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ST. LAWRENCE COMMENCEMENT MAY 20
CANTON -- St. Lawrence University's Commencement ceremonies will be held on Sunday, May 20, at 10 a.m., on the Owen D. Young Library Quadrangle, or in Appleton Arena, in the event of rain.
Three people will receive honorary degrees at Commencement:- Richard E. Hecklinger, a 1965 St. Lawrence graduate and United States Ambassador to Thailand. After graduating from St. Lawrence, he earned a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a law degree from Harvard Law School. As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he has had international responsibilities in Germany and The Hague as well as domestic responsibilities in economic and political affairs. He was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand in July 1998.
- Michael Hoffman, a 1964 graduate of St. Lawrence. He is executive director of the Aperture Foundation Inc.; managing editor and publisher of Aperture, the quarterly photography magazine; and curator and advisor of the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For two years he also served as executive director of the Paul Strand Foundation. Most recently, Hoffman contributed an essay to the book "Photographs at St. Lawrence University."
- Barbara R. Williams, vice chairman emerita of the Rand Corporation. Williams taught sociology and anthropology at St. Lawrence from 1962-1967. She joined the Rand Corporation's social science department in 1971 and served successively in the areas of urban policy analysis, criminal justice, and drug policy research.
All three honorary degree recipients will speak at Commencement.
In addition, Catherine B. Newell, of Hammond, NY, and Michael C. Ringer, Alexandria Bay, NY, will receive North Country Citations at the ceremony.
Newell, a native of Ogdensburg, NY, is a founding member of the environmental organization Save The River, North Country Citizens for Responsible Land Use and the Hammond History and Folk Art Museum. She is a former board member of the St. Lawrence Aquarium and Ecological Center, Ogdensburg Command Performances and North Country Public Radio's Community Advisory Board. Currently, Newell is a member of the board of the United Helpers Organization and the Frederic Remington Art Museum's International Advisory Board. Newell is a co-founder of the Sweetgrass Foundation, a private charitable institution that is dedicated to the enrichment of life in theNorth Country.
Ringer is a local artist who has painted and sculpted works based on scenes of the St. Lawrence River, the Thousand Islands region and the Adirondacks. Three books of his work, "For the Love of the River," "The River" and "River Life" have been published, and he is the host of the nationally distributed public television program "The Artist's World." Ringer is a member of the Thousand Islands Association and has galleries of his work in Alexandria Bay and Clayton, NY.
St. Lawrence annually awards the North Country Citation to individuals from the region who, through their professional and volunteer endeavors, have improved the quality of life in the North Country.-30-
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