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1/29/01

THREE TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREES AT SLU COMMENCEMENT

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University will confer honorary degrees on three 
people at Commencement ceremonies to be held on Sunday, May 20, at 10 a.m.
	Those receiving honorary degrees are:
- Richard E. Hecklinger, a 1965 St. Lawrence graduate and United States 
Ambassador to Thailand. After graduating from St. Lawrence, he earned a 
master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International 
Studies and a law degree from Harvard Law School. As a career member of 
the Senior Foreign Service, he has had international responsibilities in 
Germany and The Hague as well as domestic responsibilities in economic 
and political affairs. He was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand 
in July 1998.

- Michael Hoffman, a 1964 graduate of St. Lawrence. He is executive director 
of the Aperture Foundation Inc.; managing editor and publisher of Aperture, 
the quarterly photography magazine; and curator and advisor of the Alfred 
Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For two years he also 
served as executive director of the Paul Strand Foundation. Most recently, 
Hoffman contributed an essay to the book Photographs at St. Lawrence University.

- Barbara R. Williams, vice chairman emerita of the Rand Corporation. Williams 
taught sociology and anthropology at St. Lawrence from 1962-1967. She joined the 
Rand Corporation's social science department in 1971 and served successively in 
the areas of urban policy analysis, criminal justice, and drug policy research.

	All three honorary degree recipients will speak at Commencement, along 
with President Daniel F. Sullivan, President of the Senior Class Erin Butler 
and the senior who wins the Joan Donovan Speech Contest, held during the 
spring semester.

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Commencement 2001

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