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Aug. 22, 2002--The University of Delaware will officially welcome members of the Class of 2006 at New Student Convocation, scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 3, in the Bob Carpenter Center, Routes 4 and 896, Newark. During the ceremony, Audrey Forbes Manley, recently retired president of Atlanta’s Spelman College, will be awarded an honorary doctor of science degree.
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| Audrey Forbes Manley
Photo courtesy of Spelman College
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The ceremony, which officially opens the University’s 2002-03 academic year, is open to new students, their parents and family and the University community, as well as the general public.
UD students, faculty and staff can access special bus transportation to the Convocation ceremony, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Buses will pick up passengers at the Smith Hall overpass, MBNA America Hall, the Perkins Student Center and the Trabant University Center.
At the ceremony, freshman Michael Franzone of East Meadow, N.Y., will lead the singing of the national anthem and the alma mater. Franzone was the unanimous choice of UD voice faculty. This is the first time a freshman has been chosen to sing at this ceremony, and it marks the start of a new tradition for New Student Convocation.
Other convocation traditions will include the presentation of the class flag and an official University welcome from President David P. Roselle.
Manley, the first Spelman alumna to become president of the institution. has had an illustrious career in medicine, education and government, serving as acting surgeon general of the United States from 1995-97 and as deputy surgeon general from 1994-95. She was the first African-American woman to achieve the rank of assistant surgeon general and the first to be named deputy assistant secretary for health.
Manley graduated cum laude from Spelman in 1955 and earned her medical degree from Meharry Medical College in 1959. She holds a master’s of public health degree from Johns Hopkins University. After completing her residency at Cook County Children’s Hospital, she became the first African-American woman to be named chief resident of the celebrated medical facility. Trained in neonatology, she is one of the nation’s leading physicians, clinicians, medical academicians and public health professionals. A member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, she is widely published in medical literature.
UD has a special relationship with Spelman College in connection with the Paul R. Jones Collection of African-American Art. Jones, an Atlanta entrepreneur, gave his world-class collection of 1,000-plus pieces by African-American artists to UD in February of 2001. Mechanical Hall on the Newark campus will become the home of the collection, and plans for its remodeling are now under way.
An exhibition of photographs by the distinguished Tuskegee Institute photographer P.H. Polk that premiered in the University Gallery at Old College, traveled to Spelman, opening in October, and UD and Spelman are enjoying student and faculty exchange programs.
This fall, a recent Spelman graduate, Aimee Miller, will enter the Department of Art's MFA degree program in painting at UD, and in March, a third-year art conservation student from UD visited Spelman, conducting conservation treatments on historic Spelman College photographs. The work took place in Spelman chemistry labs, with students, faculty and staff interaction. Debbie Norris, chairperson of the Department of Art Conservation at the University, also visited the campus in Atlanta, conducting a one-day workshop on preservation of family photographs.
A joint advisory committee has been established with Spelman College, and members will work to advance the relationship between the two schools.
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