COMMENCEMENT 1989

Graduation ceremonies for the following colleges and universities were held Sunday.

The UCLA School of Law featured U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun as the principal speaker at its 37th commencement ceremony in the Architecture Quadrangle. Degrees were conferred on 295 students, with 284 receiving juris doctorate degrees and 11 master of laws degrees. Chancellor Charles E. Young awarded the UCLA Medal to Blackmun “for his broad vision of constitutional rights, and for his intuitive fairness and intellectual rigor as a member of the federal judiciary throughout three decades.” UCLA professor of law Eric Zolt delivered the faculty address and was chosen by the graduating class as Professor of the Year. Whittier College held its 86th commencement in the college’s Harris Amphitheatre. Degrees were awarded to nearly 300 students, including 100 from the college’s School of Law. U.S. Circuit Judge Dorothy W. Nelson discussed contemporary legal issues in her keynote address. Honorary degrees were awarded to Nelson and UC Irvine professor of chemistry F. Sherwood Rowland, who in 1974 first theorized that the earth’s protective ozone layer was being damaged by synthetic chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, CFCs.

The Southwestern University School of Law held its 74th commencement exercises at the Shrine Civic Auditorium. Keynote speaker Gov. George Deukmejian received an honorary degree and 226 students received juris doctor degrees.

California Lutheran University held its 25th commencement at the Mt. Clef Stadium on campus. Nearly 450 degrees were awarded. Keynote speaker Margareta Hegardt, Swedish ambassador to Ireland, received an honorary degree along with former CLU Board of Regents member Joseph Brown and Milton Hallett, member of the All Saints Lutheran Church in Aurora, Colo. The university’s Exemplar Medallion was awarded to the Rev. Ross F. Hidy, longtime pastor of the Lutheran Church.

The University of Judaism awarded 32 degrees at its 39th graduation ceremony in the Gindi Auditorium. Rep. Mel Levine (D-Santa Monica) delivered the commencement address. Honorary degrees were awarded to W. Ann Reynolds, Chancellor of the California State University system, and Jacob Milgrom, professor of Hebrew and Bible at UC Berkeley. The school’s Mordecai M. Kaplan Medal was awarded to Sid B. Levine, co-owner of the Levine Brothers Investment Co., and Betty Wagner Kramer, director of the Joseph H. Wagner Program for Personal and Family Enrichment at the university.