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This listing of degree candidates is for ceremonial purposes only and is in no way to be considered an official listing of actual graduates.

Samford University is Alabama’s top-ranked private university and provides nationally recognized academic programs rooted in its historic Christian mission. Founded in 1841 as Howard College, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the U.S. and enrolls more than 4,900 students from 44 states and 25 countries in its 10 academic units: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. In 2014, U.S. News & World Report ranked Samford 3rd among regional universities in the South and 3rd in the South for best undergraduate teaching. Among Samford’s 46,000-plus alumni are more than 60 U.S. congressmen, seven state governors, two U.S. Supreme Court justices, four Rhodes Scholars, Emmy and Grammy Award–winning artists, and two national championship football coaches, as well recipients of the Pulitzer and Nobel Peace prizes. As an example of Samford’s success in preparing our students, the most recent census of all students who received undergraduate degrees in May 2013 indicates 98% were employed or enrolled in graduate school within seven months of graduation. Graduates with professional degrees consistently score high on national certification and board examinations, and Samford undergraduates also have high graduate and professional school acceptance rates. Samford has 17 varsity teams that compete in NCAA Division I sports in the historic Southern Conference. Since joining the Southern Conference in 2008, the Bulldogs have won 18 conference championships (regular season and tournaments combined), and have participated in eight NCAA national tournaments. Samford has been ranked first in the state of Alabama for academic performance by the NCAA every year since the NCAA Academic Performance Ratings [APR] began in 2005. Samford’s campus, with its award-winning Georgian-Colonial architecture, sits in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian/Great Smokey Mountain range. The region offers a full spectrum of culture and entertainment, and Samford is one of the premier arts providers in the region. Andrew Westmoreland became Samford University’s 18th president in 2006 and has led a period of significant and historic growth for the university.

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CONGRATULATIONS

From the President 2

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ACADEMIC HISTORY

History of the Mace 3

Academic Dress and Honors 4

College and School Gonfalons 5

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SPEAKER

Dontá L. Wilson 6

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ORDER OF COMMENCEMENT 8

Degrees 10

Contents

Please silence alarm watches, audible pagers and cellular phones. Please hold your applause until after all diplomas have been presented. Family members are invited to stand in honor as their graduate’s name is called. Emergency assistance during the service is available in the lobby.

Cover illustrated by Don Rankin, retired assistant professor, School of the Arts

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CongratulationsWELCOME TO SAMFORD UNIVERSITY, and thank you for joining the celebration of the accomplishments of the Class of 2014. The commencement ceremony is the pinnacle of the academic year. All our work and effort at Samford leads to this moment when we rejoice in the fulfillment of our institutional mission and mark the beginning of a new era in the life of each graduate. These exercises mark the conclusion of Samford’s 173rd anniversary session, but the color and pageantry of the ceremonies join us with ancient traditions established in the European universities in the thirteenth century. Since Samford’s founding in 1841, the university has granted more than 40,000 degrees to individuals for service throughout the world. Consider the hours of study and preparation required to dearly earn those diplomas. Consider the sacrifice of the students and their families, the work of the faculty and the dedication of so many who provide the financial support necessary to build and sustain a great university. All of us at Samford give particular thanks to the families of the graduates who have stood with them and upheld them to this very day. We welcome each of you and your guests into the fellowship of our extended Samford University family. Congratulations to the Class of 2014. We have given you our best; we will hold you in our hearts until we meet again.

Sincerely,

Andy Westmoreland, President

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University MaceThere are two maces used at commencement. The oldest mace is from the 1970s, made from wood, and represents the founding of Samford University. It contains a medallion used in past university presidents’ inauguration ceremonies. The new mace—constructed of silver and ebony—comprises eight elements that symbolize Samford’s history and tradition as a Christian university. A simple cross resides at the top of the instrument. Beneath the cross, silver bands embrace a Lucite sphere embedding a computer chip containing the entire Bible, linking the high-tech world with the timeless biblical Word. A likeness of columns, reflective of Samford’s Georgian Colonial architecture, bears the university motto, “for God, for learning, forever.” A decahedron follows bearing the university seal, logo and historical scenes. A globe symbolizes Samford’s international mission as an educational institution devoted to world awareness and ministry. Below the globe, a cylinder encases actual soil from Samford’s four campuses (two in Marion, Alabama, and two in Birmingham). The cylinder bears the Shema (“Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One”). Extending to the bottom of the mace is an ebony wood shaft inlaid with silver plates bearing the names of Samford presidents. The mace rests on an acorn base, reflective of Sherman Oak, symbol of the East Lake campus, and of the fact that sturdy, strong lives spring from humble beginnings. The mace is borne by a faculty representative at the head of all university academic processions as an ensign of authority. To be the mace bearer is an honor extended to faculty who have won teaching awards or who have been recommended for this honor by the dean of their college.


Academic DressThe formal academic dress worn today originated in the Middle Ages and is modeled after the gowns used at Cambridge University and Oxford University in England. Until the Civil War, American university students usually wore their gowns to class each day. Now, gowns are typically worn only at commencement. In general, the gown indicates the level of the highest degree held: for bachelor’s degrees, the black gown with flowing, pointed sleeves; for master’s degrees, the black gown with sleeves slit midway for the arms and the sleeve bottom closed flat with a semicircle cut in the side; for doctoral degrees, the flowing robe with sleeves closed at the wrist, decorated with chevrons of velvet, most often black on black, but occasionally with chevrons of another color indicating the general field of study. Occasionally, the entire robe is of another, university-specific color.

Commencement HonorsHonors at Samford University are awarded on the basis of all academic work taken at Samford University. Students who earn at least 70 credits at Samford and a grade point average (calculated on all work done at Samford University) of 3.500 through 3.749 are graduated cum laude; of 3.750 through 3.899 are graduated magna cum laude; and 3.900 through 4.000 are graduated summa cum laude. Latin honors announced at commencement are not official; they are subject to change once grading is completed. Undergraduates receiving a degree designated “University Fellows” have completed the rigorous university honors program, which requires a two-year interdisciplinary core curriculum, and provides opportunities for international study and academic enrichment. As a result, this degree recognizes exemplary academic achievement. These students may also qualify for summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude designations. Upon recommendation of the faculty, a candidate for the J.D. degree may be awarded the degree cum laude if the student’s grade point average at the law school ranks the student in the top fifteen percent of the graduating class. A candidate whose grade point average at the law school ranks the student in the top five percent of the graduating class may be awarded the J.D. degree magna cum laude. A candidate whose grade point average at the law school ranks the student in the top one percent of the graduating class, but no less than two students, may be awarded a J.D. degree summa cum laude.


BUSINESS DIVINITY

NURSING

PHARMACY

EDUCATION

ARTS

ARTS and SCIENCES

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Speaker

DONTÁ WILSON is president of BB&T of Alabama. He has more than 18 years of banking experience. He joined BB&T in 1995 as an intern. From 1995 to 2005, he held several key management functions in retail and commercial banking. Mr. Wilson has spent most of his banking career leading mergers and acquisitions. In 2005, at the age of 28, he was appointed as the youngest regional president in the company’s history. In 2009, with the acquisition of Colonial Bank by BB&T, he was selected to lead the Colonial acquisition and appointed president of BB&T of Alabama. He is also responsible for West Georgia and Northwest Florida. He leads corporate banking, commercial banking, retail banking, wealth management, mortgage, operations, marketing and credit administration.

Mr. Wilson graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a B.S. in management and received an M.B.A. at the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of the Tuck Executive Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and the BB&T Banking School at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He and his wife, Bonika, have two sons and reside in Birmingham, Alabama.

DONTÁ L. WILSON


ORDER OF COMMENCEMENT

2014 Fall CommencementSaturday, December 13, 2014, 10 a.m.Concert Hall, Leslie Stephen Wright Fine Arts Center

MACE BEARERWilliam P. Collins

Dr. Collins is a professor in the Department of Political Science in Howard College of Arts and Sciences. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Florida State University.

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PRESIDINGAndrew Westmoreland, President..................................................................

ORGAN PRELUDE“Chorale and Menuet Gothique”

by Leon BoellmannJames Dorroh, University Organist..................................................................

*PROCESSIONAL“Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1

in D Major” by Edward Elgar..................................................................

*INVOCATIONMoya Nordlund, Professor, Chair, School

of the Arts..................................................................

*HYMN“Joy to the World” by ANTIOCHJoseph H. Hopkins, Director, Dean, Professor, School of the Arts

Joy to the world! The Lord is come;Let earth receive her King;Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room,And heav’n and nature sing,And heav’n and nature sing,And heav’n, and heav’n and nature sing.

Joy to the earth! The Savior reigns;Let all their songs employ;While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plainsRepeat the sounding joy,Repeat the sounding joy,Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

He rules the world with truth and grace,And makes the nations proveThe glories of His righteousness,And wonders of His love,And wonders of His love,And wonders, wonders of His love...................................................................

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERAndrew Westmoreland..................................................................

ADDRESSDontá L. Wilson ..................................................................

PRESENTATION OF DEGREESJ. Bradley Creed, Provost, Executive Vice

President..................................................................

CONFERRING OF DEGREESAndrew WestmorelandAssisted byDavid W. Chapman, Dean, Howard

College of Arts and SciencesJ. Howard Finch, Dean, Brock School of

Business Jean Ann Box, Dean, Orlean Bullard

Beeson School of EducationEleanor V. Howell, Dean, Ida V. Moffett

School of Nursing Joseph H. Hopkins, Dean, School of the

ArtsNena F. Sanders, Vice Provost, College of

Health Sciences

Michael A. Crouch, Dean, McWhorter School of Pharmacy

Henry C. Strickland, Dean, Cumberland School of Law

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HOODING OF GRADUATESBeth Smith, Director, Graduate

Admission, Howard College of Arts and Sciences

David Fringes, Director, Oak Mountain Interpretive Center, Howard College of Arts and Sciences

Chad Carson, Associate Professor, Associate Dean, Brock School of Business

Barbara Cartledge, Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean, Brock School of Business

Jane Cobia, Associate Professor, Director, Doctoral Program, Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education

Leslie S. Ennis, Professor, Director of Admission, Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education

Maurice J. Persall, Professor, Chair, Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education

Jill Cunningham, Associate Professor, Chair, Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing

Margaret Findlay, Professor, Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing

Jane Martin, Professor, Associate Dean, Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing

Kathryn Fouse, Associate Dean, School of the Arts

Moya Nordlund, Professor, Chair, School of the Arts

Michael DeBow, Professor, Cumberland School of Law

*The audience will please stand


REMARKSAndrew Westmoreland.................................................................

*SAMFORD UNIVERSITY ALMA MATEROh, Samford Alma Mater trueHer halls shall ever ring,With sounding glories of the pastWith plans and future dreams.On knowledge that we seek, O Lord,We pray thy blessings true.With pride we pledge our hearts and

minds,To the Samford Red and Blue..................................................................

*BENEDICTIONSharon Jackson, Assistant Professor,

Brock School of Business.................................................................

RECESSIONAL“Rigaudon” by André Campra

FACULTY MARSHALSJ. Mark Baggett, Associate Professor,

Howard College of Arts and Sciences

William H. Belski, Associate Professor, Brock School of Business

Ralph R. Gold, Associate Professor, School of Health Professions

Ronald N. Hunsinger, Chair, Professor, Howard College of Arts and Sciences

Michael J. Janas, Associate Professor, Howard College of Arts and Sciences

Cynthia F. Lohrke, Professor, Brock School of Business

Jennings Marshall, Chair, Professor, Brock School of Business

Gretchen S. McDaniel, Professor, Director, NurCE, Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing

Donald T. Sandley, Chair, Professor, School of the Arts

.................................................................STUDENT MARSHAL DIRECTOR

Leslie C. Carlisle, Program Assistant, School of Health Professions

STUDENT MARSHALS

Devon Ahern Ben ColemanMarley DavisSamuel DavisChase Ferguson Skyler GrahamChristen GreerKathryn HenriquesLuis JiminezCarson KennedyKaatie KosanAndrew McGinnisJosh McKinneyAbby McMurrySavannah NewmanWeston RutherfordLauren SampsonKathleen SharpElizabeth SnyderFredrick StephensAudrey WardKaleena WoodruffAlex Woodward


1. Main Gate2. Sherman Oak 3. Frank Park Samford Hall (Admission, Administration)4. Jane Hollock Brock Hall4a. Jane Hollock Brock Recital Hall5. Hazel P. Boren Courtyard and Garden6. John H. Buchanan Hall (Arts)7. Leslie S. Wright Fine Arts Center8. Bonnie Bolding Swearingen Hall8a. Benjamin F. Harrison Theatre8b. Bolding Studio8c. Samford Art Gallery9. Gertha Itasca Earwood Bolding Memorial Garden10. Divinity Hall (Divinity)10a. Andrew Gerow Hodges Chapel11. West Gate Entrance12. F. Page Seibert Stadium12a. Leo H. Bashinsky Press Tower13. Sullivan-Cooney Family Field House14. South Stadium Parking Lot15. West Village15a. Barbara Drummond Thorne Hall16. Joe Lee Griffin Baseball Field 16a. Carl E. Miller, Jr. Press Box17. J. T. Haywood Field House18. Bulldog Softball Field19. West Parking Deck20. Samford Tennis Center20a. Darwin E. Hardison Tennis Courts 20b. Pat Murphy Courington Tennis Pavilion21. West Campus Residence Halls21a. Sigma Chi21b. Mountain View21c. Sigma Nu21d. Alpha Omicron Pi21e. Phi Mu21f. Chi Omega21g. Alpha Delta Pi21h. Zeta Tau Alpha22. Pi Kappa Phi House23. Air Force ROTC Detachment24. Lambda Chi Alpha House25. Pete Hanna Center (Athletics)25a. Thomas E. and Marla H. Corts Arena25b. Fitness/Wellness Center26. Bulldog Spirit Plaza27. Leo H. Bashinsky Field House

28. F. Page Seibert Hall28a. University Health Services29. Dwight M. and Lucille S. Beeson Center

for Healing Arts (Nursing)30. Orlean Bullard Beeson Hall (Education)31. Victory Flag32. John D. Pittman Hall 33. Facilities Management34. Lena Vail Davis Residence Hall35. Mamie Mell Smith Residence Hall36. North Parking Deck37. Brock School of Business38. Northeast Parking Deck39. Beeson Woods Residence Halls a. James Hall h. Lucille Hall b. Luther Hall i. Treetop Hall c. Malcolm Hall j. Evergreen Hall d. Wesley Hall k. Rosa Hall e. Ralph Hall l. Ethel Hall f. Orlean Hall m. Marvin Hall g. Dwight Hall

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40. William Self Propst Hall40a. Conservatory40b. Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium 41. Robert I. Ingalls, Sr. Hall (Pharmacy) 42. Thomas D. Russell Hall43. James Horton Chapman Hall44. A. Hamilton Reid Chapel45. Percy Pratt Burns Hall46. Elinor Messer Brooks and Marion Thomas Brooks Hall

(Arts and Sciences)47. Martha F. and Albert P. Brewer Plaza48. Memory Leake Robinson Hall (Law)49. Lucille Stewart Beeson Law Library

50. Harwell G. Davis University Library51. Ben Brown Plaza52. Dwight M. Beeson Hall (Business)53. Ralph W. Beeson University Center53a. Dining Hall53b. Bookstore53c. The Hub (information center)54. Centennial Walk/University Quadrangle 55. Intramural/Recreation Complex55a. Alpine Tower56. Track and Soccer Stadium57. President’s Home

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