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Katie Couric |
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Roger H. Martin, Ph.D. |
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Robert B. Lambeth Jr. ’71 |
Randolph-Macon College President Robert R. Lindgren announced that the college will confer honorary degrees on three distinguished leaders at its Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at R-MC’s Frank E. Brown Fountain Plaza on Henry Street.
Katie Couric will receive the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and will also serve as the Commencement speaker. She is an award-winning journalist and TV personality, a cancer-research advocate, and a best-selling author. She is the host of Katie, a daily syndicated daytime talk show that premiered in September 2012. Couric also serves as a special correspondent for ABC News and is a contributor to ABC World News, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, This Week and primetime news specials. Couric is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives (Random House, 2011) and the co-author of two children’s books.
Roger H. Martin, Ph.D. will receive the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. He served as the 14th president of Randolph-Macon College (1997 – 2006). He is currently president of Academic Collaborations Inc., a higher education consulting firm, and is deputy chair of the British Schools and Universities Foundation in New York City. Martin is the author of two books including Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again (University of California Press, 2008). The book chronicles his 2004 six-month sabbatical at St. John’s College where he enrolled as a freshman. As a student at St. John’s, he studied Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, and Herodotus; became a member of the college crew team; and forged new friendships with fellow freshman.
Robert B. Lambeth Jr. ’71 will receive the Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. He has served as president of the Council for Independent Colleges in Virginia (CICV) since 1983. Lambeth oversees the coordination of collaborative projects for member institutions, including government relations, marketing, and business and purchasing activities. He is also a staunch advocate for the Virginia Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) program. TAG provides more than $60 million per year to students attending Virginia's independent colleges. In 2010, CICV formally launched the Healthcare Consortium of the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia, a self-insured health benefits program for 13 members of CICV. The consortium resulted in more effective cost controls, more choices in plan design, and real negotiating power with insurance carriers.
Randolph-Macon College’s Commencement ceremony will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 1, 2013 at the R-MC Frank E. Brown Fountain Plaza on Henry Street. (In the event of rain, Commencement will be held in the Randolph-Macon Brock Sports and Recreation Center, located at 400 N. Center Street, at 10:00 a.m.)
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For media inquiries or more information, please contact Pam Cox at (804) 752-3712 or pamelacox@rmc.edu, or Anne Marie Lauranzon at (804) 752-7317 or alauranz@rmc.edu.