The Ceremony
The inauguration ceremony for Dr. Richard D. Muma will be held at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex at 29th Street N. and Oliver, and will be livestreamed on YouTube and campus television monitors.
Ceremony Details
2:30 p.m. Oct. 29, 2021
Hughes Metropolitan Complex — Lowe Auditorium
5015 E. 29th St. North, 鶹ýӳƷ, Kansas
The Inauguration Installation Ceremony
Processional
Opening of Ceremonies
Whitney Bailey, PhD Athletic Training Clinical Coordinator College of Applied Studies
Faculty Senate President
Presentation of Colors and National Anthem Colors
鶹ýӳƷ – Army ROTC Joshua Benoit, Lane Collins, Dillon Frangenberg,
Corbin Haskett, Phong Vo
"The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key
Alan Held Dennis and Ann Ross Faculty of Distinction and Professor/Program Director
of Opera 鶹ýӳƷ
Welcome and Introduction of Guests
Cheryl Harrison-Lee, M.A Chair, Kansas Board of Regents
Musical Selection — "Feeling Good," Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
Caleb Freeman, BFA Performing Arts 鶹ýӳƷ Performance track recorded
by Jazz Arts Ensemble I, James Pisano, director
Welcome on behalf of the Faculty
Susan Castro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences Faculty Senate President-Elect
Welcome on behalf of the Staff
Gabriel Fonseca, M.Ed. Manager Student Involvement Staff Senate President
Welcome on behalf of the Students
Rija Khan, President Student Government Association
Inaugural Speaker
Amy Drassen-Ham, Ph.D., MPH Clinical Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
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Inaugural Remarks
Honorable Laura Kelly, 48th Governor of the State of Kansas
Oath of Office
Honorable Gwynne Birzer, Magistrate Judge United States District Court
Presentation of the Presidential Medallion
Honorable Laura Kelly, Governor
Inaugural Address
Richard Muma, Ph.D. President, 鶹ýӳƷ
Musical Selection — "鶹ýӳƷ Alma Mater" J. Bert Graham, arr. René
Clausen
鶹ýӳƷ Choirs Directed by Ryan Beeken, DMA College of Fine Arts
Closing of Ceremony
Whitney Bailey, Ph.D.
Recessional Inaugural Fanfare
Dean K. Roush Director of Musicology-Composition 鶹ýӳƷ
Inaugural Reception
Immediately following the Inauguration Installation Ceremony Multipurpose Room Eugene
M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex
The 鶹ýӳƷ State Alma Mater
Our alma mater 鶹ýӳƷ,
Stands proudly on the hill.
Our sons and daughters bow to thee,
Our hearts with praise we fill.
Then, hail our Alma Mater!
Hail, Thee, grand and true,
Long wave the yellow and the black,
O 鶹ýӳƷ, Here’s to you!