Fairfield University’s Commencement Set For May 18

As graduating college students prepare to enter the workforce during a time of war, Fairfield University’s Class of 2003 will hear words of advice from a seasoned diplomat and former journalist, who will deliver the university’s 53rd commencement address on Sunday, May 18, beginning at 10 am.

Strobe Talbott was named president of the Brookings Institution, an independent public policy research organization, in July 2002. Before that he served as founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and was deputy secretary of state from 1994 to 2001. His tenure at the State Department also included time as ambassador-at-large and special advisor to the secretary of state for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.

Honorary doctorate degrees of laws will also be presented to Mr Talbott, Sister Mary Rose McGeady, DC, president and chief executive officer of Covenant House, and Major Michael Donnelly, a retired Persian Gulf War fighter pilot.