Calvin Commencement Speaker Named to AAAS with Bush, Clinton

May 12, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Calvin College's 2006 Commencement speaker has been awarded a singular honor.

Former Calvin and Yale professor Nicholas Wolterstorff will address the Calvin
class of 2006 on May 20 as part of the college's 2 pm graduation ceremony.

And he will do so as a newly minted member of the prestigious American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.

The 2006 Fellows include not only Wolterstorff, a 1953 graduate of Calvin, but
also such luminaries as former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William
Jefferson Clinton, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and a multitude of
leading scientists and scholars from across the nation.

Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other
scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected as Fellows and Foreign Honorary
Members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation,
including George Washington and Ben Franklin in the 18th, Daniel Webster and
Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in
the 20th.

The current membership includes more than 170 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer
Prize winners.

For the AAAS release see http://www.amacad.org/news/new2006.aspx

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Received on Fri May 12 13:37:18 2006