Journalist Judy Woodruff will be the speaker at Founders’ Day convocation, at noon, today (Friday), Oct. 16. This event will open Sewanee’s 2015 Family Weekend. The convocation will include the conferral of honorary degrees and the induction of new members into the Order of Gownsmen.
Degree recipients are George E. Core, longtime editor of the Sewanee Review, who will receive an honorary doctor of letters; Jeanie Nelson, the founding CEO and president of the Land Trust for Tennessee, who will receive an honorary doctor of civil law;
Samuel F. Pickering Jr., C’63, professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and author of more than two dozen books, who will receive an honorary doctor of letters; and Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor of the PBS News Hour, who will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters.
Due to the number of students receiving their gowns, the University expects All Saints’ Chapel to be filled. Guests of gown recipients will have tickets for the service. After they have been seated, seats may be available in the Chapel for others who would like to attend; Chapel doors will open at 11 a.m. The service will also be streamed live in Guerry Auditorium, or online at <http://www.sewanee.edu/parents/convocation-live/>.
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