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DATE: June 1, 2001

 

LOCAL RESIDENT GRADUATES
FROM WELLESLEY COLLEGE

 

WELLESLEY, Mass.-- of was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree at Wellesley College on Friday, June 1, 2001. Madam Jehan Sadat, a human-rights advocate dedicated to women's education and opportunity, addressed the nearly 600 members of the graduating class at the College's 123rd Commencement Exercises.

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Wellesley College, a prominent liberal arts college, has been a leader in the education of women for 125 years. The College's 500-acre campus near Boston is home to about 2,300 undergraduate students. Wellesley's distinguished alumnae include U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and broadcast journalists Cokie Roberts, Diane Sawyer and Lynn Sherr.

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