Six to Receive Honorary Degrees During Commencement
March 24, 1998 | Commencement, University Announcement
Wake Forest University will award six honorary degrees during its May 18 commencement ceremony. The ceremony also will include an address by White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles. The honorary degree recipients will be: Erskine Bowles, White House chief of staff, doctor of laws. […]
Bowles to Deliver 1998 Commencement Address
February 3, 1998 | Commencement, Events, Speakers
White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles will speak at Wake Forest University’s 1998 commencement ceremony on May 18. Bowles was named President Clinton’s chief of staff in November 1996 and assumed his post the following January. He had previously served as the assistant to […]
Gerstner to Deliver Commencement Address
May 19, 1997 | Commencement, Events
Louis V. Gerstner Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corporation, will speak at Wake Forest University’s 1997 commencement ceremony this morning. Approximately 1,348 undergraduate and graduate students will receive diplomas during the ceremony that begins at 9 a.m. on University Plaza. […]
IBM’s Gerstner: Computers Realize Human Dreams
May 19, 1997 | Commencement
Louis V. Gerstner Jr., chairman and chief executive officer with International Business Machines Corp., told the 1997 graduating class from Wake Forest University today that computer technology is a vehicle for human ingenuity. “Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but they […]
Six Receive Honorary Degrees during WFU commencement
May 19, 1997 | Commencement
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison (right in photo) was among six distinguished recipients of honorary degrees awarded by Wake Forest University during today’s commencement. The ceremony also included the awarding of diplomas to approximately 1,348 undergraduate and graduate students. The commencement address was delivered by […]
IBM CEO to Deliver 1997 Commencement Address
October 15, 1996 | Commencement, Events
Louis V. Gerstner Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corporation, will speak at Wake Forest University’s 1997 commencement ceremony on May 19. Before joining IBM in 1993, Gerstner spent four years as chairman and chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco […]
Beverly Sills to Speak at Wake Forest’s Convocation
September 4, 1996 | Commencement, Events
Opera legend Beverly Sills, one of America’s most prominent advocates for the arts, will speak at Wake Forest University’s opening convocation Tuesday, Sept. 24. Sills will address “The State of the Arts” at 11 a.m. in Wait Chapel. Admission is free and open to the […]
Mason awarded honorary degree
May 28, 1996 | Commencement, Media Advisory
Wake Forest University awarded James Walter Mason an honorary doctor of laws degree during the university’s commencement ceremony on May 20.
Nunn to graduates: rebuild nation’s moral fabric
May 20, 1996 | Commencement, Media Advisory
U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn delivered a message of civic and family responsibility today to the 1996 graduating class from Wake Forest University.
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