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Commencement 2000 Celebrated
The Forty-Second Commencement exercises awarded diplomas to 835 undergraduate students--188 January 2000 graduates, 488 May 2000 graduates, and 159 August 2000 graduates--and forty graduate students. Forty-seven international students represented more than twenty countries including Cameroon, Costa Rica, Pakistan, and Yugoslavia. Since the College admitted its first 1,200 students in September 1971, Ramapo has seen enrollment grow to nearly 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students and has awarded more than 16,000 baccalaureate degrees. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City and visiting research scientist at Princeton University, who delivered Ramapo's 2000 commencement address, was awarded an honorary doctorate. Also receiving honorary doctorates were environmentalists Helen C. Fenske, David F. Moore, and Richard J. Sullivan. Alumnus Keith Kulin (1973) was the recipient of the President's Award of Merit (see story on page 17). Janine Maris was the student speaker representing the graduating class of 2000. |
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