甜蜜的16岁

哈利J. 拦,小. was inaugurated as 十大正规网赌平台’s 16th president in a joyous April 23 ceremony showcasing the arts and Elam’s call to bring “New Harmonies” to an Occidental liberal arts education. The ceremony in Remsen Bird Hillside Theater on a picture-perfect day featured numerous personal tributes to Elam from family, 朋友, 和同事们在一群热情的校友面前, 学生, 父母, 教师, 工作人员, 受托人, 以及之前的西方总统.

“你知道, I am starting to think that every new president should have to wait two years for their inauguration. 这将是一个非常不同的就职演说,埃兰说, 谁在7月1日就职, 2020, four months after the surging pandemic led Occidental to switch to remote learning.

埃兰用他的 演讲 to both defend the liberal arts—"I would argue that liberal arts that teach us to think critically, 创造性地解决问题, to apply learning adaptively are more important than ever”—and to call for their reimagining. “在氧, I see this involving not just new programmatic inventions but fresh juxtapositions of ideas, remixing past practice with current thinking to evoke bold future-looking initiatives,他说.

“这些‘新的和谐’,我这样称呼他们, 将旧的传统融入新的框架, 引入新的视角, 新的做事方式,他接着说. “Such new harmonies call for a reinvention of relationships and interconnections across fields of inquiry and research, signaling not an end to disciplinary expertise but the cross-fertilization that both 学生 and 教师 seek and need.”

“新和声”一词的使用是有意为之, intended to “foreground the arts as a vital component of the College’s future,埃兰说, 国际著名戏剧学者. “My hope—figuratively and literally—is to discover and implement ways in which Occidental can create its own new sound and sing its own particular music.”

Elam also used the occasion to announce that Occidental has reached a significant milestone in its comprehensive campaign—the most ambitious in the College’s 135-year history—by reaching its $225 million goal one year early. “Not many presidents can say they met a comprehensive campaign goal before they were even inaugurated!他说. “还有一年的时间, 这个非凡的社区, 我相信我们只会继续建设.”

Stanford 受托人罗伯塔·丹宁 and her husband Steve Denning, 斯坦福大学董事会前主席, 都向以拦进贡. “西方石油公司很好地选择了它的新总统. Harry Elam is a leader who doesn’t exhort from the front nor prod from behind but instead walks alongside as a partner,罗伯塔·丹宁说. “我们知道哈里·埃拉姆是总统, 十大正规网赌平台 will be well-positioned to demonstrate the value, 还有这些值, 未来几十年的文科教育.”

电视和电影演员斯特林K. 棕色（的）和Ryan Michelle bath, who met during a Stanford theater production directed by Elam, paid tribute to their friend and mentor in the form of a letter to their 10-year-old son about the benefits of going to college.

“You will sit in class and people not only impart knowledge but consistently challenge you to write better, 听好, 读更好, 提出更好的问题，给出更好的答案,”巴瑟说。. “It is the only place where you will encounter people who are deeply invested in you being a bigger and better version of yourself simply because they are so passionate about education that they can’t help bring out the best in you. 如果你幸运的话，你会找到一个哈利J. 埃兰或者米歇尔·埃兰.”

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在她的讲话中，前美国国务卿希拉里.S. Ambassador to Senegal Harriet Elam-Thomas spoke about the power of the arts and the central role they have played in the career of her nephew (who the family calls Jay). “Everything Harry Elam touches is infused with his deep commitment to art and its impact on the human condition,埃兰-托马斯说. “Art’s transformative power to touch the corners of the soul otherwise unreachable is the hallmark of Jay’s persona.”

突出了西方艺术的繁荣状态, the ceremony included a performance of the African-American anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” in an arrangement by Chester Cahill ’24 and Leslie Garcia ’24 for orchestra, 爵士乐团, and Glee Club; singer and actor Lencia Kebede ’16 singing “I Know Where I’ve Been,——出自音乐剧 头发定型剂; and an original composition for flute, 单簧管, 小提琴, 大提琴, 和钢琴, “一起孤单/,亚当·勋伯格的, 音乐副教授.