Teachers College, Columbia University
TESOL M.A. Program in Tokyo
TWELFTH COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
October 22, 2000

Entrance of graduates, faculty and administrative officers from Teachers College, Columbia University

INTRODUCTIONS
Terry Royce, Director of the Tokyo M.A. Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University

OFFICIAL GREETINGS AND REMARKS
Terry Royce
Director of the Tokyo M.A. Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University

Leslie M. Beebe
Professor of Linguistics and Education,
Director of the Applied Linguistics Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University

COMMENTS BY INVITED GUEST
Judith M. Burton
Professor of Art Education,
Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities,
Teachers College, Columbia University

PRESENTATION OF LETTERS OF COMPLETION OF M.A. REQUIREMENTS TO THE GRADUATES
Leslie M. Beebe, Professor of Linguistics and Education,
Director of the Applied Linguistics Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University

Judith Burton, Professor of Art Education,
Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities,
Teachers College, Columbia University

REFLECTIONS ON THE M.A. EXPERIENCE
Kazuya Asakawa,
Secretary of the Tokyo Teachers College Alumni Association
GRADUATES
Aiko Thompson

Masako Onodera

PRESENTATIONS FROM THE GRADUATES
CLASS GIFT Graduates,
Hiroyuki Iida

CLOSING WORDS
Terry Royce, Director of the Tokyo M.A. Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University

INTERLUDE OF MUSIC
Sanae Saito, organist

RECEPTION

MASTER OF ARTS IN TESOL

Degrees awarded February and May 2000
Mary Elwood
Junichi Iwata
Naomi Kakihara
Hideo Koyano
Phillip Robberson
John Storm
Aiko Thompson

Degrees awarded October 2000
Motoko Hayashida
Hiroyuki Iida
Mikiko Inoue
Minami Kanda
Ryoji Kodaira
Teiko Ohtsuka
Masako Onodera
Ayumi Otani
Gillian Pelton-Saito
Peter Sakura
Hitomi Sano
Miyuki Tanaka

Almost ninety years ago Teachers College, Columbia University offered a course called "Teaching English to the Foreign Born." Since then Teachers College has expanded its offerings beyond the needs of New York City immigrants by starting the first M.A. program in TESOL in the U.S. Keeping step with the expanding internationalism of the new century T.C. is proud to confer its M.A. in TESOL on its twelfth group of graduates in the college's first ever off-campus degree program.

These 2000 graduates will join hundreds of previous Teachers College graduates in leading the TESOL profession further toward a global view of the role communication plays in our shrinking planetary village. They are now more open to observe communication in and out of classrooms, analyze the multiple processes involved in language acquisition and broaden their own and others' views of education. Such openness makes them especially well equipped for the roles they will assume in today's exciting, complex world.

Graduation Committee
Gillian Pelton-Saito
Hiroyuki Iida
Minami Kanda