Elyria Mom Climbs High to Graduate Oberlin College
Sammie Davis-Dobson, 45, grew up in Alabama in poverty and raised six children in Elyria and Oberlin. She graduated from Oberlin College with a double major in psychology and religion after securing grants and loans. She started a student organization Minor ity Students for Careers in Higher Education and conducted Ford Mellon research on marital satisfaction among black and white couples.
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Elyria
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Allen Memorial Hospital
Blue Cross
Financial Aid
Ross Peacock
Financial Aid Office
Peacock
Jessica
Henry
Sam
Harvard
Ford- Mellon
Gere mec Urges Freedom Evolution at Oberlin Commencement
Polish parliamentary leader Bronislaw Geremek spoke at Oberlin College's 157th commencement urging that freedom spread as an evolution toward universal democracy. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humanities and warned Poland's transition may require sacrifice and time for a free market economy to stabilize.
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Oberlin
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Oberlin College
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Lech Walesa
Chronicle Telegram
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Poland
Oberlin College honors six with honorary degrees
Oberlin College conferred honorary degrees on six recipients during Monday’s commencement ceremonies. Notables include Eric T Nord founder of Nordson Corporation and Tatyana Zaslavskaya a Soviet economist and thinker. Other honorees are Lawrence Funkhouser Bronislaw Geremek Trinh Minh-ha Sylvia Hill Williams.
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Starr
Oberlin College
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C.T
Oberlin
Lorain County
Eric T Nord
Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya
Nord
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Amherst
Nordson Corporation
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John Milton Yinger
Zaslavskaya Oberlin College
Frederick Starr
Nord and
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Funkhouser
Trinh Minh Ha
Vietnam
Sylvia Hill Wiliams
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of African Art
Eric T. Nord
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Midview High School
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Perlik
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Soviet Sociological Association
National Center of Public Opin
Moscow
Gorbachev
Tatyana Zaslavskaya
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