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汤姆·布罗考将在2009年毕业典礼上发表演讲

Longtime “NBC Nightly 新闻” anchor 汤姆布罗考, one of the most highly regarded figures in broadcast journalism, will receive an honorary degree and deliver the main address at the College of William & Mary Commencement Exercises on May 17, 2009.

Additionally, William & Mary alumna 琳达拉文 (’59), a renowned theater and television actress, and 谢尔曼科恩, a philanthropist and one of the most successful real estate developers in the United States, will receive honorary degrees at the ceremony. 布罗考和科恩将获得人文文学荣誉博士学位。 拉文将获得荣誉文学博士学位。

威廉玛丽大法官和退休的美国最高法院大法官桑德拉·戴·奥康纳也将出席仪式并致欢迎辞。

 “It’s hard to imagine anyone who has made a more lasting contribution to broadcast journalism during the last generation than 汤姆布罗考, or anyone who has done more to capture in prose the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth century,” said William & Mary president Taylor Reveley. “We look forward to his role at Commencement, and to honoring him along with two highly acclaimed members of the William & Mary family, 琳达拉文 and 谢尔曼科恩.”

汤姆布罗考

布罗考自1966年以来一直为NBC新闻工作。 Currently a special correspondent for NBC, he anchored the “Today” show from 1976 to 1981 and served as anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly 新闻” for 21 years, before stepping down in 2004. After the sudden death of Tim Russert in 2008, he served as interim moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” for six months.

布罗考采访过林登·约翰逊（Lyndon B. Johnson）以来的每一位总统，报道过1968年以来的每一次总统选举。 他是第一位报道伊拉克战争已经开始的美国新闻主播，在前总统乔治·w·布什（George W. Bush）宣布战争主要战斗结束后，他第一次接受了电视采访。 布罗考也是第一个接受俄罗斯总统戈尔巴乔夫（Mikhail Gorbachev）独家一对一采访的人，也是第一个也是唯一一个从柏林墙倒塌当晚现场进行报道的主播。 Additionally, he was NBC’s White House correspondent during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, and he was the first American anchor to travel to Tibet to report on human-rights abuses and interview the Dalai Lama.

布罗考的纪录片关注的主题包括种族、艾滋病、全球变暖、反恐战争和移民。 After leaving the “NBC Nightly 新闻” anchor desk in 2004, he traveled around the world talking to government officials, intelligence experts, and citizens personally affected by the events of September 11, 2001, to produce “The Long War,” an in-depth report on the war on terror, in 2005.

除了作为一名广播记者，布罗考还是一位广受好评的作家。 His articles, essays and commentary have appeared in various publications, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, 新闻week, Time, The New Yorker, Men’s Journal, Sports Illustrated, Life, National Geographic, Outside and Interview. His 1998 book on Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II, “The Greatest Generation,” was a best-seller, and inspired 1999’s “The Greatest Generation Speaks.” In the first decade of the new millennium, he has already written three more books: “An Album of Memories,” “A Long Way 回家,” and “BOOM! Voices of the Sixties.”

Brokaw在他的职业生涯中获得了许多荣誉，包括Edward R. Murrow终身成就奖和艾美奖终身成就奖。 他还被选入美国艺术与科学学院。 布罗考获得了国家档案基金会颁发的成就记录奖； the Association of the U.S. Army’s highest award, the George Catlett Marshall Medal; 西点军校Sylvanus Thayer奖； 12个艾美奖和两个皮博迪和杜邦新闻成就奖。 Additionally, in 2003, “NBC Nightly 新闻” received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best 新闻cast for the fourth consecutive time.

布罗考拥有南达科他州大学政治学学位。

琳达拉文

拉文是缅因州波特兰市人，在威廉玛丽学院主修戏剧。 1959年从学院毕业后，她前往纽约，在俱乐部和外百老汇演出中开始了她的歌手生涯。 Her early stage credits include “The Mad Show” and “Little Murders,” for which she won the Critic’s Choice Award. She graduated to the chorus of a Broadway show, “A Family Affair,” and followed that with a featured part in “It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman.” She went on to win a Tony nomination for her work in Neil Simon’s “Last of the Red Hot Lovers.”

After many guest roles on several TV series, Lavin took on her most famous role as single mother Alice Hyatt on the successful comedy “Alice,” which ran for nine years on CBS (1976-1985). 她在节目中演唱了主题曲，并因其表演获得了两项金球奖最佳女主角奖。

拉文在百老汇演出过各种各样的作品，包括戏剧、音乐剧和喜剧。 In 1987, she received the Tony, Helen Hayes, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound.” She won Tony nominations for her work in “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.”

Her role as “Alice” sparked Lavin’s political activism, and she has spoken to labor organizations and marched in rallies across the country in pursuit of equal rights. She has produced several movies for television, including “The $5.20 an Hour Dream,” “A Matter of Life and Death,” and “A Place to Call 回家,” all about working women or single mothers. 几年前，她为市中心的女孩建立了一个基金会。

Lavin and her husband, Steve Bakunas, own and operate their own theater, the Red Barn Studio, in Wilmington, N.C., where she is currently starring in Alfred Uhry’s “Driving Miss Daisy.”

1984年，威廉玛丽学院授予拉文校友奖章。 同年，她还担任了返校节游行的大元帅。 Last fall, Lavin returned to Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall to perform her one-woman concert, “Songs and Confessions of a One-Time Waitress,” on the same stage where she once starred in “Romeo and Juliet.”

谢尔曼科恩

谢尔曼·科恩出生于弗吉尼亚州萨福克，在纽波特纽斯长大。 他和他的两个兄弟在大萧条期间就读于威廉玛丽学院，并在附近的纽波特纽斯开始了他们的商业生涯。 In 1949, the three brothers sold their Newport 新闻 men’s clothing stores and moved to New York City to expand their entrepreneurial horizons. In 1956 they began constructing mid-rise suburban apartments in Westchester County and then headed onto Manhattan’s Third Avenue to construct high-rise apartments known as “Cohen Corners.” 他们的房地产开发事业取得了辉煌的成功。 科恩兄弟房地产公司今天在美国拥有超过1200万平方英尺的优质房地产。 谢尔曼的儿子查尔斯（Charles）目前担任该公司的总裁兼首席执行官，该公司拥有400多名员工。

由于谢尔曼和他的妻子格洛丽亚都是热心的慈善家，威廉和玛丽在2008年秋天为一个新的就业中心破土动工。 这个占地11000平方英尺的设施将被命名为谢尔曼和格洛丽亚·h·科恩职业中心，将位于沃尔特·j·扎布尔足球场和萨德勒中心之间的校园中心。

In addition to the company’s commitment to the community through neighborhood parks, plazas, fountains and children’s literacy programs, the couple has also supported the Sherman and Gloria H. Cohen Pavilion at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Conn. The Pavilion houses the Bendheim Cancer Center, a comprehensive Breast Center, and parking for outpatients. 纽约市的罗戈辛研究所将谢尔曼和格洛丽亚h科恩透析中心命名为他们的荣誉。 科恩夫妇也是曼哈顿莱诺克斯山医院（Lenox Hill Hospital）的最大捐助者之一，并为叶史瓦大学（Yeshiva University）爱因斯坦医学院（Albert Einstein College of Medicine）的医学教育和研究创造了更广泛的机会。 他们也是犹太人联合呼吁联合会的主要捐助者。