Published Wednesday, April 17, 2002
GREENVILLE
Columnist, TV pundit Will to speak at Thiel graduationGeorge F. Will, syndicated Washington Post columnist and panelist on the ABC Sunday morning political talk show, "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts," will speak at Thiel College's 128th spring commencement exercises at 2 p.m. May 11 in the college's William A. Passavant Memorial Center.
Will will also receive an honorary doctorate from the Greenville college.
Will's newspaper column has been syndicated by The Washington Post since 1974, and today it appears twice weekly in nearly 500 newspapers in the United States and Europe. In 1977 he won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in his newspaper columns.
In 1976 Will became a regular contributing editor of Newsweek magazine, for which he provides a bimonthly back-page essay. In 1981 Will became a founding panel member on ABC television's "This Week with David Brinkley."
Thiel will also grant an honorary doctorate to former Thiel College trustee chairman James C. McHugh of Latrobe.
The general manager of Wear Resistant Technologies Group, a subsidiary of the French multinational company Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Plastics Inc., McHugh is a 1962 graduate of Thiel.
Thiel expects to graduate 113 students.
Baccalaureate services will be held at 10 a.m. May 11 in Passavant Center. A commencement reception honoring graduates and their families will be held on the Howard Miller Student Center terrace immediately after the commencement ceremony.