Veritas, Vol. 22, No. 07, December 11, 1981

              For the Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
IM community gathers for Inauguration
Nearly 3000 people, groundskeeper to governor, college kids to congressmen, assembled on the University’s manicured grounds last week for an event unparalleled in the institution s history with the inauguration of Edward Thaddeus Foote II as the University’s fourth president
Festivities preceeding the inaugural invocation included a standing room only concert on the evening of December 3, featuring performances by the University’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble conducted by Dr Alfred Reed, the Brass Choir; the Percussion Ensemble and the Men’s Chorus, in Gusman Concert Hall. The lively program included appearances by two guest conductors, Toshio Akiyama of Tokyo and Orlando Cora-Zeppenfeldt, a Ph D. student in conducting at the UM and a native of Puerto Rico.
As a perfect December day unfolded in Coral Gables, delegates and guests began arriving early Friday morning for the inauguration. While one band of inaugural workers calmly checked in visitors and escorted them about the campus, another band furiously tackled loose ends at the inaugural site. Looking little like they would later in the day, administrators in blue jeans numbered chairs, rehearsed the orchestra, arranged flowers, put faculty marshals through their paces, worked through sound and light arrangements and discussed camera angles with photographers and video cameramen.
At noon, lunch was served to visiting dignitaries, delegates, the Foote family, and representatives of the University in the Ibis cafeteria. The Florida style menu of gazpacho and a crabmeat and mandarin orange salad and the warmly decorated dining room mirrored the sentiments of the delegate from Harvard University who brought greetings from the country’s oldest university. Delegate A. Bronson Thayer reminded those assembled how lucky they were to Be in sunny Florida rather than in Boston where the temperature was hovering at the 40degree mark.
Additional remarks by the delegate from Oxford University, Senator J. Wil-
Inaugural photos by Richard Chimerlis. Dennis Debit »is. Angela Durruthy, .Warilyn Matter and Aiyma Nunez.
Faculty members and administrators waiting in Gusman Mall for the signal to march
liam Fulbright, and Robert Davis, Chairman of Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, brought the program to a close. Then, program participants rushed off to three campus locations to robe for the academic procession.
As music by Carilloneur Ralph Harris drifted across the campus, guests made their way to the bright blue and white tent erected on the green near the Richter Library. Seventeen members of the President’s family, Governor Bob Graham, visiting congressmen and representatives and six of the President’s roommates from his undergraduate days at Yale were the president’s special guests.
Walkie-talkies crackling, deputized administrators assembled marchers while Air Force ROTC Cadets ushered the audience to their seats. Volunteers from the division of development affairs, the UM Women’s Club and the UM Bookstore straightened the marchers’ regalia and solved disputes over the arrangement of the multicolored hoods.
Faculty, administrators and delegates stood ready on the walkways along the Richter Library while trustees and the president’s party assembled in the breezeway.
Grand Marshal Hollis Pnce, Jr, leading the academic procession
Janies McLamore, Chairman of the Board of Trustees congratulates the President while Vice-Chairmen Neil Schiff and Charles /:. Cobb, Jr. il & r) adjust the President’s Medal, the official symbol of office.
Led by Grand Marshal Hollis F Price, Jr of the School of Business Administration, the procession of nearly 700 marchers filed into the tent for the ceremony.
Following the invocation and well received remarks by student leaders William Mullowney and Don Hafele, faculty senate president Eugene Clasby, Alumni Association president Audrey Finkelstein, and Chancellor William Danforth of Washington University, St. Louis, President Foote delivered a 40-minute address outlining his aspirations for the University.
In spite of the chilly air the following evening, 1,000 people gathered for dinner under the inaugural tent, by then transformed into a formal setting with orchestra, flowers and candlelight. During dinner, the Inaugural Committee presented the president with a large photograph of the moment of investiture. The photograph, processed and framed overnight, captured Trustees Neil Schiff and Chuck Cobb, Jr, fastening the President’s Medal around President Foote’s neck as Chairman James W. McLamore delivered the words of investiture.
Excerpts from the president’s address follow.
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