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Wheaton College Norton, Massachusetts One Hundred and Sixty-second Commencement At Ten O’Clock Saturday May the Seventeenth Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-seven Order of Exercises Processional Awarding of Honorary Degrees and Addresses Boston Brass Ensemble Music by Bach, Pezel, Doctor of Laws Clarke, Elgar The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg presented by Paul E. Gray Opening Doctor of Laws Winston R. Hindle, Jr. Martin D. Ginsburg Chair, Board of Trustees presented by Patricia A. King ’63 Invocation Charge to the Class of 1997 The Reverend John William Zehring Dale Rogers Marshall Eather of Micaela R. Zehring ’97 President Wheaton Hymn* Conferring of Degrees Words byj. Edgar Park Bachelor of Arts Music by Herbert J. Jenny Members of the Class of 1997 presented by: Hannah Goldberg, Provost & Welcome Academic Vice President Dale Rogers Marshall Sue A. Alexander, Dean of Smdents President Dale Rogers Marshall, President Greetings Wheaton Anthem* Jonathan Chapman President of the Class of 1997 A Song for the Sesquicentennial 1984 Words and Music by Carlton T. Russell Awarding of Honorary Degrees Grand Parade Doctor of Humane Letters Theodore R. Sizer Wheaton Graduates and Honored Guests presented by Dellie Smith Woodring ’62 Clan Sutherland Bagpipe Band Doctor of Science Nancy W. Boggess ’47 presented by Virginia O. Howard ’48 'Words to the Wheaton Hymn and Wheaton Anthem are printed for the convenience of the audience in the back of this program. The Honorary Degrees she might be the one to appoint ences, you challenge and inspire Theodore R. Sizer ties with the utmost respect. De skill and ingenuity, you earned the The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg you!) As you accepted the honor, your students. Currently a profes scribing your work one educator highest scientific award NASA Our nation’s most famous school you reflected on your own sor of law at Georgetown Univer wrote: “The notion that there is confers, a Gold Medal for Excep The pursuit of justice, civil liber reformer. A distinguished author mother, praying that you might sity, you have also taught with no template or model for Ameri tional Scientific Achievement. ties and the eradication of gender and critic of America’s school be all that she would have been distinction at some of the can schools—just guiding prin Moreover, as a celebrated astro bias have been hallmarks of your system. An educator of educators. had she lived in an age when country’s leading law schools, ciples and a deep respect for the physicist you have always recog career. In your own work, you Ted Sizer, for more than a quar women were free to aspire and including Harvard, Stanford and culture of an individual school— nized the importance of educating have tirelessly spearheaded legal ter of a century you have argued achieve. Columbia universities. At informs all the work of the Coali the American public to scientific efforts on behalf of women. Erom persuasively for fundamental Georgetown, your high standards tion and the Institute. And that issues. On countless occasions as the Women’s Rights Project of A woman of strong intellect and changes in the way we educate have resulted in the creation of a vision is vintage Ted Sizer.” the Harlow Shapley Visiting Lec the American Civil Liberties courageous spirit, a loving mother our nation’s youth. You have Chair in Taxation established in turer for the American Astro Union to the Supreme Court of and a loyal partner, these at insisted upon rethinking the way You have never allowed yourself your name. You are also the co nomical Society, you made the United States, you have tributes could be applied to you as in which we run our schools—in to lose sight of the goal of educa author of Mergers, Acquisitions and yourself available, presenting championed equality. Whether well as to your mother, Celia order that all children may have tion. As you yourself pointed out: Leveraged Buyouts, a leading text public lectures and physics collo- arguing before the Supreme Amster Bader. While your the opportunity to reach their “Schools make a difference, but on this increasingly important quia at leading colleges and uni Court or as a member of that mother’s opportunities were se fullest potential. Always modest you’ve got to focus. You can topic. versities across the coimtry. body, your dedication to fairness verely curtailed by social conven and plain-speaking, you are living change people’s lives.” Ted, we has strengthened the rights of tions, you overcame many As witty as you are wise, you are proof that good guys can indeed salute your efforts in transforming As if these exemplary achieve both women and men. obstacles to become a tenured law much sought-out on the lecture succeed: You have been the re the lives of our children. We are ments were not enough, you professor, a constitutional scholar, circuit. In a biographical note, cipient of a Guggenheim Fellow thankful that you have had the somehow found time to raise a Arguing as general counsel for an American Civil Liberties which we strongly suspect you of ship and served as dean of vision to dream about the way family; to be a loyal and loving the ACLU before the Supreme Union counsel and board mem authoring, the following analysis Harvard’s Graduate School of things could be and the courage to parmer to your husband, Albert, Court in the 1970s, you won five ber, an appellate judge and a Su of your move to Washington in Education and headmaster of challenge the way things are. We himself an astrophysicist; and to of six cases and in so doing suc preme Court Justice of the United 1980 is offered: “... his wife got a Phillips Academy in Andover, are honored to present you with complete your Ph.D. studies after ceeded in redefining the funda States. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the good job there ...” Likewise, Massachusetts. For years, you the degree of Doctor of Humane your three children had reached mental constitutional principles aspirations and achievements of addressing an alumni gathering, held down two of the most diffi Letters. school age. Along the way, you’ve that guarantee women’s rights American men and women have you began by saying: “I was flat cult jobs in American education: always been active on behalf of and gender equality. Your been enhanced as a direct result of tered, a couple of months ago, as founder and chairman of the your community and college, groundbreaking work was recog Nancy W. Boggess ’47 your life’s work. This institution, when the Dean announced that Coalition of Essential Schools, whether serving as a volunteer for nized by President Jimmy Carter, which is deeply committed to you, or a majority of you, or per one of the nation’s most promi Nancy Weber Boggess, you are a the American Heart Association— who appointed you to the U.S. gender equality, honors you today haps a small but vocal minority— nent education-reform initiatives model for all who value the pur or returning to Wheaton to Court of Appeals. with the degree of Doctor of the Dean was unsure—picked me with more than 1,000 member suit of excellence. As the National present a science symposium lec Paralleling this stellar law career, Laws. to speak at this year’s luncheon. It schools, and as director of the Aeronautics and Space ture. “Nothing daunts Nancy,” you balanced the roles of wife, to is not every day that alunrni, even Annenberg Institute, a school- Administration’s highest-ranking noted one of your former attorney Martin Ginsburg, and a vocal few, volunteer to hear a reform and research organization woman scientist, you ensured the Wheaton roommates. “She’s tal Martin D. Ginsburg mother, to Jane and James. A tax lawyer.” that you helped start. As if this scientific integrity of America’s ented in many fields, and she’s great compliment to you as a Martin Ginsburg, you have been were not daunting enough, you space missions, overseeing all very down-to-earth and kind.” If anybody can turn taxation into mother and role model is that you called the “godfather” of tax law hold a professorship at Brown aspects of long- and short-term a punch line, it’s you. We honor Nancy, we extol your valor, your and Jane are the first mother and yers. Both as a practicing attorney University and are the author of a planning and the complex man you as an esteemed counselor, dedication to scientific excellence daughter to attend Harvard Law and as a professor of law—a rare much-lauded school-reform tril agement of infrared and radio teacher and scholar. And we and your manifest kindness: Your School and teach at Columbia combination nowadays—you have ogy, which began with the publi spectral equipment. As a senior wholeheartedly agree with one of life embodies the very values we Law School. Your remarkable earned a reputation as one of our cation of Horace’s Compromise in staff scientist, you helped formu your colleagues who said: “[Mar find most precious and we hope to intellect and impeccable reputa nation’s foremost corporate tax 1984. late NASA’s policy for interna tin Ginsburg]’s what a lot of law inspire in our students. It is our tion for fairness moved President experts. tional cooperative space missions, yers wish they could be.” We are As an educator and administrator, great pleasure to present you the Clinton to appoint you the sec thus playing an integral role in Masterminding mergers and argu proud to confer the honorary you have treated individual differ honorary degree of Doctor of ond female justice of the Supreme working toward worldwide peace ing cases are part of your daily degree of Doctor of Laws.

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