ND, SMC award honorary degrees
Observer Staff Report
Notre Dame will present 11 honorary degrees at its Commencement exercises on Sunday, and Saint Mary's will award three on Saturday.
Notre Dame recipients include: journalist and principal Commencement speaker Tim Russertt; Margaret Bent, the first female senior research fellow at All Souls College in Oxford; Lord John Browne, group chief executive of BP Amoco; Alfred DeCrane, retired chief executive officer of Texaco; Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Promoting Christian Unity; Helen Lieberman, founder of a nonprofit organization serving the needy of South Africa; Sydney Pollack, an actor, director and producer; Helen Quinn, a renowned physicist; Diarmuid O'Scannlain, a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, William Sexton, outgoing vice president for University Relations; Patrick Toole, a developer at IBM; and Cicely Tyson, an actress, activist and humanitarian.
The College is honoring James Jack, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Medallion Financial Corp.; Marjorie Hamel, an alumnus and former national chair of the Madeleva Steering Committee; and Sister M. O'Flynn, a Holy Cross Sister and adviser to former College presidents.
Saint Mary's will also award the President's Medal to Dorene Hammes, a College donor and confidant to College President Mary Lou Eldred.
All News Stories for Friday, May 17, 2002
