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The
Honorary Degree Recipients Include:
David
McCullough: biographer and journalist
 Biographer,
historian, lecturer and teacher, David McCullough is the author
of six widely acclaimed books, including Truman, one of
the most popular American biographies of all time and the winner
of the Pulitzer Prize. To millions of television viewers, McCullough
is also known as the host of "The American Experience,"
and narrator of numerous PBS documentaries including "The
Civil War." A gifted public speaker, he has lectured in all
parts of the country and abroad, as well as being a part of the
White House presidential lecture series. He is also one of the
few private citizens ever invited to speak before a joint session
of Congress, during its bicentennial.
Helen
Vendler: scholar, literary critic
 One
of America's most respected poetry critics, Helen Vendler has
published 10 major books and received 16 honorary degrees. The
New Republic described the Harvard English professor as "the
best poetry reviewer in America." In an interview last winter,
Vendler said: "Poetry is one of the fields which can be pressed
to its utmost imaginative freedom, to reconceive reality and reconceive
the way words go together. Poetry will always continue to offer
surprise, exhilaration and unpredictability."
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