Order of Ceremony Honorary Degrees Commencement Address
COMMENCEMENT 2009
ORDER OF CEREMONY
May Twenty-Fourth -- Two Thousand and Nine -- Three O'Clock
Newlin Hall -- Norton Center for the Arts -- Danville, Kentucky
PRESIDING - JOHN A. ROUSH, President of the College
THE PROCESSIONAL
Procesion Alegre ......................................................................................................Garry A. Cornell
VINCENT A. DIMARTINO, Trumpet,
W. George Matton Professor of Music
WILLIAM J. JONES , Centre College Organist
THE INVOCATION
ROBERT KENDRICK NEWTON, JR.
Class of 2009
WELCOME
JOHN A. ROUSH
CONFERRAL OF HONORARY DEGREES
DOCTOR OF DIVINITY
CAROL ANN TATE......................................................................................Nashville, Tennessee
Presented by BARBARA L. HALL
Stodghill Professor of Music
Investiture by ROBERT L. WEAVER
Professor Emeritus of Music
DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
LINDA BRUCKHEIMER...........................................................................Los Angeles, California
Presented by ELIZABETH T. KENNAN
Member, Board of Trustees
Investiture by ROY LEE WIGGINTON II
Student Life Coordinator
DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER..........................................................................Los Angeles, California
Presented by RICHARD W. TROLLINGER
Vice President for College Relations
Investiture by ROY LEE WIGGINTON II
THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
LINDA BRUCHKEIMER
Author and Preservationist
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER
Film and Television Producer
AWARDING OF VALEDICTORIAN PRIZES
NAYEF H. SAMHAT
Associate Dean of the College and Hower Associate
Professor of Government and International Studies
THE CONFERRAL OF DEGREES IN COURSE
Introduction of Candidates
STEPHANIE L. FABRITIUS
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College
Dean Nayef H. Samhat and Vice President and Dean of Student Life
William Randy Hays will assist in the granting of degrees.
BACHELOR OF ARTS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
RESPONSE FROM THE CLASS
JACOB ANTHONY RADERER
President, Student Government Association
Class of 2009
GODSPEED
JOHN A. ROUSH
THE ALMA MATER............................................Centre Dear.................................. Richard L. Warner
THE BENEDICTION
RICHARD D. AXTELL
College Chaplain and Associate Professor of Religion
RECESSIONAL........................................Little Fugue in G Minor ........................................J. S. Bach
(Audience will remain seated during the recessional.)
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HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER
Jerry Bruckheimer is widely regarded as Hollywood's most influential and successful producer over the last three decades and has been equally successful in film and television. His films have earned more than $15 billion at the box office and received six Oscars and five Grammys. His television programs have earned 17 Emmys.
Originally from Detroit, he earned a degree in psychology from the University of Arizona and worked briefly in advertising before heading to California to begin his career in film. His first producer credit was for Farewell, My Lovely in 1975. A 13-year partnership with Don Simpson produced some of the highest grossing pictures of the 1980s, including Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, and Top Gun. In 1996, he formed his own production company and has produced, among others, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Remember the Titans, and Pirates of the Caribbean. He also produces the enormously successful television shows CSI, Without a Trace, and The Amazing Race.
In 2003 Entertainment Weekly called him the most powerful person in Hollywood.
LINDA BRUCKHEIMER
Linda Bruckheimer is a writer, producer, and preservation activist. A trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, she advocates against overdevelopment in Kentucky and works to develop crops - such as lavender, echinacea, and St. John's wort - that give new lfie to agricultural lands.
She also works to restore historic buildings in small towns, most notably Bloomfield, Kentucky, where she owns a farm with her husband, Jerry Bruckheimer. She has purchased and restored several buildings in Bloomfield, revitalizing the downtown and its economy.
In recognition of her Kentucky preservation efforts, she received a 1999 Preservation Project Award from the Ida Lee Willis Memorial Foundation and the Kentucky Heritage Council.
Her first novel, Dreaming Southern, spent 12 weeks on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The sequel, The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way, appeared on the list for nine weeks.
She was the West Coast editor for Mirabella magazine from its inception in 1989 until 1995. She also has written and produced two animated, award-winning specials for PBS.
She serves on the advisory board of the Flannery O'Connor Foundation, which recently restored the author's childhood home and which now houses the Bruckheimer Library. Additionally, in 2006, she joined the advisory board of the Ida Lee Willis Memorial Foundation, which runs an annual awards program to recognize historic preservation in Kentucky.
CAROL ANN TATE
Carol Ann Tate is the organizing pastor of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Nashville. A classically trained organist and choral conductor, as well as an accomplished church musician, she won the Fuller International Organ Festival Bach Competition in 1985.
She was head of the large music program at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville for a number of years before pursuing her call to the ordained ministry. Her career as a church musician enabled her to serve Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran congregations, and for several years she prepared and conducted the choir of Congregation Micah of Nashville in their High Holy Day music.
In 2007 she completed work on a three-year Lilly grant from the Institute for Clergy Excellence, which allowed her to study both mega-churches and mainline flagship churches across the country and took her to Turkey for some background on the intersection of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
A 1975 graduate of Centre, where she majored in music, she earned a master's degree in music at the New England Conservatory in Boston and an M.Div. at Vanderbilt Divinity School.
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COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
The commencement addresses are not available this year.
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