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Honorary Degree Recipient 2019-20
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Honorary Degree Recipient 2001Marian Wright Edelman is renowned activist, founder, and president of the Children’s Defense Fund (founded in 1973). Edelman has been a life-long advocate for disadvantaged individuals, children, and families. She began her career mid-1960s as the first black woman admitted through the Mississippi Bar.
Honorary Degree Recipient 1999Helmuth Rilling was co-founder of the Oregon Bach Festival. The Festival was co-founded in 1970 with Royce Saltzman of the UO Music Faculty. The Oregon Bach Festival is an annual commemoration of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach and it is held every summer in Eugene.
Honorary Degree Recipient 1996Mark O. Hatfield served as US Senator from Oregon for 30 years (longest tenure of any Oregonian Senator, 1967-1997) and also served as Oregon’s 16th Secretary of State and 29th Governor. He was a member of the Republican Party and also served in the US Navy during World War II from 1943-1947.
Honorary Degree Recipient 1994Corazon Aquino was the 11th president and first female president of the Philippines. Elected in 1986 and heralded as the heroine of the revolutionary People Power Movement, Aquino restored democracy in the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. The peaceful manner through which Aquino came into office…
