The ceremony
The Ceremony
Order of the Procession
Participants in this ceremony march to their seats in an order established by tradition:
Representatives of colleges and universities are at the head of the line, marching in order of the founding dates of their respective institutions.
Representatives of learned societies, professional organizations, and foundations come next.
The faculties of the University of Rochester follow next.
The Platform Party, including the following individuals, comes last:
- The University Marshals
- Rochester-Area College and University Presidents
- Representatives of the Students, Faculty, and Alumni
- Faculty Senate Executive Committee
- University Advisory Committee on the Presidential Search
- The Board of Trustees
- Officers of the University
- Past Presidents of the University
- Honorary Award and Degree Candidates
- The Chairman of the Board of Trustees
- President Joel Seligman and Dr. Friederike Seligman
About the Music
Eastman Brass
Since its founding in 1964, then as one of only two professionally managed brass quintets in the United States, Eastman Brass has dedicated itself to the enrichment of the genre through the performance, research, commissioning, transcription, recording, and publication of brass chamber music repertoire of unparalleled quality. The ensemble has toured extensively throughout North America, appearing in prestigious concert series in the United States and Canada, including performances at New York's Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Houston's Stude Concert Hall, and Toronto's Walter Hall.
The members of Eastman Brass are all part of the artist faculty at the Eastman School of Music. Individually, they have performed as members of the Rochester, Buffalo, Chautauqua, Atlanta, Montreal, Barcelona, Baltimore, Denver, Los Angeles, National, St. Louis, Phoenix, and New York Philharmonic orchestras.
Horn
W. Peter Kurau, Associate Professor of Horn
Trombone
John Marcellus, Professor of Trombone
Trumpet
Douglas Prosser, Associate Professor of Trumpet and Brass Chamber Music
James Thompson, Professor of Trumpet
Tuba
Donald Harry, Associate Professor of Tuba
Notes on Quaerere et Invenire
Quaerere et Invenire was written in the summer of 2005 by composer and Eastman School professor Robert Morris on a commission from the Hanson Institute for American Music to celebrate the inauguration of Joel Seligman as tenth president of the University.
Quaerere et Invenire, (the Latin translation for "to seek and to find") made its world premiere at the inaugural ceremony and was performed by the Eastman Chamber Winds with Nelita True on piano and Mark Davis Scatterday '89E (DMA) conducting.
- "The making of Quaerere et Invenire" (Currents, September 19, 2005)
Honorary Award and Degree Recipients
William A. Peck, Hutchison Medal
A former professor of medicine and biochemistry at Rochester, William A. Peck '60M (MD), '00 (HNR) graduated from the School of Medicine and Dentistry with a medical degree and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University. As founding director of the Center for Health Policy at Washington University in St. Louis, he oversees investigations into social disparities in health care access and the impact of health care costs on businesses. His academic activities have included seminal research into bone and mineral metabolism and investigations into the causes of osteoporosis and other disorders.
Former executive vice chancellor for medical affairs at Washington University and former dean of the School of Medicine, Peck maintains his faculty appointment as the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine.
Previously professor of medicine at Washington University and physician-in-chief at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Peck became vice chancellor for medical affairs, dean of the School of Medicine, and president of the Washington University Medical Center in 1989. He was named executive vice chancellor for medical affairs in 1993.
Lee C. Bollinger, Doctor of Laws
Lee C. Bollinger has focused much of his scholarly life on free speech and First Amendment issues. In 2002, he was named the nineteenth president of Columbia University, where he currently holds a faculty appointment in the Law School.
He has published numerous books, articles, and essays in scholarly journals on topics related to First Amendment rights, including Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Images of a Free Press (University of Chicago Press, 1991), and The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America (Oxford University Press, 1986).
Bollinger is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Columbia Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Law Review. After serving as law clerk for former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger and for Judge Wilfred Feinberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Bollinger joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1973.
He was named the dean of the University of Michigan Law School in 1987 and became provost of Dartmouth College and professor of government in July 1994. He was named the twelfth president of the University of Michigan in November 1996, a position he held until his appointment at Columbia University.
Amy Gutmann, Doctor of Laws
A world-renowned political philosopher, Amy Gutmann was inaugurated as the University of Pennsylvania's eighth president in 2004. Former provost at Princeton University, Gutmann holds faculty appointments in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Graduate School of Education.
She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College and received her master's degree in political science from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.
Gutmann has authored or edited more than 100 articles and essays and more than a dozen award-winning books on political philosophy, practical ethics, and education that have been translated into many languages. Among her books are Democratic Education (second edition, Princeton University Press, 1999), Democracy and Disagreement (Harvard University Press, 1996, with Dennis Thompson and named by Choice as one of the "outstanding political science books for 1997"), Why Deliberative Democracy? (Princeton University Press, 2004, with Thompson), and Identity in Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2003).
John Sexton, Doctor of Laws
A scholar of the Supreme Court and the federal court system, John Sexton is the fifteenth president of New York University and the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law. Former dean of the NYU School of Law, a position he held for fourteen years, Sexton was installed as president in 2002.
Before coming to NYU, Sexton served as law clerk to former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger and to Judges David Bazelon and Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals. He also was a professor of religion at Saint Francis College in Brooklyn, where he was department chair from 1970 to 1975.
Sexton received a B.A. in history from Fordham College; an M.A. in comparative religion and a Ph.D. in history of American religion from Fordham University; and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He holds honorary degrees from Fordham University, Saint Francis College, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
He is an author of Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (ninth edition, West Publishing Company, 2005, with Jack Friedenthal, Helen Hershkoff, and Arthur Miller) and Redefining the Supreme Court's Role: A Theory of Managing the Federal Court (Yale University Press, 1986, with Samuel Estreicher) in addition to several other books, numerous chapters, articles, and Supreme Court briefs.
