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Dr. Walter E. Massey President, Morehouse College

Morehouse President joins
President George W. Bush as Honorary Degree Recipient

Atlanta, June 14, 2002 - Morehouse College President, Dr. Walter E. Massey, was among four individuals, including President George W. Bush, to receive honorary degrees from Ohio State University today.

Massey received the honorary doctor of science degree during Ohio State University's spring quarter commencement in Columbus, Ohio.

Honorary doctorates were also presented to George W. Bush, president of the United States; George M. Steinbrenner III, principle owner of the New York Yankees; and Marta Tienda, director of the Office of Population Research.

"Under any circumstances, I would have been pleased to be honored by such a prestigious institution as Ohio State University," said President Massey. "But the fact that I received the honor along with a distinguished group of individuals that includes the president of the United States, made it a particularly proud moment for me."

Massey, who is the ninth president of Morehouse College, has held a range of administrative and academic positions, including provost and senior vice president-academic affairs of the University of California. He has also served as vice president for research at the University of Chicago and director of the Argonne National Laboratory, dean of the college and full professor of physics at Brown University, and assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois.

In December 2001 President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Massey to his Presidential Committee on Science and Technology. Massey is also former director of the National Science Foundation, a position to which former President George Bush appointed him.

Massey earned a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics in 1958 from Morehouse College and his master's and doctorate in physics in 1966 from Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Active with a range of organizations, Massey has served as the chairman and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, served as the vice president of the American Physical Society, and served on the National Science Board and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

He is a member and past chair of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB).

He is also the recipient of over 25 honorary degrees from institutions such as Washington University, Amherst College, and Yale University.

Dr. Massey is currently a member of corporate and foundation boards such as the Hewlett Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rand Corporation, the Mellon Foundation, Motorola, Inc., Bank of America, McDonald's and BP-Amoco. He is also a member of the Commonwealth Fund. More recently, Dr. Massey was invited to serve on the Gates Millennium Scholars Advisory Council and the Marine Biological Laboratory Council of Visitors.

Ranked the number one college in the nation for educating African American students by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the nation's largest private liberal arts college for men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and confers bachelor's degrees on more black men than any other institution in the world. In addition to offering 26 majors in the humanities, natural and social science and business administration. Morehouse offers a number of programs and activities to enhance its challenging liberal arts curriculum through the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, Morehouse Research Institute, and Andrew Young Center for International Affairs.

Prominent alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine; Sheldon "Spike" Lee, filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions; Maynard H. Jackson, president of Jackson Securities and the first African-American mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from an historically black college or university.

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