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247th
Commencement
Click
here for the Commencement Invitation to the Penn community.
University
of Pennsylvania
Commencement Events 2003
Baccalaureate
Ceremony
Sunday,
May 18
Irvine
Auditorium
1:30-2:30
p.m.--Ceremony for students whose last names
begin with A-K
3-4
p.m.--Ceremony for students whose last names
begin with L-Z Speaker:
Rear Admiral Barry C. Black, Chaplain Corps,
United States Navy, Chief
of Navy Chaplains
Commencement
Monday,
May 19
Franklin
Field, 9 a.m.
Speaker:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Winner
of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize
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Honorary Degree Recipients
- Stephen
Breyer, Doctor of Laws; Associate
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
- Herbert
J. Gans, Ph.D., Doctor
of Science; Robert
S. Lynd Professor of Sociology,
Columbia University; First doctoral
graduate in planning and
sociology, through GSFA
- Sadako
Ogata, Ph.D., Doctor of Laws; Former
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees; Co-Chair, Commission on
Human Security
- Mamphela
Aletta Ramphele, Ph.D., Doctor
of Science; Managing
Director, The
World Bank Group
- Philip
Roth, Doctor
of Humane Letters; Novelist;
2001 PEN/Faulkner Award;
1998 Pulitzer Prize
- Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, Doctor
of Humane Letters; Chancellor,
University of the Western
Cape; 1984
Nobel Peace Prize
For
additional information on
May 18-19 events:
Commencement
Web site: www.upenn.edu/commencement
Commencement
Hotline: (215)
573-GRAD
School
Ceremonies and Speakers
Annenberg
School for Communication
*CHANGE IN TIME* Ceremony: Monday,
May 19, 1-3 p.m., Annenberg School
for Communication, Room 111
Speaker: Wolf Blitzer, anchor of CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports and Late Edition
with Wolf Blitzer Reception: Annenberg School for Communication Lobby,
immediately following the ceremony
Biomedical
Graduate Studies
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, noon, BRB
II/III Auditorium and Lobby
College
of Arts and Sciences
Ceremony: Sunday, May 18, 7 p.m.-9:30
p.m., Franklin Field
Speaker: Lorene Cary, C'78,
G'78, author, Price of a Child
Graduate
Division, School of Arts and Sciences
Ceremony: Monday,
May 19, 1 p.m., Hill Field,
33rd & Walnut Streets
Speaker: Sally
Zigmond, Ph.D., Penn
professor of biology
Reception: Hill
College House immediately
following the ceremony
College
of General Studies
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, noon, Chinese
Rotunda, University Museum
Reception: Upper Egyptian Gallery, University Museum, immediately
following the ceremony
School
of Dental Medicine
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 1 p.m.,
Irvine Auditorium
Speaker: Dr. Arthur Dugoni, Dean, University of the Pacific School
of Dentistry
Reception: Robert Schattner Center, 240 S. 40th Street, immediately
following the ceremony
Graduate
School of Education
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 2 p.m.,
First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street
Speaker: Donna E. Shalala, Ph.D., President, University of Miami,
former Secretary of Health and Human Services
Preceded by Reception: Lunch in Houston Hall, noon-2 p.m.
School
of Engineering and Applied Science
Doctoral Ceremony: Sunday, May 18,
1 p.m., Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center
Speaker: Dr. Stuart W. Churchill, Carl V.S. Patterson Professor
Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Reception: Annenberg Plaza, immediately following the ceremony
Master's
Ceremony: Sunday, May 18, 4:30
p.m., Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg
Center
Speaker: Dr.
Thomas A.V. Cassel, Professor
of Practice and Director
of the Entrepreneurship Program
Reception: Annenberg
Plaza, immediately
following the ceremony
Undergraduate
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 3
p.m., Franklin Field
Speaker: Megan
Smirti, SSE'03, Past President, Engineering Deans' Advisory
Board
Reception: Monday,
May 19, noon, Towne Lawn
Fels
Center of Government
Speaker: Governor Edward Rendell,
C '65, H '00
Ceremony and Reception: Saturday, May 17, 5 p.m. Fels Center of
Government, 3814 Walnut Street
Graduate
School of Fine Arts
Luncheon: Monday, May 19, noon, Meyerson
Hall Plaza
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 1 p.m., Meyerson Hall Plaza
Speaker: Herbert Gans, GR '57, American sociologist and
educator
Law
School
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 2 p.m.,
Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets
Speaker: Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme
Court of the United States
Reception: The Law School, 4:30 pm.
School
of Medicine
Ceremony: Sunday, May 18, 10 a.m.,
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Speaker: Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., President and CEO, Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
Reception: Park Hyatt at the Bellevue Hotel, immediately following
the ceremony
School
of Nursing
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 3 p.m.,
Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing
Arts
Speaker: Hon. Marjorie O. Rendell, CW '69,
Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit
School
of Social Work
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 2 p.m.,
Harrison Auditorium, University Museum
Speaker: Jonathan Kozol, author, Ordinary Resurrections
Reception: Chinese Rotunda, University Museum, immediately following
ceremony
School
of Veterinary Medicine
Ceremony: Monday, May 19, 2:30 p.m.,
Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center
Speakers: Corinne R. Sweeney, DVM, professor of medicine, vice-chair,
clinical studies, New Bolton Center, School of Veterinary Medicine
Raymond W. Sweeney, VMD, associate professor of medicine,
School of Veterinary Medicine
Reception: Annenberg Plaza, immediately following the ceremony
Wharton
Undergraduate Division and Wharton
Evening Division
Ceremony: Sunday, May 18, 9 a.m.,
Franklin Field
Speaker: Adam Zimbler, C '03, W'03,
Huntsman Program
Reception: Jon M. Huntsman Hall, immediately
following the ceremony
Wharton
Graduate Division
Ceremony: Sunday, May 18, 1 p.m.,
Franklin Field
Speaker: Connie Duckworth, WG'79,
chair, Committee of 200 and founding
partner of 8 Wings Enterprises
Reception: Jon M. Huntsman Hall, immediately following the ceremony
Wharton
Doctoral Division
Ceremony: Sunday, May 18, 5 p.m.
The Colloquium, eighth floor, Jon M. Huntsman
Hall
Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 32, May 6, 2003
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