KUDOS!

The University Board of Trustees also voted to bestow five honorary degrees and one Medal of Distinction.

Selected to receive honorary degrees are

• Audrey Forbes Manley of Atlanta, the eighth president of Spelman College, who has had
  an illustrious career in medicine, education and government;
  
  
• William V. Roth Jr. of Wilmington, who represented Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1967-70 and in the U.S. Senate from 1971-2001;
  
  
• Susan Stroman of New York City, a 1976 UD graduate and an award-winning choreographer whose name has become synonymous with Broadway hits, including Contact, The Producers and the current revival of Oklahoma;
  
  
• E. Norman Veasey of Wilmington, chief justice of the state of Delaware since 1992 and former member of the UD Board of Trustees; and
  
  
• James Browning Wyeth of Wilmington, nationally acclaimed artist and the son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth.

Chosen to receive a Medal of Distinction is Paul R. Jones of Atlanta, one of the nation's most important collectors of African-American art, who donated his collection of more than 1,000 works to the University of Delaware in February 2001.