Commencement 2005

‘Seek and Inquire’

Inside every graduating student is an entrepreneur whose skills can help make the world a better place, members of the Class of 2005 were told during the University’s 155th Commencement exercises last spring.

PROCESSION: An estimated 6,000 people filled Eastman Quadrangle to help the College’s Class of 2005 celebrate Commencement.

Teaching Awards

Guests & Honorees

“Entrepreneurs are not just people who start companies to make money,” Carl Schramm, president and chief executive officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, told degree recipients during the College’s ceremony on the River Campus. “They exist in every field. They are seekers and inquirers. And their function is to reinvent society for the better—which is an ongoing process, one which never ends.”

TRANSITIONS: Thomas H. Jackson presided over his final Commencement season as Rochester’s president.	CELEBRATIONS: The College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering conferred a total of 1,175 bachelor’s and master’s degrees.	MEMORIES: Eastman students pause for a photo.

“The truth is, the world doesn’t have a job description waiting for you, unless it is this one: Please keep reinventing this world to make it a better place for yourself and others,” he told the 1,175 candidates for bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.

Schramm, who received the Eastman Medal in recognition of his achievement and service, was one of several honorees invited to campus last spring as each of the University’s schools celebrated the end of the 2004–05 academic year.

Altogether, the University conferred a total of 2,378 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees last spring.

Faculty
Teaching Awards

University Award for Lifetime Achievement in Graduate Education
Harriet Kitzman, the Loretta C. Ford Professor of Nursing

University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
Eby Friedman, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the University’s Center for Electronic Imaging Systems

Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Jack Mottley, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean for undergraduate programs in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

G. Graydon ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Nontenured Member of the Faculty
Jeffrey Tucker, assistant professor of English

Speakers
Guests & Honorees

University Doctoral Ceremony
Kenneth French ’78S (MBA), ’83S (PhD), a professor of finance at Dartmouth College who is internationally recognized for his research on stock returns, capital costs, and dividend policy, and Edward Grabowski ’65 (PhD), a former vice president of chemistry at the pharmaceutical company Merck, received Distinguished Scholar Medals.

The College
Carl Schramm, president and chief executive officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, received the Eastman Medal.

Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women’s Sports Foundation, Luigi Lucherini, mayor of the city of Arezzo in Italy, and Robert Wegman, chairman of the Rochester-based Wegmans Food Markets, each received the honorary degree doctor of laws.

School of Medicine and Dentistry
Donald (D. A.) Henderson ’54M (MD), who was appointed the first director of the U.S. Office of Public Health Preparedness after September 11, received the Hutchison Medal at the ceremony for M.D. graduates.

Eastman School
Chuck Daellenbach ’66E, ’71E (PhD), a founder of the Canadian Brass and a noted tuba player, addressed the graduates.

Simon School
Mark Ain ’67S (MBA), founder and CEO of Kronos Inc., received the school’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.

School of Nursing
Diana Mason, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Nursing, addressed the graduates.

Engineering and Applied Sciences
Robert Smith ’59, a charter member of the World Association of Nuclear Operators, received the school’s Distinguished Alumnus Award.