1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

 

2:30 - 4 p.m.

President’s Reception for graduates and their guests
    Swasey Lawn
    (Rain Site: Burton D. Morgan Center)

 

4 - 5 p.m.

 

10 - 11:30 a.m.

 

12:30 - 3 p.m.

 

Orlando Taylor, Denison Class of 1957
 
Orlando L. Taylor is vice provost for research, dean of the Graduate School, and professor of communications at Howard University. He has held many other positions at Howard, including dean of its School of Communication and interim vice president for Academic Affairs.
 
Prior to joining the Howard faculty in 1973, Taylor was a faculty member at Indiana University. He also has served as a visiting professor at Stanford University, adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
 
Taylor is a national leader in graduate education and within his discipline. He is currently or has served previously as a member of numerous national boards, including the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools, for which he served as board chair in 2001. He is also a past president of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and the National Communication Association. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation, and of the Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health.
 
He also is the former president of the Consortium of Social Science Associations and a current member of the Board of Trustees of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Board of Directors. He chairs the National Advisory Board for the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, a major NSF-funded center at the University of Wisconsin.
 
As Graduate Dean at Howard University since 1993, Taylor has played a significant role in assuring Howard’s continued national leadership in graduate education. Howard, a richly diverse institution, produces more African American on-campus Ph.D. recipients than any research university in the United States. Taylor is a leader in several national initiatives involving graduate education. He has been a particularly vigorous advocate and spokesperson on topics and issues relating to access and equity in higher education.
 
Taylor has raised several million dollars in research, training and program development grants from federal and private sources during his career at Howard University. Currently, he serves as PI on major grants from the National Science Foundation to increase the production of minority Ph.D. recipients in science, technology, mathematics and engineering, and in the social, behavioral and economic sciences; as well as from the U.S. Department of Education to develop collaborative academic and research programs between universities in Brazil and in four European Union countries with Howard University and several others in the United States. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters and books.
 
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Hampton Institute (1957) and his master’s degree from Indiana University (1960). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1966). While an undergraduate at Hampton in the 1950s, Taylor came to Granville to attend Denison as part of an educational exchange program.
 
He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Purdue University, Indiana University, Ohio State University, Hope College and DePauw University. In addition, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association awarded Honors of the Association, its highest award, and the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan recognized him with its Distinguished Service Alumni Award.
 

Ann Hagedorn, Denison Class of 1971
 
Ann Hagedorn was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Dayton, Kansas City and Cleveland. Since college, she has lived in Chicago; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Lawrence, Kan.; San Francisco and New York City. Hagedorn earned her B.A. in history from Denison University, an M.L.S. in information science from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. in journalism with highest honors from Columbia University.
 
Her first professional job was on the library faculty at the University of Kansas where she worked as a research librarian and later directed a grant-funded project to compile a reference book on the history of economics. In pursuit of a writing career, she moved to New York City, where she found both a job and a place to live via New York University: a position on the library faculty writing speeches, brochures, and grant proposals, and an NYU apartment on Washington Square Park. Two years later, she began her master's work at Columbia. She also holds a German language proficiency degree from the Goethe Institut, at Prien-am-Chiemsee, Germany and studied at Yale University under the tutelage of Arna Bontemps, esteemed participant in the Harlem Renaissance, for the purpose of writing her college senior thesis on the Harlem Renaissance writers.
 
Hagedorn took her first newspaper job at the San Jose Mercury News where she wrote about crime and covered trials in San Francisco's East Bay region. Her next job was writing for the Wall Street Journal in New York City where she reported on a broad range of subjects, writing front page stories on violent crime in shopping malls, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the longest criminal trial in U.S. history (the McMartin child molestation case), issues of geriatric convicts in federal prisons, securities fraud and pennystock fraud on Wall Street, the travails of takeover artist Paul Bilzerian, the rise and fall of Sasson jeans king Paul Guez, and litigation against dogs, especially in canine court in Los Angeles, among others. She also wrote about legal issues, bankruptcy cases and numerous federal trials.
 
In 1991, Hagedorn focused her knowledge of fraud and bankruptcy on probing the collapse of America’s premier horse racing dynasty, Calumet Farm. The result was the highly acclaimed book Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., a story of greed and intrigue in the 1980s that is now under option with Paramount Pictures. The author left the WSJ in late 1993 to join the New York Daily News as Special Projects Editor. There, in addition to overseeing projects, she wrote multi-part series on geriatric inmates in New York prisons, New York lawyers who were laundering money for Colombian drug cartels, capital punishment, and a four-part series on George Steinbrenner and the bankruptcy of his shipbuilding empire (which won an Associated Press award.)
 
Next, she wrote a mini-sequel for the Wild Ride paperback edition and began researching and writing Ransom. After the release of Ransom, Hagedorn wrote a piece for The Washington Post and taught a narrative non-fiction writing course at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she had been giving lectures in various classes for several years. During that time, she discovered a stunning story in the Ohio River Valley that resulted in her third book Beyond the River, now under option with Clear Pictures Inc. After writing Beyond the River, she taught a writing course at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill., and while in Chicago she began the research for Savage Peace.
 
She has given lectures on writing at Vassar College, Berea College, Denison University, Wilmington College, Ohio State University, at the Antioch Writer’s Workshop, at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, among other venues.
 
Currently she is writing another book and working with a group of writers to launch the Late Bloomers School of Writing. When not writing, reading or teaching, she is canoeing, bicycling or learning to play the fiddle and the concertina.

 

All graduates participating in Commencement must wear a cap and gown provided by the College at no charge. Regalia may be picked up at the Bookstore the week after final exams. (Graduating seniors who are unable to attend Commencement should notify the registrar so their diplomas may be mailed. Please note that seniors who have not completed all their degree requirements may not participate in Commencement exercises.)

 

Baccalaureate is a multi-religious gathering for graduates and their guests. It celebrates the pluralistic community that comprises our college today, including its Protestant Christian roots. Swasey Chapel is near capacity for both identical services (1:30 and 4 p.m.), and seating is limited and unreserved. The President will host a reception between ceremonies from 2:30 until 4 p.m. on the Swasey Chapel Lawn. (Reception Rain Site: Burton D. Morgan Center)

 

Sunday events are held outdoors, weather permitting. The site decision is made at 6 a.m. Sunday. If Denison flags are flying at the flagpole in front of Slayter Hall, events will be held outdoors. If not, Commencement will be held in the Mitchell Center and the Faculty Coffee will be held in Livingston Gymnasium.

 

One of the most treasured of our Commencement traditions is this opportunity for graduates to introduce their families to their professors. Each department or program will have a designated location on the Academic Quad. Continental breakfast will be served. Graduates are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity before the Commencement ceremony begins to enjoy a farewell visit with the men and women who have been so central to their Denison education.

 

Because of limited parking near the Commencement site and on the village streets, remote parking at the Mitchell Recreation and Athletics Center is a necessity. Shuttle buses and courtesy carts will be running on Sunday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Carts and shuttle buses will run between designated “Shuttle Stop” areas on campus and in the village. Denison is unable to provide shuttle bus service to and from Port Columbus International Airport and other off-campus locations.
 
Special-Needs Parking: Seniors will be notified about procedures to follow to accommodate family members or guests who need special consideration. Even if your car already has a handicapped sticker, your graduate must make arrangements to put your name(s) on the Commencement parking list. Courtesy carts will be available to assist family members from parking areas to event venues. Designated areas near the Commencement ceremony venue will be restricted for special needs parking and easy drop-off of special-needs guests near the seating area (vehicles identified by a “Special Needs” card issued by the Office of the President). Once parked, notify a courtesy cart attendant for assistance in moving from your car to the Fine Arts Quad.

 

Seating at Commencement is available on a first-come, first-served basis. No tickets are required. There is no limit on the number of guests you may bring.
 
Special-Needs Seating: Special seating areas will be set aside to accommodate your special-needs or hearing-impaired guest and a companion. Ushers will help guide individuals to the designated area, and they will be available to assist attendees in any emergency.

 

Ushers will distribute programs starting at 11 a.m. Sunday morning. If you need more than seven programs for your party, please tell an usher. We will do our best to accommodate you once everyone has received at least one program.

 

To avoid blocking the view of other guests or obstructing the line of graduates, we ask that parents and family wanting to take close-up photographs with their own cameras use the designated area near the platform. This area will be staffed by university personnel, and we ask that family members cooperate with our staff in the photo area. You will be able to order professional still photos featuring your graduate’s diploma presentation. Ordering details about the still photos will be e-mailed to graduates’ Denison e-mail address by Chappell Studios. For more information, call 1-800-424-3686, or see Chappell’s Web site: www.chappell.com. Pre-registration for Chappell’s graduation photography can be accomplished at: www.gradimages.com/Register.cfm

 

 

 

 

A limited number of University residence hall rooms will be available for families and guests the nights of May 15 and 16. Lodging rates of $40 per night (single occupancy) and $60 per night (double occupancy) include two single beds with sheets, pillow, pillowcase, blanket, towel, washcloth and soap.
 
To reserve residence hall rooms, please e-mail Conference Services at sussman@denison.edu or call 740-587-6461 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Space is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, so please make your reservations promptly. There will be no refunds for reservations canceled after Monday, May 11, 2009.
 
Please note: All graduates must be moved out of their residence halls by 7 p.m. Sunday, May 17.

 

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