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Honorary Degree Recipients

2013 Undergraduate ceremony

Sherilyn McCoy   Robert S. Karam James J. Karam

Sherilyn McCoy '80

Undergraduate Commencement Speaker, Honorary Doctor of Business

CEO of Avon Products, Inc.

Robert S. Karam '67 '91 (Hon.)

Chancellor's Distinguished Service Medal

Principal, Karam Financial Group / Former Chair, Board of Trustees

James J. Karam '70 '01 (Hon.)

Chancellor's Distinguished Service Medal

President & CEO, First Bristol Corporation / Former Chair, Board of Trustees

 

2013 Graduate ceremony

Phillip Rapoza

The Honorable Phillip Rapoza

Doctor of Law

Chief Justice, Massachusetts Appeal Court


Previous Honorary Degree Recipients

2012

  • Undergraduate ceremony
    • Roxana Saberi / Undergraduate Commencement speaker / Journalist, activist
    • Hubert E. Jones / Doctor of Humane Letters / Civic entrepreneur
    • Gil Santos / Doctor of Humane Letters / Broadcaster
    • Barney Frank / Chancellor's Distinguished Service Medal / Congressman
  • Graduate ceremony
    • Susan K. Avery / Doctor of Science / President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    • Elizabeth O'Neill LaStaiti / Chancellor's Distinguished Service Medal / First Justice of the Bristol County Probate and Family Court (Ret.)

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2011

  • Undergraduate ceremony
    • Outgoing UMass President Jack Wilson
    • New Bedford Symphony conductor David MacKenzie
    • Late Charlton College of Business Dean Richard Ward
    • Sustainability innovator Janine Benyus
  • Graduate ceremony
    • Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick Ireland
    • Outgoing SMAST Dean John Farrington

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2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

  • Janet L. Robinson, President, New York Times Company
  • William Giblin '57, President and CEO, Tweave Incorporated, Former Trustee, 1994 - 2004, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  • William Hayden '62, Senior Managing Director and partner, Bear Stearns, Co-Head, Bear Stearns Public Finance Division
  • Harold Holzer, Senior Vice President, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Leading authority on Abraham Lincoln and Civil War era political culture

2005

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2003

2002

2001

2000

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