Carleton College is proud to announce
Presentation of the Honorary Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa
to the Honorable Melvin R. Laird
Carleton Class of 1944
More about Melvin Laird
Interview with Melvin Laird
Audio and video from the ceremony
12:00 noon
January 12, 2010
Laurence M. Gould Library Athenaeum
Program
Welcome
Robert A. Oden, Jr.
President, Carleton College
Conferring of Honorary Degree
Jack W. Eugster ’67
Chair, Carleton Board of Trustees
Citation
Burt Levin
SIT Investment Visiting Professor of Asian Policy and former U.S. Ambassador to Burma
Presentation
Robert A. Oden, Jr.
President, Carleton College
Mr. Laird’s son, John, will accept the diploma and hood for his father. Representing Mr. Laird’s many local friends will be Minneapolis businessman Wheelock Whitney.
Remarks
The Honorable Melvin R. Laird
(via telephone from his home in Florida)
Reflections
Michael H. Armacost ’58, 1989 honorary degree recipient
Carleton trustee and Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center at Stanford University
Closing
Robert A. Oden, Jr.
President, Carleton College