News Release:
Newly-installed Chancellor to conduct Graduation
| 16/3/04 050/04 The Installation of the University of New England's new Chancellor, Mr John Cassidy, will immediately precede the first UNE graduation ceremony for 2004, the University's 50th anniversary year. This Friday morning [19 March], after accepting the gold-embroidered robe that UNE Chancellors have worn throughout those 50 years, Mr Cassidy will deliver his Inaugural Address and preside over the graduation ceremony. The Installation will begin at 10.30 am. The Occasional Address to the 240 assembled graduands from the University's Faculty of Arts will be presented by Emeritus Professor Graham Maddox, who retired from the Faculty last year as Professor of Politics. Professor Maddox, an internationally-renowned political historian, was a long-serving Dean of the Faculty of Arts (including a double term as Foundation Executive Dean). He inspired several generations of UNE students with his insightful scholarship and concern for social justice. After the Occasional Address, the Chancellor will confer on Professor Maddox the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
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This will be the first of four Autumn Graduation ceremonies for 2004. At the second ceremony (for Economics, Business and Law, and Combined Law degrees), on Saturday 20 March, the Occasional Address speaker will be Justice Roslyn Atkinson, Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. The two other ceremonies will be on Friday 2 April (Education and Professional Studies) and Saturday 3 April (The Sciences and Health). Altogether, about 2,300 students are graduating from UNE this Autumn, with more than 1,000 of these attending the ceremonies. They, together with their relatives and friends, will make up audiences averaging about 1,500 people at each of the four graduation ceremonies. The ceremonies will follow UNE tradition in taking place on the lawns of Booloominbah, the imposing 19th-century house at the heart of the University's history and identity. In case of rain, proceedings will move to UNE's Lazenby Hall for a double ceremony (morning and afternoon). Media contact: Jim Scanlan, Public Relations, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3049 or Marney Tilley, Graduation Officer, UNE, Armidale (02) 6773 3459. |
