Charlie Rose is 1999 Commencement Speaker at C.W. Post
Award-winning television journalist and talk show host Charlie Rose
will deliver the commencement address to 1,300 graduates and 4,200 guests
of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University on Sunday, May 9, 1999.
C.W. Post - a private, co-educational institution of higher learning located
in Brookville, NY - has awarded more than 80,000 degrees in its 45-year
history.
Charlie Rose will deliver his commencement address during the main ceremony
which kicks off at 9:40 a.m. on Sunday. Rose has introduced millions of
viewers to some of the most interesting people of our time. He does it
every weeknight in an unadorned Public Television studio where he goes
face to face with world leaders, newsmakers, authors, movie stars and lesser-knowns
with a tale to tell.
Rose entered television journalism in 1974 as managing editor of the
PBS series "Bill Moyers' International Report." In 1976, he
won a Peabody Award for work on "Bill Moyers' Journal." After
two years with Moyers and eight more as an interviewer or news anchor for
television stations in Dallas, Chicago and Washington, he took over "Nightwatch,"
the CBS late-night interview show, winning an Emmy, along with what some
have called a cult following. In 1991, Rose returned to his true love
-- the personal interview -- and began producing "Charlie Rose"
and other programs. Since then, he has earned another Emmy, a Cable Ace
Award and a growing prime-time following on the new CBS broadcast, "60
Minutes II," where he serves as correspondent.
At the commencement ceremony, Rose 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.
For more information contact the C.W. Post Public Relations Office at
(516) 299-2333 or pr@cwpost.liu.edu
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.
