The University’s 2014–15 academic year comes to a close May 8–10 with three ceremonies marking graduation weekend on the Mountain. Commencement and Baccalaureate ceremonies will be held for students from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Letters and the School of Theology. Two honorary degrees will be presented during the School of Theology Commencement and four, during the Baccalaureate ceremony.
Honorary degrees will be presented to the Rt. Rev. Robert Skirving, bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina, and to the Most Rev. Thabo Cecil Makgoba, the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, who will also preach during the May 8 School of Theology Commencement service.
Robert M. Gates, former secretary of defense and former president of Texas A&M University; Mary Moore Dwyer, president and CEO of IES Abroad (Institute for the International Education of Students); F. Robertson Hershey, headmaster of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va.; and Jefferson Allen McMahan, C’76, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, will receive honorary degrees during the May 9 Baccalaureate ceremony. Gates will give the Baccalaureate address during the service.
On Sunday, May 10, a Convocation for Conferring of Degrees will be at 10 a.m. in All Saints’ Chapel (tickets required) for the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Letters. A luncheon honoring the Class of 2015 graduates will follow.
All three services will be streamed live on the university’s website for those unable to attend.
Mary M. Dwyer is president and CEO of IES Abroad, the Institute for the International Education of Students, one of the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit study abroad program providers, offering more than 125 programs around the world. She was the lead researcher on a 50-year longitudinal impact study to measure the effect of study abroad on student’s academic careers, personal growth, careers, and language and intercultural development. She is active in efforts to advance international education policy and practice and is a frequent speaker in the field, including topics such as study abroad trends, outcomes assessment and evaluation systems. Prior to joining IES, Dwyer was a faculty member in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a bachelor of arts from Mundelein College, a master’s degree in educational leadership and a doctorate in public policy analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Robert M. Gates served as the U.S. secretary of defense from 2006 to 2011. Before becoming secretary of defense, Gates was the president of Texas A&M University (2002–06). Gates spent nearly 27 years as an intelligence professional with the Central Intelligence Agency. He was deputy national security adviser for President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1991, and served as director of Central Intelligence from 1991 until 1993. In 2011 President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. Gates received a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary, a master’s degree from Indiana University, and a doctorate in Russian and Soviet history from Georgetown University. He was installed as chancellor of the College of William & Mary in 2012.
F. Robertson “Rob” Hershey is the 11th headmaster of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., serving in that role since 1998. Hershey began his independent school career at Woodberry Forest School, where he taught history and economics; he later served in many other roles, including assistant headmaster and associate headmaster. Hershey has led several campus renewal projects at Episcopal. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a master’s of education from the University of Virginia.
Jefferson Allen McMahan, C’76, is White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. McMahan has written and lectured extensively on the metaphysics of death and the ethics of killing. A significant portion of his work is dedicated to the re-examination and revision of traditional just war theory using contemporary ethical theory. McMahan earned a bachelor of arts in English at Sewanee and then did graduate work in philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He received a doctorate in 1986. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University. His publications include “The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life,” “Killing in War” and “The Morality of Nationalism” and “Ethics and Humanity.”
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