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4/11/05

ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT ON MAY 15

CANTON – St. Lawrence University's Commencement will be held on Sunday, 
May 15, at 10 a.m. on Creasy Commencement Commons. 
	Honorary degrees will be awarded to three people at the ceremony, and 
each will give a brief address. They are:
	 - The Reverend Joan Brown Campbell, director of religion at the 
Chautauqua Institution. In every job she has held, Campbell has been the 
first woman to carry that responsibility. She was the first woman to be 
executive director of the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches; 
the first ordained woman to be general secretary of the National Council 
of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.; and today, she is the first woman 
director of religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution. Campbell led 
a delegation to present the Catholic edition of the New Revised Standard 
Version of the Bible to Pope John Paul II, and she worked with the Reverend 
Martin Luther King Jr. and brought him to her own congregation. She has led 
peace missions to the Middle East, and is chair of the Global Women's 
Peace Initiative.
	- John R. Cook, founder and president of the Environmental Careers 
Organization in Boston, and a 1970 graduate of St. Lawrence. Cook has been 
concerned about the environment since his college years and almost immediately 
after graduation founded the Environmental Intern Program (E.I.P.) under 
the sponsorship of the Audubon Society. He has remained with the program as 
it has evolved into the Environmental Careers Organization (ECO). Now a 
national organization, ECO places environmentalists in internship positions 
in industry, state agencies and private non-profit groups, and provides 
career information to over 50,000 people each year. Cook also is a charter 
member and on the board of directors of Partners for Livable Places. 
	- Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy. Kennedy earned the 
Pulitzer for the novel Ironweed, and six other novels comprise his 
"Albany Cycle": Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Quinn's Book, Very Old 
Bones, The Flaming Corsage and Roscoe, which was a finalist for the 
National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Kennedy 
founded a writer's institute in 1983 at the University at Albany, State 
University of New York. His creation became the New York State Writers 
Institute, building upon programs in writing and allied arts for 
students of writing and the literary community of New York State. Kennedy 
is a professor in the English department at the University at Albany.  
	The University will also award at Commencement the North Country 
Citation, to John B. Johnson Jr., of Watertown, chairman and chief executive 
officer of the Johnson Newspaper Corporation and editor and co-publisher of 
the Watertown Daily Times. Johnson has been a member of the American Society 
of Newspaper Editors since 1978 and a member of the society's nominating 
committee and Freedom of Information Committee. He has also served on the 
board of directors of the New York State Newspaper Publishers Association, 
and of the New York State Newspapers Foundation. Johnson is a member of the 
board of the Dormitory Authority of New York State, a trustee of Clarkson 
University since 1991 and has served such organizations as the 
Development Authority of the North Country, the YMCA of Jefferson County, 
the Jefferson County Historical Society, the Bugbee Housing Development 
Corporation, Jefferson County United Way, the Central New York Health 
Systems Agency, the New York State Literacy Volunteers and Jefferson 
County Baseball.
	St. Lawrence annually awards the North Country Citation to an individual 
from the region who, through professional and volunteer endeavors, 
has improved the quality of life in the North Country.

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