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3/4/02

FOUR WILL BE HONORED AT ST. LAWRENCE COMMENCEMENT

CANTON - Three honorary degrees and the North Country Citation will be 
awarded at St. Lawrence University's Commencement ceremony, to be held 
Sunday, May 19, at 10 a.m. on the Owen D. Young Library Quadrangle. 
In the event of bad weather, the ceremony will be held in Appleton 
Arena.
	Receiving honorary degrees this year are:
	- E.B. Wilson '53, of Chathamport, Massachusetts, chair emeritus 
of the Board of Trustees. A private investor and consultant, Wilson 
holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and served as chair of the Board 
from 1995 through 2001. He has been a University trustee since 1985.
	- Luis Eduardo Luna, an anthropologist and ethnobotanist specializing 
in the investigation of psychointegrator plants. He is a senior lecturer at 
the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, and is engaged in the 
creation of a research center on the study of psychointegrator plants - 
sacred plants, often called hallucinogens and psychedelics, that have 
played important roles in ancient and contemporary societies - in 
Florianópolis, Brazil, and in the organization of special experiential 
and theoretical seminars in the Brazilian Amazon. He is co-editor with 
St. Lawrence Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Steven F. White 
of Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine, and the 
author of several books.
	- Gloria Naylor, author of The Women of Brewster Place, Linden 
Hills, Mama Day and Bailey's Cafe, among other works. Naylor won the 
National Book Award for first fiction in 1983 for The Women of Brewster 
Place, which was also adapted for television, starring and produced by 
Oprah Winfrey. She has participated in the St. Lawrence Writers Series.
	Bill McKibben, the author and environmentalist from Johnsburg, New 
York, whose writing appears regularly in The New York Times and 
Adirondack Life, among other publications, will receive the North Country 
Citation. The author of The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information 
and Long Distance: A Year of Living Strenuously, McKibben has been a 
frequent visitor to St. Lawrence over the years, contributing to the 
environmental studies program and the Writers Series.
	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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