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May 2, 2003
Marymount Manhattan College to Celebrate 54th Commencement
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(New York, NY) On Tues., May 27, 2003 President Judson R. Shaver, Ph.D. will confer Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts and Science degrees to 430 graduating seniors at Marymount Manhattan College's 54th Commencement. The ceremony will be held at 7:30pm at Avery Fisher Hall, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, and will feature Class of 2003 Valedictorian Zinovia Abatzis and Honorary Doctorates Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent on PBS's The NewsHour; Gloria Spinelli Bohan, Founder of Omega World Travel; and Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University Theological Ethics professor.
"Each of our honorary doctorate recipients has demonstrated a strong sense of commitment in their lives; whether it be a commitment to informing the public, to being an entrepreneur or to theology and ethics," comments President Shaver. "For that reason and for their individual achievements, we are extremely proud to welcome Mr. Suarez and Dr. Hauerwas to the Marymount Manhattan College community and are thrilled to welcome Ms. Spinelli Bohan back to her alma mater."
Suarez has twenty-five years of varied experience in the news industry. He came to The NewsHour from National Public Radio where he hosted the nationwide news program "Talk of the Nation" since 1993. Prior to that, he spent seven years covering local, national, and international stories for the NBC-owned station, WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Suarez is the author of "The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999." His essays and criticism have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Baltimore Sun, among other publications. Suarez was also a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, a producer for the ABC Radio Network in New York, a reporter for CBS Radio in Rome, as well as a reporter for various American and British news services in London.
Bohan is founder and President of Omega World Travel. Established thirty-one years ago, the small travel agency has grown into a business with 200 offices, over 1,000 employees and annual revenues of more than a billion dollars. Omega World Travel is the largest woman-owned travel agency in the U.S. and the seventh largest in the nation. Bohan is also co-founder of Space Adventures, sending the first tourists into space; a founding member of the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce; and a founder and former president of the Society of Government Travel Professionals. Bohan's success has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Business Women's Network Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Woman of the Year Award from the Network of Entrepreneurial Women. After graduating from Marymount Manhattan College in 1963 with a major in art and a minor in education, Bohan taught in the New York City public school system and worked for Forbes magazine.
Hauerwas is a Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Duke University Divinity School. His accolades include the prestigious Gifford Lectureship at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 2001; and in 2000 he was named "America's Best Theologian" by Time. Hauerwas is the author of over twenty books, including "Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony," and "A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic," which was selected as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the 20th century. Hauerwas joined Duke University in 1984, prior to which he taught at the University of Notre Dame for 14 years. He holds a B.A. from Southwestern University; B.D., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. from Yale University; and D.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
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