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Lake Forest, Ill – Deborah Leff, director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, will be awarded the degree Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa at Lake Forest College’s 124th Commencement on Saturday, May 11. Ms. Leff has held a variety of leadership positions in public, private, and non-profit organizations. In May, 2001 she was named Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Prior to that appointment Leff served as President and CEO of America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization. From 1992 to 1999, Leff was President of the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation, which grants $30 million annually to groups involved in public policy. During much of the 1980’s and early 1990’s she was a senior producer at ABC News NIGHTLINE, ABC News WORLD NEWS TONIGHT, and ABC News 20/20. Leff graduated from Princeton in 1973 and earned a J.D. in 1977 from the University of Chicago Law School. Others being presented honorary degrees at the 2002 Commencement are Lake Forest alumnus Carl Lorenzo MaultsBy, musician, conductor, composer, teacher, entrepreneur and member of the African Music Hall of Fame; 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; and Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, oral and social historian, and television and radio personality. Mr. Terkel will deliver the Commencement address titled "The Need To Ask Why." 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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