1,100 to Graduate from C.W. Post on Sunday, May 10
More than 1,100 students will don their caps and gowns on Mother's Day,
Sunday, May 10, 1998 when the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
holds its 41st annual commencement exercises. C.W. Post - a private, co-educational
institution of higher learning located in Brookville, NY - has awarded
more than 74,000 degrees in its 44-year history.
The commencement speaker will be Hugh B. Price, president and chief
executive officer of the National Urban League, an organization committed
to helping the disadvantaged living in the nation's inner cities. Price's
agenda for the league focuses on the academic and social status of children,
unemployment in inner cities and rising racial isolation.
Price will also be awarded an Honorary Degree along with four other
highly accomplished individuals. Accepting this coveted recognition will
be Kathleen M. Foley, M.D., Chief of Pain and Palliative Care Services
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan; Edwin W. Martin,
Jr., Ph.D., President Emeritus of the National Center for Disability Services
in Albertson; and Joseph and Tita Monti, founders of the Don Monti Memorial
Research Foundation, which has raised more than $20 million for cancer
research, education, patient care and physician fellowships.
Jamila Dallal of Great Neck, NY will be C.W. Post's Valedictorian. The
49-year-old psychology major and mother of two will give her valedictory
speech at commencement ceremonies on Mother's Day at 9:40 a.m. on the Great
Lawn. This will not be the first time Dallal will receive this prestigious
honor. In 1966 she graduated as valedictorian of her high school class
in Tehran, Iran.
The C.W. Post Salutatorian in Terrence E. Murphy, a 32-year-old health
education major from Mineola, NY who lost his eyesight 10 years ago due
to complications from diabetes. After attending Helen Keller Services
for the Blind, he enrolled at Nassau Community College and earned an associate's
degree. He is currently student-teaching at Carle Place High School and
Middle School.
The Class of 1998 includes 607 baccalaureate degree candidates and 530
master's degree candidates.
C.W. Post is campus of Long Island University, the eighth largest private
university in the United States. With more than 10,000 students, C.W. Post
offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal
arts & sciences, accounting, business, public service, library &
information science, education, health professions, and visual & performing
arts. C.W. Post also offers extensive continuing education programs.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail cwpostpr@aurora.liunet.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
