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UT EXES CELEB During the Processional, President Peter Flawn leads the President ' s Party into the ceremony. The 102nd Commencement exercises marked the last time for Flawn ' s participation, due to his announced resignation, effective Aug. 31, 1985. Photo by Kevin Gutting As graduation indicated the end to the carefree, college days, it signified the passing from one stage of life to another. Liberal Arts graduate Marikay Morris ponders her future while waiting for the evening commencement to begin. Photo by Morris Goen Filing in by colleges, graduates await the last chance to bid farewell to their soon-to-be alma mater, the University of Texas. Photo by Mor- ris Goen Representing the 1920s and 1930s, Jane Weinert Blumberg addresses the graduates at Commencement and reflects on her days at her alma mater, the University of Texas. In addition to Blumberg, three other speakers, who represented a different period in the University ' s history spoke in recognition of the Ex-Students ' Association ' s 100th anniversary. Photo by Mor- ris Goen 18 Features
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RATE UNIVERSITY ALUMS CREATE SPECIAL MOOD CELEBRATING 100 YEARS by ROGER GRAPE Throughout the University ' s 102 years, graduation commencement ceremonies came and went. In recogni- tion of the UT Ex-Student ' s Association ' s 100th anniversary, however, the 4,900 members of the class of 1985 had some extra speakers at their ceremony on the plaza in front of the Main Building on May 18. The ceremony followed the ceremonies put on by each in- dividual college and school, held earlier in the day. Those ceremonies recognized each graduate in- dividually as they walked across the stage. The Univer- sity invited four prominent alumni to serve as speakers at the official campus-wide ceremony. The speakers delivered brief commence- ment reflections on the decade or decades in which they graduated. The speakers were chosen from a list drawn up by the Ex- Students ' Association Century Commit- tee, and UT President Peter Flawn made the final decision on the speakers. As Flawn made his opening remarks and introduced the speakers at the beginning of the ceremony, two students and one non-student climbed out of a window to the Main Building ' s top balcony. The three then shouted slogans in favor of divestiture of the University ' s holdings in South Africa. The three were apprehended by Univer- sity policemen and taken off the balcony. They were later charged with criminal trespassing and disruptive ac- tivity. FEATURES Edited by Joanna Fields and Lisa Gaumnitz Jane Weinert Blumberg, a former member of the U T System Board of Regents from Seguin, represented the alumni of the 1920s and 19308. Dr. Mairo Ramirez, a nationally known physician from Rio Grande City, spoke for the alumni of the 1940s. Lloyd Hand, former U.S. chief of pro- tocol from Washington D.C., represented the 1950s, and Prudence Mahaffey Mackintosh, an author and contributing editor to Texas Monthly magazine from Dallas, spoke of the 1960s to the present. To add another alumni touch to the event, 100 former UT students were asked to march in the evening processional. Instead of wearing tradi- tional academic caps and gowns, they were iden- tified by bronze medallions, suspended by orange ribbons. The special medallions were engraved with the Ex-Students ' Association ' s 100th an- niversary logo. Following the remarks of the speakers, approximately 4,900 degrees were conferred by Jess Hay, chairman of the UT System Board of Regents, and by Flawn. After doctoral candidates were in- dividually recognized, and closing com- ments made, the Tower ' s shaft and observation deck were lit orange. Following the closing of the ceremony, the class of 1985 tossed their mortar boards into the air, symbolizing the end of their years of studying, going to classes and losing sleep at the Univer- sity, and their beginning of a new life out in the real world. Features
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