May 9, 1997 Contact: Jennifer McNulty (408) 459-2495; mcnulty@ua.ucsc.edu

UC SANTA CRUZ INAUGURATES M.R.C. GREENWOOD ON FRIDAY, MAY 23

* Reporters planning to cover the inauguration are asked to call the UCSC Public Information Office by Friday, May 16. Limited press parking will be available in the Bay Tree Bookstore parking lot. Key participants in the inauguration will hold a brief press availability immediately after the ceremony at approximately 2:30 P.M. *

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Dr. M.R.C. (pronounced "Marci") Greenwood will be inaugurated as the seventh chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Friday, May 23. The public is invited to attend the ceremony, which will begin at 12:30 P.M. in the Upper Quarry Amphitheater.

Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff for President Clinton and U.S. representative for the Central Coast, will be the keynote speaker at the inauguration. Panetta will address the question: "Will We Have the Leadership to Face the Challenges of the 21st Century?"

Greenwood will be inaugurated in a traditional academic ceremony. Among the dignitaries who will participate in the ceremony are UC President Richard C. Atkinson, who will inaugurate the chancellor; Tirso del Junco, chair of the UC Board of Regents; UCSC alumna Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; and Santa Cruz Mayor Cynthia Mathews.

The ceremony will begin with a processional of faculty and staff members and representatives from UCSC's sister institutions wearing full academic regalia. Eli A. Silver, chair of UCSC's Academic Senate, will lead the processional into the amphitheater. The program is expected to be about two hours in length and will be followed by a public reception at the Cowell College Provost's House.

Greenwood, who began her tenure as chancellor last July, was selected following a nationwide search by an advisory committee of Regents, faculty, students, staff, and representatives of the UCSC Alumni Association and UC Santa Cruz Foundation. Acting on President Atkinson's recommendation, the Regents named Greenwood chancellor in April 1996.

Greenwood came to UCSC from UC Davis, where she had been dean of graduate studies and vice provost for academic outreach. During her time at UC Davis, Greenwood took a leave and served for nearly two years in the Clinton White House as associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The chancellor, who worked with Panetta when both were in the White House, said the former congressman's participation in her inauguration is a "great personal honor for me and a privilege for UC Santa Cruz. I know Mr. Panetta is dedicated to the Monterey Bay Area, and I am certain his remarks will greatly enhance the ceremony."

From 1977 to 1993, Panetta was a U.S. Representative from California's 16th (now 17th) congressional district. He served eight full terms and had begun serving his ninth when in January 1993 he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Clinton administration. Panetta directed OMB until July 1994, when he was named White House chief of staff, a position he held through the end of President Clinton's first four-year term this past January.

Music planned for the event includes two pieces composed for the inauguration: Fanfare, composed in 1997 by UCSC student Michael Kripakov, and Fanfare for Extraordinary Women, composed in 1997 by UCSC Professor David E. Jones. The chancellor's son, James Greenwood, will perform the Benediction. The program will be sign-language-interpreted.

Other inaugural participants include Duncan A. Mellichamp and Sandra J. Weiss, chair and vice chair, respectively, of the UC Assembly and Academic Council; Michael Caulfield, chair of UCSC's Student Union Assembly; Kathleen Flint, president of UCSC's Graduate Student Association; Ricky Bluthenthal, president of the UCSC Alumni Association; Stoddard P. Johnston, president of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation; Richard Vasquez, chair of the UCSC Staff Advisory Board; Henry T. Yang, chancellor of UC Santa Barbara; Barry Munitz, chancellor of the California State University system; John D. Hurd, president of Cabrillo College; and Ron Gonzales of Hewlett- Packard, a UCSC alumnus and former Santa Clara County supervisor.

Metro buses and campus shuttles will provide service to and from the Bay Tree Bookstore parking lot--located near the amphitheater--before, during, and following the inauguration. The bookstore parking lot will be closed the day of the inauguration, although parking spaces will be available in the lot for disabled attendees.

Editor's Note: All media representatives are asked to wear a press badge (enclosed). A press table will be located at the rear of the amphitheater. Photographers with press badges will have access to the area in front of the stage. The press availability with Greenwood and Panetta will take place backstage immediately after the inauguration.

This release is also available on the World Wide Web at UCSC's "Services for Journalists" site (http://www.ucsc.edu/news/journalist/) or via modem from UC NewsWire (209-244-6971).

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