Mikulski To Give Keynote Address 
At University's 119th Commencement


     A record number of graduates will join the university's
85,000-strong alumni body with the conferral of degrees at
ceremonies next week.

     The university-wide commencement ceremony, marking the end
of the university's 119th academic year, starts at 9:30 a.m. on
Thursday, May 25. The ceremony will be held under a tent at the
traditional site, Keyser Quadrangle on the Homewood campus in
Baltimore.

     The main speaker, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., is a
longtime friend of the university with a strong interest in both
education issues and scientific research. But she has a more
personal interest in this year's commencement: she has both a
niece and a nephew in the graduating class.

     Sen. Mikulski is one of five people who will receive the
honorary degree of doctor of humane letters before the conferral
of the earned degrees on the graduating class. 

     Another is Queen Sirikit of Thailand, who is being honored
for her leadership in humanitarian work, especially among the
poor farmers in her country. She will be the first member of a
reigning royal family to be awarded an honorary degree from
Hopkins since 1976.

     The other honorary degree recipients are Nightline anchor
Ted Koppel, who also will speak later that day to the Homewood
senior class; Chung Ju Yung, founder of Hyundai Business Group;
and Lucile P. Leone, former assistant surgeon general and first
chief nurse of the U.S. Public Health Service.

     Though all degrees are conferred at the university
commencement ceremony, only doctoral recipients collect their
diplomas at that time. Individual academic divisions will hold
separate ceremonies to distribute other diplomas--as well as
various awards--to their graduates. (See sidebar information
below.)

     Though the tally will be in flux almost to the moment the
traditional academic procession begins, the number of new
degrees--from associate's through doctorates--is expected to be
something on the order of 4,389, more than 7 percent more than
last year.

     A majority of those degrees--more than 2,800--are master's
degrees. Of those, about 1,800--about 41 percent of this year's
total graduating class--have been earned from the university's
rapidly growing part-time programs for adult, non-traditional
students.

     This year's cadre of bachelor's degree recipients--from Arts
and Sciences, Engineering, Nursing, Peabody and Continuing
Studies--numbers about 1,068, about 150 fewer than last year.


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                        Academic Divisions Plan 
                           Commencement Events
                                    
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ROTC Commissioning Ceremony 
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     10 a.m., May 24, Shriver Hall, Homewood campus, Baltimore.
Speaker: Maj. Gen. Charles C. Cannon Jr., vice director,
logistics, J-4, Pentagon.
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G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering 
     (master's and doctoral degree recipients)
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     7 p.m., May 24, Keyser Quadrangle, Homewood campus,
Baltimore. Speaker: Merrill Skolnik, superintendent, Radar
Division, United States Naval Research Laboratory. 
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University-wide Commencement Ceremony 
     (all degree recipients, all divisions)
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     9:30 a.m., May 25, Keyser Quadrangle, Homewood campus,
Baltimore. Speaker: Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.
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School of Arts and Sciences 
     (master's degree recipients)
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     12:30 p.m., May 25, Shriver Hall, Homewood campus,
Baltimore. Speaker: John T. Tierney, professor of political
science, Boston College; fellow of the Brookings Institution,
Washington, D.C.
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School of Hygiene and Public Health
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     1:30 p.m., May 25, Turner Auditorium, Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions, Baltimore. Speaker: George W. Comstock, professor
of epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public
Health. 
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School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering 
     (full-time bachelor's degree recipients): 
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     2:30 p.m., May 25, Keyser Quadrangle, Homewood campus,
Baltimore. Speaker: Ted Koppel, managing editor and anchor, ABC
News "Nightline."
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Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies 
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     2:30 p.m., May 25, Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. Speaker: James A. Baker III, former secretary of
state.
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School of Medicine
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     3 p.m., May 25, Kraushaar Auditorium, Goucher College,
Towson, Md. Speaker: Abraham Verghese, professor of medicine and
chief of infectious diseases and geriatrics, Texas Tech
University.
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School of Nursing 
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     4 p.m., May 25, Turner Auditorium, Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions, Baltimore. Speaker: Louise Wilmot, deputy director
of world headquarters, Catholic Relief Services.
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School of Continuing Studies
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     7:30 p.m., May 25, Keyser Quadrangle, Homewood campus,
Baltimore. Speaker: James T. Brady, secretary, Maryland
Department of Business and Economic Development.
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Peabody Conservatory
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     8 p.m., May 25, Miriam Friedberg Concert Hall, the Peabody
Institute, 1 E. Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore. Speakers: Hugo
Weisgall, composer; and Melvin Steinberg, former Maryland
lieutenant governor.
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