Five to Receive Commencement Honors

FIVE RECEIVE SPECIAL COMMENCEMENT HONORS AT OHIO STATE

COLUMBUS -- Five leaders in the fields of drama, history, 
science, law and business will be recognized with special honors 
during The Ohio State University's winter quarter commencement 
March 20 in St. John Arena.

Honorary doctorates will be presented to mime Marcel 
Marceau, legal historian Stanley N. Katz and scientist Gerhard 
Levy.

The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to J. 
Gilbert Reese and John T. Eby.

          Marcel Marceau, Doctor of Humane Letters

Internationally acclaimed as the world's greatest mime, 
Marcel Marceau is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 
creation of the character BIP, whose striped pullover and 
battered top hat are universally familiar.

A native of Strasbourg, France, Marceau enrolled in Charles 
Dullin's School of Dramatic Art in Paris in 1946, where he 
studied under Etienne Decroux.  The following year when he 
created BIP, his dramatic alter-ego, his reputation as a master 
of pantomime began to grow.  In 1949, after winning the renowned 
Deburau Prize for his second mimodrama, Death Before Dawn, 
Marceau formed his Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau. 

Following several successful European tours, Marceau made 
his first North American tour in 1955-56.  He played standing- 
room-only crowds nationwide.  In 1956, Marceau won an Emmy for 
his appearance on an NBC spectacular.  In 1978, the City of Paris 
awarded him a grant to open the Ecole de Mimodrame de Paris.  The 
French government honored him with its highest award, naming him 
an Officier de la Legion d'Honneur.

Marceau has continued to tour worldwide through the years.  
In 1995 he presented a three-day artist-in-residence program at 
Ohio State's departments of theatre and dance.  He is currently 
on an official 50th anniversary tour of North America.  Marceau 
will be on the Ohio State campus March 18 and 19 to conduct 
workshops with students and faculty.
 

              Stanley N. Katz, Doctor of Laws

Stanley N. Katz, professor of public and international 
affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and co-
director of Princeton's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy 
Research, is known as one of America's foremost legal historians.

A native of Chicago, Katz earned his bachelor's, master's 
and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.  He joined the 
University of Wisconsin's history faculty in 1965.  In 1971, he 
joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as a professor of 
legal history, professor of history and associate dean of the law 
school.

In 1978, Katz was named Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor 
of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton 
University.  He was co-appointed professor of public and 
international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School in 1982 and 
held both appointments until 1986, when he was named senior 
fellow in the Wilson School.  From 1979 to 1986, he also served 
as a visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania.

An outspoken advocate for the liberal arts and the ideals of 
intellectual exchange, Katz served as president of the American 
Council of Learned Societies from 1986 to 1997.  He has written, 
co-authored or edited some 50 books and scholarly articles.  He 
co-founded Reviews in American History, the leading journal 
devoted to new literature in American history, and has served as 
associate editor since 1973.


             Gerhard Levy, Doctor of Science

A renowned leader in pharmaceutical education and research, 
Gerhard Levy is University Distinguished Professor of 
Pharmaceutics Emeritus at the State University of New York at 
Buffalo School of Pharmacy.  He was instrumental in the founding 
of the scientific field of biopharmaceutics and has made major 
contributions to the understanding of how drugs act.
 
Born in Germany, Levy earned his bachelor's and doctoral 
degrees from the University of California, San Francisco.  He 
joined the faculty of the University of Buffalo in 1958 as an 
assistant professor of pharmacy, serving as acting department 
chair the following year.  In 1964, Levy was named professor of 
biopharmaceutics, and served as chair of the Department of 
Pharmaceutics from 1966-70.  He was director of the Clinical 
Pharmacokinetics Research Center from 1979 to 1988.  He was given 
emeritus status in 1995.

Levy is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of 
the National Academy of Sciences and holds honorary degrees from 
five universities.  Among his many honors are the 1990 Gold Medal 
of the Slovak Medical Society; the 1990 Scheele Award of the 
Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences; the 1992 Dale E. 
Wurster Research Award in Pharmaceutics from the American 
Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists; and the first Lifetime 
Achievement in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Award of the 
International Pharmaceutical Federation in 1994.


        J. Gilbert Reese, Distinguished Service Award

 The senior partner of the law firm Reese, Pyle, Drake & 
Meyer, J. Gilbert Reese earned his bachelor's and Juris Doctor 
degrees from Ohio State.

A strong supporter of education in central Ohio, Reese has 
retained close ties to Ohio State, especially in his service to 
the College of Law and the Newark campus.  He served as chair of 
the College of Law National Council from 1972 to 1978, and 
continues to have an active role in faculty recruiting, fund 
raising and other law school-related activities.  He received the 
College of Law's Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1979.  In recent 
years he was actively involved in the successful effort to 
remodel and build an addition to the law school.

Reese was instrumental in establishing the Newark campus of 
The Ohio State University, helping to select and raise funds for 
the land on which the school was established.  In 1971, he 
provided leadership in creating the co-located technical college 
at the regional campus and is a trustee emeritus of the Central 
Ohio Technical College.  He has served as chair of the Newark 
Campus Development Fund since its 1983 inception, helping to 
raise funds for the support and development of the campus.

Reese has served as a trustee of the Columbus Museum of Art, 
trustee of the Columbus College of Art and Design, trustee and 
president of the Newark YMCA, president of the Licking County Bar 
Association, president of the Newark Area Chamber of Commerce and 
trustee of Dawes Arboretum.


          John T. Eby, Distinguished Service Award

A graduate of Ohio State with a bachelor of science degree 
in business administration, John T. Eby is a retired executive 
director of corporate strategy for Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, 
Mich.

Eby held several positions at Ford, including president of 
the Ford Motor Co. of Japan from 1981 to 1984.  As executive 
director of corporate strategy, he was a leader in implementing 
the quality improvement policies and practices that helped turn 
Ford around.

Eby also was instrumental in establishing Ohio State's Total 
Quality Business and Education Partnership with Ford, which has 
served as a catalyst for continuous quality improvements 
throughout the university.

Long active in alumni affairs, Eby served on the Alumni 
Advisory Council as a regional campus representative and a 
University College representative from 1979 to 1985.  During that 
time, he assisted in setting up an agenda for encouraging student 
applications for international scholarships.  He was elected to a 
five-year term on the Alumni Association's board of directors in 
1988, serving as president from 1991 to 1993.  In 1987, he was 
honored at Ohio State's 300th commencement as an outstanding 
alumnus.

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