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4/14/08
St. Lawrence University Commencement Will Be May 18
CANTON - Three people will be awarded honorary degrees at St. Lawrence University's
Commencement, to be held on Sunday, May 18, at 10 a.m. on Creasy Commencement
Commons, or in Appleton Arena in the event of inclement weather.
The University will award honorary degrees to David L. Warren, president of
the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities; Kevin Klose,
president of National Public Radio; and Carol Newell '79, founder of the
Sage Foundation and Endswell Foundation. In addition, the North Country
Citation will be awarded to Kenneth Andrews, the music director and
conductor for the Orchestra of Northern New York.
A nationally acclaimed advocate for the liberal arts, Warren has been
president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities since 1993. Previously he was president of Ohio Wesleyan
University; chief administrative officer for the City of New Haven,
Connecticut; senior vice president and provost at Antioch University;
and general secretary of Dwight Hall and subsequently associate director
of community relations, both at Yale University. He has also been a
consultant to hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, and is the
author of several articles and book chapters. Among numerous other affiliations,
he chaired the NCAA Division III Presidential Commission in 1990-92;
was president of the North Coast Athletic Conference; and has been on the
Campus Compact National Executive Committee since 1987.
A native of Toronto, Ontario, Klose is a radio broadcasting executive, a journalist
and an author. Before joining National Public Radio in 1998, he was director of
the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), which includes Voice of America,
where he oversaw the U.S. government's non-military global news and television
news services; and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a private,
non-profit multi-national news organization. He held several positions,
including deputy national editor and Moscow bureau chief, with The Washington Post.
The author of five books, including Russia and the Russians: Inside the
Closed Society, which won the 1984 Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan
Award, he is the founder of the Intermedia Survey Institute of Washington.
Newell founded the Sage Foundation in 1991; it has developed and designed
environmental education programs used in more than 300 British Columbia
schools, and continues to promote leadership and conservation programs.
She also founded the Endswell Foundation, which focuses grants on
grass-roots environmental conservation issues, leadership development
and capacity-building in British Columbia. That foundation has helped
start and support the Tides Canada Foundation, which has awarded grants
of more than $36 million to develop funding for environmental
sustainability and social change. In 1994 she co-founded Renewal Partners
Company, which provides seed capital investments and networking to
fledgling businesses promoting a sustainable economy. Her organizations
have played key roles in several significant conservation and land
preservation initiatives. She is a member of the Order of Canada.
Andrews has served as music director and conductor for the Orchestra of
Northern New York since its founding in 1988. He has also served in comparable
capacities with numerous other orchestras and is a frequent guest conductor
across the U.S. and Canada. An accomplished flutist, he has performed with
the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and has been principal and guest principal
with several other orchestras throughout the United States, Canada and Europe,
under the baton of such renowned conductors as Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin
and Charles DuToit. Since 1986 he has been professor of flute at the Crane
School of Music at SUNY at Potsdam. He is also music director and conductor
for the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra and an adjunct conductor with the
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.
St. Lawrence annually awards the North Country Citation to an individual
or group from the region who, through professional and volunteer endeavors,
has improved the quality of life in the North Country.
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