Yesterday's commncements
Amherst College, Amherst
Graduates: 409.Degrees: Bachelor's.
Speaker: Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.
Honorary degrees: Patrick Fitzgerald, US attorney, Northern District of Illinois; Joel Klein, chancellor, New York City Department of Education; H. Axel Schupf, cochairman, the Amherst College Campaign; Valerie B. Jarrett, managing director, the Habitat Co.; Marilynne Robinson, novelist; J. Peter Toennies, chemist; Paul Yock, cochairman, Stanford University department of bioengineering; Cardinal Zen.
Framingham State College, Framingham
Graduates: 1,172.Degrees: Bachelor's, master's.
Speaker: Laurie Boyer, research fellow at Whitehead Institute and assistant professor at MIT.
Honorary degrees: Boyer and Anne Paulsen, retired state representative.
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley
Graduates: 549.Degrees: Master's, bachelor's, postbaccalaureate certificate, certificate for international students.
Speaker: Wendy Kopp, founder and president, Teach for America.
Honorary degrees: Eleanor Reed Adair, radiation scientist; Debra Martin Chase, movie producer; Lieutenant Commander Charles D. Swift, US Navy lawyer.
UMass- Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
Graduates: 1,764Degrees: Bachelor's, master's, doctoral.
Speaker: US Senator John F. Kerry.
Honorary degrees: Teresa Heinz Kerry, chairwoman of Heinz Family Philanthropies; Edmund Barry Gaither, director and curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists; the Rev. Robert P. Lawrence, pastor of First Congregational Church in Fall River; Julie Moir Messervy, landscape designer and author.
