UMass Boston - Winter/Spring 2007-2008 - (Page 10) Celebrating a Journey of Return and Renewal AN INAUGURATIoN To REMEMBER Above: Greeting Chancellor Motley as he reached the stage were Rev. Ray Hammond (who later gave the benediction), UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino ’88, and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. n November 9, 2007, onstage in front of a jubilant crowd in the Clark Athletic Center, J. Keith Motley was installed as the eighth chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston. The university community celebrated the occasion with two days of festivities, beginning with a student welcome ceremony and a panel discussion about education on the previous day and culminating in an evening concert featuring a rollicking performance by the O’Jays, a Hall-of-Fame soul band from Philadelphia. The celebrations reached their peak during the main ceremony, which began when a long line of dignitaries and faculty members in academic regalia entered Clark Center to a processional composed for the occasion by UMass Boston music professor Orville Wright. They were led by a military contingent including UMass Boston students and members of the nation’s first African-American air corps, the Tuskegee Airmen. Immediately ahead of the stage party, student members of the UMass Boston Dragon Club performed a traditional Chinese Lion Dance. Inside, a line of flags from all the nations represented by UMass Boston students stood next to the stage. As the new chancellor’s proud family—including his wife, Angela, his children, Keith, Kayla, and Jordan, and his mother, Cornelia Williams—looked on from the front row, Motley was welcomed and praised by a parade of officials and educators, including Governor Deval Patrick, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, and O 0 n umass boston
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