 Commencement '97 Roundup
1,350 Join the Ranks of C.W. Post Alumni
More than 1,350 students donned their caps
and gowns on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11, 1997 when the C.W. Post Campus
of Long Island University held its 40th annual commencement exercises. The
C.W. Post Campus, a private co-educational institution of higher learning
located in Brookville, has awarded more than 73,000 degrees in its 43-year
history.
The commencement speaker was Dr. Lorraine Monroe, a distinguished
educator and former principal of Frederick Douglass Academy, a hugely successful
junior and senior high school in Central Harlem. After becoming principal
in 1991, Dr. Monroe transformed an inner-city school best known for violence
and unruly students into an academic and cultural oasis with all the advantages
and values of a private academy.
Dr. Monroe was awarded an Honorary Degree along with three other highly
accomplished individuals. Accepting this coveted recognition were Horace
Hagedorn, Vice Chairman of The Scotts Company (lawn products) and CEO
of Scotts Miracle-Gro; the Most Reverend John R. McGann, Bishop of
the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y. and leader of more than one million
Roman Catholic parishioners; and Howard E. Gardner, a Harvard
developmental psychologist whose writings on intelligence, creativity and
leadership have made him one of the nation's most influential educators
and thinkers.
The Class of 1997 included 702 baccalaureate degree candidates and 648 master's
degree candidates. In addition, five students received the Ph.D. in clinical
psychology.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail cwpostpr@aurora.liunet.edu |
