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April 15, 1999 (12) Contact: Wono Lee (734) 764-7260 [email protected] http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/1999/Apr99/r041599e.html
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to speak at U-M Spring Commencement.
ANN ARBOR---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 give commencement addresses at the University of Michigan graduation ceremonies April 30-May 2.
Honorary degrees will be awarded to Annan, Malcom, Aharon Barak, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author.
Annan will give the main speech at the Spring Commencement on May 1 in Michigan Stadium. At this event, beginning at 9:30 a.m., honorary degrees will be conferred and all undergraduate degree candidates will be recognized. Janet P. Adamy will make remarks on behalf of the graduating students.
Malcom will be the main speaker at the University Graduate Exercises in Hill Auditorium on April 30. Doctoral candidates and Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies master's degree candidates will be honored at the ceremony, beginning at 3 p.m.
The U-M's schools and colleges also will hold their own recognition ceremonies for their graduating students.
Altogether, some 6,000 students on the Ann Arbor campus expect their degrees this spring.
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