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WELLESLEY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT, 1994
Wellesley, MA- Presiding over Wellesley College's 116th
Commencement Exercises, President Diana Chapman Walsh today
presented Bachelor of Arts degrees to 587 women including 36
Davis Scholars. Walsh was inaugurated 12th President of
Wellesley on May 29, the fourth alumna to lead the New
England liberal arts college for women.
Broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts returned to her alma
mater to deliver the Commencement address. As ABC News
Special Correspondent for politics, Congress and public
policy, Roberts appears weekly on the roundtable discussion,
"This Week With David Brinkley," and frequently serves as
anchor on "Nightline." In addition, she is a senior news
analyst for National Public Radio heard regularly on NPR's
newsmagazine, "Morning Edition."
Surrounded by a display of international flags signifying
the countries represented by members of the graduating
class, Roberts addressed a crowd of nearly 5,000 including
seniors, their guests, faculty and staff in the College's
Academic Quadrangle.
Cokie Roberts joined National Public Radio in 1978 and
was congressional correspondent for 13 years. In her
distinguished career at NPR, she won numerous awards,
including the highest recognition in public radio, the
Edward R. Murrow Award. She was also the first broadcast
journalist to win the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen
Award for coverage of Congress. She has been co-host of the
PBS weekly program, 'The Lawmakers," and as congressional
correspondent for "MacNeil /Lehrer Newshour," she won the
Weintal Award in 1987 for her work on the Iran/Contra
affair.
Roberts, a 1964 graduate of Wellesley College where she
majored in political science, received the College's Alumnae
Achievement Award in 1985, "in recognition of excellence and
distinction in professional pursuits." She was named one of
Glamour magazine's "Ten Outstanding Women of 1991," and she
has been named "Outstanding Mother of the Year" by the
National Mother's Day Committee. A frequent contributor to
The New York Times and The Washington Post, she has also
written for The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.
Jennifer L. Vanasco, a philosophy major, delivered the
student commencement speech on behalf of the graduating
class, a tradition begun at Wellesley in 1969 by another
graduating senior, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Vanasco is a
resident of Garden City, New York.
President Walsh announced the three winners of the
Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching: Charles B. Fisk,
Phyllis Henderson Carey Associate Professor of Music; Sally
Engle Merry, Professor of Anthropology and Patrick Morton,
Associate Professor of Mathematics. She also announced the
retirements of three distinguished faculty members: Robert
E. Garis, Katharine Lee Bates Professor of English; Paul R.
Barstow, Professor of Theatre Studies; and Jeanne A.
Darlington, Laboratory Instructor in Chemistry. Three
professorships were announced: Sally Engle Merry, Professor
of Anthropology, will hold the Class of 1949 Chair in
Ethics; Kenneth P. Winkler, Professor of Philosophy, has
been named Class of 1919 50th Reunion Professor; and William
E. Cain, Professor of English, will be the Mary Jewett
Gaiser Professor of English. President Walsh also announced
the establishment of a new professorship at Wellesley, the
Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science. The first
holder of that chair will be Joel Krieger, Professor of
Political Science.
On Thursday, May 27, Eve Waterfall, Wellesley College
Class of 1989, delivered the Baccalaureate address, elected
by the senior class council. She is a second year law
student at Northeastern University.
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