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| Honorary degrees were awarded to (from left to right, shown with President Chopp, third from right): baccalaureate speaker Gail O'Day, the A.H. Shatford Professor of preaching and New Testament at Emory University; Bill McKibben, renowned environmentalist and writer; John Cushman III '63, Colgate trustee emeritus and well-known leader in the commercial real estate industry; journalist Lesley Stahl; and Dr. LaSalle Leffal, one of the nation's leading oncologists. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, was presented her award in absentia. She led a peaceful revolt in Burma in the 1980s, promoting democratic reforms and free elections, and has been under political house arrest by the Burmese military for much of the past 19 years. [Photo by Susan Kahn] |