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May 12, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dennis O'Shea
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Johns Hopkins to Award Five
Honorary Degrees
The Johns Hopkins University will award honorary
degrees of doctor of humane letters at commencement to five
distinguished leaders in government, education, business
and philanthropy, including Johns Hopkins alumnus Michael
R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York.
The conferrals will take place during the university's
commencement ceremony, at
9:15 a.m. on Thursday, May 22, at Homewood Field at the
northern edge of the Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St.
in Baltimore. Later that day, Bloomberg will speak at the
diploma award ceremony for graduating seniors in the
university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and
Whiting School of Engineering. That 1:45 p.m. ceremony also
takes place at Homewood Field.
The awards will bring to 414 the number of honorary
degrees conferred by Johns Hopkins since the first were
given in 1880 to Henry Rowland, the first Johns Hopkins
professor of physics, and in 1881 to President Rutherford
B. Hayes. A list of the 409 previous recipients of honorary
degrees from Johns Hopkins is at
www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/commence03/honorary/
chrono.html.
Note: The citations that will accompany the
conferral of the degrees are available to reporters. Please
contact Dennis O'Shea; contact information is above.
The honorary degree recipients are:
Michael R. Bloomberg, the 108th mayor of New
York. A 1964 engineering graduate of Johns Hopkins,
Bloomberg, 61, served on the university's board of trustees
from 1987 to 2002 and chaired the board for the last six
years of his service. In 2001, the university renamed its
School of Public
Health in his honor, recognizing his unprecedented
commitment of energy and financial support to that school
and to the entire university. His official biography is
available at
www.nyc.gov.
Randolph W. Bromery, former chancellor of the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, former president of
Springfield College, and former acting president of
Westfield State College, interim chancellor of the
Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education and
interim president of Roxbury Community College. He is also
a distinguished geologist and earned his Ph.D. in
geology from Johns Hopkins in 1968.
He was a trustee of the university from 1986 to 1994 and is
now trustee emeritus. He lives in Amherst, Mass.
Claire M. Fagin, dean emeritus of the
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and former
interim president of Penn. She is a national leader in both
nursing education and health policy and an advocate for
universal health care and improved geriatric nursing care.
She will speak at the Johns Hopkins
School of Nursing
Diploma Award Ceremony on the afternoon of May 22. She
lives in New York.
Sidney Kimmel, philanthropist, anti-cancer
activist and founder of the Jones Apparel Group. He has
established cancer centers in New York, San Diego and
Philadelphia and at Johns Hopkins. His $150 million gift in
2001 to the
Sidney
Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, to support both
research and patient care, is the largest in Johns Hopkins
history. He is also a major supporter of causes involving
education, the arts and culture. He lives in New York.
Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of chairman
emeritus of Intel Corp. and one of the visionaries of the
computer revolution. A former staff member of the
Johns Hopkins Applied
Physics Laboratory, Moore helped to create Intel Corp.
in 1968 and served as executive vice president, president
and then chairman of the company that created the
microprocessor. He is perhaps best known for the accuracy
of his 1965 prediction, now known as "Moore's Law," of the
exponential growth of computing power. He lives in
Woodside, Calif.
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