Annual University Convocation Service to Be Held Tuesday. September 3, 1996

Convocation Speakers

(in order of appearance)

Photo of Jewelnel Davis

Jewelnel Davis
University Chaplain and Director of Earl Hall

Judith Shapiro
President, Barnard College

Syreeta McFadden
Columbia College '97

George Rupp
President, Columbia University

Susan Oren
Associate Jewish Chaplain

Annual University Convocation Service to Be Held Tuesday

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 1996-97 University Convocation service inaugurating this academic year. With the entering Undergraduate Class of 2000 joining us this term, there are many issues that face this University and our society as a whole. It is in these opening activities that we invite your participation as the faculty, staff and administrators with a sense of celebration for all that awaits this community.

President George Rupp will deliver this year's main address along with President Judith Shapiro of Barnard College offering opening remarks and Columbia College Student President Syreeta McFadden delivering thoughts from a student's perspective. We ask you to encourage your colleagues and students to gather at:

St. Paul's Chapel
Tuesday, September 3, 1996
5:00 p.m.

The tradition of the University Convocation invites all at Columbia and Barnard to begin the year in this reflective moment as we inaugurate our individual and collective work. The event is informal and we will not robe. Please join us following the service for a reception outside the chapel. We look forward to your presence at this gathering.

Thank you, and we wish you well in this new year.

Sincerely yours,

Jewelnel Davis
University Chaplain and
Director of Earl Hall.

H. Scott Matheney
Presbyterian/UCC Chaplain
Associate Director, Earl Hall

Program

PRELUDE

Trumpet Sonata in D Major
Pomposo
Adagio
Presto
Henry Purcell

RINGING OF THE CHAPEL BELL
SALUTATORY Jewelnel Davis
University Chaplain

OPENING REMARKS Judith Shapiro
President, Barnard College

STUDENT REFLECTION Syreeta McFadden
Columbia College '97

INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER Katrina Kershner
School of General Studies '98

CONVOCATION ADDRESS George Rupp
President, Columbia University

INTERLUDE

Meditation of St. Gregory
Alan Hovhaness

ALMA MATER

Stand Columbia!      Austria

Mother, stay'd on rock eternal,
  Crown'd and set upon a height,
Glorified by Light supernal
  In thy radiance we see light,
Torch thy children's lamps to kindle,
  Beacon-star to cheer and guide,
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
  Through the storms of Time abide!
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
  Through the storms of Time abide!

Honor, love, and veneration
  Crown forevermore the brow!
Many a grateful generation
  Hail thee as we hail thee now!
Till the lordly Hudson seaward
  Cease to roll his heaving tide,
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
  Through the storms of Time abide!
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
  Through the storms of Time abide!

--Gilbert Oakley Ward, 1902

VALEDICTORY Susan Oren
Associate Jewish Chaplain

POSTLUDE

Trumpet Voluntary in D Major John Stanley

Susan Radcliff, Trumpeteer
George Stauffer, University Organist

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