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The ceremony marks the School of Medicine will award honorary doctor of letters degree tablished the nation’s first gradu- 137th commencement at Tufts. 159 M.D. degrees. There are 109 during commencement. ate school of nutrition as well as Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes will D.M.D. graduates fromthe School Fuentes is internationally New England’s only veterinary deliver the main addressand, along of Dental Medicine as well as 167 known for his political and award- school. with five others, will receive an master’s degree recipients and 14 winning literature. He has depicted He created the USDA Human honorary degree. doctoral graduates of the Fletcher Mexican history and Latin Ameri- Nutrition Research Center on Ag- This will be the first Tufts com- School of Law and Diplomacy. can independencethrough his nov- ing at Tufts, which is the only mencement by University Presi- The School ofveterinary Medi- els, plays and short stories. federal center investigating the dent John DiBiaggio, who suc- cine is graduating 7 1 students and Fuentes’ most acclaimed novel,. relationship between nurrition and ceeded Jean Mayer last Septem- the School ofNutrition will award The Death of Artemio Crw, is a health in the elderly. ber. seven Ph.D. and 22 master of sci- fictionalized account of the Mexi- Mayer was an advisor to former The commencement ceremo- ence degrees. can Revolution beginning at he Presidents Richard M. Nixon, nies will began at 9 a.m. on the turn of the century and ending in Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter, -r --- academic quad of the Medford/ Fuentes to address graduates the 1940s. He continued to write the US Congress, the United Na- Former ChancellorJeanMayer Somerville campus and will be “I am pleased that Carlos about the revolution inOldGringo, tions’ Food and Agriculture Orga- followed by diplomapresentations Fuentes will bethe keynote speaker which was adapted for the 1989 nization, the World Health Orga- gree and address the graduates of - and speakers for the University’s at my first commencement at movie of the same name starring nization, and the United Nations the Tufts School of Dental Medi- . individual schools and colleges at Tufts,” said DiBiaggio in a state- Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck. Children’s Fund. cine, of which he is the former 11 :45 a.m. ment. “He is an important voice in During his previous public ap- He helped establish the school dean. Hein served as director of The largest presentation will building bridges with our neigh- pearances, Fuentes has spoken out lunch, food stamp, and other na- Boston’s Forsyth Dental Center be made to the 1,0 13 students re- bors to the south, and he speaks for on the price paid by Latin America tional and international nutrition for 29 years, during which time it ceiving undergraduate degrees during the Cold War. He saw the programs. became one of the top dental re- from the College of Liberal Arts search institutions in the world. and Jackson College. The College Dr. Vivian W. Pinn will re- Maurice F. Strong will receive of Engineering will award 160 ceive an honorary doctor of sci- an honorary doctor of laws degree degrees and the College of Special ence degree and addressthe gradu- and address the graduates of the Studies 82. ates of the Sackler School of Fletcher School of Law and Di- The graduate school of Arts Graduate Biomedical Sciencesand plomacy. Strong served as direc- and Sciences will award 35 Ph.D. the School of Medicine, which is tor of last year’s United Nations degrees, 189 master of science celebrating its 100th anniversary earth summit in Rio de Janeiro and degrees, 132 master of arts de- this year.