Tom Brokaw, recently removed from the NBC Nightly News, will be this year’s commencement speaker. Among the other notables receiving honorary degrees are:
- Thomas Kean, former Governor of New Jersey and chairman of the 9/11 Commission
- Dr. Norman Borlaug, a research scientist who developed new high-yield varieties of wheat and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970
- Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate of Maryland and Professor at St. Mary’s College in the same state
- Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan and affirmative action spokesman extraordinaire
- Dr. Mathilde Krim, the founder of the AIDS Medical Foundation
- Gordon Russell ’55, former General Partner of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm
- Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta and Clinton’s Ambassador to the UN
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