May 25, 2004
Northwestern Will Award Seven Honorary Degrees
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University will award honorary degrees to seven distinguished individuals at its 146th annual commencement exercises Friday, June 18.
Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News,” will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree and address graduates, parents and guests at the 6 p.m. ceremony in Ryan Field.
Honorary degrees will also be presented to:
• Guido Calabresi, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University. Doctor of Laws.
• Patricia K. Donahoe, chief of pediatric surgical services at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery at Harvard University Medical School. Doctor of Science.
• Henry Fogel, president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Symphony Association from 1985 until 2003. Doctor of Fine Arts.
• Yuan-Cheng B. Fung, professor emeritus of bioengineering and applied mechanics at the University of California, San Diego. Doctor of Science.
• Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Doctor of Science.
• Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System and Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus of International Economic Policy at Princeton University. Doctor of Laws.
Commencement activities will begin at 11 a.m. June 18 with the President’s Reception at Norris University Center for graduates and their families and guests. Baccalaureate services will be held at 1 and 3 p.m. in Alice Millar Chapel.
Free continuous shuttle bus service will be provided between the campus and Ryan/McGaw Hall from 2:30 to 9 p.m. June 18 and from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 19, the day schools and colleges hold their convocations.
The convocation schedule and speakers are as follows:
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Welsh-Ryan Arena, 8:30 a.m. Padmasree Warrior, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Motorola Inc.
School of Education and Social Policy. Cahn Auditorium, 9 a.m. Scott Turow, novelist, attorney and partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
School of Music. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 9 a.m. Ellen Highstein, director of the Tanglewood Music Center.
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Welsh-Ryan Arena, 11 a.m. Lane Fenrich, assistant dean for freshmen at Weinberg and senior lecturer in history.
School of Continuing Studies. Alice Millar Chapel, noon. Alumna Lindsey Novak, nationally syndicated workplace advice columnist.
Medill School of Journalism. Cahn Auditorium, 1:30 p.m. Anne Garrels, National Public Radio roving foreign correspondent and author of “Naked in Baghdad.”
School of Communication (communication studies and communication sciences and disorders). Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 1:30 p.m. Alumnus Clancy Brown, critically acclaimed film actor.
Kellogg School of Management. Welsh-Ryan Arena, 3 p.m. W. James McNerney Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of 3M Co.
School of Communication (dance, interdepartmental studies, performance studies, radio/television/film, theatre). Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 5 p.m. Clancy Brown.
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