 | The Cavalier daily Friday April 21, 1972 |  |
Graduating Class Schedules William Buckley
To Speak At June Commencement Exercises
By PAT GRANEY
Author, editor and lecturer William F.
Buckley will speak at Commencement
exercises June 4, announced Hal
Bogard, president of the graduating class.
"Mr. Buckley was selected on the basis
of a poll and referendum of degree
candidates for June of 1972," said Mr.
Bogard.
Mr. Buckley was born in New York
City in 1925 and received early schooling
in England and France. He graduated
from the Millbrook School in Millbrook,
New York in 1942, and attended the
University of New Mexico in 1943. Mr.
Buckley received a B.A. with honors from
Yale in 1950.
At Yale, Mr. Buckley was Chairman of
the Yale Daily News, member of the
Elizabethan Club, Fence Club, Skull and
Bones and the Torch Honor Society. He
was also Class Day Orator.
In 1955 Mr. Buckley founded the
National Review.
In 1962 he began a weekly syndicated
column, "On the Right," which now
appears three times a week in over 300
newspapers across the country.
Mr. Buckley ran for Mayor of New
York City in 1965, and received 13.4 per
cent of the vote on the conservative party
ticket.
In 1966 Mr. Buckley began a weekly
television show, "Firing Line," hosting
such guests as Richard Nixon, Benjamin
Spock, Truman Capote, Cassius Clay and
Eldridge Cleaver.
The author has received several Noted Editor Of Conservative 'National Review'
honorary awards, including the Order of
Lafayette Freedom Award 1966, the
University of Southern California's
Distinguished Achievement Award in
Journalism 1968 and the
William F. Buckley
Decade Award 1970.
Mr. Buckley has received honorary
degrees from Seton Hall University,
Niagara University, Mount Saint Mary's
College, St. Peter's College, Syracuse
University, Ursinus College, Lehigh
University and Curry College.
Mr. Buckley is a registered Republican.
Commenting on Mr. Buckley's plans to
attend the Commencement exercises, Mr.
Bogard said, Mr. Buckley's renowned
forensic ability will surely make this
year's Final Exercises a very interesting
occasion."
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