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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH fpWlOy Brigham Young University Marriott Center Thursday, April 26, 2001 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Brigham Young University http://www.archive.org/details/commencementexer2001brig ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH fpWZgy Brigham Young University Marriott Center Thursday, April 26, 2001 Contents Order of the Academic Procession 4 Significance of the Academic Costume 4 Prograni 5 Honorary Doctoral Degrees 7 Presidential Citation 19 Doctoral Degrees 21 Master's Degrees 29 Certificates 50 Baccalaureate Degrees 51 Scholastic Recognition 87 Graduates with University Honors 87 Summa Cum Laude 89 Magna Cum Laude 89 Cum Laude 90 Phi Kappa Phi 92 Air Force and Army ROTC Graduates 94 College Convocation Schedule 95 Commencement Committees 96 Academic Procession Order of the Academic Procession Significance of the Academic Costume President, Board of Trustees, and Administrative Officers The significance of the academic Official Guests costume is determined especially by the Faculty sleeves and hoods. Candidates for Advanced Degrees Doctors wear the round bell sleeve; Class of 2001 the gown is faced down the front and barred on the sleeves with black velvet or color indicating the degree; the doctor's hood is large. The doctor may choose to wear the gold tassel on the cap. Masters wear the long, closed sleeve, with a slit near the upper part of the arm; the master's hood is of more moderate size. Bachelors wear the long or pointed sleeve. The color of the tassel indicates whether the degree is in the field of arts (white), fine arts (brown), music (pink), or science (golden yellow). Program Presiding and Conducting President Thomas S. Monson, First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church ofJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and First Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Brigham Young University 2:45 p.m. Prelude Carillon Bells and Organ 3:15 p.m. Academic Procession Color Guard, President, Board ofTrustees, Administrative Officers, Official Guests, — Faculty, and Graduates from the Smoot Administration Building to the Marriott Center 3:30 p.m. Processional Douglas E. Bush, Organ 4:00 p.m. Presentation of Colors Air Force and Army ROTC Invocation Bill Brady, President, 2000-2001 Student Service Association President's Greeting Elder Merrill Bateman, Member of the First J. Quorum of the Seventy and President of Brigham Young University Wind Symphony Festive Overture, Op. 96 by Dmitri Shostakovich Conferring ofDegrees Elder Merrill Bateman and J. Alan L. Wilkins, Academic Vice President Induction into the Alumni Association Russell K. Booth, President, BYU Alumni Association Expression from Graduate Bonnie Marie Ashby Presentation of Presidential Citation Elder Merrill Bateman J. Conferring of Honorary Doctoral Degrees Elder Merrill Bateman J. CommencementAddress Congressman Tom Lantos Commencement Address John W. Gallivan Wind Symphony "Let Us Break Bread Together" African American Spiritual Arranged by Thomas Root Commencement Address ElderJoseph B. Wirthlin Concluding Remarks President Thomas S. Monson Benediction Sarah Jane Sandberg, Executive Vice President, 2000-2001 Shident Service Association Recessional Douglas E. Bush, Organ Wind Symphony Conductor David Blackinton Carillonneurs Don Cook Neil Thomock — HONORARY DOCTORAL DEGREE to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Tom Lantos which ultimately claimed some 600,000 of the 700,000 Jews in Hungary Tom Lantos is the only Holocaust sur- Shortly after the occupation, Tom vivor ever elected to the United States Lantos was sent to a forced labor battal- Congress. He is one of five Hungarian ion north of Budapest, where Jewish survivors of the Holocaust whose sto- teenagers were charged with maintain- ries are featured in Steven Spielberg's ing a key bridge on the Budapest-Vienna Academy Award-winning documen- rail line. He managed to escape from tary The Last Days. He was elected to the camp but was caught and severely the House of Representatives in 1980 beaten. He doubted that he would and is now serving his eleventh term survive. Fearing for his life and con- in Congress. He represents parts of vinced he had nothing to lose, he California's San Francisco and San attempted another escape, and this time Mateo Counties. In January 2001 he he succeeded in reaching Budapest. was elected the ranking Democratic An aunt, his only relative who member of the House International survived the war, was in a Wallenberg — Relations Committee, the leader of "safe house" one of the apartments House Democrats on foreign policy Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg had issues. He is a recognized expert on rented and placed under Swedish diplo- foreign affairs and a leading champion matic protection at the request of the of human rights known for his support United States and with American finan- for religious freedom, the right of polit- cial assistance. In addition to providing ical dissent, freedom of the press, and limited protection for Jews who were respect for individual rights. able to find access to these safe houses, Tom Lantos was born in Budapest, Wallenberg created and issued shutzpasse Hungary, in 1928. He was ten years old (protective passports) to Jews. He passed when he bought his first newspaper these out to Jews in an effort to save them because he was struck by its headline from extermination camps. Through his "Hitler Marches into Austria!" efforts, tens of thousands of Hungarian In March of 1944, when Tom Lantos Jews were saved. For Tom Lantos, — was sixteen years old, Nazi troops Wallenberg has been a beacon a shining occupied Hungary. With the German example of what human conduct ought military came the infamous Adolf to have been in that darkest of times. Eichmann with orders to exterminate Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by the Jewish population of Hungary. Soviet troops in January 1945, just a few By the end of that summer most of the days after the Red Army liberated Jews outside Budapest had been sent Budapest from German occupation. HONORARY DOCTORAL DEGREE Wallenberg was never again seen out- It was also in 1950 that he married side prison. There were numerous his childhood sweetheart, Annette reports of sightings of the Swede by Tillemann. Like her husband, she other prisoners, but there have been was born in Budapest and lost most few credible reports since about 1980. of her family in the Holocaust. She Despite repeated requests to Soviet offi- and her mother survived the nine cials for information and the establish- months of Nazi occupation in a diplo- ment of several investigative commis- matic residence on the city's outskirts. sions, the full story of Wallenberg's In December 1944, at the height of the disappearance is still not known. battle between Nazi and Soviet forces Tom Lantos began studies at the for control of the city, Annette, her University of Budapest in the fall of mother, and a few others were able 1946, but in the summer of 1947, as a to reach Switzerland because of a result of his excellent essay on Franklin general diplomatic agreement Delano Roosevelt, he was awarded a Wallenberg negotiated with German scholarship from Hillel: The Foundation authorities. She remained for a year for Jewish Campus Life to study in the with friends and attended school. United States. He studied economics at After receiving a letter from her friend — the University of Washington in Seattle, Tom Lantos, Annette alone and only — where he received his BA in 1949 and fourteen years of age made a ten-day MA his in 1950. journey by bus from Switzerland to k