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Mayor Setti Warren to Give Mount Ida Commencement Address
Warren, Anita Hill and Paul S. Grogan will receive honorary degrees from the college at the May 17 graduation.
Newton Mayor Setti Warren will give the Mount Ida College commencement address at the school's Friday, May 17, graduation ceremony, according to an announcement from Mount Ida.
Mount Ida officials will also be giving honorary degrees at graduation to three people, including Warren; Anita Hill, Brandeis University's senior advisor to the provost and professor of law, public policy and women’s studies; and Paul S. Grogan, president and chief executive officer of The Boston Foundation.
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The trio will receive honorary Doctor of Social Science degrees from the college, according to a press release.
Commencement will be held on Friday, May 17, at 11 a.m. on the Mount Ida campus. About 200 students are set to graduate.
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Last spring, then Senator John Kerry spoke at Mount Ida's 2012 commencement.
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