| |
| | Kim Campbell, Canada's First Woman Prime Minister, to Give Commencement Address |
 | | Kim Campbell, who in 1993 became the first woman to serve as prime minister of Canada, will speak at Mount Holyoke's one hundred and sixty-seventh commencement, Sunday, May 23. |
 | | Campbell will be joined by three other honorary degree recipients: Nadine Strossen, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Dorothy J. Height, a leader in the liberation struggle of African American women; and Nancy Skinner Nordhoff '54, philanthropist and founder of Hedgebrook, a writer's colony for women. |
 | | Campbell was educated at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1969; L.L.B., 1983) and the London School of Economics (doctoral studies in Soviet government, A.B.D., 1970--1973). |
| www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/042304/commencement.shtml (822 words) |
|