Heckler Named Commencement Speaker
the •.•Serving the ...and welcoming University and the one-in-a the community••. millionairess... Vol. 59, No.8 UKIVERSITY OF SCRANToN ~ - Wednesday, November 12, 1986 .Heckler named commencement speaker BY BOB McGOVERN concern that student Aquinas Managing Editor commission members do not Margaret M. Heckler, have enough influence in U.S. ambassador to Irelano, the selection process. "We will deliver the principal don't have as much say as address to graduates at ' we could have," he said.. University commencement Heckler was offered the exercises May 31, according ambassadorship to Ireland to the Rev. J.A. Panuska; by President Reagan in president of the University. October 1985, after Reagan Heckler, who will be asked Heckler to quit her awarded an honorary doctor cabinet position as secretary of laws degree by the of the Health and Human University, is the first Services Administration. woman commencement She accepted the position, speaker since the University which the Reagan was founded in 1888.. administration termed a "Once again, we have "promotion," despite succeeded in attracting an previously describing the outstanding person to ambassadorship as "a lovely enhance our commencement position - for someone celebration," Panuska said. else." "And this year, there is Heckler had served as something special in the . secretary of the health fact that the leadership of agency since early 1983. women in our University Previously, Heckler and in our world will be served 16 years as a recognized.', Republican representative Panuska noted that the from Massachusetts. She M'argaret M. Heckler selection of Heckler was defeated, however, in A graduate of Albertus scholarship to Harvard Law coincides with the election her bid for a 10th term.
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