Johns Hopkins Gazette: May 19, 1997

A Guide To Hopkins'
Commencement Ceremonies

 The following is a list of the commencement ceremonies, locations and guest speakers taking place this week across the university:

University-wide Commencement Ceremony

May 22, 1997
9:30 a.m., Gilman Quadrangle (between Library and Gilman Hall)
Speaker: Hopkins President William R. Brody

This is the ceremony at which all 1997 university degrees are conferred by the president of the university. The students who receive their diplomas on stage, however, are primarily doctoral recipients from the university's Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Continuing Studies, the School of Public Health, the School of Nursing, Peabody Institute and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

This ceremony also recognizes the new members of the Society of Scholars and is the occasion at which the university confers honorary degrees of doctor of humane letters.

This year's honorary degree recipients are The Right Honorable Lord Butterfield of Stechford, Saul Aaron Kripke, Johnnetta B. Cole, William Fastie, Pasqual Maragall i Mira and Andre Watts.

Undergraduate Diploma Award Ceremony

May 22, 1997
2:30 p.m., Gilman Quadrangle
Speaker: G. Timothy Johnson, M.D.

This is the ceremony at which the seniors from the schools of Arts and Sciences (621) and Engineering (220), who officially graduated when degrees were conferred in the morning ceremony, cross the stage to receive their diplomas.

G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering Master's Diploma Award Ceremony

May 21, 1997
7 p.m., Gilman Quadrangle
Speaker: Frank L. Hubbard, executive director, American Society for Engineering Education

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Master's Diploma Award Ceremony

May 22, 1997
6:30 p.m., Shriver Hall
Speaker: Joel Achenbach, editor, writer, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post

School of Continuing Studies Graduate Diploma Award Ceremony

May 22, 1997
7:30 p.m., Gilman Quadrangle
Speaker: Christian Poindexter, CEO of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company

School of Hygiene and Public Health Diploma Award Ceremony

May 21, 1997
2 p.m., Shriver Hall
Speaker: Charles Clements, M.D., president, Physicians for Human Rights

School of Medicine Diploma Award Ceremony

May 21, 1997
1 p.m., Kraushaar Auditorium, Goucher College, Baltimore
Speaker: Mary Ellen Avery, Thomas Morgan Rotch, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and physician-in-chief emeritus of Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Diploma Award Ceremony

May 22, 1997
3 p.m., Lincoln Theater, Washington, D.C.
Speaker: Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady of the United States

Peabody Diploma Award Ceremony

May 22, 1997
8 p.m., Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall,Peabody
Speaker: Barry Tuckwell, French horn virtuoso; Tuckwell, along with Jacques Schlenger, outgoing chairman of the Peabody Advisory Council, will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America.

School of Nursing Diploma Award Ceremony

May 22, 1997
4 p.m., Turner Auditorium, School of Medicine
Speaker: Diane Carlson Evans, R.N., founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Washington, D.C.

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