Noted Bioethicist Leon Kass to Speak at Annapolis Commencement
Monday, May 07, 2007
One hundred and two St. John’s College seniors, having completed their senior essays and defended them in oral examinations, are expected to receive their diplomas at the college’s 215th commencement ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 13, in Annapolis. Forty-nine students in the Annapolis Graduate Institute will receive their master’s degrees.
This year, noted bioethicist Leon Kass of the University of Chicago, a former St. John’s tutor, will deliver the commencement address. Kass, who is the Addie Clark Harding Professor (on leave) in the Committee on Social Thought (http://www.uchicago.edu/ssd/social-thought/) and the College of the University of Chicago and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute, served as chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2002-05.
“I am honored and delighted to be giving the commencement address at St. John's, which, today more than ever, I regard as the finest college in the country. Teaching here was the true beginning of my education,” says Kass. He was a tutor at St. John’s from 1972-76. Kass earned his M.D. from the University of Chicago as well as a PhD in Biochemistry from Harvard. Kass is the author of several books, including most recently “Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis.”
Graduating seniors come from 27 states and 1 province (Nova Scotia, Canada). Thirteen of the master’s candidates and eighteen of this year’s graduating seniors are Maryland residents. The seniors from Maryland include: Erica Beall, Columbia; Lia Boyle, Owings Mills; Lukas Goodmuth, Woodstock; Miriam Keim, Salisbury; Tim Mewmaw, Annapolis; Christopher Mules, Westminster; Andrew Romiti, Ellicott City; Anna Rubin, Neavitt; Tobias Russell, Annapolis; Ellen Scheuermann, Bethesda; Margaret Shultz, Delmar; Elizabeth Silverman, Baltimore; Chelsea Stiegman, Lusby; Deborah Streusand, North Potomac; Kathryn Sullivan, Baltimore; Blair Thompson, Crofton; Eric Torgerson, Landover; and Nick Younes, Potomac.
The graduate students from Maryland are: Donella Adams, Baltimore; Mary Kate Brennan, Baltimore; Jessica Burgard, Silver Spring; David Harper Byers, Silver Spring; Paul Calvin, Annapolis; Lillian Logan Thayer Derrick, Baltimore; Zachary Dunn, North Potomac; Courtney Lawrence, Baltimore; Ira Miller, Bethesda; Jeffrey Peters, Millers; Dian VanDeMark, Annapolis; and Mary Winterbottom, Ellicott City.
In case of rain, commencement exercises will take place in Francis Scott Key Auditorium, where admission will be by ticket only and limited to immediate family of the graduates. From 10:15 a.m. to noon, College Avenue will be closed to traffic from St. John’s Street to King George Street; the first block of Prince George Street will be closed as well.
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