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May 10, 2008
Academic Distinction
Additional academic distinctions made at Commencement include: students graduating with Honors, Nitze Scholars, Valedictorian, Phi Beta Kappa, Academic Honor Societies, National College Athlete Honor Society and The Geneva Boone Award for a St. Mary’s Project.
The Academic Procession
The procession is led by the graduating seniors, preceded by that faculty member who, being chosen annually by the Faculty Senate, carries the large wooden mace, long a symbol of authority. Wearing a simple variation of the medieval black gown, the seniors wear hoods that are short and lined with the College’s colors.: blue, gold, and white. The hoods are edged in white, indicating a degree in the liberal arts (humanities). A gold ribbon on the right shoulder signifies election to Phi Beta Kappa. Students belonging to eight national academic honor societies are set apart by the tasseled cords or medallions that are worn around the neck. All the students wear mortarboard caps with the tassel hanging over the right front, but at the end of the ceremony the new graduates will flip these tassels to the left.
The faculty marshal follows the students, ushering in the second half of the procession, which consists of faculty, staff, and finally the platform party.
Richard Moe
President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Richard Moe was born on November 27, 1936 in Duluth, Minnesota, the son of Russell James and Virginia Mary (Palmer) Moe. He graduated from Williams College in 1959 and then served as administrative assistant to Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin (1961-1962), as administrative assistant to Minnesota Lieutenant Governor A. M. Keith (1963-1966), and studied for a law degree at the University of Minnesota. He passed the Minnesota state bar in 1967 and in the same year became financial director of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He became chairman of the DFL in 1969 and continued in that post until 1972 when he joined the Washington office of Senator Walter Mondale. In 1977 Moe became Mondale's vice presidential chief of staff and a member of the Carter senior staff.
Following the Carter-Mondale administration Moe joined the Washington office of the New York law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell, became a partner of the firm in 1985, and also served as a senior adviser to Michael Dukakis in his 1988 Democratic presidential campaign. In 1993, the year that Moe's history of the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment was published, Moe was elected the seventh president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A second book, Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl, coauthored by Moe and Carter Wilkie, was published by Henry Holt and Company in 1997.
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