Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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Hammond’s Inauguration— by Mildy Hall Five months after being named the eighth president of the university, Edward Hammond was officially inaugurated. Whether or not to have an inauguration was the purpose of the Presidential Transition Committee, Bill Jellison, vice presi- dent of student affairs and chairman of the committee, said. The committee decided to go ahead with an inauguration weekend. The weekend was planned to start Friday, Oct. 30. The actual inauguration was Sunday at the Gross Memorial Coliseum. Jellison provided the list of names from which the rest of the committee members were chosen. Gerald Tomanek, outgoing president, was master of ceremo- nies for the inauguration and Jellison was grand marshall of the ceremonies. Jellison was more than qualified to serve as grand marshall for the event, and was an obvious selection to do so. I knew the president before he came here, I have spent more than a quarter of a century on campus and I have seen four presidents inaugurated here, Jellison said. Publicty for the ceremonies started as soon as the decision was The new president. Paul Shephard, president of the Endow- ment Association; Donald C. Slawson, chairman of the Board of Regents; Hammond; and Warren Armstrong, president of the Wichita State University, sing the university Alma Mater. Inauguration 12 made to have the inauguration. Bob Lowen, director of univer- sity relations, was in charge of that area. We did the publicity before and after the inauguration, Lowen said. Lowen and Suzanne Klaus used the Macintosh computers in the university relations office to design the invitations and set type for the other publications. We also kept records of the invitations sent, returned and accepted, Lowen said. Other inauguration activities included a Sunday luncheon, which Lowen was the master of ceremonies for. It was after the luncheon that the actual inauguration began. The university presidential medallion was passed to Ham- mond by Donald Slawson, chairman of the Board of Regents, officially marking the beginning of his presidency. Hammond had announced at the beginning of the year that he wanted to electrify the campus, and that was the basis for his speech. The purpose of this inauguration weekend is to solicit your involvement in the Fort Hays State University dream, Ham- mond said. That dream, according to Hammond, is to electrify the campus in a way that every graduate is computer literate. PHOTO LAB

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Senior concert choir David Milhonn, Tonya Hemphill, Amy Marshall, Maury Schulte, Michelle Glad, Layton Nance, Blanche Boone and Stephanie Janzen led the the singing of the Alma Mater at the inaugu- ration ceremony. Inauguration -+A L — 13 PHOTO LAB