131st Convocation and
Commencement Exercises
S a t u r d a y  M a y  8

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan receives Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa and delivers the Commencement Convocation Address Doctorate degrees honoris causa also granted to: Dr. James Farmer James A. Johnson Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee Kwame Ture	Commencement Orator His Excellency Kofi A. Annan Secretary-General of the United Nations Doctor of Humane Letters Dr. James Farmer Retired Distinguished Professor of History and American Studies at Mary Washington College Doctor of Humane Letters Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee U. S. Olympian Track and Field Gold Medalist Doctor of Humanities James A. Johnson Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Fannie Mae Doctor of Humane Letters Kwame Ture (a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael) (Posthumous) Civil Rights Activist and Founder of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party Doctor of Humane Letters	H. Patrick Swygert President Howard University
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