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Union College to award eight honorary degrees on June 16
Union College in Schenectady New York will award eight honorary degrees at its June 16 commencement on campus. Howard A Simons Washington Post managing editor will receive a doctor of letters along with George W Rickey Doris Stone Arthur M Bueche Jay W Forrester Frederick G Bascom Richmond F Meyer and John Vanneck. Simons is Albany born Union graduate 1951 who joined Washington Post in 1961 and has been managing editor since 1971.
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Schenectady
N.Y
Union College
Howard A. Simons
Simons
Union
Use Washington Post
George W. Rickey
Doris Stone
Jay W. Forrester
General Electric Co
Arthur M. Bueche
Frederick G. Bascom
Richmond F. Meyer
John Vanneck
Equitable Holding Corp
Albany
Washington Post
Cornell University
General Electric Company
Germeshausen
Alfred P. Slow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Glens Falls
Poughkeepsie
Mid-Hudson Oil Company
New York City
Union, College