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The Opening Convocation, The Chapel of the Resurrection, 10:00 a.m.
Prelude - The Valparaiso University Chamber Concert Band, Dr. Jeff Doebler, director (Dr. Lorraine Brugh, organ)
"Festive Overture" (Dmitri Shostakovich)
"Alleluia! Laudamus Te" (Alfred Reed)
Invocation and Prayer - Pastor Joseph Cunningham
Welcome - Dr. Alan F. Harre, President of Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University Gospel Choir, Prof. Judith Erwin-Neville, director
Choir of Trinity United Church, Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Jeffrey P. Radford, director
Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
Hymn - "Lift Every Voice and Sing" - please stand [text of hymn follows]
Lift ev'ry voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the List'ning skies;
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun
Of our new day begun,
Let us march on, till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet, with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our parents sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
Our from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by thy might
Led us into the light:
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
Shadowed beneath thy hand
May we forever stand,
True to our God, true to our native land.
Address - Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois
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Post-convocation Music - The Valparaiso University Chamber Concert Band, Dr. Jeff Doebler, director (Dr. Lorraine Brugh, organ)
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