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Officially founded in 1877, Philander Smith College is the result of the first attempt west o f the Mississippi
River to make education available to freedmen (former African-American slaves). The forerunner o f the College was
Walden Seminary, named in honor of Dr. J . M . Walden, one of the originators and the first Corresponding Secretary
of the Freedmen's A i d Society.
In 1882, Dr. G. W. Gray, president of Little Rock University, the institution for the Arkansas Annual Conference,
met Mrs. Adeline Smith, widow of Mr. Philander Smith of Oak Park, Illinois, while soliciting funds. The late M r .
Philander Smith had been a liberal donor to Asiatic Missions and had developed an interest in the work o f the
church in the South. I n making her gift to Dr. Gray, Mrs. Smith designated $10,500 for Walden Seminary. The
trustees accepted the gift and gave it special recognition by changing the name o f the struggling Walden Seminary to
Philander Smith College. A new site for the school had already been purchased at Eleventh and Izard Streets. The gift
made by Mrs. Smith was a significant contribution toward the construction of Budlong Hall, the first brick building on the
new site.
Philander Smith College was chartered as a four-year college on March 3, 1883. The first baccalaureate degree was
conferred in 1888. The first president, the Reverend Thomas Mason resigned in 1896. He was succeeded by a member
of the faculty of the College, the Reverend James Monroe Cox, Professor of Ancient Languages. Dr. Cox retired from
the presidency of the College in 1924, and was succeeded by the Reverend George Collins Taylor, a graduate of the
College. Dr. Taylor served as president from 1924 to 1936. I n May, 1936, Dr. Marquis LaFayette Harris succeeded
Dr. Taylor as president of the College. During the administration of Dr. Harris, the campus area was greatly enlarged.
In July, 1948, the site of the Little Rock Junior College, adjacent to the south end of Philander Smith's campus, was
purchased. O n March 30, 1949, after an extensive program of academic improvement, Philander Smith College was
fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Dr. Harris was succeeded by Dr. Roosevelt
David Crockett, a graduate of the institution on June 1, 1961. Dr. Dixon, Philander Smith's sixth president, took
office January 1, 1965. Dr. Dixon was succeeded by Dr. Walter R. Hazzard who took office as the seventh president
of the College on July 1, 1969. Dr. Hazzard was succeeded by Dr. Grant S. Shockley. Dr. Grant S. Shockley took
office as the eighth president of Philander Smith College on January 1, 1980. Dr. Shockley was succeeded by Dr.
Hazo W. Carter, Jr. Dr. Hazo W. Carter. Jr., elected unanimously July 19, 1983 by the Board of Trustees, took office
August 20, 1983. Dr. Carter resigned the presidency o f Philander Smith College in August 1987. He was succeeded
by Dr. Myer L. Titus, a 1954 graduate of the institution. Dr. Titus retired as President on June 30, 1998. Dr. Trudie
Kibbe Reed was elected by the Board of Trustees in February, 1998 as the eleventh and first female President of
Philander Smith College. I n the summer of 2004, Dr. Julius Scott was appointed by the Board of Trustees to serve as
the interim president while the College completed a national search for the next president. I n October o f 2004, the
Board announced the selection of Dr. Walter M . Kimbrough as the 12th president of Philander Smith College. He
took office on December 13, 2004.
Philander Smith College has a rich Christian heritage. It has maintained a close relationship with the church
across the years. It acknowledges a definite obligation to The United Methodist Church. The College receives funding
from The General Board of Higher Education and Campus Ministry of The United Methodist Church. Philander
Smith College strives to instill the desire to serve in its faculty and students. This desire is at the core of its educational
philosophy. Across the years, it has earned the designation as a "College of Service and Distinction."
MISSION
Philander Smith College is a small, privately supported, historically black, four-year liberal arts, career-oriented
college, related to the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church and affiliated
with the United Negro College Fund. Philander Smith College's mission is to grant access to higher education to
individuals who are, or who have the potential to be, academically talented, regardless o f their social, economic, or
educational background. A key aspect of the College's mission is the pursuit o f excellence through the provision of a
quality college education for all, regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin or ethnic background. The College
currently offers four degrees: the Bachelor of Arts Degree, the Bachelor of Science Degree, the Bachelor of Business
Administration Degree, and the Bachelor of Social Work Degree.
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ORDER OF WORSHIP
PRELUDE
Philander Smith College Collegium
Dr. Hyunjung Chung and Mr. Timothy Tucker
•PROCESSIONAL
"Triumphant March"
Verdi
Dr. Phyllis Ruocco
(Acolytes — Senior Class members: Richard Garvin, Tamra Isom, Krystal Weaver and Gwen Mayo-Brown)
•INVOCATION
The Reverend Dr. Felton Edwin May
Dean of the Harry R. Kendall Science and Health Mission Center
THE GREETING
ANTHEM
Dr. Walter M . Kimbrough, President
"Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
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Philander Smith Collegiate Choir
•PSALTER
Psalm 8
Richard Bournes, Senior Class
Response: Sing Praise to God who reigns above, the God of all creation.
Leader:
People:
Leader:
People:
O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is your name in all the earth!
Your glory is chanted above the heavens by the mouth of babes and infants:
You have set up a defense against your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
Response: Sing Praise to God who reigns above, the God of all creation.
Leader: When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
People: The moon and the stars which you have established;
Leader: What are human beings that you are mindful of them,
People: And mortals that you care for them?
Leader: Yet you have made them little less than God,
People: And crowned them with glory and honor.
Leader: You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
People: You have put all things under their feet,
Leader: All sheep and oxen,
People: And also the beasts of the field,
Leader: The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
People: Whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
Leader: O Lord, our Lord,
People: How majestic is your name in all the earth!
Response: Sing Praise to God who reigns above, the God of all creation.
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"Lift Every Voice and Sing"
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"Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of Liberty; let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies, let is resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won.
arr. Doris Jones
"Even Me"
Philander Smith Collegiate Choir
ANTHEM
Joyce Winkler, Senior Class
II Corinthians 5: 16-21
EPISTLE LESSON:
RESPONSE: Thanks be to God.
•GOSPEL LESSON:
Terence Bolden, Senior Class
Luke 10: 29-37
RESPONSE: Thanks be to God.
Korey James, Senior Class Chaplain
PRAYER
PRAYER RESPONSE
arr. By Michael Kelsey
"Great Jehovah God"
The Reverend Ronnie Miller-Yow and the Philander Smith Collegiate Choir
The Reverend Ronnie Miller-Yow
Pastor, Wesley United Methodist Church
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER
"Rock A My Soul"
Philander Smith Collegiate Choir
SELECTION
THE BACCALAUREATE SERMON
arr. By Howard Roberts
The Honorable Henry "Hank" Wilkins IV
Senator, State of Arkansas
Pastor, Saint James United Methodist Church, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
•ALMA MATER
Dear Alma Mater, tried and true, We'll win respect and love for you,
We pledge our hearts to you each day, To do our best, at work, at play.
Dear P.S.C., when from your fold, We'll lift the dear old Green and God.
O'er Alma Mater vigil keep, Her high ideals we'll strive to meet.
When college days are at an end, Our hearts will ever toward you bend.
With loyalty, we'll always be, A part of you, Dear P.S.C.
BENEDICTION
•RECESSIONAL
The Reverend Dr. Felton Edwin May
Dean of the Harry R. Kendall Science and Health Mission Center
"O When the Saints Go Marching In"
Philander Smith Collegiate Choir
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�T H E HONORABLE H A N K WILKINS I V
Senator, State of Arkansas
Pastor, Saint James United Methodist Church
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Henry "Hank" Wilkins IV was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas where he attended the
public schools graduating from Pine Bluff High School. He obtained his bachelor's
degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Following college he attended
law school at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas. During
his years in law school he acted on the call to the ordained ministry, and began his
pastoral ministry in 1977 as pastor of the Saint James United Methodist Church while
still a full-time law school student. Following law school, Wilkins attended seminary,
pursuing the Master of Divinity Degree. He received the Master of Divinity Degree
from Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. During his tenure in
graduate school, Wilkins and his wife served as parents in a group home licensed
for up to 7 delinquent teenagers appointed by the courts in Kansas City. Rev. Hank
Wilkins has served on the Area Staff of the United Methodist Church in Arkansas and
has been pastor of churches in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. Every church
where he has served as pastor has been blessed with significant numerical, spiritual and
financial growth. During the past 28 years in ministry, Pastor Wilkins has also served two "cross racial" congregations;
one in Kansas City and the other in Dallas. Wilkins has been pastor of the Saint James Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
since 1994. During that time, Saint James has experienced a thirty-fold growth in membership. The historic Saint James
congregation moved in December 2005 to a new multi-million dollar complex near the University of Arkansas at Pine
Bluff where Wilkins is also a campus minister. During 2004 the campus ministry completed construction of a gymnasium
center to enhance its outreach to the college. Wilkins is active at many levels, having been president of the PTA in three
different public schools, president of the Dallas Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Secretary of
the National Black Methodists, and was honored by his graduate theological school in 2000 with their Graduate Award.
In addition to the hundreds of awards presented to him, the Henry "Hank" Wilkins IV Community Center was named
in his honor in 2001. Dr. Wilkins has taught for the past fifteen- (16) years in the Perkins School of Theology Course of
Study at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He also taught for several years in the Saint Paul School of Theology
Course of Study in Kansas City. He has participated in and preached in evangelistic, medical and fact-finding missions
in such places as the Philippians and Costa Rica. Hank Wilkins IV received the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from
Philander Smith College in 1998. In addition to his church and community work, Wilkins is currently a State Senator for
the State of Arkansas having been elected to the Senate for two consecutive terms after serving one term in the Arkansas
House of Representatives, where both his father and mother have also served. He is chairman of Legislative Joint Audit,
Assistant President Pro Tern of the Senate, Immediate Past President of the Legislative Black Caucus, Immediate Past
President of the Legislative Black Caucus Foundation, Chairman of the Correctional Institutions Committee of the
Legislative Council, and in addition also serves as a member of numerous other legislative committees including the
Senate Education Committee, the Facilities Committee and Vice Chairman of the Senate State Agencies Committee.
Senator Wilkins and his wife Phyllis have been married for 28 years. Mrs. Wilkins is a Licensed Master of Social Work
in Clinical Social Work. The Wilkins' have two sons, Henry "Hank" Wilkins V, a recent graduate of Harvard University,
now a graduate student at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences School of Public Health, and Wesley Edward
Wilkins, a college freshman at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.
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COMMENCEMENT
The term "Commencement" derives from a practice in the Medieval University where it was customary for a candidate for
an academic degree to present a public lecture or disputation to the faculty and other scholars gathered to hear it. If the disputation was successfully defended and accepted, the candidate was "Admitted" to the degree "with all the rights, privileges
and responsibilities thereunto appertaining." This first public lecture or disputation was originally called an "Inception." It
signified the beginning or "Commencement" of the scholar's academic career in the degree to which he had been admitted.
The ceremony surrounding this inception or "graduation" has subsequently come to be called Commencement. Today,
Philander Smith College celebrates its 129th Commencement.
ACADEMIC REGALIA
The distinctive dress associated with academic processions and convocations dates from the Middle Ages, when long-sleeved,
hooded gowns were necessary for warmth in the unheated stone colleges. Most of the scholars were clerics in holy orders,
and they wore cloaks to which were attached hoods that could be pulled up to cover their tonsured heads. Over the centuries, much diversity occurred in academic costumes. To bring some order to this diversity, in 1894 in the United States,
the Intercollegiate Commission met in New York and agreed on a code of academic dress which has become the standard
for most colleges and universities. According to this code, both the styling and color of the regalia have significance. The
design of the gown indicates the degree. The bachelor's gown is simple, with a full sleeve. The master's gown is much like
the bachelor's, except for the long sleeves, which hang loose. The doctor's gown is fuller and more elaborate. It has velvet
edging and three velvet stripes on the full sleeves. Usually, the color of the gown is black. Hoods, which are worn over the
gowns, are similar for all degrees, although differing slightly in length. The candidates for the bachelor's degree usually do
not wear the hood. The hood has a velvet edging which indicates the area of the degree, and the inside or lining of the hood
is satin in the colors of the college or university granting the degree. A partial list of the degree colors to be found on the
edge of the hood or the trimming on the doctor's gown is given below. The usual cap, proper for all degrees, is the black
mortarboard, although some colleges use the beret. Tassels, usually black, are worn over the left front quarter of the cap
for a degree holder and on the right for a candidate for a degree. Holders of the doctorate may wear tassels of gold thread.
Holders may also wear tassels in the colors of the college or university granting the degree.
Agriculture
Arts, Letters, Humanities
Business Administration
Dentistry
Economics
Education
Engineering
Fine Arts, Architecture
Forestry
Journalism
Law.
Library Science
Maize
White
Drab
Lilac
Copper
Light Blue
Orange
Brown
Russet
Crimson
Purple
Lemon
Music
Medicine
Oratory Speech
Philosophy
Physical Education
Public Administration
Public Health
Science
Social Science
Social Services
Theology/Divinity
Veterinary Science
Pink
Green
Silver Gray
Dark Blue
Sage Green
Peacock Blue
Salmon
Golden Yellow
Cream
Citron
Scarlet
Gray
�Philander Smith College
One Trudie Kibbe Reed Drive
Little Rock, AR 72202
www.philander.edu
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