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Filmmaker Spike Lee received an honorary degree and gave the commencement address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the morning.

Overview Donor Shoo Iwasaki announced a new scholarship for Emerson students at the ceremony. Director and film scholar Peter Bogdanovich; WBZ radio news anchor Gary LaPierre; and co-founder of Shakespeare & Company Tina Packer received honorary degrees. There is only partial footage of Tina Packer's honorary degree presentation. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the afternoon. Former Emerson College Board of Trustees Chairman and retired president of WCVB S....

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Author Alice Hoffman; actor, sculptor, and painter Anthony Quinn, news correspondent Morley Safer, and President of AOL Interactive Properties Group Ted Leonsis received honorary degrees. Ted Leonsis gave the undergraduate address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for Performing Arts in the afternoon.

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Actress and activist Jane Fonda; activist Doris R. Haddock; and communications entrepreneur R. E. Turner received honorary degrees. R. E. Turner gave the commencement address.

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Emeritus status was conferred on Kenneth C. '55, M.A., '57, Ph.D., Professor School of Communication and Leonidas A. Nicole, '49, M.A. Professor, Department of Performing Arts School of the Arts. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

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Film industry executive Sherry Lansing and chairman of The Shubert Organization Gerald Schoenfeld received honorary degrees. Sherry Lansing gave the commencement address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

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US Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and media executive Leo Hindery, Jr. received honorary degrees. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. gave the commencement address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

Overview Actor, comedian, and writer Denis Leary; business and civic leader, and political commentator Peter Meade; entrepreneur, innovator, and enabler Robert F. X. Sillerman; Emerson College faculty member, artist, designer, and administrator Harry Morgan; Emerson College's resident storyteller, esteemed faculty member, and ordained minister John Coffee received honorary degrees. Robert F. X. Sillerman gave the undergraduate address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for Performing Arts in...

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Journalist Eileen McNamara and Dean of the School of Education and Human Services at St. John's University Jerrold Ross received honorary degrees. Eileen McNamara gave the commencement address.

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Rosie's Place founder Kip Tiernan and children's book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola received honorary degrees. Kip Tiernan gave the commencement address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the morning.

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Banker and former US Treasury official Frank Newman and sociologist Sara Lawrence Lightfoot received honorary degrees. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot gave the commencement address.

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Author Sue Miller and poet Stanley Kunitz received honorary degrees. Sue Miller gave the commencement address.

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Advertising executive Edward Eskandarian and newspaper editor Walter V. Robinson received honorary degrees. Edward Eskandarian gave the commencement address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

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Author, composer, humorist, and technologist Christopher Cerf; art collector and patron Lois Bronstein Foster; and poet and educator Thomas Lux received honorary degrees. Christopher Cerf gave the commencement address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

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American Film Institute president and CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg and journalist Evan Thomas received honorary degrees. Evan Thomas gave the commencement address. The ceremony was held at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the afternoon.