Innovators Honored at Commencement

INNOVATORS RECEIVE SPECIAL COMMENCEMENT HONORS AT OHIO STATE

     COLUMBUS -- An educator, a political activist, a scientist, 
an attorney and a professor will be recognized for their 
achievements with special honors during The Ohio State 
University's winter quarter commencement March 21 in St. John 
Arena.

     Honorary doctorates will be presented to educator and 
businessman Clifford R. Wharton Jr.,  political activist Ada E. 
Deer, and scientist Daniel E. Koshland Jr.

     The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to 
educator Wilbur A. Gould and to attorney Susan J. Insley.

Clifford R. Wharton Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters

     Clifford R. Wharton Jr. was the first African American to 
head a Fortune 100 service company.  He served as chair and chief 
executive officer of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association 
and the College Retirement Equities Fund from 1987 to 1993.  
During his six years as chair, he oversaw a total reorganization 
of TIAA-CREF's corporate structure and management, doubling the 
corporation's assets.

     Wharton was president of Michigan State University for eight 
years, the first African American to head a major predominately 
white university in the United States, and for nine years 
chancellor of the State University of New York, the largest 
university system in the nation.  He came to higher education 
after a 22-year career in foreign economic development in Latin 
America and Southeast Asia with the Rockefeller family's 
philanthropic interests.

     A native of Boston, Wharton entered Harvard University at 
the age of 16, earning his bachelor's degree in history in 1947.  
He was the first African American to be admitted to the Johns 
Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 
receiving his Master of Arts degree in international affairs in 
1948.  He also holds a Master of Arts degree in economics and a 
doctoral degree from the University of Chicago.

     Long active in U.S. foreign policy, Wharton has held key 
appointments under five presidents.  He was most recently 
President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State in 1993. Wharton is 
a member of the National Academy of Education, the Committee for 
Economic Development and the National Association of State 
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, of which he was chair in 
1981-82.

Ada E. Deer, Doctor of Humanities

     Ada E. Deer, assistant secretary of Indian Affairs, 
Department of the Interior, is the first woman and sixth person 
to hold that office since its creation in 1997.  As assistant 
secretary, Deer serves as policy maker for some 550 federally 
recognized tribes and nearly two million Native Americans served 
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and is chief spokesperson for 
federal policy concerning Native Americans.

     A native of Wisconsin, Deer was the first member of the 
Menominee tribe to graduate from the University of Wisconsin and 
the first Native American to earn a master's degree from Columbia 
University.  She led the Menominees' struggle to restore federal 
recognition of their tribal status after it had been terminated 
in the 1950s.  The Menominee Restoration Act was signed into law 
in 1973 and has led the way for many other tribes to restore 
federal recognition.

     Founding director of Americans for Indian Opportunity and 
the American Indian Graduate Program, Deer was appointed by the 
U.S. Senate to the American Indian Policy Review Commission in 
1974. She has served as chair of the National Support Committee 
of the Native American Rights Fund, and was appointed by both 
Presidents Carter and Reagan to the President's Commission on 
White House Fellowships.

Daniel E. Koshland Jr., Doctor of Science

     Daniel E. Koshland, professor of biochemistry and molecular 
biology at the University of California at Berkeley where he has 
taught since 1965, is internationally known for his research on 
the catalytic molecular mechanisms of enzymes.

     A native of New York City, Koshland earned his undergraduate 
degree from Berkeley in 1941.  He worked as a chemist for Shell 
Chemical Company and as a group leader for the Manhattan Project 
before entering the graduate program at the University of 
Chicago, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1949.  He joined 
the staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory as a senior 
biochemist and later held joint appointments at Rockefeller 
University and Brookhaven.  

     Koshland serves on numerous editorial boards including 
chairing the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National 
Academy of Sciences.  He helped establish and chaired the Academy 
Forum, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences that 
develops policies on issues affecting science and society.
     

Wilbur A. Gould, Distinguished Service Award

     Wilbur A. Gould, professor emeritus of horticulture, spent 
nearly four decades as a teacher, researcher, and scholar at Ohio 
State.  The founder and director emeritus of Ohio State's Food 
Industries Center, Gould is nationally recognized for providing a 
practical research base to improve the food industry's 
competitiveness.

     Gould received his master's and doctoral degrees from Ohio 
State, and joined the faculty in 1946 as an instructor in food 
processing and technology.  He was named a full professor in 
1958.  He became director of the newly formed Food Industries 
Center in 1981, serving until 1985 when he retired from the 
university.

     Gould was instrumental in obtaining state funding for the 
construction of Howlett Hall, which houses the Food Industries 
Center.  As chair of the center's Endowed Haas Chair committee, 
he has raised some $1 million to form one of the nation's first 
endowed chairs in food processing and technology.  He serves as 
honorary chair of the New Food Science and Technology Building 
Fund Drive.

     Gould was inducted into the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame 
in 1989 and into the Ohio State Farm Science Review Hall of Fame 
in 1991.  In 1995, he received the Distinguished Service Award 
from Ohio State's Department of Food Science and Technology.
     

Susan J. Insley, Distinguished Service Award

     Susan J. Insley, a 1967 graduate of the College of 
Education, has long been a loyal and devoted friend of Ohio 
state.  A member of The Presidents Club, she served on the 
University Hospitals Board from 1986 to 1993 and was its chair 
from 1990-92.

     Insley supported the creation of the medical center's 
regional hospital consortium, which now numbers 12.  She was 
instrumental in enhancing the staff recognition programs and 
helped establish several outreach programs for the Columbus 
community.

     Insley is executive vice president and principal of Cochran 
Public Relations, a Columbus-based public relations and strategic 
communications firm.  Prior to joining Cochran in 1996, she was 
senior vice president of Honda of America Manufacturing.  She 
served as liaison with the Transportation Research Center Inc., 
managed by Ohio State's College of Engineering, and was director 
of the Honda of America Foundation.

     Insley earned her law degree from Ohio Northern University 
in 1976.  She joined Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease as a 
practicing attorney, where she provided legal service for Honda 
of America.  She joined Honda in 1985 as vice president for 
corporate planning and became senior vice president in 1990.

     Insley was named an honorary engineer in 1992 by Ohio 
State's College of Engineering.  That same year, she was selected 
as a Woman of Achievement by the Columbus YWCA for her work with 
"I know I Can," a program to encourage students to aim for higher 
education.
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Contact:  Tracy Turner, University Communications, (614)688-3682.


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