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2/8/99

THREE TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREES AT SLU COMMENCEMENT

CANTON - St. Lawrence University has announced the names of three 
people who will receive honorary degrees at Commencement ceremonies 
this year, as well as the recipient of the 1999 North Country Citation.
	Diane DiPrima, poet and playwright of the "Beat" generation; 
Adirondack photographer Nathan Farb; and The Honorable John Fraser, 
until recently Canada's Ambassador for the Environment, will all receive 
honorary degrees and speak at Commencement, to be held on Sunday, May 
23, at 10 a.m. on the Owen D. Young Library Quadrangle.
	U. S. Representative John M. McHugh (R-Pierrepont Manor) will 
receive the North Country Citation.
	DiPrima is a poet, essayist, dramatist, editor, teacher and publisher. 
In The Beats, George Butterick wrote, "Among women of her generation, Diane 
DiPrima is the writer who by her life and work most embodies the definable 
patterns of the Beat Generation." Her Selected Poems was published in 1975; 
her autobiography, Memoirs of a Beatnik, was published in 1998.
	Farb is widely recognized as one of the premier outdoor photographers working 
today, and the Adirondacks have been one of the principal subjects of his 
photographs. His work appears regularly in The New York Times Magazine, National 
Geographic, Adirondack Life and Conde Nast Traveler, among other publications.
	Former Speaker of the House of Commons in Canada, Fraser was appointed 
Ambassador for the Environment in 1994 and was awarded the Order of Canada in 
1995. He is affiliated with many international environmental organizations, 
including the World Wildlife Fund Canada Nature of Tomorrow Campaign, the 
Biosphere Program, the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea and the 
International Institute for Sustainable Development. In 1981, he was the 
keynote speaker for the St. Lawrence University Canada-U.S. Acid Rain Seminar.
	McHugh is serving his third term in the House of Representatives 
from the 24th Congressional District, which includes all of Clinton, Hamilton, 
Franklin, Fulton, Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Oswego Counties, as well 
as parts of Herkimer and Essex Counties. He is a member of the Committees on 
National Security, Government Reform and Oversight and International Relations.

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