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Photo by Bill StoverThe University’s men’s and women’s tennis teams recently sponsored a tennis clinic for Special Olympics athletes in Forest Park.

Washington University will bestow degrees on more than 2,630 undergraduate, graduate and professional students during its 145th Commencement at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 19, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on five individuals. Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, will deliver the 2006 Commencement address. His talk is titled “The Changing World.”

George Warren Brown School of Social Work students in Dr. Stephanie Boddie’s community development class have been working with the St. Louis County Planning Department and the Glasgow Village Trustees to lay the groundwork for a Community Improvement District for unincorporated Glasgow Village.

John MajorThe Right Honorable Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, will deliver the 2006 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis. The university’s 145th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 19 in Brookings Quadrangle. During the ceremony, Washington University will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature. The university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students.

There are no campus watch items for this issue of the Record.

Five undergraduates pursuing unpaid public-service internships will be the first beneficiaries of a new Public Service Summer Stipend program.

Also, re-elected as officers of the board were David W. Kemper as chairman and John F. McDonnell and Stephen F. Brauer as vice chairmen.

“Recognizing Karen Wooley’s outstanding career by associating it with the McDonnell legacy at Washington University couldn’t be more appropriate,” Edward Macias says.

He’s known around the South 40 and The Village as Mr. Clean. That may be because Jim Severine closely resembles the cleaning-product mascot, with his stocky build and shaved head. Or it may be due to the fact that he’s a neat and organized guy and, as associate director of building services for the Office […]

The center is making every effort to ensure students have that right job waiting for them upon graduating; the first step was to reach out to as many as possible.