131st Convocation and
Commencement Exercises
S a t u r d a y M a y 8Upper Quadrangle, Main Campus
10:00 a.m.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 LettersJacqueline Joyner-Kersee
U. S. Olympian Track and Field Gold Medalist
Doctor of HumanitiesJames A. Johnson
Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Board of Fannie Mae
Doctor of Humane LettersKwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael)
(Posthumous)
Civil Rights Activist and Founder of the
All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party
Doctor of Humane Letters
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