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JUNE 2007

Barnard College
Medal Of Distinction Recipients 2007

Joan Didion
’s most recent book, The Year of Magical Thinking, received the 2005 National Book Award for nonfiction. Her work includes such novels as Play It As It Lays, such works of nonfiction as Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and The White Album and such political analysis as Miami, and Political Fictions. Her play, The Year of Magical Thinking, opened recently. With her late husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, she also worked on a number of motion pictures. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which awarded her its 2005 Gold Medal in nonfiction. She received the 1999 Columbia Journalism Award, the 2002 George Polk Book Award, and an honorary doctorate from Columbia.

Nicholas D. Kristof, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, was associate managing editor, responsible for the Sunday Times. He graduated from Harvard College, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he studied law. He later studied Arabic in Cairo and Chinese in Taipei. Mr. Kristof has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to 120 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island.

At The Times he served as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. In 1990 Mr. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, also a Times journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006, for commentary

Mary Patterson McPherson is President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr, Vice President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. She received her AB and LLD from Smith College, an MA from the University of Delaware and a PhD from Bryn Mawr College. McPherson holds numerous honorary degrees. Before joining Bryn Mawr College as an assistant in the department of philosophy, McPherson was an instructor at the University of Delaware. At Bryn Mawr she served as dean of the undergraduate college, deputy to the president and then president.

Muriel Petioni, B.S., M.D., born in Trinidad and raised in Harlem, graduated from Howard University College of Medicine, the only female in its Class of 1937. After internship at Harlem Hospital she worked at several southern black colleges before establishing a practice in Harlem taking over the 131st Street offices of her physician father. She served as a caring family doctor for four decades, working tirelessly as an advocate for health care for the underserved.

She founded the Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Medical Society, named for the first African-American woman to practice medicine in New York State and organized the Medical Women of the National Medical Association. She founded the Friends of Harlem Hospital Center, which raised almost two million dollars during her seventeen-year chairmanship.

Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright, teacher and author who created a new form of theater, which is part journalism, part theater. Most of her plays take controversial subjects and present them from multiple points of view. She plays as many as 46 characters in the course of an evening. Of her Broadway show, Twilight: Los Angeles, The New York Times said of her performance, “[she is] the ultimate impressionist: she does people’s souls.” She played Nancy McNally, the National Security Advisor, on NBC’s The West Wing. She had roles in the films The American President and The Human Stain. Her work in the theater has garnered her several awards, among them the prestigious MacArthur Award, two Tony nominations and two Obies. Her books include Letters to a Young Artist, Talk to Me and several published plays. She is currently University Professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She has several honorary degrees and is on the board of the Museum of Modern Art.#

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