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Sullivan to Deliver Commencement Address at
Oglethorpe University
Atlanta – Morehouse School of Medicine President and
former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Louis
W. Sullivan will address the 280 graduates of Atlanta’s prestigious
Oglethorpe University on Saturday, May 6 at 9:30 a.m. on the
Academic Quadrangle of the Peachtree Road campus.
Sullivan will deliver the commencement address, “The Challenge of
Leadership for a Diverse Society in the 21st Century,” and will be
presented with an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Previous
honorary degree recipients at Oglethorpe commencements have included
Bernard Baruch, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, Tom J.
Watson, T. Woodrow Wilson, and more recently Daniel Boorstin, Andrew
Young, Anne Rivers Siddons, Billy Payne, Karl Haas, Yoel Levi and
Zell Miller. Also receiving a degree will be Joel Goldberg,
president of the Rich Foundation and university trustee, who will
receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Under former President George Bush, Sullivan headed the
Department of Health and Human Services from Jan. 20, 1989, to Jan.
20, 1993. In that capacity, he oversaw the federal government’s
major health, welfare, food and drug safety, medical research and
income security programs.
After leaving government service, Sullivan returned to the
presidency of Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine, a position he
first attained in 1981 following six years as the founding dean and
director of Morehouse’s Medical Education Program.
Under Sullivan’s direction, the Morehouse School of Medicine won
full accreditation as a four-year medical school in 1985, becoming
the nation’s first African-American medical school established in
this century.
Born in Atlanta on Nov. 3, 1933, Sullivan earned a bachelor’s
degree from Morehouse College in 1954 and a medical degree from
Boston University in 1958. Certified in internal medicine and
hematology, Sullivan taught at Harvard Medical School and Seton Hall
College of Medicine before serving on the faculty of the Boston
University School of Medicine from 1966 to 1975.
A native of Worchester, Mass., Goldberg graduated from Dartmouth
College. Goldberg began his career with Rich’s, Inc. of Atlanta in
1954 as a women’s apparel buyer. In 1971, he became president of
Rich’s and in 1977, he began his reign as the chairman and chief
executive officer. Goldberg is currently president of the Rich
Foundation, Inc. In the past, he has served as a director of the
High Museum of Atlanta, the Georgia Heart Association, The Standard
Club, the Atlanta Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and as a
trustee of The Temple. Goldberg also served in the U.S. Navy for
four years during World War II and was honorably discharged with the
rank of lieutenant. He is married and has two sons, a daughter and
two grandchildren.
Oglethorpe University is an independent, highly selective,
coeducational liberal arts institution located in Atlanta at 4484
Peachtree Road NE. Founded in 1835, Oglethorpe University is
dedicated to producing graduates who are broadly educated in the
fundamental fields of knowledge and the basic concepts and
principles of their disciplines.
For more information on Oglethorpe University, contact the Office
of Public Relations at 404-364-8446 or visit our website at
www.oglethorpe.edu.
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