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WELLESLEY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT, 1992
Wellesley, MA -- Presiding over Wellesley College's 114th
Commencement Exercises today, President Nannerl 0. Keohane
presented Bachelor of Arts degrees to 534 women, including
23 Davis Scholars, or non-traditional age students. Hillary
Rodham. Clinton, who graduated with high honors from
Wellesley in 1969, delivered the Commencement address.
Mrs. Clinton is an attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas and
a national leader in education and community affairs. She
serves on the Boards of the National Center on Education and
the Economy, the Arkansas Children's Hospital, the
Children's Television Workshop, and the Southern Development
Bancorporation. She has been recognized by the National Law
Journal as one of the nation's 100 most influential lawyers,
and is the wife of Arkansas Governor and Democratic
Presidential candidate, Bill Clinton.
Carrying on the tradition begun by Hillary Rodham in
1969, when she was drafted by her classmates to deliver
Wellesley's first student commencement speech, Emily
Courtois Mason spoke on behalf of the graduating class. A
resident of Olympia, Washington, Ms. Mason majored in
Astronomy and will continue research work for NASA this
summer.
Amid a display of international flags signifying the
various countries represented by members of the graduating
class, Mrs. Clinton spoke to a crowd of over 2,000,
including seniors, their guests, faculty and staff in the
College's Academic Quadrangle.
President Keohane announced the three winners of the
Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching: Jacqueline
Howard-Matthews, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies;
Randy Shull, Associate Professor of Computer Science: and L.
Terrell Tyler, Jr., Associate Professor of English. Also
announced were the retirements of three distinguished
faculty members: Elizabeth Jane Rock, Professor of
Chemistry: Phyllis J. Fleming, Sarah Frances Whiting
Professor of Physics; and Owen Hughes Jander, Catherine
Mills Davis Professor of Music. Richard G. French, Associate
Professor of Astronomy was also named first holder of the
Class of 1966 Associate Professorship.
On Thursday, May 28, James Kodera, a Professor of
Religion at Wellesley, delivered the Baccalaureate address,
speaking on "Am I My Sister's Keeper'?"
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