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May 2, 2006
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY TO HOLD COMMENCEMENT ON MAY 16
—Milton Babbitt, Pulitzer Prize-winning New Jersey composer, to receive honorary degree
—Maureen Conway ‘66, retired vice president, emerging market solutions, Hewlett-Packard Company, to receive the President’s Medal
William Paterson University in Wayne will hold its 183rd commencement on Tuesday, May 16, 2006. Separate ceremonies will be held for undergraduate and graduate students. The commencement ceremony for undergraduate students will begin at 10:30 a.m., and will be held on Wightman Field; the rain date is May 17. The graduate ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. in the Rec Center, rain or shine.
Bachelor’s degrees will be conferred upon 869 undergraduates, all of whom have completed their degree requirements as of May 2006. Master’s degrees will be conferred on 294 students who completed their degree requirements between August 2005 and May 2006.
At the undergraduate ceremony, Milton Babbitt, the Pulitzer-Prize winning New Jersey composer, will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Maureen Conway, retired vice president for emerging market solutions for Hewlett-Packard Company and a 1966 graduate of William Paterson, will receive the President’s Medal, and will be the commencement speaker. President Arnold Speert will also address the graduating class. Linda Dye, professor of exercise and movements sciences, will lead the procession in the role of University marshal.
At the graduate ceremony, President Speert will address the candidates, along with Erica Caine of Hackensack, president of the Graduate Student Organization at William Paterson, who will receive a master of arts degree in teaching.
Alumni from the Class of 1956, who graduated when William Paterson was called New Jersey State Teachers College at Paterson, will be present at the morning ceremony and attend a 50th reunion luncheon sponsored by the Alumni Relations Office. The Alumni Association’s Young Alumni Chapter will host a Senior Send-Off reception on Monday, May 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the University’s 1600 Valley Road building.
Babbitt is one of America’s most renowned contemporary composers. An extensive catalogue of works for multiple combinations of instruments and voice along with his pioneering achievements in synthesized sound have made Babbitt one of the most celebrated of 20th-century composers. He is a founder and member of the Committee of Direction for the Electronic Music Center of Columbia-Princeton Universities and a member of the editorial board of Perspectives of New Music.
The recipient of numerous honors, commissions, and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize Citation for his "life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer," Babbitt is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Babbitt continues to teach at Princeton University and Juilliard as professor of composition and remains active as a composer.
Conway retired in 2005 from her position as vice president of emerging market solutions for Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) in Palo Alto, California. In this capacity, she pioneered a new approach that applied technology and business model innovation to the social and economic needs of developing economies. Her work received many awards in India and the Republic of South Africa. In 2005, the approach, results and impact were described in Thomas L. Freidman’s best-selling book on globalization, The World is Flat. Earlier, Conway served as vice president and chief information officer for HP; she received the Solomon Smith Barney CIO of the Year Award in 2002. Prior to joining HP in 1989, she spent 20 years in technical management positions at Bell Laboratories, Computer Corporation of America and Apollo Computer. Conway began her career as a high school mathematics teacher at Palisades Park Junior/Senior High School.
A native of North Bergen, she is a 1966 graduate of William Paterson with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. She holds master’s degrees in mathematics from Montclair State University and in business administration with an emphasis in management and organizational behavior from Temple University
William Paterson University, one of the nine state colleges and universities in New Jersey, offers 32 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs through five colleges: Arts and Communication, the Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Science and Health. Located on 370 hilltop acres in Wayne, the university enrolls nearly 11,000 students and provides housing for nearly 2,300 students. The institution’s 372 full-time faculty are highly distinguished and diverse scholars and teachers, many of whom are recipients of prestigious awards and grants from the Fulbright Program (28 scholars), the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.
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