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Volume 11, Issue 27
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
April 22,1998
Steve Forbes to speak at 130th Commencement;
David Tracy to deliver baccalaureate address
Former presidential candidate
Steve Forbes, the president and
CEO of Forbes Inc. and editor-in-
chief of Forbes magazine, will
deliver the main address at Lehigh's
130th Commencement at 9 a.m. on
Sunday, May 31, at Goodman
Stadium.
David Tracy, professor of theology
at the University of Chicago, will
give the main address at the baccalaureate service at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, in Packer Memorial
Church.
Forbes will receive an honorary
doctor of laws degree, as did his
father, the late Malcolm Forbes,
former publisher of Forbes, in 1984.
Tracy will receive an honorary
doctor of divinity degree.
Three others will receive honorary degrees: Harold A. "Hap"
Wagner (doctor of engineering), a
Lehigh trustee and CEO of Air
Products and Chemicals Inc.;
Andrew H. Knoll '73 (doctor of
science), professor of biology at
Harvard, and Wendy Wasserstein
(doctor of humane letters), award-
winning author and playwright.
"Steve Forbes is an extremely
prominent figure in the business
and political arena," said Kristina
Theiss, senior class president. "We
are honored to have him as the 130th
Commencement speaker."
"We are genuinely excited to have
such a recognized public figure
speak at the university," said
William C. Hittinger, interim
president. "His achievements serve
Forbes
Tracy
Wagner
Knoll
Wasserstein
as an example to Lehigh's graduates."
Forbes, a frequent guest on
national news programs, is the only
four-time winner of the Crystal Owl
Award, which is given by USX Corp.
to the financial journalist whose
annual economic forecasts prove
most accurate. He has expanded
Forbes Inc. to include lifestyle and
technology supplements, a Japanese-language edition, and a black
history magazine, American Legacy.
From 1985 to 1993, Forbes was
chairman of International Broadcasting, where he supervised the
operation of Radio Free Europe and
Radio Liberty. From 1993 to 1996,
Forbes chaired Empower America, a
political reform group founded by
Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett and
Jeanne Kirkpatrick. He campaigned
for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, then became
chairman of Americans for Hope,
Growth and Opportunity.
Tracy earned a licentiate and a
doctorate in theology from
Gregorian University in Rome, and
began teaching at the Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C., before joining the faculty
at Chicago in 1969.
He is author of six books, including Blessed Rage for Order: The
New Pluralism in Theology, Dialogue with the Other and On Naming the Present. He has co-authored,
edited and contributed to two dozen
more.He has lectured in North
America, Europe, China and Israel,
and he was president of the Catholic Theological Society of America in
1977-78.
Wagner joined Air Products in
1963, rose to president of Air
Products Europe in 1988, company
president in 1991 and CEO in 1992.
He is a director of CIGNA Corp.,
United Technologies Corp., and
Daido-Hoxan - Japan's second-
largest industrial gas company. He
is a member of the Policy Committee of the national Business
Roundtable, chairman of the
Pennsylvania Business Roundtable,
and a member of KidsPeace National Council for Kids.
Knoll earned a Ph.D. from
Harvard in 1977, joined its faculty
in 1982 and was
appointed chairman of
its department of
organismic and
evolutionary biology
in 1992. He is a
member of the U.S.
National Academy of
Sciences and the
American Philosophical Society.
Knoll has served as editor or
editorial board member for a dozen
journals, including Paleobiology,
Trends in Ecology and Evolution,
Geology, and Precambrian Research.
He has published almost 200 papers
and 100 abstracts, delivered 222
invited lectures at research institutions around the world, and served
as a visiting scientist in Sweden,
Australia, England, Japan and the
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Wasserstein won the 1993 Outer
Critics Circle Award and a Tony
nomination for her play The Sisters
Rosensweig. The Heidi Chronicles,
another of her plays, received a
grant from the Kennedy Center
Fund for New American Plays and
earned her the 1989 Pulitzer Prize
and a host of other awards. In 1993,
Wasserstein received the William
Inge Award for Distinguished
Achievement in American Theatre.
Wasserstein's latest play, An
American Daughter, was produced
by Lincoln Center Theatre on
Broadway last year. She wrote the
screenplay for the recently released
movie, The Object of My Affection.
Robert M. Madigan to speak
at Honors Convocation
Robert M. Madigan '88, founder and
president of Madigan Consulting Ltd., will
speak at the Honors Convocation on
Sunday, April 26. The
event, which recognizes
375 honor students,
begins at 2 p.m. in
Packer Memorial
Church.
Madigan, who has a
B.S. in mechanical
engineering, worked as
a consultant for Arthur
Andersen in New York
City before starting a local consulting firm
in 1989.
Madigan Consulting Ltd. serves manu-
Madigan
facturers, governments, educational and
non-profit organizations in the mid-
Atlantic region. Two of its clients received
the 1997 Pennsylvania Business of the
Year award-
At Lehigh, Madigan was active in
tutoring, intramural sports and the Jazz
Band. He received the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers Best Student Paper
Award.
Madigan is a member of the Alumni
Association's reunion committee and
chairman of his class reunion committee.
He holds board positions at the American
Diabetes Association, Northeastern
Pennsylvania Technology County,
Bethlehem Economic Development
Organization, Historic Bethlehem, Inc.,
Bethlehem Rotary Club and the Ballet
Guild of the Lehigh Valley.
-Linda Harbrecht
Ed College to welcome undergrads
Starting next fall, the College of Education will offer a five-
year combined degree and teacher-certification program so
students can earn a bachelor's and master's degree in five
years instead of the traditional six.
The program leads to a B.A. or B.S. from the College of Arts
and Sciences, an MA. or M.Ed, in elementary or secondary
education, and an Instructional I teaching certificate from the
state Department of Education. Lehigh is approved by the
state for 12 areas of certification at the elementary and
secondary levels.
Ray Bell, chair of the department of education and human
services, says the program will help Lehigh attract students
who know early in their college career that they are interested
in education. Previously, undergraduates were limited to a
minor in the education college.
For more information, contact Lynn Columba, coordinator
of the teacher education program, at x83230.
-Sharron DeBiasi
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