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Studs Terkel to Deliver Lake Forest College Commencement Address Lake Forest, Ill – Mr. Studs Terkel will deliver the Commencement address at Lake Forest College’s 124th Commencement on Saturday, May 11. "The Need to Ask Why." is the title of his address to the graduates. Mr. Terkel will be awarded the degree Doctor of Letters, honoris causa. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, oral and social historian, television and radio personality; Mr. Terkel has spent decades interviewing the American people, listening to their stories, and chronicling the lives and tales of the common man. For over 40 years his daily radio show was broadcast from WMFT in Chicago. He interviewed real people and those he thought real people would like to hear from. He has donated thousands of these interview tapes to the Chicago Historical Society, where he currently is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. Author of ten books, Terkel’s works are oral testimony of people from every walk of life. They include best-sellers such as "Hard Times" (1970), "Working" (1974), "The Good War" (1985), "Race" (1992), "Coming of Age: The Story of the Century by Those Who’ve Lived It" (1995), "My American Century" (1997), and his most recent, written at the age of 88, "Will the Circle be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith." Terkel will celebrate his 90th birthday in May. Others being awarded honorary degrees at the 2002 Commencement are Deborah Leff, director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library; Lake Forest alumnus Carl Lorenzo MaultsBy, musician, conductor, composer, teacher, entrepreneur and member of the African Music Hall of Fame; and Cass R. Sunstein, the Karl N. Lewellyn Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. President Stephen D. Schutt will preside over the ceremony, during which more than 235 graduates will be awarded Bachelor of Arts and Master of Liberal Studies degrees. Commencement begins at 10:45 a.m. with the academic procession into Johnson Science Courtyard on the College’s Middle Campus. In the event of inclement weather the ceremony will be held inside the Sports Center on South Campus. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,250 students representing 44 states and 41 other countries.
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