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May 14, 2002

Former Secretary of Labor, two others, to receive honorary degrees from Grinnell College

GRINNELL, Iowa - Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of Labor and guest speaker at the Grinnell College commencement ceremonies, will join two others in receiving honorary degrees, bestowed by the College.

Commencement will be on the central campus lawn on Monday, May 20, at 10 a.m. In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held in the College's Darby Gymnasium on Eighth Avenue.

The degrees, presented by the faculty and trustees of Grinnell College, will be bestowed to Reich; Raymond Horton '62, professor at the Columbia School of Business, New York; and Vera Rubin, an astronomer and senior fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington.

o Robert B. Reich, the 22nd Secretary of Labor, currently serves as professor of
social and economic policy at Brandeis University's Heller Graduate School. He
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1968, received an M.A. as a Rhodes
Scholar at Oxford University, and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973.
Reich is currently a democratic gubernatorial candidate in the state of
Massachusetts.

o Raymond Horton '62, professor and chair of the management division at the
Columbia Business School, is also the director of the Social Enterprise Program.
Horton is a community activist, having served as president of the Citizen's
Budget Commission for New York City. He received a B.A. from Grinnell
College in 1962, a J.D. from Harvard in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1971.

o Vera Rubin, an astronomer and senior fellow with the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, developed a master's thesis that suggested galaxies might be rotating around an unknown center, not just expanding out as theorized in the big bang theory. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. In 1996, she was awarded a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society, London, England, the first woman to be so honored since 1828. She earned a B.A. from Vassar College in 1948 and an M.A. from Cornell University in 1951. She received a Ph.D. in 1954 from Georgetown University.