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Reminder: Felician
College to Hold its 37th Annual Commencement
What:
Felician College to hold its 37th
annual commencement exercises
When: Sunday, May 20,
2001, at 3:00 pm
Where:
Felician College’s Breslin Auditorium of the Main Campus Building on
the Lodi campus (262 South Main
Street).
Who:
200 students will receive their diplomas.
The Reverend Doctor Michael J. Himes, noted author and accomplished
Professor of Theology at Boston College, will deliver the commencement address. Miles Lerman, Director Emeritus of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum will also address the graduates and guests. Doctor of Humane Letters degrees will be awarded to Michael
Himes and Miles Lerman.
Commencement
Highlights
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Class of 2001 stands as largest graduating class in history of Felician
College (200 to graduate)
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First class of Accelerated Business Degree Completion students to
participate in commencement exercises (Diverse group of adult students compose
first cohort to complete the innovative 18-month program for a BA in
Organizational Management.)
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First class of Master of Arts in Religious Education to graduate
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Valedictorian (highest cum. average in bachelor’s program):
Jacqueline Tridente, BA in Elementary Education
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Salutatorian (highest cum. average in associate’s program):
Amela Osmanovski, Associate in
Applied Science Degree in Nursing
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Husband & Wife, Jawanza Amennun & Zenus Jackson, to graduate.
Jawanza (husband) is a psychology/art major; Zenus is a
psychology/English major.
About
the Award Recipients. . .
The
Rev. Michael J. Himes, Ph.D.
An
accomplished theology professor at Boston College and an award-winning writer,
Himes has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. In 1971, he was ordained for the Diocese of Brooklyn, and he
was awarded, with distinction, a Ph.D. in History of Christianity from the
University of Chicago. After 10
years as dean of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, he became associate
professor and director of the Collegiate Program in Theology at the University
of Notre Dame. Himes received the
1994 Catholic Press Association Book Award for Fullness of Faith:
The Public Significance of Theology, a work he co-authored with his
brother, Kenneth R. Himes. He also
received the 1992 Catholic Press Association Book Award for Ongoing
Incarnation: Johann Adam Mohler and the Beginnings of Modern Ecclesiology.
Himes is no stranger to Felician College.
In October of 1999, he was one of the keynote speakers at the Millennium
Convocation, held to commemorate the 2000th Anniversary of
Christianity. His many other honors
and awards include the Social Concerns Medal (Notre Dame) and the Sophia Award
for Contributions to Theology (Washington Theological Union).
Miles
Lerman
A
businessman in the petroleum industry and real estate, Lerman fought as a
partisan in the forests of southern Poland during the Holocaust of World War II.
In 1980, President Carter appointed him to the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council. In 1993,
President Clinton appointed him to the post of Chairman of that council, a post
he held until his retirement in January of 2000.
He served as the Chairman of the Council’s Committee of International
Relations and was instrumental in the negotiation of formal agreements with the
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, and the governments of Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and East Germany, to allow the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum to bring to Washington, DC authentic artifacts such as a
barracks from Birkenau, and a railroad car used to transport Jews from Warsaw to
the camp at Treblinka. Lerman also
served as National Chairman of the Campaign to Remember and led the effort to
raise $190 million to build and equip the Museum in Washington DC.
He served as the National Vice Chairman of the Israel Bond Organization
and in recognition for his distinguished service, he was presented by the Prime
Minister of the State of Israel with the medal of achievement.
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