S!JOHN'S College

ANNAPOLIS • SANTA FE

COMMENCEMENT

EXERCISES

ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND

SUNDAY, MAY FOURTEENTH

Two THOUSAND

PRELUDE

PROGRAM f OR THE TWO HUNDRED EIGHTH

COMMENCEMENT IN THE

THREE HUNDRED FOURTH YEAR

OF THE COLLEGE

CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET

ACADEMIC PROCESSION

WELCOME CHRISTOPHER B. NELSON

PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES AND AWARDS PRESIDENT NELSON

HARVEY FLAUMENHAFT

DEAN OF THE COLLEGE

ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS NANCY D. BucHENAUER

TUTOR, ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE

CONFERRING OF UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON

DEAN FLAUMENHAFT

CONFERRING OF GRADUATE DEGREES PRESIDENT NELSON

MICHAEL DINK

DIRECTOR OF THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE

ACADEMIC RECESSION CARROLLTON BRASS QUINTET

BACHELOR OF AR.Ts DEGREE

(with title of essay)

MARK VINZENZ ALZNAUER

The Foundation of Practical Reasoning in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

ELENA MIA ANDRIOLO

The Story of Species: Descent, Diversity and Darwin

MEHMET CAN ATACIK

The Vulnerable and Confused Pioneer

ANDREW JACOB BAISCH

A Changed Man: Achilleus' Struggle to Understand His Nature

ELISABETH RICHARDS BATCHELDER

The Reins of Passion: Vengeance, Fury and Divine Interference in Virgil's Aeneid

EDWARD MICHAEL BEHMER

The Threads ofLydgate's Moral Development

ELISE KATHERINE BERG

The Picture of"We Three": A Study in Self-Knowledge and the Discovery of Fools

KEVIN BRUCE BLANKENSHIP

The Sense of Touch in Paradise Lost

VALERIE REBECCA BORING

The Makings of a Nightmare: Money, Deception and Miracles in Henrick Ibsen's A Doll's House

MICHAEL KENNETH BuscH

The Aesthetics of Character in James Joyce's Ulysses

SAMUEL HUGH BYRON

The Man of Venice

MATTHEW FRANCIS CALISE

Taking Nothing Seriously in Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human

Ashland, Ohio

Bel Air, Maryland

Istanbul, Turkey

Peoria, Illinois

Medina, Ohio

Huntsville, Alabama

Delta, Pennsylvania

Boulder, Colorado

Marysville, Ohio

New York, New York

Hillsboro, Kentucky

Salem, West Virginia

TIMOTHY PATRICK CARNEY Pelham, New York Lies: Socrates, Kant, and a Search for Moral Value

NATHAN RILEY CARPENTER Waterbury Center, Vermont The Realization of Freedom and Spirit's Final Development

ETHAN ALFREY CARRIER

Motive and Justice in Book I of Plato's Republic

CLAUDINE VIRGINIE CHRISTOFORIDES

The Creation of a Poetic Reality: Rimbaud's Le Bateau Ivre

SHAUN DAVID COHEN

On the Origin of Self-Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

VANESSA SvENN CoHEN

"The Road Up and the Road Down are One and the Same:" Prophecy and Procrastination in Three Poems byT.S. Eliot

MELISSA FAITH COLEMAN

Undressing Lemuel Gulliver. .. Seriously, It's Not Funny

Moss VIRGIL CoLLUM

Freedom in War and Peace

WILLIAM PATRICK CONWAY

What is Life But Activity?

MEGAN MARIE COONCE

Faith Transcending Reason: Alyosha and Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov

}AMES BUCHANAN COOPER, JR.

The Wisdom that Pain Brings: Suffering as a Rite of Passage in Shakespeare's King Lear

KEVIN ALEXANDER CRANDELL

Paradox and Desire in the Movement of Faith

ABBE McAuLIFFE CREANEY

Freedom Within Necessity: Pierre's JoumeyThrough WarandPeace

Galveston, Texas

Reading, Vermont

Marco Island, Florida

Baltimore, Maryland

Riverside, California

Sebastopol, California

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Gainesville, Florida

Brandon, Mississippi

Columbia, Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

DEREK FLETCHER CUNNIFF Catonsville, Maryland

A Certain Sadness, A Certain Smile: An Onlooker's Exploration of Faith in the Moment

CHRISTINE JENNIFER CURRAN Hamden, Connecticut

Love and Death: The Search for

Meaning in War and Peace

ERIK DENNIS DEMPSEY Hastings-on-Hudson, New York

Aristotle's Insight into Quantum Theory: Or, Everything Aristotle Has Said is Right

JASON EDWARD DERLETH Santa Rosa, California

Honor and Mortality in Homer's Iliad

ROBERT PICKETT DICKSON

The Calculus of Probabilities: Poincare

and Bertrand

,. KARIN ]oRI EKHOLM

Needham, Massachusetts

Vienna, Austria

,. BRIAN LAUREN ERICKSEN Pasadena, Maryland

Moby Dick: Father Mapple, Ahab, Ishmael and the Three Directions of the American Soul

PATRICK McCORMACK FINDLER Arlington, Virginia

"I See and I Hear": The Hero and Style of

The Brothers Karamazov

MICHAEL lsAAc FISHER Annapolis, Maryland

Of Passion, Providence and the Origins of Institutions in the New Science of Giambattista Vico

PAIGE ELIZABETH FORREST Baltimore, Maryland

Seekingwith Groans: The Role of Man and God in the Evolution oflndividual Faith

CRISTINA MARIE GAETANO Huntingtown, Maryland

A Physics that Answers the Question Why

MATTHEW ERIC GERMAN Joppa, Maryland

Don Quixote

MICHAEL THOMAS GOODRUM Milford, Michigan

The Self-Destruction of Shakespeare's Richard III:

A Parable of the Unexamined Life

SANDY MAx GREEN

A Foolish Consistency: What Do Limitation and Suffering Tell Us About Human Nature and What is Their Role in Defining Wisdom?

JASON ROBERT GUYETTE

The Role of Beauty in the Economy of the Conversion of St. Augustine of Hippo

HEATHER JANE HALL

An Aesthetic and Ethical View of Love and the Eternal: An Analysis of Kierkegaard's Either/Or

KARINA NoEL HEAN

The Relationship Between Art, the Artist, and the Audience: An Examination of Tolstoy's TVhat is Art? and Lessing' s Laocoon

MELINA KRISTINA HOGGARD

"and she thought art had somehow changed her, but perhaps she had it wrong and changed it."

MATTHEW AARON HOLTZMAN

Je Est Une Autre: The Poetry and Poetics of Arthur Rimbaud

ANDREI LEON ISRAEL

The Demise of Practical Reason and the Discovery of the True Foundation of Moral Action in War and Peace

Mount Tremper, New York

Lakeside, California

McLean, Virginia

Mayo, Maryland

Sipoo, Finland

Parkton, Maryland

Gaithersburg, Maryland

CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN JORDAN Kennett Square, Pennsylvania Historical Philosophy and the Free Spirit in Human, All Too Human

MAGDALENA FRANZISKA KULIK

Reason's Wrongdoing: An Examination of Ivan Fyodorovich in The Brothers Karamazov

]oNATHAN MICHAEL LAWLESS

Seeing in Stendhal's Red and Black

EoWYN ARcHANGELA LEVENE

The Underground Man: Ramifications of a Society Dominated by Science and Reason

HENRY THEODORE ZHIHAN LI

The Braver and Less Idle Men

Omaha, Nebmska

Akron, Ohio

Bodega Bay, California

Sunnyvale, California

BARBARA JEAN LUND

Life, Love, and Leisure: An Examination of Pierre Bezukhovin Tolstoy's War and Peace

MARC LANCE LusK

For the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory are Ours, Now and Forever: The Use of Power and Love in Pericles' Funeral Oration

EDWARD THOMAS LYNCH III Mansfield Park: "The Jane Austen Novel" Turned Upside Down

ANNE CAROL McSHANE

Durham, North Carolina

Dallas, Texas

Princeton, Massachusetts

Lincoln, Nebraska The Nature and Consequences of Freedom and Causality According to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

VADA GHOLIE MossAVAT

"The Strong Get More While the Weak Ones Beg": The Importance of Justice Among Men in the Peloponnesian War

GALEN CLARK NUTTALL

Constructing Space: The Influence of Sensation on Beliefin Geometry

SARAH VANDERSLICE 0LAVIDES

Integration of the Self in The Brothers Karamazov

SEBASTIAN ALFREDO ORTIZ-DAUBER

The Philosopher and the City: An Examination of Plato's Apology

AARON MICHAEL PARNIS

The Natural Education: Examining Rousseau's Method

Durham, North Carolina

San Diego, California

San Salvador, El Salvador

Bend, Oregon

Rizo PoPOVIC Belgrade, Yugoslavia Th'observ'd of all observers - Hamlet's Witnesses

ETHAN STEPHEN PRESS Demarest, New Jersey Meditations on Tolstoy's War and Peace: Man's Search for Meaning, Higher Knowledge, and Family

LILLIAN FAYE PRITCHARD Arlington, Virginia Silence in the Whirlwind: The Plague and Man's Search for Meaning in Human Suffering

ALAN HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

Eating Human: Death and the Good Life in Homer's Iliad

CHRISTINA LISA RUFFINO

Baudelaire's Morality

MELANIE JoYCE SANTIAGO

... So That Those Who Do Not See May See: What is Needed to be Ready for Faith

PATRICK CHARLES SCHAEFER

The Pristine Lyrical Validity of Don Quixote's Spiritual Movements

SONYA ELKE SCHIFF

Mechanism in Modern Science: The Ship Without a Pilot

GREGORY MICHAEL SCHMIDT

The Comic Muse andAthenian Minds

MARGARET BRENNAN SEARS

An Exploration of the Aspect of Time in and Surrounding Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

BRIAN PAUL SHEA

Love, Law, and Chimneysweeps: Meaning and the Lack Thereof in David Hilbert's Foundations of Geometry

PAUL BRITTON SPRADLEY

Paradise Lost: The Moral Perfection of Man in the Best of Possible Worlds

KRISTINA STEFANIA SRAMKOVA

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty": The Celestial Voyage of Ptolemy and Newton

COURTNEY ELIZABETH STANGE

Exploring Man's Struggle with Faith

ZACHARIAH DOMINIC STARNIK

The Physical and Metaphysical Wanderings of the Monad

RYAN GIBSON STEPANIAN

Bearers of the Modern Condition

Denver, Colorado

New Rochelle, New York

Heber City, Utah

Salisbury, Maryland

Wayside, New Jersey

New York, New York

Birmingham, Alabama

Media, Pennsylvania

Grove City, Pennsylvania

Prague, Czech Republic

Benicia, California

Cleveland, Ohio

Garden City, New York

ADRIEN ROBERT GABRIEL STOLOFF

Lost in the Great Woods: Baudelaire's Themes on Man and Art

REMITREUER

Rabelais' Gargantua, Watching a Life Unfold

ANNE ELIZABETH ScoTT VELA

"A Spirit Tempered to Endure"

PENELOPE KAIA WADE

The Song of Many Ways: Discovering the Function of Storytelling in Homer's Odyssey

MARY COLLEEN WHITE

Thinking As the Affirmation of Existence

VALERIE GRANVILLE WHITING

Can Science Know God? The Question Posed in Newton's Principia, The Answer Found in the Book ofJob

WILLIAM RussELL WILMOT

My Lines Meet! Why Don't Yours? Words and Picture in Geometry

Paris, France

Miami, Florida

Tampa, Florida

St. Albans, Vermont

Glenside, Pennsylvania

Gainesville, Florida

Pomfret, Connecticut

MICHAEL GREGORY Wooo

Transcending the Partition Sherman Oaks, California

BENJAMIN GARRETT YouNG

Psychology of Time

SIMEON YUREK

Zarathustra Versus the Magician: An Exploration of Creativity and the Deceptive Quality of Illusion

* UPON COMPLETION OF REQUIREMENTS

Knoxville, Tennessee

Salisbury, Maryland

MAsTER OF AR.Ts IN LIBERAL AR.Ts DEGREE

GRADUATE INSTITUTE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION

STACY LYNNE ALLEN

TIFFANY ALYSHA ARMES

MEREDITH ANNA BLUM

G. SANFORD BoGAGE

CHRISTINE RENE CHAPPELL

CATHERINE A. CRONIN

KATHRYN DUBBS

]OHN HOWARD ELLIS

GRESHEN GAINES

JoHN MACDONALD HUNTER

MARY KATHRYN JORDAN

GIUSEPPE MISTICHELLI

NATALIE NICOLE NELSON

STUART IAN PATTISON

LAYNE ROOSEVELT PIERRE

]AMES EDWARD REYBACK

]ANET LISTON REYNOLDS

DusTY RITTER

STEPHEN ]. RosE

JASON ALEXANDER SALINAS

SIMONA GEORGIANA ScmoPu

ScoTT R. ScHOLLENBERGER

MAILI KIM SHAFFER

FAIRLEAANN SHEEHY

JENNIFER ANNE STEPHENSON

Holland Point, Maryland

Dallas, Texas

Alexandria, Virginia

Rockport, Massachusetts

Madison, Wisconsin

Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis, Maryland

De Pere, Wisconsin

Annapolis, Maryland

Lynchburg, Virginia

Arnold, Maryland

Brentwood, Maryland

SantaFe, New Mexico

Columbia, Maryland

Tempe, Arizona

Annapolis,· Maryland

Washington, District of Columbia

Silt, Colorado

Guilderland, New York

Scottsdale, Arizona

Prince Frederick, Maryland

Shady Side, Maryland

Millersville, Maryland

Washington, District of Columbia

Annapolis, Maryland

LASZLO JoHN TARA

STEVEN MICHAEL THOMASON

DEBERNIERE ]ANET TORREY

GAIL PATRICIA VANDIVER

ELLIOT CHARLES WELCH

TODD MICHAEL WILSON

Fairfax, Virginia

Carrollton. Texas

Kangwondo, South Korea

Sparks, Maryland

Sonoma, California

Holland, Michigan

HONORS AND PRIZES

COMMENCEMENT 2000

To the member of the Senior Class who has written the best senior essay.

Offered in memory of Susan Irene Roberts, of the class of 1966 Eating Human: Death and the Good Life in Homer's "Iliad"

HONORABLE MENTION The Foundation of Practical Reasoning in Aristotle's ''Nicomachean Ethics"

The Calculus of Probabilities: Poincare and Bertrand

To the member of the Junior Class who has written the best annual essay.

Offered by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her daughter-in-law, Kathryn Mylorie Stevens The Problem with Reason in Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"

To the member of the Sophomore Class who has written the best annual essay.

Offered under the will of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, of the Class of 1880 The Biblical Doppelganger: A Study of Isaac in "Genesis"

HONORABLE MENTION What Does it Mean to Know God? Avraham 's Relationship with God

Thus Abram Came to Caanan: Abram's Journey to the Physical and Spiritual Land of Faith

ALAN HOWARD RUBENSTEIN

MARK VINZENZ ALzNAUER

ROBERT PICKETT DICKSON

A-JIN KIM

MosHE ZvI MARv1T

GABRIELA JANINE HURWITZ

STEPHEN }AMES TRAVIS

To the member of the Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay.

Offered in memory ofJacob Klein, Tutor Emeritus, and his wife, Else, by the Dean What a Piece of Work is Man: The Citizen's Peifection Through Friendship

HONORABLE MENTION Yellow Apple Justice

To the member of the January Freshman Class who has written the best annual essay in the 1998-99 academic year.

Offered in memory of Elizabeth "Betsy" Marta Smith, of the Class of 1993, by Robert Clinton Nease, of the Class of 1992 Philosopher

To the Graduate Institute student who has written a distinguished preceptorial essay.

Offered by the Alumni Association The Connoisseur and the Patriarch: A Study of Minos and Cato in Dante's

KATHERINE }ENNY WINDSTRUP

KATHLEEN CAMPBELL KELLEY

MAYA JESSICA ALAPIN

"Divine Comedy" SHERWOOD RAY BELANGIA

To a member of the Senior Class, for excellence in speaking.

Offered in memory of Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland TIMOTHY PATRICK CARNEY

To the student who submits the best English version of Greek text.

Offered in memory of John S. Kieffer, President Emeritus Text: Aristophanes, "The Birds," Lines 684- 736 AARoN }AMES FosTER

HONORABLE MENTION DANIELLE MOLLA LEYONMARK

To the student who submits the best English version of a French poem.

Offered by the Board ofVisitors and Governors Mallarme, "Toast Funebre" CECELIA ALEXANDRE WATSON

To the student who submits a fine original English poem.

Offered by Dr. George Austin in memory of his brother, Henry After the Fall

To the student who submits a fine original musical composition.

Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap Choruses to Sophocles' "Antigone"

To the student who submits a fine essay on a piece of music.

Offered in memory of Mary Joy Belknap

To the student who submits the most elegant solution of a geometrical problem.

Offered by the Class of 1986 in honor of Bryce Jacobsen, of the Class of 1942, Tutor and Director of Athletics Emeritus

To the student who submits the most elegant solution of an analytical problem.

Offered in memory of Jam es R. McClintock of the Class of 1965

To the student who carries out a fine laboratory project.

The Elemental Aesthetic: Considerations Arising from the Discovery of Bisection Fields

To the Senior man and woman who by their participation, leadership, and sportsmanship have contributed most to the College's athletic program, special blazers.

Offered by the Alumni Association of St. John's College

ALICIA MEREDITH PoTEE

WILLIAM RussELL WILMOT

No ENTRY

MATTHEW AARON HOLTZMAN

No ENTRY

BRYAN HOWARD THORPE

TIMOTHY PATRICK CARNEY

SONYA ELKE SCHIFF

To a member of the Senior Class who has contributed outstanding service to the Greater Annapolis Community.

Offered by the Caritas Society of St. John's College

To the member of the Senior Class who has demonstrated the greatest care for and service to youth residing in the City of Annapolis.

Offered by the friends and family of Marvin B. Cooper, of the Class of 1969

To the member of the Senior Class who submits the best work of visual art to the Community Art Exhibition, the Charles Vernon Moran Prize

Maryland to Santa Fe, drawing

HONORABLE MENTION

Fork Art, metal sculpture

Walter S. Baird Prize-for a Senior who has demonstrated excellence in the arts, literature, or sciences

Hand-Crafted Cello

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Biological Sciences

Maryland State Archives Internships

Regional Finalist, Rhodes Scholarship

National Security Agency Scholarship

KARINA NoEL HEAN

JAMES BucHANAN CooPER, JR.

KARINA No EL HEAN

EDWARD MICHAEL BEHMER

JASON EDWARD DERLETH

SusAN DoNAHUE ELLIS

PAIGE ELIZABETH FORREST

MARc ANTHONY PRIEST

BRYAN HOWARD THORPE

MARIA CHRISTINA CASSIMATIS

DANIEL LLOYD SCARBOROUGH

ROBERT PICKETT DICKSON

ANNA ELIZABETH STUBNA

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS

St. John's College, Annapolis

Leslie Milton Abrams, 1954 Dr. Granville Q. Adams, 1929 Philip L. Alger, 1912 Annapolis Graduate Institute Annapolis-Self-Help George M. Austin, 1908 Walter S. Baird, 1930 Beneficial Corporation Betty Beck Bennett, 1960 FordK. Brown, H'70 Chicago Regional Mrs. Clyde Alvin Clapp James T. Clark Class of1897 Class of1898 RichardF. Cleveland, H'54 Bernard Cloerty Dr. Charles C. Cook Marvin Brent Cooper, 1969 The Joseph and Robert Cornell

Memorial Foundation EugeneN. (1929) and

RobertG. (1963) Cozzolino Wiley and Helen Crawford Cpl. George E. Cunniff III Clarence L. Dickinson, 1911 Richard A. Duhan, 1963 Faculty Scholarship James H. Frame, 1950 Harry Golding, Graduate Institute Edna G. and Roscoe E. Grove, 1910 John T. and Gertrude L. Harrison, 1907 John T. Harrison, Jr. Charles W. Hass, 1927 Richard H. Hodgson, 1906 The Hodson Trust Alfred and Ruth Houston, 1906 Houston Regional J. Seward Johnson, Jr. Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Robert E. and Margaret Larsh Jones, 1909 Robert E. Kanode, 1939 Dr. Simon and Fanny Kaplan, H'84 Francis A. Katz, 1929

John Spangler Kieffer, H'70 and Roxana Kieffer, H'84

Jacob Klein, H'76 Korshin Family Fund Arthur E. and Hilda Combs Landers, 1930 Joseph Lapides Michael Littleton Memorial Fund Massachusetts Regional James Matthews Philip A. Myers II, 1938 NationsBank Foundation Rev. Theo O'Brien Oklahoma Regional Norman G. Owen Dr. Thomas Parran and Thomas Parran, Jr. The Duane and Clementine Peterson

Charitable Fund Pittsburgh Regional Reader's Digest Foundation J. Douglas Ramsey, 1937 Lenore B. Rinder Clifton C. Roehle Joan and Bela Ronay Murray Joel and Julius Rosenberg, 1938 G.D. Searle/John E. Robson Robson Family J. J. Salovaara Flora Duvall Sayles Hazel Norris and

J. Graham Shannahan, 1908 J. Winfree Smith, H'80 James S. Spirer, 1970 Jean Roberts Staylor Clarence W. Stryker Karl and Evelyn Van Tassel Frederick]. Von Schwerdtner Mr. and Mrs. William J. Vanous Richard D. Weigle, H'49 John L. Williams Thomas J. and Marvil F. Williams Frank K. Wilson, 1935 St. John's College St. John's College Alumni Association

ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS

St. John's College, Annapolis

Allied Signal Technical Services Corporation AllFirst Financial, Inc.

Annapolis Banking and Trust Applied Signal Technology

Baltimore Sun Bank of America

Vernal and Florence Bates Foundation Becton-Dickinson Microbiology Systems

Bell Atlantic-Maryland Booz, Allen and Hamilton

Chevy Chase Bank Clark-Winchcole Foundation

Class ofl992 Computer Science Corporation

Deutsche bank Alex. Brown First National Bank of Maryland

Miss Charlotte Fletcher Independent College Fund of Maryland

The James M. Johnston Trust Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Memorial Foundation

L-3 Communications System-East Legg Mason

The John J. Leidy Foundation Timothy J. Lyng Litton/PRC, Inc.

Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Company OMEN, Inc.

Procter & Gamble T. Rowe Price Foundation

Pulse Engineering, Inc. Raytheon/HRH

Rollins/Leutkemeyer Rosemore, Inc.

The Rouse Company SRA International

St. Paul Companies Richard Squires

TRW Systems & Information Technology Group Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc.

UPS K. C. Victor

Gifts received after April 15, 2000 are gratefully acknowledged and will be listed in the 2001 Commencement Program.

Baccalaureate

The St. John's College Class of 2000

Sunday, May 14th, 2000

St. John's College Annapolis, Maryland

Baccalaureate Service Francis Scott Key Auditorium

*Procession

*Opening Hymn

*Invocation

Readings

Reflection

Anthem The St. John's College Chorus

Readings

Reflection

Anthem The St. John's College Chorus

*Benediction

*Closing Hymn

*Recession

10:00 a.m.

Abide With Me

Psalm 121 Isaiah 43:1-7

"Justifiable Pride"

Ave Verum Corpus

/!Chronicles 1:1, 7-12 Proverbs 2:1-15; 4

"True Wisdom"

Dona Nobis Pacem

A Mighty Fortress

*All who are able, please stand

Sunday, May 14, 2000

Eventide; Lyte 1847

The Reverend Arthur Baisch

Miss Elizabeth Batchelder

Mr. Kenneth Wade

Saint-Saens

Mr. Andrew Jacob Baisch

The Rev. Arthur H. Baisch

J. S. Bach (arr. Kalkavage) (from: Mass in B minor)

Mr. Kenneth Wade

Ein 'feste burg; Luther 1529

About the Officiants -

The Reverend Arthur H. Baisch, father of graduating senior Andrew Baisch, has been pastor of Ascension Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) in East Peoria, Illinois for over six years, and is in his tenth year of being a clergyman. The ministry is Pastor Baisch's third career; he has been a teacher and in the insurance business. He ,holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Concordia Teachers College, River Forest Illinois; a Master of Arts in Linguistics and German awarded by Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois; attained PhD Candidacy at the University of Texas at Austin; and earned a Master of Divinity degree from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Mr. Kenneth Wade, father of graduating senior Penelope Wade, teaches at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. He has offered courses in computers, web authoring, marketing, multi­media production, and writing, among others. Mr. Wade earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a teaching credential from Rumbolt State College, and a Master of Arts from the University of California at Davis. He has been a television producer, actor, translator, teacher and principal, the voice of the Vermont Teddy Bear, and a presenter for Dun and Bradstreet.

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Abide With Me Tune: Eventide -- Worrb: Henry Francis Lyle, 1847

bide with me: fast falls the to its close ebbs out life's

need Thy pres - ence ev - ery fear no .foe, with Thee at

Thou Thy cross be - fore my

e - ven - tide; The dark-ness lit - tie day; Earth's joys gr-ow

pass - ing hour; What but Thy hand to bless: Ills have no clos - ing eyes; Shine through the

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Lord, with me a - bide: When oth - er help - ers glo - ries pass a - way; Change and de - cay in foil the Tempt-er's power? Who like Thy - self my

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tears no bit - ter - ness. Where is death's sting? Where, point me to the skies: Heaven's morn - ing breaks, and

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-· I Cail, and com-forts flee, Help of the help-less, 0 a - bide with all a - round I see: 0 Thou who chang-est not, a - bide with guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sun-shine, 0 a - bide with grave, thy vie- to - ry? I . : tri-umph still, if Thou a - bide with earth's vain shadows flee: In life, in death, 0 Lord, a - bide with

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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Tune: Ein'feste Burg-- Words: Martin Luther, 1529

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6:30p.m.

COMMENCEMENT EVENTS 2000

Sunday, April 30 Dinner for the Master's Degree Candidates and their Tutors-Private Dining Room

Friday, May 12 President's Dinner for the Senior Class and their Tutors

6:45 p.m. Reception-Great Hall 7:30 p.m. Dinner-Dining Hall

ll:OOa.m. 10:30p.m.

10:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

2:00p.m.

Saturday, May 13 Senior Class Day Exercises-Great Hall Waltz Party-Great Hall

Sunday, May 14 Baccalaureate Service -Francis Scott Key Auditorium Lunch-Dining Hall and Iglehart Hall (By Reservation) Commencement Ceremony-Front Campus

Reception for Graduates, Faculty, Alumni, and Guests immediately following on the Front Campus.

In case of inclement weather, the Commencement Ceremony will take place in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium. Seating limited, admission by ticket only. Reception following in Iglehart Hall.