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Dominican Holds 2007 Commencement Exercises

Over 430 students will receive bachelor’s degrees or master’s degrees from Dominican University during commencement exercises on Saturday, May 5. The undergraduate ceremony will be held at 11:00 a.m. and the graduate ceremony will be held at 3:00 p.m. Both commencement ceremonies will be held in Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Pioneering journalist Wilma Jean Emanuel Randle, a 1977 graduate of Dominican University, will receive an honorary degree and serve as the commencement speaker for the undergraduate ceremony. David Martin Bevington, world renowned Shakespeare scholar and the holder of Dominican University’s 2007 Lund-Gill Chair, will receive an honorary degree.

Stephanie Pace Marshall, founding president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), and William Walter Menninger, MD, chairman of the trustees of the MBM Foundation and the Menninger Clinic, will serve as speakers and receive honorary degrees from the university during the graduate ceremony.

A former reporter with the Chicago Tribune, Wilma Jean Emanuel Randle has been recognized for her volunteer and community service work in Africa. She currently serves as a communications consultant for African-based nonprofit organizations including those operating under the auspices of Oxfam, Amnesty International, UNICEF and the World Bank, and divides her time between the United States and Africa, primarily Senegal. From 1998 to 2001 she was the director of the African Women’s Media Center in Dakar, Senegal, a project of the Washington DC-based International Women’s Media Foundation. In 2003 she was selected by the prestigious J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to its Senior Specialists Roster in the area of communications and journalism.

Born in Chicago, Randle began her journalism career at the weekly Independent Bulletin on Chicago’s south side. She has also worked as a business writer at papers in Minnesota and Michigan. Randle is responsible for creating in 1990 the Exposure High School Journalism Workshop and Mentoring Program for the Chicago Association of Black Journalists. She has taught journalism at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, Columbia College Chicago and the Center for Foreign Journalists in Reston, VA.

David Martin Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago where he has been teaching since 1967. He has also taught at Harvard University and the University of Virginia.

The recipient of numerous honors and awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships,Bevington has published studies of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and the Stuart Court Masque and edited and introduced the complete works of Shakespeare in the 29-volume Bantam Classics paperback editions and the single-volume Longman edition. He also edits the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama as well as a forthcoming edition of the complete works of Ben Jonson.

Stephanie Pace Marshall is nationally recognized as an expert in innovative mathematics and science education programs as well as educational programs for gifted and talented students. Selected by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of the 10 most powerful women in education and elected in 2002 toToday’s Chicago Women’s inaugural Hall of Fame, Marshall received the Order of Lincoln, the State of Illinois’ highest award for achievement, in 2005. She was honored by a resolution from the Illinois General Assembly for outstanding contributions to Illinois education and was selected by the National School Boards Association as one the country’s 200 top school executives.

At the invitation of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, Marshall served on the State of the World Forum, an international think-tank designed to study and resolve issues of global sustainability. She also was invited by Queen Noor of Jordan to join the board of directors of the Queen Noor Jubilee School in Amman, Jordan in 2002. She has served as president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development International, the largest educational leadership organization in the world, and was a consultant to the US Department of Education’s Overseas Schools.

A member of one of America’s leading medical families, William Walter Menninger served from 1993 until his retirement in 2001 as president and CEO of the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic, a nonprofit center founded by his grandfather, uncle and father for treatment, education, research and prevention in psychiatry. Menninger’s psychiatric training was with the Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, KA and he completed psychoanalytic training at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.

In 1968, Menninger served on the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, a commission impaneled by President Lyndon Johnson in response to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He has been a long-term consultant and advisor to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and served as chairman of the advisory board of the National Institute of Corrections from 1981 through 1984. In 1989 he was appointed to the advisory committee of the US Sentencing Commission on Alternatives to Imprisonment.

From 1975 to 1983, Menninger authored a nationally syndicated news feature, “In-Sights,” on psychological aspects of personal and social issues. He has written extensively for both professional and lay audiences on subjects ranging from violence and crime to human sexuality, reactions to change, hospital psychiatry and chronic mental illness.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Work. In the 2007 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the ninth consecutive year.