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April 12, 2007
Columbia College Chicago: Dionne Warwick, Joe Adams, Army Bernstein to Get Honorary Degrees May 12
Columbia College Chicago undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 12 at Navy Pier. This year, the arts and media college will graduate a record 2,500 students, with more than 800 expected to attend each of the ceremonies. Three distinguished individuals whose lives and work embody the college's ideals and spirit will deliver commencement remarks, announced Columbia's president, Dr. Warrick L. Carter. Morning ceremonies include the undergraduate and graduate divisions in the School of Fine and Performing Arts and the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. During the morning ceremonies Columbia will award honorary doctoral degrees to Dionne Warwick, recording artist and Joe Adams, arts manager and producer. Afternoon ceremonies include graduate and undergraduate divisions of the School of Media Arts. The college will award an honorary doctoral degree to Army Bernstein, screenwriter, producer and director. Dionne Warwick has, over an illustrious four-decade career, established herself as an international musical legend. Her reputation as a hit maker has been firmly etched into public consciousness, thanks to nearly sixty charted hits since "Don't Make Me Over" began its climb up the charts in December 1962. Dionne Warwick received her first Grammy Award in 1968, and in so doing became the first African-American solo female artist of her generation to win the prestigious award for Best Contemporary Female Vocal Performance. In recent years, Ms. Warwick's pioneering efforts have focused on leading the music industry in the fight against AIDS. Her Grammy-winning, chart topping, single "That's What Friends Are For," led the way by raising millions of dollars for AIDS research. Ms. Warwick served as the U.S. Ambassador for Health throughout the eighties, and in 2002 she was named a global Ambassador for the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. She has spearheaded production of a history book that will detail African and African-American history for use in schools, libraries and bookstores. She continues her work as a socially conscious and concerned global citizen. Joe Adams was the man behind music legend Ray Charles four over four decades, but was also a major network radio personality and film and Broadway stage actor long before he joined Charles. During the late forties, his daily radio show was the number one rated deejay show in Los Angeles, and Adams became the number one radio personality in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mr. Adams was the first man of color to do on air coast network radio and appeared in more than 26 motion pictures. In 1958, he was the first man of color to receive the coveted Golden Globe Award as the Outstanding New Actor. Mr. Adams has received four doctorates, including one from Morehouse College where a special educational facility has been designated in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Adams and a performing arts center is being built in memory of Ray Charles. Now, as Vice-President/CEO in charge of RPM International, Mr. Adams supervises the myriad activities of the parent company including its business holding and its publishing companies, including Ray Charles Enterprises.
Army Bernstein, has produced and executive produced such films as Air Force One starring Harrison Ford, The Hurricane (which he also co-wrote) starring Denzel Washington, Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner, End of Days starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Family Man starring Nicolas Cage, Bring It On starring Kirsten Dunst, For the Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner, Spy Game starring Brad Pitt and Robert Redford, Open Range starring Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall and Annette Bening, Raising Helen starring Kate Hudson and John Corbett, Ladder 49 starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix, A Lot Like Love starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet, Firewall starring Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen and Paul Bettany, The Guardian, starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher, and directed by Andy Davis. Currently in production is Waterhorse, directed by Jay Russell. Bernstein founded Beacon Communications in 1990 and it has become one of the most successful independently financed film companies in the entertainment business.
Source: Columbia College Chicago
April 13, 2007
Three Lancaster Mediation Center peacemakers have ties to Elizabethtown College
Three of the Lancaster Mediation Center's 2007 peacemaker honorees have ties to Elizabethtown College. Donald B. Kraybill, John Lapp and Jon Singer were among the 25 people who received the award at a March 31 dinner celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Center. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor and senior fellow at the College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. He has been involved in peacemaking since 1975, locally, nationally and internationally. Most recently, he mediated media coverage between reporters worldwide and the Amish community during the Nickel Mines shooting. In addition to his three previously published books on peacemaking, his most recent one, "Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy," will be published in September 2007. Lapp is a former Young Center fellow. His peacemaking work has taken him to Jerusalem, Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo, during which time he wrote "The View From East Jerusalem" (1980). When he returned to the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) as its executive director in 1985, he helped to establish a desk for International Conciliation that had its first major mediation project between the indigenous Moskito people of Nicaragua and the Sandista government. Lapp has traveled to six continents on behalf of MCC including the Canberra Assembly of the World Council of Churches in 1991. He currently serves as chair of the Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness and remains active in the Mennonite World Conference. Singer is a 1962 graduate of Elizabethtown College. He earned the peacemakers award because of his work as executive director of Lancaster Area Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (LAVORP). Using principles of restorative justice, LAVORP, through victim-offender mediation, has been bringing victims of crime and their offenders together in face-to-face meetings since 1995. Ranked as one of the best colleges in the northern United States by U.S. News and World Report, Elizabethtown offers its 1900 students 53 academic programs in the liberal arts, sciences and professional studies. Driven by its motto to "Educate for Service," Elizabethtown centers learning in strong relationships, links classroom instruction with experiential learning, emphasizes international and cross-cultural perspectives and nurtures the capacity for lives of purpose.
Source: Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania
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