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Director, Producer Daniel Green To Give Keynote Address at Commencement, May 15
Artist Mel Bochner, Lighting Designer Robert Dickinson and Jessie Gruman, executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Health, will receive honorary degrees
Green's television production credits include "ER," "The Sopranos," "Party of Five," "Time of Your Life," "Fantasy Island," "The Adventures of Brisco County" and, most recently, "The West Wing." He earned his master's degree in directing at Carnegie Mellon in 1994 and has since produced two films and directed more than 50 plays. He was casting director for the National Geographic Channel's production of "John and Carolyn Kennedy, The White House Years" and "Nixon: China, '72," which will be broadcast early next year by Central Chinese Television in Beijing.
His written works, including the musical "An Elf Chorus Line," have been seen in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and New Jersey. He's also founded and directed several comedy/improvisational groups.
An acting faculty member at The Theatre Academy of Los Angeles City College, Green became president of Carnegie Mellon's Alumni Association Board in July 2004. He has served as president and president emeritus of the university's West Coast Drama Alumni Clan and was instrumental in creating the "Showcase of New Talent," an annual program now in its 10th year that brings about 60 Carnegie Mellon graduating students to the west coast for a week-long series of auditions and interviews. He received Carnegie Mellon's Outstanding Alumni Service Award in 1999.
Joining Green on the commencement platform will be honorary degree recipients, Mel Bochner, Robert Dickinson and Jessie Gruman, and student speaker Tim Lowe.
Prior to and following the main ceremony schools and departments will host diploma ceremonies at many campus and off-campus locations. Among the diploma ceremony speakers will be David A. Tepper, president of Appaloosa Management and donor of the naming gift to the Tepper School of Business. Tepper, who earned his MBA from Carnegie Mellon in 1982, will deliver the keynote speeches at the business school's graduate and undergraduate diploma ceremonies. Tepper founded Appaloosa Management, a $3 billion hedge-fund investment firm in Chatham, N.J., in 1993.
William Drayton, chairman and chief executive officer of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, will speak at the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management diploma ceremony and South Australia Premier Mike Rann will deliver the charge to the Heinz School graduates. Ashoka is a global association of more than 1,600 leading "social entrepreneurs," individuals who envision and implement trend-setting social changes in the environment, education, human rights and other areas of human need that are inadequately served by the business sector. Rann is visiting the United States to identify development programs for South Australia.
Ralph Szygenda, group vice president and chief information officer of General Motors, will speak at the Heinz School's diploma ceremony for students graduating from its Master of Information Systems Management and Master of Science in Information Technology programs.
For more on commencement, including the weekend schedule, visit http://www.cmu.edu/commencement/
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