2008 Woodie Awards
Plans finalized for Inauguration Week
Terry Foy
Issue date: 9/27/05 Section: News
In addition to the Inauguration Liturgy and Convocation, which will be held on Oct. 20 and 21, respectively, College officials have announced plans surrounding the inauguration of Rev. Brian Linnane, S.J., as Loyola's 24th president, including a student event on the quad and a faculty reception at Baltimore Country Club.
The student event, which is tentatively set to begin at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, will be held on the Quad and will feature live music, dessert and hors d'oeuvres, and will be punctuated by fireworks launched off the roof of Maryland Hall.
The last time fireworks were launched on Loyola's campus was during the sesquicentennial celebration in the spring of 2001. The memories of that event were a big contributing factor in the decision to revisit the spectacle.
"Fireworks from the roof of Maryland Hall are something that no one who is currently at the school has experienced," said SGA President John McNamara. "In talking with Loyola students who graduated last year and the year before, that event was something that they vividly remember and I think it's something worth reviving."
The event also marks a departure from the traditional student event. For Fr. Ridley's inauguration, students celebrated with a formal ball.
"We felt like dances are less popular than they may have been 10 or 15 years ago, and that this would serve as a better opportunity for the student body at large to meet Fr. Linnane and some other members of the Jesuit community."
Vice President for Development and College Relations Michael Goff, who has taken a large role in planning much of the Inauguration's events in conjunction with Board of Trustees Chairman John Cochran, stressed the importance of the spirit of the event.
"First and foremost, the inauguration is an opportunity to formally introduce and install our new president," said Goff. "But it's a lot more than that. It's a celebration of its history and traditions, and it's an opportunity to present to the College community and to the external community the distinctive features of the school."
Also included in the schedule of events is a convocation luncheon immediately following the Convocation ceremony on the Quad, an Inaugural Symposium on Oct. 19 that will host a panel discussion of the value of Jesuit education, and a major donors dinner on Oct. 20.
"Portraits of Leadership," is an exhibition of Loyola's presidential portraits that will appear in the Jenkins Hall Study from Oct. 17 through Oct. 21.
"The week is structured to have an event for each constituency and then bring them together for Fr. Linnane's Inauguration," Goff said. "There's no other time when you have the faculty, the students, alumni and parents, government and Church officials, and corporate officials together at once besides a presidential Inauguration, so it's important for students to understand that this is a very special time to be at Loyola, because inaugurations are really only a once every ten or twenty years event."
The student event, which is tentatively set to begin at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, will be held on the Quad and will feature live music, dessert and hors d'oeuvres, and will be punctuated by fireworks launched off the roof of Maryland Hall.
The last time fireworks were launched on Loyola's campus was during the sesquicentennial celebration in the spring of 2001. The memories of that event were a big contributing factor in the decision to revisit the spectacle.
"Fireworks from the roof of Maryland Hall are something that no one who is currently at the school has experienced," said SGA President John McNamara. "In talking with Loyola students who graduated last year and the year before, that event was something that they vividly remember and I think it's something worth reviving."
The event also marks a departure from the traditional student event. For Fr. Ridley's inauguration, students celebrated with a formal ball.
"We felt like dances are less popular than they may have been 10 or 15 years ago, and that this would serve as a better opportunity for the student body at large to meet Fr. Linnane and some other members of the Jesuit community."
Vice President for Development and College Relations Michael Goff, who has taken a large role in planning much of the Inauguration's events in conjunction with Board of Trustees Chairman John Cochran, stressed the importance of the spirit of the event.
"First and foremost, the inauguration is an opportunity to formally introduce and install our new president," said Goff. "But it's a lot more than that. It's a celebration of its history and traditions, and it's an opportunity to present to the College community and to the external community the distinctive features of the school."
Also included in the schedule of events is a convocation luncheon immediately following the Convocation ceremony on the Quad, an Inaugural Symposium on Oct. 19 that will host a panel discussion of the value of Jesuit education, and a major donors dinner on Oct. 20.
"Portraits of Leadership," is an exhibition of Loyola's presidential portraits that will appear in the Jenkins Hall Study from Oct. 17 through Oct. 21.
"The week is structured to have an event for each constituency and then bring them together for Fr. Linnane's Inauguration," Goff said. "There's no other time when you have the faculty, the students, alumni and parents, government and Church officials, and corporate officials together at once besides a presidential Inauguration, so it's important for students to understand that this is a very special time to be at Loyola, because inaugurations are really only a once every ten or twenty years event."