Commencement Ceremony Program Re-creation

 June 12, 1900

This is a re-creation of the front and back cover of the commencement ceremony program in 1900. This was the seventh graduation ceremony of the Utah Agricultural College.

Commencement Ceremony Invitation

June 10–12, 1900

This is an invitation to the friends and family of the graduating class of 1900 to the exercises of commencement week from Sunday, June 10, to Tuesday, June 12. The exercises include a baccalaureate address on Sunday; senior class-day and field-day exercises on Monday; and the commencement ceremony, alumni banquet, and senior class ball on Tuesday.

 

Special Event

The fourth UAC president, William J. Kerr, replaced President Joseph M. Tanner.

President William J. Kerr (1900–1907)

William Jasper Kerr was born on November 17, 1863, in Richmond, Utah. He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Utah and also studied at Cornell University in New York. He was a professor at Brigham Young College and the University of Utah. In 1894, he became the president of BYC until 1900, when he became the president of UAC. After his time at UAC, he served as the president of Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University, for twenty-five years until 1932. He passed away on April 15, 1947, in Portland, Oregon, at the age of eighty-three.