Commencement 2008 Howard University

Commencement Re-Broadcast on the Web

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Commencement 2008 exercises of
Howard University re-broadcast on the Web

See and hear the entire 140th commencement convocation
re-broadcast on the Web from beginning to end.

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Order of Exercises
Opening Remarks:
President H. Patrick Swygert
The Greeting:
Mr. Addison Barry Rand
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
The Welcome:
Mr. Jonathan L. Wharton
Graduate School
The Music:
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Glory
The Howard University Choir with Orchestra
J. Weldon Norris, Conducting
The Conferring of the Degrees, Honoris Causa
For the Degree of Doctor of Laws
The Honorable Gabrielle Kirk Mcdonald
The Candidate Will Be Presented by
The Honorable Frankie M. Freeman
Emerita Member, Board of Trustees
For the Degree of Doctor of Humanities
C. Vivian Stringer
The Candidate Will Be Presented by
The Honorable Jack F. Kemp
Member, Board of Trustees
For the Degree of Doctor of Laws
President H. Patrick Swygert
The Candidate Will Be Presented by
Chairman Emeritus Wayman F. Smith III, Esq.
Member, Board of Trustees
For the Degree of Doctor of Science
DR. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON

The Candidate Will Be Presented by
Mrs. Marie C. Johns
Member, Board of Trustees
Special Citation of Achievement
(Doctor of Humane Letters, 1998)
Dr. Kenneth I. Chenault

The Candidate Will Be Presented by
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq.
Member, Board of Trustees
The Convocation Oration
Dr. Kenneth I. Chenault
President & Chief Executive Officer
American Express
The Spiritual
William L. Dawson, Arr.
Soon Ah Will Be Done
The Howard University Choir
The Conferring of the Degrees in Course
College of Arts & Sciences
James A. Donaldson, Ph.D., Dean
School of Business
Barron H. Harvey, Ph.D., Dean
School of Education
Leslie T. Fenwick, Ph.D., Dean
School of Communications
Jannette L. Dates, Ph.D., Dean
School of Engineering,
Architecture & Computer Sciences

James H. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D., Dean
College of Pharmacy, Nursing and
Allied Health Sciences

Beatrice Adderley-Kelly, Ph.D., Dean
School of Divinity
Alton B. Pollard III, Ph.D., Dean
College of Medicine
ROBERT E. TAYLOR, M.D., Ph.D., Dean
School of Law
Kurt L. Schmoke, J.D., Dean
College of Dentistry
Leo E. Rouse, D.D.S., Dean
School of Social Work
Cudore L. Snell, D.S.W., Dean
Graduate School
Orlando L. Taylor, PH.D., Dean
Induction of Graduates into the Howard University Alumni Association, Inc.
Mwalimu Sandra E. Brown, President
The Passing of the Torch and
The Presentation of Graduating
Students' Class Gift & Pledge

Ms. Bernice Harleston, Class of 1958
The Alma Mater
Mr. Marcus A. Ware
President, Howard University Student Association
The Benediction
The Reverend Dr. Bernard L. Richardson
Dean, Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel