University of Delaware Winter Commencement 2002

The Winter Commencement 2002 ceremony, scheduled at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 5, in the Bob Carpenter Sports/Convocation Center, will be broadcast live over the World Wide Web so that family and friends who are unable to come to the campus will be able to view it.

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[photo of Jones]

Speaking at Commencement will be noted historian Jacqueline Jones, a 1970 graduate of UD and currently the Truman Professor of History and chairperson of the history department at Brandeis University. An award-winning scholar in the fields of African-American history, southern history, labor history and women’s history, she is the author of several books and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

Also at the ceremony, Foster and Lynn Friess, who established the Life Enrichment Foundation, will receive UD’s Medals of Distinction.

For more information on Winter Commencement, go to [www.udel.edu/alumni/events/wcommence.html].