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Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 3003 N. Charles Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843 Phone: (410) 516-7160 | Fax (410) 516-5251 |
May 12, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Dennis O'Shea, dro@jhu.edu or Leslie Rice, lnr@jhu.edu |
Johns Hopkins University Commencement on May 25
Editors/Producers: There will be a press section for print and broadcast reporters and photographers stage right [audience left] toward the front of the seating area during the main commencement ceremony and the Arts and Sciences/Engineering diploma ceremony. Press credentials are required.
George Tenet, U.S. director of central intelligence, will address graduating seniors in Johns Hopkins University's schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering at their diploma ceremony at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, in the Gilman quadrangle on the Homewood campus. Earlier that day, university president William R. Brody will speak at the university-wide commencement ceremony at 9:30 a.m. at the same location. Other noteworthy speakers at Johns Hopkins commencement-related events that day include United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who will speak at SAIS in Washington, D.C. and composer Philip Glass, who will address Peabody Conservatory. The ceremonies mark the end of the university's 124th academic year.
The total number of earned degrees, certificates and diplomas
awarded is expected to be 5,133, as follows:
The university as a whole and its eight academic divisions hold
commencement events at which graduates receive their diplomas.
University-wide Commencement Ceremony
During this ceremony, all university degrees are conferred by the
university president. The only students who receive their
diplomas on stage at this time, however, are doctoral students
from all divisions. The ceremony also recognizes the new members
of the Society of Scholars and is the occasion at which the
university confers honorary degrees of doctor of humane
letters. (See box below.)
Arts and Sciences/Engineering Undergraduate Diploma
Ceremony
During this ceremony, seniors from the schools of Arts and
Sciences and Engineering, who officially graduated when degrees
were conferred in the morning ceremony, cross the stage to
receive their diplomas. It is also the occasion when the senior
class gives out its many awards, recognizing peers, faculty and
staff for their contributions and achievements.
Commencement speaker George John Tenet was sworn in as director
of central intelligence in 1997 following a unanimous vote by
both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the full
Senate. Prior to becoming director, Tenet was the CIA's deputy
director. He also served as special assistant to the president
and senior director for intelligence programs at the National
Security Council.
G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering Master's Diploma Award
Ceremony
The Zanvyl Kreiger School of Arts & Sciences Master's Diploma
Award Ceremony
The School of Professional Studies in Business and Education
Undergraduate and Graduate Diploma Award Ceremony
The School of Hygiene and Public Health Diploma Award
ceremony
The School of Medicine Diploma Award Ceremony
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Diploma Award Ceremony
The Peabody Institute Diploma Award Ceremony
The School of Nursing Diploma Award Ceremony
Bernadine Healy: president and chief executive officer,
American Red Cross. Healy is a former professor of medicine and
assistant dean for postdoctoral programs and faculty development
at The Johns Hopkins University and former coronary care unit
director of Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is a former director of
the National Institutes of Health.
Robert J.Glaser: trustee and director of medical science,
Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust. Previously, Glaser was
president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. He has served
as a top administrator at the Washington University, Colorado and
Stanford medical schools.
Benjamin H. Griswold III: former managing director of Alex
Brown & Sons. Griswold is a long-time trustee and friend to The
Johns Hopkins University.
Victor A. McKusick: University Professor of Medical
Genetics, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine. One of the founding fathers of medical genetic
research, he has been a member of the Johns Hopkins University
faculty since July 1, 1947.
Harvey Meyerhoff: philanthropist, real estate mogul,
driving force behind the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
Meyerhoff is a long-time friend and trustee of both The Johns
Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System.
Steven Muller: president of the Johns Hopkins University
from February 1972 to 1990. He was also president of Johns
Hopkins Hospital, assuming a dual role previously held only by
founding president Daniel Coit Gilman. Muller guided the
university as it assumed responsibility for the Peabody
Conservatory, presided over the construction of the Bloomberg
Center for Physics and Astronomy and the Space Telescope Science
Institute and established or enlarged academic centers in
downtown Baltimore, Montgomery County, at the Applied Physics
Laboratory and in Nanjing, China.
Kofi Annan: secretary general, United Nations (Degree to
be conferred at the SAIS diploma ceremony). The first staff
member of the United Nations to be appointed secretary general,
Annan's career began in 1962 with the U.N.'s World Health
Organization. His work has encompassed areas of budget,
personnel, security and refugee relief and
peacekeeping.
About the graduating class
Bachelor's degrees conferred
1,215
Master's degrees conferred
3,432
Doctoral degrees conferred
(112 of which are medical degrees)448
Certificates and diplomas conferred
410
About the ceremonies
9:30 a.m. to noon, Thursday, May 25
Gilman Quadrangle, Homewood campus
Speaker: William R. Brody, president, Johns Hopkins
University
Thursday, May 25, 2 p.m.
Gilman Quadrangle, Homewood campus
Speaker: George Tenet, director of central intelligence
Wednesday, May 24, 7 p.m.
Gilman Quadrangle, Homewood campus
Speaker: George W. Reynolds, director, industry and
university initiatives, Northrup Grumman Corp.
Thursday, May 25 6:30 p.m.
Shriver Hall, Homewood campus.
Speaker: William A Reinsch, undersecretary, Bureau of
Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Thursday, May 25 7:30 p.m.
Gilman Quadrangle, Homewood campus
Speaker: June Strecksus, executive director, Maryland
Business Roundtable for Education.
Wednesday, May 24, 2:30 p.m.
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St.
Speaker: Anthony Fauci, director, National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Thursday, May 25, 2:30 p.m.
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St.
Speaker: Antonia Novella, commissioner, New York State
Department of Health.
Thursday, May 25, 3 p.m.
Constitution Hall, 18th and D Sts, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Speaker: Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations
Thursday, May 25, 8 p.m.
Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall, Peabody Conservatory
Speaker: Philip Glass, composer
Thursday, May 25, 4 p.m.
Turner Auditorium, School of Medcine
Speaker: Jacquelyn Campbell, associate dean for doctoral
research and programs, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
May 2000
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