1,300 to Graduate from C.W. Post on Sunday, May 9
Charlie Rose is Commencement Speaker
More than 1,300 students will don their caps and gowns on Mother's Day,
Sunday, May 9 when the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University holds
its 42nd annual commencement exercises. C.W. Post - a private, co-educational
institution of higher learning located in Brookville, NY - has awarded
more than 76,000 degrees in its 45-year history.
The commencement speaker will be award-winning television journalist
and talk show host Charlie Rose who will be awarded an Honorary
Degree along with three other highly accomplished individuals: James
Comer, a Yale University psychiatrist, social reformer and educator;
Joseph H. Rothenberg, associate administrator for space flight at
NASA and a graduate of C.W. Post ('73, '78); and Ed Shorin, a retired
vice president from The Topps Chewing Gum Company and former chairman of
the C.W. Post's Hutton House Lectures Advisory Board.
Distinguished alumni awards will be presented to two successful C.W.
Post graduates:
Dr. Alicia Zizzo '81, a Gershwin scholar and international acclaimed
pianist and musicologist and Major General Rosetta Y. Burke '75,
the first female general in the 360 history of the New York State Army
National Guard.
Loretta Schuellein of Queens Village, New York - a record-holding
racewalker with sights on competing in the 2004 Olympics - will be C.W.
Post's valedictorian. The 22-year-old English education major will give
her valedictory speech at commencement ceremonies on Mother's Day at 9:40
a.m. in front of Humanities Hall. The C.W. Post Salutatorian is Jill
Kahan, a 22-year-old mathematics education major from Dix Hills, New
York.
The Class of 1999 includes 652 baccalaureate degree candidates and 688
master's degree candidates.
C.W. Post is a campus of Long Island University, the eighth largest
private university in the United States. With nearly 11,000 students, C.W.
Post offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the
liberal arts and sciences, accounting, business, public service, library
and information science, education, health professions and visual and performing
arts. C.W. Post also offers doctorates in information studies and clinical
psychology as well as an extensive continuing education program.
The Class of 1999 includes 652 baccalaureate degree candidates, 688
master's degree candidates and three doctoral candidates.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
