArtEducation in Ceramics VictorP.Foote GabrielleA.Boyce JessicaE Cohen** AndrewJ.Gomes* JuliannG.Crooks ChristineL.Colby** SamanthaLynnGurry RoseMarieDispensa AndrewN.Heisey** AshleyK.Hamilton** MarieT.Marks SarahE.Henzler KarenL.Spears MasterofFineArts SarahM.Hubartt SusannaB.Stevenson** inMuseumExhibition JamieL.Karas PlannijigandDesign ChristinaE.Koebernik MasterofArtsin SarahL.Asper-Smith JessicaLynnLugo Museum Communication MargaretC.Bullock MaxMcCourt DanaL.Byrd** ChristineMichelleCarpenter NicoleL.Miller BrynElizabethFulmer"'* SarahCrawford GiudinoAngeloMurro LynnA.Golden* KennethM.Davis* LaarniPalazzolo AlexandraM.Gnafakis RebeccaJ.Fell ValeriePotanka CarrieA.Guay KellyS.Floyd SamuelJames JennaL.Toppert** WilliamZacharyMosley WaylandRoe KimberlyM.Nichols KaYoungRyu MasterofArtsin MingShao** NicholasA.Salvatore MuseumEducation JameeLeighVasil ChristopherShrader** JessicaErinBachrach** AmyN.Vlastelica JuanF.Silva* MaryBailey** VivianAllisonSmith** OliviaMarieEdlund** MasterofFineArts AlexandriaL.Smith JGernanihfaermLReiOb'eNretill iVnerPoaniinctainDg.Cianfrano** HMealrecnosM.EmWaanluleacleVega* IanC.Semmler JessicaAnneClark** FrankS.Zampino OliviaK.Thomas MarthaLeliaFerguson** MicheleC.Kishita** BachelorofFineArts MasterofArtsin LaurenM.McCarty** in Crafts TTyelaecrhCi.ngAnienwVailstualArts THeeraetshaerAnRnaaePPiaeltmeersr** MLiycnhdeslalyeMA..ABnatkihcohny WingL.Chan** NancyGailRing** DanielLeungBoos AnnaDemidova AndrewR.Walker** BernadetteR.Cladek DinaMarieDiTaranto MatthewS.Zigler** SydneyRaeConaway LindseyA.Dickson** MarianneC.Evans JamesB.Flynn** MasterofFineArts KellyMalarkeyDzioba JosephD.Fuiman inSculpture AprilJ.Field BDarnoioekleleE.KaGtihlleese*n*Hallman RMaernseheaJl.lCKo.rtHeasrer*i*s~ EMreilkisGsraeRgoosreyFGruygelrielmo JDNMMAKLMCKRiardaaaaoooaaiytrubrtitntshQireihrtlnataireeiaaharyntnnaneinLnnCTV.nwCCe.A..Se...HaGSSLSeSS.tS.iicMhmgkcephaLiaiKoerileijetnoorlwolhswidelrssicyreokhars*-n**Mt*ax** JMDSMDKAGGYoreieeaeuniisacossn-adshnrhiCgttcrugaihg-eoeMaieninSramwalnhCStoogu.mRGtSf.n.uiFiHC.ttoIBGuhChhn*Cararhndi*rFioudmagaresiswnketnsiageretmscileakalnlo JJATMRSNMABuaasrirauaoPlcnichidzicbitkeolakeakistleanlnesnaHPeayea.innn.rJnyazMWLEtPue..iNo.adMMiejriJES.acctsMi.orVhhroiehsSiaoHnernhzuKluascczasonsrgohulol*dtthorlnbt*hwaiieesnorikmi JNEDeliesicvssheiaocRlaW.eaL.StCtshTuioaclnrlk*en*eTalbott JMMMoia.hctnhDtaohMenealowcJvDJaua.mfnMefisPilrelSeemWdriodtoyhdburn, BiSCneaaracFonhilelJilmano/emDreiPsogairfCtkFoaeixlrn*eBV*oiAdyredtos ReYbuerkcecvaiAc.z-Dangel** JSahecroibkaR.E.WeWlylnster MRoabtetrhteCwuEr.ryDuffywith MitatsBtoeorkoAfrFtisn/ePrAirtnstmaking BinacAhneilmoartoifonFineArts KElhmlyiiobnteorrA.JinoHnePerhsomtaongraphy JLoaduyraC.E.ABretyheurr JCehrreilsBtloopchkeerrF.Basile SNtuetvtehnatTi.dSacThnoehicdheorodee DRaenbieeclcaRCC.orDraivgiaens AMlaerxcanBdornafiBgulisot*i*on wPihtohtomgirnaoprhyin TSueranneDryArnoftfonyTimpano TGiefoffafnryeyMiAc.heClilccearDeelliVore** BrentWeichsel Hilliker JacquelynJoyceDeren