University of Dundee:Graduation 1999

Organ Recital by Robert A. Lightband, MA
PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY
Chancellor
Professor Sir James Whyte Black, FRS, FRSE, FRCP
Principal and Vice-Chancellor
Dr Ian James Graham-Bryce, BA, MA, BSc, DPhil, FRSC, CChem, FRSE
Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal
Professor David Berridge Swinfen, MA, DPhil, FRHistS
Deputy Principals
Professor John Raymond Grinyer, MSc, FCA
Professor Peter William Howie, MD, FRCOG
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing
Professor David Annan Levison, MBChB, MD, FRCPath
Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering
Professor David Howell Boxer, BSc, PhD, PGCE
Dean of the Faculty of Law and Accountancy
Mr Robert Alexander Lyon, MA, CA, CMA
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Professor Huw Roland Jones, BA, MA
Dean of the Faculty of Duncan of Jordanstone College
Mr William Barr, BA, MSTD, MCSD, FRSA
Secretary
Mr Robert Seaton, MA, LLB
The Processions will enter the Hall in the following order:
The Assembly will remain seated

Officers of the Students’ Association and Sports Union
Members of the Academic Staff
Members of the Senatus Academicus
Professores Emeriti
Members of the University Court
Honorary Graduates

The "Gaudeamus" will be played

The Assembly will stand

The Secretary
The Chaplain
Presenters of the Honorary Graduands
The Deans of the Faculties
The Chairman of Court
The Honorary Graduands
The Chancellor’s Assessor
The Rector’s Assessor
The Deputy Principals
The Vice-Principal
The City Mace
The Lord Provost
The Principal and Vice-Chancellor
The University Mace
The Chancellor

OPENING PRAYER

The Chaplain

The Assembly will sit

The Chancellor will rise and say:

"I call upon the Principal and Vice-Chancellor to address the Assembly".

ADDRESS BY THE PRINCIPAL AND VICE-CHANCELLOR

ACADEMIC DRESS

The academic dress of the University of Dundee was designed to emphasise in certain ways the special association of the University with the City and Royal Burgh of Dundee, the patron saint of which is Saint Mary the Virgin. The colour by long tradition associated with Saint Mary The Virgin is "liturgical" blue, and her symbol is the madonna lily, which appears conspicuously in the City Coat of Arms. The City-University association is evoked in the academic dress by the use of the colour (Stewart Blue - BCC149) nearest to "liturgical" blue in the robes of the principal officers of the University; in the facings of the Rector's robe; in the body of doctors' robes and capes of doctors' hoods; and in the yokes and frontal embellishments of student gowns. Both Scotland and The Virgin Mary are called to mind by the use of the thistle and by the fleur-de-lis (as an echo of the lily) in preference to the more usual frogging on the sleeves of the Chancellor's and Vice-Chancellor's robes.

GRADUATION BONNET

The cap with which the Chancellor symbolically confers degrees is a traditional Dundee bonnet - spun, woven, dyed and embroidered for the University by the Dundee Bonnetmakers Craft - and first used by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the first Chancellor of the University from 1967 to 1977, at the 1971 Graduation Ceremony.

ACADEMIC PROCESSION

University processions traditionally enter in reverse order of seniority, led by the officers of the Students Association, with the City mace preceding the Lord Provost and the University mace preceding the Chancellor. At the end of the ceremony the procession leaves the Hall this time in true order of seniority led by the University mace and the Chancellor and joined by the new graduates in token of their accession to the academic community.

GAUDEAMUS

The Gaudeamus is played as the Chancellor's Procession enters the Hall.
It is a well-known student song of German origin traditionally sung in
Universities throughout Europe.

Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus:
Post jucundam jucentutem, post molestam senectutem
Nos habebit humus, nos habebit humus

Vivat Academia, vivant Professores,
Vivat membrum quodlibet, vivant membra quaelibet,
Semper sint in flore, semper sint in flore!

Pereat tristitia, pereant osores,
Pereat diabolous, quivis antiburschius,
Atque irrisores, atque irrisores!

An approximate translation might be -
"Let us rejoice while we are young:
after the joys of youth and the troubles of age
we shall return to the earth

Long live the University
Long live the Professors,
Long live each member, may they always flourish!

Perish sadness, perish the mockers.
perish the devil
and all those who hate students!"