Presidential Inauguration:
Installation Ceremony Program

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Presiding


Robert J. Lowe '62


Chair, Board of Trustees



Prelude


Selections, including:


Six Pieces (Pezel)


Three Pieces in Ab (Mauer)


Excerpts from Le Nozze de Figaro (Mozart)

Sonata in D (Scheidt)



Processional

Trumpet Voluntary (Purcell)

Fanfare (Sjolund)

National Anthem


Led by Michael Deane Lamkin, Professor of Music


Invocation


Rev. Catharine Grier Carlson


Chaplain of The Claremont Colleges



Alma Mater


Led by Michael Deane Lamkin, Professor of Music


Greetings



From Officials not Present


Acknowledged by a member of the Board of Trustees


From the United States Congress


The Honorable David Dreier '75


Chairman, House Rules Committee


From the City of Claremont


Mayor Karen Rosenthal


From the Delegates

Russell Osgood, President of Grinnell College


From The Claremont Colleges

Marilyn Chapin Massey, President of Pitzer College


From the Faculty of Claremont McKenna College

Anthony F. Fucaloro, Dean of the Faculty


From the Staff of Claremont McKenna College

Kate Fairley, Secretary/Receptionist


From the Students of Claremont McKenna College

Rodney Beard '00, President, Associated Students of CMC


From the Alumni of Claremont McKenna College

John Sprouse '88, President, CMC Alumni Association


From the founders of Claremont McKenna College

Sumner Benson '61

Son of George C.S. Benson, Founding President


Bruce McKenna

Grandson of Donald Carnegie McKenna, Founding Trustee


Choral Presentation


Choose Something Like A Star


Composer: Randall Thompson

Words: Robert Frost (1947)

Concert Choir of The Claremont Colleges

Anna DeMichele, Conductor

Paul R. Bishop, piano


Inaugural Poem


Robert Fossum

Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, Emeritus

Investiture of the President

Robert J. Lowe '62

Chair, Board of Trustees

Introduction of President Gann

William F. Podlich '66, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees and Chair of the Presidential Search

Inaugural Address
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Pamela B. Gann

President of Claremont McKenna College

Song

"Gaudeamus Igitur"

Traditional College Song (c. 1287)


Benediction

Rabbi Leslie Bergson

Chaplain of The Claremont Colleges

Recessional

Rondeau (Mouret)

All music performed by the James Linahon Brass




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