Year/Speaker(s) |
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Info |
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| 1940 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
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This was the first graduating class to recieve
diplomas that bore the name University of Connecticut. |
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| 1941 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
An outdoor ceremony was held in 1941, near Hawley
Armory |
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| 1942 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
Jorgensen's address was titled "The Authority
of the Liberated Yet Disciplined Mind". |
|
| 1943 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
This was the first year that women outnumbered
men in enrollment; it was also the first year
that the Graduate School began offering doctoral
degree programs.
|
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| 1944 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
Just two weeks after D-Day on the beaches of
Normandy, Jorgensen gave an address titled "Forming a Beachhead
for Peace" at a ceremony held in
Hawley Armory. |
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| 1945 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
Jorgensen celebrated his tenth year as president,
and delivered his eleventh commencement address. |
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| 1946 |
Maj.
Gen. John H. Hilldring |
|
Hilldring, a member of
the Class of 1918 of Connecticut Agricultural
College, was Assistant Secretary of State for
Occupied Areas, (1946-47). |
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| 1947 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
The ceremony was held outdoors on the "front
campus." |
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| 1948 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
The first ceremony held in the new "basketball
cage," also known as the ROTC Hangar. |
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| 1949 |
Albert
N. Jorgensen |
|
Jorgensen's fourteenth commencement address was
simply titled "Message to Graduates."
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