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JOHN CLIFTON BOGLE — Founder, Vanguard Group Investment Companies
Doctor of Laws
Jack Bogle founded The Vanguard Group, a leader in the mutual fund industry, in 1975 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from its founding until 1996. He began his career in the mutual funds industry after graduating magna cum laude in Economics from Princeton in 1951. Named by Forbes as one of the four "Giants of the 20^th Century," he is a major influence on how American families invest today. Currently the President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, he continues his work on behalf of investors in the fund industry.

SILA M. CALDERÓN - Governor of Puerto Rico
Doctor of Laws
Sila Maria Calderón was the candidate of the Popular Democratic Party for Governor of Puerto Rico in the elections of November 2000, when she was elected the island’s first woman governor. Born in San Juan, she studied political science at Manhattanville College in New York and obtained her master's degree in public administration at the University of Puerto Rico. She has worked in both the public and private sectors since 1973, serving as chief of staff of the Government of Puerto Rico, Secretary of State as well as President of Commonwealth Investment Company, Inc.

GEORGE DAWSON - Author
Doctor of Humane Letters
George Dawson was born the grandson of slaves in Marshall, Texas, in 1898. He learned to read at age 98 and, in collaboration with Richard Glaubman, wrote Life is So Good at the age of 101. In this extraordinary book Dawson reflects on his life and his lessons in living, and he presents a unique, first-hand perspective on 20^th century America. Working long hours as a boy to help support the family, he never attended school, yet he describes how he learned to read the world and survive in it. All seven of his children graduated from college.

RONNIE ELDRIDGE — Member, New York City Council
Doctor of Laws
Ronnie Eldridge, New York City Council member since 1989, has been in public service most of her life. In the early seventies she was a special assistant to Mayor Lindsay and was the Director of Community and Government Affairs for the NY/NJ Port Authority. She served in Governor Cuomo's cabinet as Director for the Division for Women and was Executive Director of the MS Foundation for Women. A long-time advocate for women's needs, she has also fought vigorously for numerous other community issues such as safe and affordable housing.

DANIEL URBAN KILEY — Landscape Architect
Doctor of Fine Arts
Dan Kiley is a master landscape architect whose work has revealed an almost mystical sense of the land. His most famous public works -- at Lincoln Center, Rockefeller University and the Nationsbank Plaza in Tampa — deploy alléés of trees, grids of stone and grass, and long rills of water that extend the planes of modern buildings. Shortly after leaving Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in the 1930's he published, with fellow landscape architects Garrett Eckbo and James Rose, a seminal manifesto on modernist landscape architecture.

ELIZABETH MURRAY - Painter
Doctor of Fine Arts
In her art works, Elizabeth Murray takes an everyday object (a cup, a table) and works it into a vital expression of her feelings. Her vivid, shaped canvases are not confined to a flat canvas, but "shatter" into 3-D planes. Born in Chicago and now New York-based, Murray received her B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago and M.F.A. from Mills College. Her work has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions including major museum retrospectives. Among the most recent of many awards is a MacArthur Foundation Award in 1999. She shows at PaceWildenstein in New York.

PAUL A. VOLCKER - Economist
Doctor of Laws
Paul A. Volcker was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1979 to 1987, and his leadership was instrumental in "breaking the back" of inflation following his appointment by President Jimmy Carter. His nearly thirty years of public service include a number of important roles at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the United States Treasury and the Trilateral Commission. He has increasingly devoted his attention to fostering high-quality schools of public administration.

GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER
Doctor of Humane Letters
To be accepted by Nancy Mahon, Executive Director
God's Love We Deliver is a New York City-based, not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization established in 1986 to deliver warm meals to homebound people with AIDS. With the help of more than 1,900 volunteers, GLWD prepares and delivers meals to about 1,100 clients and their dependent children each weekday. GLWD also provides nutrition education and counseling. An important facet of GLWD's mission is to make volunteer opportunities available to those seeking to respond directly to the AIDS crisis.