Order of Ceremonies PROCESSIONAL Faculty Doctoral Graduates Master’s Graduates and Candidates Bachelor’s Graduates and Candidates Platform Party MUSIC Portland State University Symphony Orchestra Ken Selden, D.M.A, Music Director and Conductor “Academic Festival Overture” Johannes Brahms “The Great Gate of Kiev” from Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky “Meistersinger Overture” Richard Wagner “Pomp and Circumstance” Edward Elgar “Triumphal March” from Aida Giuseppe Verdi WELCOME Roy W Koch, Ph.D. Provost AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL Satheara Sin Class of 2011 MASTER OF CEREMONIES Roy W Koch PRESIDING Wim Wiewel, Ph.D. President GREETINGS Jill Eiland, M.B.A. Representative of the Oregon University System and State Board of Higher Education Behzad Hosseini, ’96, MBA ’97 President, Portland State University Alumni Association FACULTY RECOGNITION RoyW. Koch STUDENT ADDRESS Ahmed Bohliqa Student Representative of the Class of 2011 Kayla Harrison Student Representative of the Class of 2011 HONORARY DOCTORATE Wim Wiewel RoyW. Koch The Honorable Betty Roberts, B.S ’58,J.D. D.Hum.L., h.c. ’ll Associate Justice, Oregon Supreme Court, Retired COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Scott Davis, B.S. ’74 D.Hum.L., h.c. ’ll Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UPS PRESENTATION AND CONFERRING OF DEGREES Wim Wiewel RoyW. Koch RECESSIONAL The audience is requested to remain seated during the processional and recessional. 3
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