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3/15/04

SLU TO HONOR THREE GRADUATES AT COMMENCEMENT

CANTON – Three distinguished graduates of St. Lawrence University will be 
awarded honorary degrees by their alma mater at Commencement ceremonies on 
Sunday, May 16.
	Honorary degrees will be awarded to:
	- 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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