This year’s honorary degree recipients include (above, from left) contemporary artist Katherine Bradford, best-selling children's author Raquel Jaramillo (R. J. Palacio) P’18, economist and president of Thomas College Laurie Gagnon Lachance ’83, P’13, award-winning journalist and social activist Janet Langhart-Cohen, and decorated marathoner Joan Benoit Samuelson ’79, P’12.
In the days leading up to Commencement and during the ceremony itself, this year's honorands each shared a bit of themselves.
Jarmamillo delivered the keynote address at Baccalaureate and Lachance delivered Greetings from the State of Maine during Commencement.
Bradford, Langhart-Cohen and Samuelson delivered talks and engaged in conversations on campus that were also streamed live, the recordings of which can be viewed below.
