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4/26/99

ST. LAWRENCE COMMENCEMENT MAY 23

CANTON - St. Lawrence University will hold its Commencement ceremony 
on Sunday, May 23, at 10 a.m. on the Owen D. Young Library Quadrangle. 
The ceremony will be in Leithead Fieldhouse in the event of inclement 
weather.
	Three honorary degrees and a North Country Citation will be 
awarded at Commencement. All four honored guests will speak. Diane 
DiPrima, poet and playwright of the "Beat" generation; Adirondack 
photographer Nathan Farb; and The Honorable John Fraser, until recently 
Canada's Ambassador for the Environment, will all receive 
honorary degrees. U. S. Representative John M. McHugh (R-Pierrepont 
Manor) will receive the 1999 North Country Citation.
        DiPrima is a poet, essayist, dramatist, editor, teacher and 
publisher. In The Beats, George Butterick wrote, "Among women of her 
generation, Diane DiPrima is the writer who by her life and work most 
embodies the definable patterns of the Beat Generation." Her Selected 
Poems was published in 1975; her autobiography, Memoirs of a Beatnik, 
was published in 1998.
        Farb is widely recognized as one of the premier outdoor 
photographers working today, and the Adirondacks have been one of the 
principal subjects of his photographs. His work appears regularly in 
The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Adirondack Life and 
Conde Nast Traveler, among other publications.
        Former Speaker of the House of Commons in Canada, Fraser was 
appointed Ambassador for the Environment in 1994 and was awarded the 
Order of Canada in 1995. He is affiliated with many international 
environmental organizations, including the World Wildlife Fund Canada 
Nature of Tomorrow Campaign, the Biosphere Program, the Advisory 
Committee on Protection of the Sea and the International Institute for 
Sustainable Development. In 1981, he was the keynote speaker for the 
St. Lawrence University Canada-U.S. Acid Rain Seminar.
        McHugh is serving his third term in the House of Representatives 
from the 24th Congressional District, which includes all of Clinton, 
Hamilton, Franklin, Fulton, Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Oswego 
Counties, as well as parts of Herkimer and Essex Counties. He is a member 
of the Committees on National Security, Government Reform and Oversight 
and International Relations. St. Lawrence annually awards the North Country 
Citation to individuals from the region who, through their professional 
and volunteer endeavors, have improved the quality of life in the North 
Country.

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