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Mayor Cory Booker to Be Wash U's 2013 Commencement Speaker
The Newark mayor will deliver the address on May17.
Newark N.J. Mayor Cory A. Booker has been selected to give the 2013 Commencement address at Washington University, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.
Wrighton announced Booker as the Commencement speaker during the annual senior class toast April 3 in Brookings Quadrangle, according to a press release.
The university’s 152nd Commencement ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 17, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.
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Booker, 43, a Rhodes Scholar and Yale law graduate, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from WUSTL.
“I am honored that Mayor Cory Booker will be addressing this year’s graduates of Washington University,” said Wrighton said in a press release. “Mayor Booker is a person who, like our graduates, has had extraordinary educational opportunities. I am deeply impressed with how, in his young career, he has been able to put his education to use as one of America’s most prominent civic leaders.
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