Curry College
conferred 398 degrees on students from 15 states and 3 countries, including 217 traditional undergraduate students, 157 undergraduates from the Division of Continuing and Graduate Studies, and 24 graduate students. Of the 374 undergraduates, 313 received Bachelor of Arts degrees and 61 received Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees. The Honorable William R. Keating, District Attorney, Norfolk County and Jack Williams, Emmy Award-Winning CBS4 Boston News Anchor, received Honorary Degrees; Mr. Williams served as Commencement Speaker. |
Citation of Honorary Degree presented to
William R. Keating, District Attorney, Norfolk County
William R. Keating, as the District Attorney for Norfolk County since 1998, your tenure has been marked by strong community outreach and numerous initiatives designed to improve and enhance the lives of all citizens, and especially those of young people, within your jurisdiction.
 Ruth McNaughton ’04 Deacon Joe Arsenault delivers the benediction.Your commitment to the welfare of all citizens of the Commonwealth was born early in your career. Just three years after graduating in 1974 from Boston College with a B.A. in Political Science (later you earned an MBA from B.C. and a law degree from Suffolk University), you were elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. You served ably in the House through 1984, and then in the Senate from 1985 to 1998, where you held numerous leadership positions. Representative of the many awards and honors you received during your service in the Legislature were the Environmental Legislator of the Year Award, the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance Legislative Award, the Massachusetts Police Association Legislator of the Year, and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Dan H. Fenn, Jr. Award for Political Leadership.
 Jillian Feeney ’04William Keating, in the laws that you have helped write and sponsor, and in your actions and vigorous leadership as District Attorney, your voice has been one of reason, insightfulness, and always an expressed concern for the most vulnerable and marginal members of society. In a world that sometimes seems confusing and ambiguous, these virtues - and the clarity of your voice - are now more important than ever.
On this glorious Commencement Day, it gives us at Curry a special pleasure to award you, a great friend of our College, the Doctor of Public Administration degree.
By action of Curry College, the Board of Trustees concurring, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Board of Regents of Higher Education of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Public Administration, honoris causa, and admit you to all the rights and privileges hereunto pertaining.
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