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accalaureate Service
2008
Philander S m i t h College
Little RocL Arkansas
Celebrate the Renaissance
�History and /Mission
PHILANDER S M I T H COLLEGE
Officially founded in 1877, Philander Smith College is the result of the first attempt west of the Mississippi
River to make education available to freedmen (former African-American slaves). The forerunner of 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 Fittle 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 Mr.
Philander Smith had been a liberal donor to Asiatic Missions and had developed an interest in the work of the
church in the South. In 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 of 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 Fanguages. 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. In May, 1936, Dr. Marquis FaFayette Harris succeeded
Dr. Taylor as president o f the College. During the administration of Dr. Harris, the campus area was greatly enlarged.
In July, 1948, the site o f 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 o f 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 o f 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 of Philander Smith College in August 1987. He was succeeded
by Dr. Myer L. Titus, a 1954 graduate o f the institution. Dr. Titus retired as President on June 30, 1998. Dr. Trudie
Kibbe Reed was elected by the Board o f Trustees in February, 1998 as the eleventh and first female President of
Philander Smith College. I n the summer o f 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. In October of 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.
MISSION:
Philander Smith College is a small, privately supported, historically Black four-year liberal arts institution related
to the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. Currently offering four degrees
including the Bachelor of Arts, the Bachelor of Science, the Bachelor of Business Administration, and the Bachelor
of Social Work, the college's emerging mission is to graduate academically accomplished students, grounded
as advocates for social justice, intentionally changing the world for the better. Philander Smith College, the
only United Negro College Fund member institution in Arkansas, strives to provide a quality college education for
all regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin or ethnic background.
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The
Baccalaureate Service
of
Philander Smith College
Friday/ M a y i, 2008
7 p.m.
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M . L. Harris Auditorium
Little Rock/ Arkansas
Senior Theme:
"Enacting your dreams by taking your vision to the next level"
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�Baccalaureate Service
ORDER OF WORSHIP
PREFUDE
Paul Vogler
+PROCESSIONAF
War March of the Priest
Felix Mendelssohn
Paul Vogler
(Acolytes — Senior Class Members: Andrea J. Lee, Glenn H. Mayweather, Jason Ifill, Le'Toree Jackson)
+INVOCATION
ANTHEM
The Reverend Philip Hathcock, Central District Superintendent
Arkansas Conference, The United Methodist Church
77;^ Word Was God
Dr. Rosephanye Powell
Philander Smith Collegiate Chorale
THE GREETING
Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough
President, Philander Smith College
+PSALTER
Psalm 100:1-5 (UMH #821)
Response:
Angela P. Calvin, Senior Class
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, give thanks and sing!
Feader: Make a joyful noise to the Ford, all the lands.
People: Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into God's presence with singing!
Leader: Know that the Lord, who made us, is God.
People: We are the Lord's; we are the people of God,
the sheep of God's pasture. ( R )
Leader:
People:
Leader:
People:
Enter God's gate with thanksgiving, and God's court with praise!
Give thanks and bless God's name!
For the Lord is good;
God's steadfast love endures for ever;
God's faithfulness to all generations. ( R )
Response:
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice, give thanks and sing!
-(-RESPONSE
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James W. Johnson/J. Rosamond Johnson
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.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, have not
our weary feet, come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last, where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
+ All who are able, please stand.
�Baccalaureate Service
Thou who has by Thy might, led us into the light, keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee;
Lest, our heart drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand.
True to our GOD, true to our native land.
Dr. Rosephanye Powell
Wait On The Lord
Philander Smith Collegiate Chorale
ANTHEM
OLD TESTAMENT LESSON:
RESPONSE: Thanks be to God.
Gemessia D. Ford, Senior Class
1 Chronicles 4:10
Justin J . Powell, Senior Class
Luke 8:1-8
+GOSPEL LESSON:
RESPONSE: Thanks be to God.
Tara Y. Brown, Senior Class
PRAYER
Donald Lawrence
The Prayer ofjabez (Bless Me)
Chosen Generation Gospel Choir
Mr. Jeremy Carter, Director
PRAYER RESPONSE
The Reverend Ronnie-Miller Yow
Chaplain, Philander Smith College
INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER
arr. by Marvin Sapp
Never Would Have Made It
Mr. Darius Nelson and Chosen Generation
SELECTION
THE BACCALAUREATE SERMON
The Reverend Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III
Pastor, Friendship West Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas
The Reverend Ronnie-Miller Yow
THE GRADUATE'S BLESSING
+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.
Dr. James Rush
Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities
BENEDICTION
•RECESSIONAL
The Best Is Yet To Come
Chosen Generation
+ All who are able, please stand.
Donald Lawrence
�baccalaureate Speaker
Frederick D. Haynes I I I , D.Min.
Senior Pastor
Friendship-West Baptist Church
As senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church since 1983, Dr.
Fredrick D . Haynes I I I leads one of the largest church congregations
in Dallas with a membership of over 10,000.
A native of San Francisco, Calif., Haynes is the third generation in a
line of socially conscious preachers. He graduated from Bishop
College in 1982 with a bachelor of arts degree in religion and English
and holds a masters degree in divinity from Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. Additionally, he received his doctoral degree in
ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation while studying
at Oxford University in England and has been awarded honorary
doctorate degrees from Paul Quinn College and Texas College.
Community-minded, Dr. Haynes serves as vice-president of the African American Pastors Coalition and
is a former board member of the Dallas Urban League. He is co-chairman of the board of the Samuel
Dwight Proctor Conference and is an honorary committee member of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Project Foundation. He also serves as executive secretary of the Evangelism Board of the National Baptist
Convention,USA, Inc., and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
Besides his pastoral duties and community work, Pastor Haynes is founder and board chairman of three
limited liability companies of Friendship West: Faith Formula, Word Activated and Promise Land. The
recipient of numerous awards and accolades, Dr. Haynes also been inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr.
Board of Preachers at Morehouse College.
Dr. Haynes is married to Debra Peek-Haynes, founder and president of Quorum Commercial, a Dallas
commercial real estate firm, and they have one child, Abeni Jewel Haynes, 15.
�Commencement and Regalia
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 scholars 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 131th 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
�HILANDER
S M I T H
C O L L E G E
EST
1877
T H I N K J U S T I C E
Philander Smith College
One Trudie Kibbe Reed Drive
Little Rock, AR 72202
www.philander.edu
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