The FAS at Yale Commencement
A pair of long-serving members of the FAS who retired this year were selected to fill two of the most visible processional roles at Yale’s 2017 Commencement exercises: Craig Wright, the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor in the Music Department, who joined the FAS faculty in 1973, served as senior marshal; and Frank Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History and a member of the FAS since 1975, was the Corporation marshal.
In addition, this year marked the first time that a faculty marshal representing the FAS—Stephen Darwall, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy and outgoing chair of the Department of Philosophy—joined the academic procession alongside colleagues serving as marshals for Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the professional schools. Darwall carried a banner emblazoned with the FAS shield.
Tribute to retiring colleagues
In addition to Professors Wright and Snowden, eight long-standing members of the FAS began their retirements this year. Following custom, they were honored with tributes by colleagues at the Yale College faculty meeting in May. They are: Adel Allouche (lecturer in history), Stephen Anderson (Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics and professor of psychology), Karsten Harries ’58, ’62PhD (Howard H. Newman Professor of Philosophy), Dolores Hayden (professor of architecture and of American studies), Carol Jacobs (Birgit Baldwin Professor of German and professor of comparative literature), Marcia Johnson (Sterling Professor of Psychology), J. D. McClatchy ’74PhD (professor adjunct of English), and Michael Roemer (professor adjunct of art and of American studies).
Additional news, including copies of the tributes to retiring faculty and a slide show of photographs from Commencement 2017, can be found at the FAS web page.
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