2003 Spring Commencement Video, College of Science and Mathematics and College of Health Professions

Focal Point. I will remember you. Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by.

Weep not for the memories. (music) Mr. President, the University community is assembled for

commencement. Good afternoon. I welcome you to this 138th commencement exercise celebrating Townsend University's top priority, the

academic attainment of our students. Please stand for our National Anthem. We'll be led in singing by Miss Angelica Evans, who earlier today received a Bachelor of Music with a voice concentration

Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts

we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh say, does that

star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thank you, Miss Evans. May we observe a moment of silence in memory of the members of our university community who died during this past year.

Jerry Alexander, senior. Charles Boas, professor emeritus and Richard Diffinderfer, professor emeritus. Geneva Ely Fleckenger, professor emeritus.

Michelle Disasari, junior. Richard Hilton, professor, Biological Sciences. Dennis Hinkle, Dean, College of Education. William Horne, professor, electronic media and film.

Lois Odell, Professor emeritus. Virginia Shark, professor. Kinesiology. Gregory D Talbot, Sophomore.

Jillian Venus, Junior. Thank you. Please be seated. The flags on display represent the 37 countries of students

graduating from Towson this spring and the flags of more than 69 other countries, countries representing our current international student population. As you can see, an education at Towson University not only

serves our region and the state of Maryland, but also reaches across the nation and around the globe. We are fortunate to have with us the President of Towson's Alumni Board, Brian Thaler, who will bring words of welcome from the

Alumni Association. Brian, as a Towson University alumnus, I have the honor today of representing all that lie ahead of you. As a graduate of the Class of 1997, I can tell you from

experience that there are many wonderful opportunities and possibilities that await you on the other side of these doors. You often hear references to entering the real world, but I truly believe your Towson education is as real as it gets.

Thanks to our wonderful faculty, you have learned to become problem solvers, critical thinkers, leaders, educators, friends, and good citizens. As university, we have challenged you, taught you, and

mentored you. I know you agree with me that your time here was about much more than classes, exams, and trying to find parking spaces. It was about planning for your future.

And once you walk out of these doors today, remember that while your time at Towson University is is over, you will always be a member of the Towson University family. Today you become a member of the Towson University Alumni

Association. We are lawyers, doctors, actors, business leaders, teachers, computer analysts, scientists, politicians, and healthcare providers to name but a few.

We live in California, New York, Europe and Asia and everywhere in between. We are proud of each other and we are proud of our association with Taos University.

We know that your achievements, like those before you and those that follow, will add to the reputation of Towson University and enhance the value of our degrees. On behalf of the more than 92,000 alumni who have preceded

you, it is my privilege to congratulate you for your outstanding achievements and to welcome you as a member into the Townson University Alumni Association. The Alumni Association is your resource for career networking,

reunions, special benefits, and social events. I'm sure many of you here today may have even been recipients of Alumni Association scholarships or grants. As alumni, it is our responsibility to give back so

that the next generation of students may have the same opportunities and experiences we shared. To quote Elizabeth Harchy, president of the Class of 1931, who at age 95 still serves in this capacity and remains an

active volunteer for the Alumni Association. The school offered me an opportunity that changed my life forever and made me who I am today. I'm forever grateful.

I always think of Towson as my family. Congratulations. Thank you, Mr. Stander, May I ask those in the audience who are already alumni

at the University to please stand? You're a great group, although a few of you probably still owe me term papers. Nevertheless, we thank you for your continued loyalty and

support. It is now my pleasure to introduce Mr. Khaldoon Mahu. He is graduating today from the College of Science and

Mathematics with a bachelor's degree in physics and minors in both mathematics and English literature. He was born in Syria, grew up South of Paris and went to high school in rural Pennsylvania before making his way to Towson.

Over the course of his time at the university, he has worked as a tutor of English, as a second language, as a resident assistant and with Invents Conference services. He this year is the president of the Society of Physics Students.

He's done independent and student undergraduate research with Doctor Larry Weaver in quantum mechanics, Doctor Alex Stores in planetary astronomy. Most recently, he completed an independent project with Doctor

Francis Guvermont in French literature. This summer, Mr. Mccool will return to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago to resume his research in practice and in

particle physics. He will begin the Physics PhD program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall. Please welcome, Mr.

Mahul, Thank you, President Jones, honored guests, family, and fellow students. This above all divine own self be true, and it must follow us the night today thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare, Hamlet Act One Scene 3 Advice from Polonius to his son before the latter goes off to university. Good advice and often quoted, I'll admit, but advice that merits the father to.

In the context of our graduation and our lives in the present world climate, internationalization is redefining what thine own self might mean. As citizens of any nation, we are having to pay attention to

one another more every day in order to define ourselves in relation to others. This, of course, is no recent trend. Certainly mathematics, science, the health professions, all

academic fields are no strangers to international collaboration or intermingling. Throughout the time I spent last summer at Fermi Lab, a physics laboratory outside Chicago, as President Jones mentioned, I

heard an average of 6 to 8 languages being spoken around me in the cafeteria on any given day. The Brazilian physicists had gathered a well deserved reputation for holding the best parties, while the Italians for

some reason knew the best jazz box in Chicago. There was no feeling that any single nationality was more at home than the rest. In fact, as far back in history as we can reach, we see

international contributions to science. Just opening any math or physics book can feel like a world guide, with names like Schradinger, Germany, Fourier or LaGrange, France, Fibonacci, Italy or Omar Khayyam, Persia,

many others as well. However, lately we have shrunk away from the international community, either because of fear or doubt or confusion. I fear the day when in advanced mathematics, Fourier transforms

are no longer Fourier transforms, but rather freedom transforms. Let us remember that science itself does not discriminate. Doctor Krause's physics homework despises all of us, wants us all

to suffer. Antibiotics don't care where you're from, oil spills will gladly destroy wildlife in any part of the world, and neutrinos really don't care about your politics.

Actually, neither do I. Whatever we believe or support, it should be clear to us at least because of the value we have placed on critical thinking, the scientific method, and truth throughout our

education. Whether we continue on to scientific endeavour later or not, it should be clear that the decisions we make must and will always rest on the evidence we see, and that whatever actions

we take, we take with the realization of the responsibility those actions carry. I speak Arabic, French and English. I stand in front of you to tell you that the words I love you

sound just as sweet in all three languages. The word hate stings in all three languages. The word death strikes fear in all three languages. The words world responsibility, mass destruction, or war weigh

heavy on the tongue, no matter which language you used to put them there. What we all have in common is far greater than what separates us.

Whatever current events are happening around us, then we must not let them forget. We must not let them make us forget that we are all equally human as Americans.

And I speak also for my fellow international students who I know have a part of America in them now, as I do. We cannot let the world think that we are reckless, or that we do not think, or that we do not value one another.

America, to thyself, be true. Remember the openness from which you thrived as a child. Remember what brought you your success. Remember the responsibility you carry, and let not the world

think that you are a nation of intolerance, because you are not at heart a nation of fear or violence or fanaticism, but a nation of hope, peace and reason. For fear of running out of my own words, I turn now to those

of Lebanese author Amin Maluf, well known for his book Leo Africanus. In it he writes a character who truly existed in the late 14 and early 1500s Hassan, Wazan or Leon lived in Granada in 1492

when it fell from the Arabs to the Spanish. After 8 centuries it was in Cairo when it was invaded by the Turks. It was an ambassador for caliphs, a merchant under

sultans and finally a translator, ambassador and personal friend of the Pope in his later years. A man of East, of West, of learning and passion. He speaks to his son at the end of the book in eloquence I'll

not try to surpass, but rather quote to you here once more, my son, I am carried by the sea, witness to all my wanderings. And that today carries you to your first exile. In Rome you were the son of Africa.

In Africa you will be the son of Europe. Wherever you are, some will want to validate your skin and your thoughts. But be wary, my son.

Do not yield to the multitude, Muslim, Jew, or Christian. They will have to take you as you are or otherwise lose you. When the spirits of men seem narrow, remember that the land of earth is vast and vast, its hands and vast its heart.

Never hesitate to depart beyond all seas, beyond all frontiers, beyond all homelands, beyond all beliefs. Mom, Dad, you have said these words to me and 1000 more in your eyes, your love and your unending support for me.

I hope to one day live up to 110th the example you have set for me. My dear brothers, listen well. You are my joy.

I love you. Everyone in the class of 2003, congratulations on this important day and thank you for lending me your ears. Be true to yourself.

Thank you, Mr. Mccool. If by some miracle I could do it all over again, I'd probably want to be him.

This is one of the happiest days of the year on our campus. We celebrate first and foremost the graduates of whom we are all so proud. There are many here today also who have helped, who share in

their accomplishments. There is, in particular, one very special group whose contributions deserve full recognition. We have the finest graduating class in Maryland because

Townsend University has the very best faculty in Maryland. Will the faculty of the University please rise? Joining me on stage today are leaders of the University. Through their dedication and expertise, they enable the

success of our students. On the 1st row are the officers of the University, those responsible for facilitating our academic programs, members of the Board of Visitors of the University Senate, of the Alumni

Association, of the Student Government Association and of the American Association of University Professors. Will these colleagues please rise so that we may show our appreciation for their leadership?

I would also like to thank the faculty who are serving as faculty and student marshals at the ceremony. We thank you for your service. Please join me now as we recognize, though, who those who

have in fact, probably made all of today's achievements possible. First, with the mothers and fathers of our graduates. Please stand and remain standing.

Now the grandparents, great grandparents and grandchildren of the graduates, would you please rise and also remain standing? Will the spouses and sons and daughters of the graduates

please also rise and remain standing? Aunts, uncles, friends, and all others who have helped make this day possible and who are here to share it in this very special moment.

If there's anyone that's still in the seat, it's probably a process server and he's probably looking for you. Thank you. You may be seated before the most important part of the

ceremony begins. I have an announcement concerning photographs. A professional photographer will take pictures of your favorite graduate as he or she crosses the stage.

Photo opportunities for family and friends will be available later. In addition, a professional videographer is taping the entire ceremony so that you may find your particular graduate in

the procession. Graduates will come forward alphabetically by their departments within the college. If you could please limit your applause and shouts for your

graduate out of respect to the graduate immediately following yours, it would be deeply appreciated. At least give it a try. Provost Deborah Leather will join me for the conferring of

degrees. Will the candidates for Bachelor's degrees please stand? Students receiving Latin Honors will be announced as their names are called.

To receive a degree with honors, students must have completed 60 credits of undergraduate work at Towson University and achieve the appropriate quality point. Average cum Lauda 3.4 to 3.54.

Magna cum Lauda 3.55 to 3.74. Summa cum Lauda 3.75 to 4.0. Mr. President, on recommendation of the faculty, I have the honor of

presenting to you those students who will meet all the requirements for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Science. I am pleased to receive these candidates by the authority

vested in me by the Board of Regents in the State of Maryland. I confer upon you the recommended degree with all the responsibilities, honors, rights and privileges thereunto

pertaining as a symbol of your new status. Please now move the Mortar Board tassel from the right to the left. Congratulations, graduates, please be seated.

Graduates, please follow the direction of the marshals. Once on stage, you will shake the President's hand, proceed across the stage to receive congratulations from the Dean of your college, and then return to your seat.

Good afternoon. My name is Rauf Bolas. I'm the acting associate Dean of the College of Science and Math. To my far right is Doctor Gerald Entzmann, the Dean of the

college. And on behalf of the Dean, the faculty, I would like to extend personal congratulations to all the graduates and their family members.

Khaldoon Mccool, summa cum laude. Michelle Helen Weber, summa cum laude. Angela Rochelle Anderson, cum Laude. Jessica Ryan Abtaker Haja Fatimata Benta BA Robert Michael

Barnwell, cum Laude. Alicia Florence Bates, Nicole Ann Beslick, Catherine Page Blair, Magna cum laude. Natalie Catherine Boyle, Sarah Elizabeth Brennan, Magna cum

laude. Megan Ann Brosh, Alessian Louise Fabizak Kelly Len Berkey, Jessica Renee Cannon, cum Laude. Victoria, Joanne Cervenet, Summa cum Laude, Laura,

Catherine. Daily Kristen Aurelia Fernandez, Heather and Foreman, Amanda Jane Fry Tag Dante Gaines, Sarah Jean Gallagher, Mark Vinson Gostomaki Corey Adam Handelsman cum Laude Honors in Biology Melissa Latoya

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Rebecca Eileen Roberts, cum laude. Catherine Anna Smith, cum laude. Honors in biology. Janine Caroline Spielberger, summa cum laude.

David Williams Springham Christina Maria Tarlton, Magna cum laude. Matthew Charles Terzi, Magna cum laude. Holly Marie Thomas, Summa cum Laude.

Honors College Mark James Sacaros, Laura Newman Walker Magna cum laude Shaqueta Monique West, Matthew Blair We Heard Breath. Elizabeth Wilde, Summa cum laude.

Honors College Christa Marie Wright, Magna cum laude. Honors College Muhammad Kamran Zahir Come Laude Laurie Lee Korzynski, Stefanos Michael Adams Come Laude. Honors College.

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Miriam del Grande, Nado Summa cum Laude. Todd Christian Jacobson. Mr. President, This concludes the graduates of the College of

Science and Mathematics. Good afternoon. My name is Ellen Eason. I'm the associate Dean in the College of Health Professions.

Dr. Charlotte Exner, on the right side of the stage is Dean of the College of Health Professions. On behalf of the faculty and staff, we extend our

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Scott Rouser, Harry Edward Simmons, The 4th. Valentino, Joseph Troiani Junior Chad Elliott Unitus, Kathleen Margaret Jenkins Mr. President.

This concludes the graduates from the College of Health Professions. I want to take a second to depart from the script for a personal observation and and that is to express my very, very

sincere thanks and deep, deep gratitude to you, the students for graduating today. You have, you've challenged us. We've learned from you.

You've kept us on our toes. You've partnered with us. You've kept us employed. You are our hope, You are our distinction, You are our future,

and for that I am deeply grateful. Congratulations and best wishes to each of you. Will everyone please stand and join Angelica Evans in singing Maryland My Maryland?

You'll find the words on page fifty of your commencement program. My thankful heart with rapture fills, Maryland, my Maryland. When I behold thy rolling hills, Maryland, my Maryland, I love

your rocks and rippling rills. Your waterways where beauty spills, and nature holds a thousand thrills, Maryland, my Maryland. I love thy vistas on the bay.

Maryland, my Maryland, the scent of rose and new-mown hay. Maryland, my Maryland, the people love their work and play. Where hopes are high and hearts are gay. Long may thy noble laws hold sway.

Maryland, my Maryland. Doctor Jones, his party and the faculty will begin the recessional. I would ask that members of the audience be seated until they have left the auditorium.

Due to the inclement weather, there will be no student recessional. Graduates and their families and guests are asked to remain in the auditorium until President Jones and the faculty have

exited. Again, we offer our best wishes and congratulations to the Class of 2003. (music)

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