Life News (Education)

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Julian Bond, chair of the board of the NAACP, will speak at the University of Washington commencement June 12.

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Noted pharmaceutical scientist Leslie Benet will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Long Island University's Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on Friday, May 21 at 1 p.m.

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Former U.S. Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. and NBC correspondent Sara James are among scheduled speakers for Finals Weekend at the University of Virginia on May 22 and 23.

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Christine Todd Whitman, Republican governor of New Jersey, will serve as the keynote speaker at Dickinson College's 226th commencement ceremony.

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Elie Wiesel--Nobel laureate, human rights advocate and world-renowned Jewish scholar--will be Michigan State University's 1999 spring convocation speaker.

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John Wallach, founder and president of Seeds of Peace and an award-winning author and journalist, will deliver the commencement address at Middlebury College's graduation ceremony on May 23. He and seven others will receive an honorary degrees.

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Former President George Bush, Lt. Gov. Rick Perry and State Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs will be the speakers at Texas A&M University's three spring commencement exercises May 14-15 for approximately 4,500 graduates.

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Cardinal Francis Arinze, a renowned Roman Catholic leader, will deliver the 1999 commencement address at Wake Forest University on May 17. Arinze, frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II, is president of the Vatican's office for promoting mutual understanding, respect and collaboration between Catholics and followers of other religions.

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LaDonna Spragg, a Terre Haute, Ind., wife and mother who is a graduating senior at Indiana State University, will give what is believed to be the first-ever student address at the 128th Spring Commencement May 8.

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Focusing on topics including balanced community health systems and elimination of racial disparities in health care, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., will speak to the 1999 graduating class of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine during commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 8.

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William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will deliver the address at the Washington and Lee University School of Law commencement on Sunday, May 16.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and educator Jane Smiley will speak to approximately 200 graduating seniors at the Scripps College 1999 Commencement on Sunday, May 16, at 3 p.m., on the campus's Elm Tree Lawn.

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Houston Astros Baseball Club owner and Texas business leader Drayton McLane Jr., will be the keynote speaker for The University of Tulsa's 103rd commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 8, 1999.

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On May 22, Maya Angelou, world-renowned author, educator, producer, director, actress and civil rights activist, will speak at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou will receive an honorary degree.

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More than 3,500 University of California, San Diego students will receive their degrees during commencement ceremonies scheduled June 6, June 12 and June 13 on the La Jolla campus. For the third year in a row, an all-campus commencement will precede individual graduation rites held by the various UCSD colleges.

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A college dean known for his best-selling autobiography about growing up black in Muncie, and a former CEO of a Fortune 500 company will be awarded honorary doctorates at Ball State University's May 8 commencement.

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Dr. Nathan O. Hatch, provost of the University of Notre Dame and a distinguished alumnus of Wheaton College, will address both the undergraduate and graduate classes of 1999 during commencement exercises at Wheaton College on May 8-9, 1999.

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Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, and Shirley M. Malcom, director of education and human resources at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will gave commencement addresses at the University of Michigan graduation ceremonies April 30-May 2.

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Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt--a leading advocate of the European Monetary Unit (EMU) and an influential voice in European politics and economics--will deliver the commencement speech at Rice University on Saturday, May 15.

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Acclaimed author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. will give the address at Agnes Scott College's 110th commencement exercises at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 15.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., noted author and director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, will deliver the commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 23, at 10:30 a.m.

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Award-winning television journalist and talk show host Charlie Rose will deliver the commencement address to 1,300 graduates and 4,200 guests of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University on Sunday, May 9, 1999.

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Microsoft Founder Paul Allen will address grads when he receives Washington State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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Charles O. Rossotti, 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue, will deliver the commencement address to the Simon School graduating Class of '99 Sunday, June 13, 1999, at 10:00 a.m. in the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York.

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A former astronaut and a decorated Air Force general are two of the speakers slated for commencement ceremonies at Colorado State University May 14 and 15.

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Award-winning actress and former NEA chair Jane Alexander to speak at Smith commencement. Honorary degrees to be awarded to Alexander, Hanan Ashrawi, Carol Gilligan, Lani Guinier, and Romila Thapar.

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John Glenn, former senator from Ohio, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, and later the oldest person ever to go into space, will deliver the address at Case Western Reserve University's commencement convocation Sunday, May 16.

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Dr. Alan I. Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and a 1965 F&M graduate, and Dr. David L. Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) will speak and receive honorary degrees from Franklin & Marshall College at its May 9 Commencement ceremonies.

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A veteran of U.S. politics and an international business leader will share the honor and responsibility of sending the Class of 1999 into the world at this year's University of Arkansas commencement.

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Sam Donaldson, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, will address graduates at Old Dominion University's spring 1999 commencement ceremony, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 8, at Norfolk Scope Convention Center.

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Mitt Romney, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games 2002, will give the commencement address at the University of Utah's 130th annual commencement May 7.

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Jean Chretien, the Prime Minister of Canada since 1993, will address Michigan State University's candidates for advanced degrees Friday, May 7.

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Texas Governor George W. Bush will give the address at Southern Methodist University's 84th annual commencement ceremony on May 15.

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CNN senior White House correspondent, Wolf Blitzer, one of UB's most famous alumni, will be the university's commencement speaker at 10 a.m. on May 16 in Alumni Arena.

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Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, national security adviser, will speak at the Senior Convocation the day before Cornell University's 131st Commencement on Sunday, May 30. By tradition, the commencement address on Sunday will be given by Cornell president Hunter Rawlings.

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Ann Bancroft, the world's most preeminent woman arctic explorer, will serve as Marlboro College's commencement speaker this year. Bancroft will receive an honorary doctorate for her accomplishments as the first woman to travel across ice to both the North and South Poles.

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One hundred twenty-three seventh-graders from the L.A. Unified School District will have an opportunity to get "up close and personal" with cow brains, surgical scrubs, and world-renowned neurosurgeons, researchers and scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Brainworks program.

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Celebrated actor James Earl Jones will be Vassar College's 135th commencement speaker on Sunday, May 23.

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Bill Daley delivers the commencement address in front of 1,400 University of Illinois at Chicago and their families.

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Donna E. Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will deliver the commencement address at the graduation ceremony of UIC's School of Public Health on Friday, May 7.

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Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., advocate for the abolishment of capital punishment, will receive an honorary degree and speak at the University of San Francisco commencement on at 3 p.m. on Friday May 21.

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Boston Reverend Eugene Rivers, warrior against teen crime will speak at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus's 69th Commencement on Thursday, May 20.

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On Saturday, May 8, 1999, at 9 o'clock a.m., Fred Rogers, host of the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood television show, will be the commencement speaker at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

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Ronald H. Butler, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Three Dog Bakery, will deliver the address at the Babcock Graduate School of Management's annual hooding ceremony on May 16 at Wake Forest University.

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Actor Christopher Reeve (47), who has continued to work despite physical paralysis, will give the main address at Williams College's 210th Commencement on Sunday, June 6, 1999.

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Three people will receive honorary degrees at St. Lawrence University's Commencement ceremony May 23, and all three will speak at the event: Diane DiPrima, poet and playwright of the "Beat" generation; Adirondack photographer Nathan Farb; and The Honorable John Fraser, until recently Canada's Ambassador for the Environment.

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Dr. Judah Folkman to deliver Commencement Address at Muhlenberge College

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Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer for New Yorker magazine, will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Southampton College of Long Island University on Sunday, May 23 at 2 p.m.

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After evaluating play facilities in 27 states, the National Program for Playground Safety found U.S. parks sub-standard in quality and safety. A University of Arkansas professor offers safety tips that could make the difference between fun and fatality this summer.

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By most indicators, 1999 looks like it will be a great year to be a law school graduate. And, according to the University of Iowa College of Law placement office, in 1998, 220 law firms conducted on-campus interviews, the highest number in the last six years.