Order of Exercises

College of Graduate Studies and Adult Learning

For your convenience, speaker scripts are listed below the order of exercises.


Daniel A. Wubah, Ph.D., President Presiding

*ACADEMIC PROCESSION
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE
“Pomp and Circumstance”, 
Sir Edward Elgar 
Joseph Cernuto, D.M.A., Conductor

WELCOME
GAIL E. GASPARICH, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

*THE NATIONAL ANTHEM 
LED BY CHRISTINA FLORES ’23
Words by Francis Scott Key
Arranged by John Philip Sousa

INTRODUCTION OF PLATFORM GUESTS
PROVOST GASPARICH

GREETINGS FROM FACULTY
ROBYN DAVIS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History, President-Elect, APSCUF-MU

MOMENT OF REFLECTION
TOMMY WAYNE HENLEY III
Ed.D., Educational Leadership

SALUTATION
DANIEL A. WUBAH, Ph.D.
University President

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
RICHARD D. CLARK, Ph.D.
Professor of Meteorology Emeritus, Millersville University

PRESENTATION OF DOCTORAL DEGREES CANDIDATES
JAMES DELLE, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Graduate Studies and Adult Learning

CONFERRING OF DOCTORAL DEGREES
PRESIDENT WUBAH

PRESENTATION OF MASTER’S DEGREE CANDIDATES
DR. DELLE

CONFERRING OF MASTER’S DEGREES
PRESIDENT WUBAH

WELCOME FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
MS. JOYCE KING ‘83
President, Millersville University Alumni Association

CONCLUDING REMARKS
PRESIDENT WUBAH

*THE ALMA MATER
LED BY ELISE EGGLESTON ‘23
Words by Esther E. Lenhardt, Class of 1910 and Sanders P. McComsey, Class of 1917
Music arranged by Melzer R. Porter
Millersville University Wind Ensemble

*ACADEMIC RECESSION
MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE
The Lord of Greenwich
Robert Sheldon

 

THE AUDIENCE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE UNTIL AFTER THE SINGING OF THE ALMA MATER AND AFTER ALL GRADUATES HAVE RECESSED.

MACE BEARER: Len Litowitz, Ed.D.
GONFALON BEARERS: Tiffany Wright, Ed.D.
GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT MARSHALS: Stacey Irwin, Ph.D.; Karen Rice, Ph.D.; Jason Baker, Ph.D.; Oliver Dreon, Ph.D.
READERS: Lowery Woodall III, Ph.D.


*Audience will stand, participation is voluntary.