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Delegates from 150 Colleges...to Participate

Delegates from 150 Colleges, Universities
And Societies to Participate in Inauguration

In an outdoor ceremony marked by pomp and circumstance and the presence 
of delegates from 150 universities and learned societies throughout the 
world, Charles M. Vest will be inaugurated as the 15th president of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday, May 10.

The ceremony, beginning at 9:30am with a fanfare and academic 
procession, will be held in Killian Court on Memorial Drive.

Dr. Vest, who took office at MIT in October after serving as provost at 
the University of Michigan, will be invested by his predecessor in the 
presidency, Dr. Paul E. Gray, now Chairman of the MIT Corporation, the 
Institute's governing body.

Following the investiture, President Vest will deliver an inaugural 
address.

His audience will include the presidents of many leading colleges and 
universities, including President Derek C. Bok of Harvard, MIT's sister 
university in Cambridge, and President James J. Duderstadt of the 
University of Michigan.

President Frank H. Rhodes of Cornell University will deliver remarks at 
the inauguration ceremony.

Among the foreign universities represented are those from Canada, 
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Norway and 
Taiwan. 

The academic procession forms at the DuPont Center Gymnasium at 9:10am 
and then proceeds to the 77 Massachusetts Avenue entrance. It will 
arrive at Killian Court in time to enter the court at 9:30.	

Chief Marshal for the procession will be Carl M. Mueller, chairman of 
the Corporation Committee on the Presidency. Associate Marshals are 
Professors John G. Kasakian and Martin F. Schlecht.

At the head of the procession will be the Principals and Guests of 
Honor, led by their marshal, Claude R. Canizares, professor of physics 
and chairman of the Inaugural Committee. This group includes, in 
addition to President Vest, Chairman Gray, President Bok of Harvard, 
President Duderstadt of Michigan and President Rhodes of Cornell, David 
S. Saxon, Honorary Chairman of the MIT Corporation; Howard W. Johnson, 
president emeritus and former chairman of the Corporation; Jerome B. 
Wiesner, president emeritus; Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts; 
Governor William F. Weld of Massachusetts; Mayor Alice K. Wolf of 
Cambridge; President Niara Sudarkasa of Lincoln University, representing 
the nation's historically black colleges and universities; Stephen J. 
Tapscott, MIT professor of literature; Susan P. Thomas, MIT Chaplain; 
Daniel Shevitz, MIT Chaplain; Stacy E. McGeever, Class of 1993, 
president of the Undergraduate Association; and Michael D. Grossberg, 
president of the Graduate Student Council.

President Vest and Chairman Gray will stand in review of the procession 
as it passes into Killian Court and will then be escorted to the stage.

Chairman Gray will serve as master of ceremonies for the program, which 
will open with the National Anthem sung by Professor Ellen T. Harris, 
associate provost for the arts, and an invocation by Reverend Thomas.

Professor Tapscott will read an original Poem of Welcome.

In the event of severe weather, the procession will go from the duPont 
Center to Kresge Auditorium, where the inaugual program will be held. It 
will be broadcast throughout the Institute on closed-circuit television 
and be shown on a large screen at the ice rink in the Johnson Athletics 
Center.

The inauguration ceremony is accompanied by a month-long series of 
celebratory events, which included the Johnson Games last weekend, and 
will include the burying of a time capsule tomorrow morning (Thursday, 
May 9) at 11am on Killian Court near the Henry Moore sculpture, concerts 
and symposia.

It will be followed on Friday by a community reception and celebration, 
on the Kresge Oval, at 11:30am.	

Divisions in the procession, and their marshals, are:

MIT Corporation--Marshal, Mary Francis Wagley, Life Member of the 
Corporation; Associate Marshals, Vice President Constantine B. Simonides 
and Vice President and Treasurer Glenn P. Strehle.

Institute Professors and Members of the Faculty Advisory Committee on 
the Presidency--Marshal, Institute Professor Hermann A. Haus.

Academic Institutions--Marshal, Professor Mark S. Wrighton, Provost; 
Associate Marshals, Dean Gene M. Brown of the School of Science and 
Acting Dean Philip S. Khoury of the School of Humanities and Social 
Science.

Learned Societies and Scientific and Cultural Institutions--Marshall, 
Professor Ellen T. Harris, Associate Provost for the Arts; Associate 
Marshals, Dean John de Monchaux of the School of Architecture and 
Planning and Dean Lester C. Thurow of the Sloan School of Management.

Faculty--Marshal, Professor Henry J. Jacoby, Chair of the Faculty; 
Associate Marshals, Professors Robert E. Cohen and Jack P. Ruina.

Research Staff--Marshall, Professor J. David Litster, Director of the 
Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory; Associate Marshals, Professor 
Walter E. Morrow, Jr., Director of Lincoln Laboratory, and Dean Joel 
Moses of the School of Engineering.

Staff and Administration--Marshal, Vice President William R. Dickson; 
Associate Marshals, Vice President James D. Bruce and Vice President 
James J. Culliton.

Students--Marshal, Professor Samuel J. Keyser, Associate Provost for 
Education Programs and Policy; Associate Marshals, Dean Frank E. Perkins 
of the Graduate School and Dean for Student Affairs Arthur C. Smith.

Association of Alumni and Alumnae--Marshal, Christian J. Matthew, 
President of the Alumni Association; Associate Marshals, William J. 
Hecht, Executive Vice President of the Alumni Association and Karen 
Mathiasen, Chairwoman of the Alumni Fund Board.

Music for the occasion will be provided by The MIT Concert Brass Choir, 
on the stairs of 77 Massachusetts Avenue where the procession forms, and 
by The Boston Brass Ensemble, in Killian Court. The brass choir is 
directed by Herbert Philpott and the brass ensemble by John D. Corley, 
Jr., a lecturer in the MIT music and theater arts department. Special 
fanfares have been composed by four members of the music faculty, John 
H. Harbison, Peter Child, Edward Cohen and Evan Ziiporyn.