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5/10/04

ST. LAWRENCE COMMENCEMENT MAY 16

CANTON – St. Lawrence University's Commencement ceremony will take place 
on Sunday, May 16, at 10 a.m. on Creasy Commencement Commons (between Owen 
D. Young Library and Gunnison Memorial Chapel). In the event of bad weather, 
Commencement will be held in Appleton Arena on campus.
	Three distinguished graduates of the University will receive honorary 
degrees at the ceremony, and all three will offer brief remarks. They are:
      - Karen Hitchcock '64, former president of SUNY Albany
      - Mark Klett '74, internationally known photographer and college professor
      - Lorrie Moore '78, novelist and college professor
      Hitchcock, who is also the co-host of the WAMC public radio program "The 
Best of Our Knowledge," earned her St. Lawrence degree in biology. She holds 
a Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and 
Dentistry, has published extensively in her research field of cell and 
developmental biology, and has received numerous grants from the National 
Institutes of Health (NIH). Hitchcock was president of SUNY Albany from 
1996 to 2004 and has won numerous awards throughout the course of her career.
      Klett's St. Lawrence degree is in geology, and he earned a Master of 
Fine Arts degree in photography from SUNY Buffalo. Klett is the chief 
photographer of the Rephotographic Survey Project, a comparative photographic 
survey of the American West following the 1870s work of William Henry Jackson 
and Timothy O'Sullivan. A Regents Professor of Art at Arizona State 
University at Tempe, Klett has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, 
the Light Gallery, and the International Center for Photography in New York 
City; the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; the George Eastman House 
in Rochester; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of 
American Art in Washington, DC.  His photographs have also appeared in national 
magazines and in a series of books he has authored.
      Moore, Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities at the University of 
Wisconsin in Madison, earned her degree at St. Lawrence in English, and a 
Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University. She is the author of the 
books Self-Help, Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, as well as the 
story collections Like Life and Birds of America. Her work has been published 
in the collections The Best American Short Stories 1998 and Prize Stories 
1998: The O. Henry Awards, in addition to many magazines. Moore is also the 
editor of the short-story collection I Know Some Things: Stories About 
Childhood by Contemporary Writers. In addition, she has served as an editor 
for Ploughshares, Tri-Quarterly and Mid-American Review literary magazines.

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