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JUNE 2007

Lehman College

The honorary degree recipients of the graduating class of 2007:

Adam Guettel, Doctor of Music

Adam Guettel, Artist in Residence at the Intiman Theater in Seattle, is a musical theater composer and lyricist who is known for the complexity of his music and his use of various strings. His newest musical, The Light in the Piazza, premiered at Lincoln Center in 2005 and received six Tony Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations for Mr. Guettel, and five Drama Desk Awards, including Best Music and Best Orchestrations.

Judith Judith Malina, Doctor of Fine Arts

Judith Malina was born in Germany and later moved to New York City with her father. In her studies at the Dramatic Workshop at the New School, Erwin Piscator and his philosophy of “epic theater,” which uses drama as a medium of political communication, influenced her. In 1947, she founded The Living Theater with her husband and collaborator, the late Julian Beck, an abstract expressionist painter of the New York School. Their world-famous, award-winning avant-garde institution—the oldest experimental theatre group in the United States—became the first to introduce New York audiences to controversial European playwrights, such as Bertolt Brecht and Jean Cocteau.

Judith Ortiz Cofer, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Doctor of Humane Letters

Judith Ortiz Cofer, a celebrated novelist, poet, and essayist, has taught at the University of Georgia since 1984, where she is currently the Regents’ and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing. During her career, she has written a wide range of works, including three novels, short stories, and collections of both poetry and essays, and received numerous awards and honors. The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry was selected for the 2005 “Georgia Top 25 Reading List.” 

Peter D. Roos., Doctor of Humane Letters

Peter D. Roos is a civil rights lawyer who has spent the past forty years fighting to improve educational opportunities for immigrants and students of color. He has won two landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases: Goss v. Lopez in 1975, which established the right of students to a hearing before suspension or expulsion, and Plyler v. Doe in 1981, which established the rights of undocumented children to an elementary and secondary education. Lehman College President’s Medal Recipient

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. is the former president of Bronx Community College and a decorated Word War II commander of the famed Tuskegee Airmen—America’s first African- American military airmen. In 1945, Dr. Brown was the first American pilot in the 15th Air Force to shoot down one of the new German jet fighters. For this, he and five other Tuskegee Airmen received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007 on behalf of their collective squad.

For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Brown was a full professor at New York University, where he was the founding director of its Institute of Afro-American Affairs.#

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