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KU Commencement Day Draws 4,000 Graduates in 142nd Ceremony
KU awarded more than 4,000 degrees with 12,000 invited as 142nd Commencement honored graduates. Honorary doctorates went to Joyce Ann DiDonato and Vernon Smith. Family groups from Rochester and Virginia attended as tradition and superstition surrounded the walk through the Campanile into Memorial Stadium.
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Gray-Little
Kansas Board of Regents
Fred Logan
Joyce Ann DiDonato
Vernon Smith
New York Times
Jeff Vitter
DiDonato
Smith
Chapman University
California
Memorial
Eugene Williams
Phillip
Williams
Mildred
Rochester
N.Y
New York
Lawrence
Norma Pierce
Virginia