DETROIT, May 24, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Dr. Glenda Price, president of Marygrove College, presented an Honorary Degree of Humane Letters to Dominic Pangborn after he delivered the commencement address to the Graduating Class of 2005 at the Detroit Opera House on Saturday, May 14. The Board of Trustees awarded the Theresa Maxis Award for Social Justice to the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) and its executive director, Dr. Daniel Krichbaum.
The undergraduate commencement speaker was Emad Ghith, who graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies and a minor in Humanities, and the graduate commencement speaker was Judith Cavanaugh, who received her Master in the Art of Teaching degree.
Marygrove President Dr. Glenda Price said, "I want to congratulate the Class of 2005 who have worked so hard to earn this recognition. Supporting Michigan Governor Granholm's view that our state's future lies with its college graduates, Marygrove is doing its part to train and educate our future leaders.
"The Detroit area is fortunate to have the high caliber of business and civic leadership we see in Dominic Pangborn and Dan Krichbaum. The call for tomorrow's leaders will be answered, I'm confident, by many of the Marygrove Class of 2005, which will be critical to the vitality of our region."
Dominic Pangborn is founder, president and CEO of Pangborn Design, Ltd., a graphic design company opened in 1979 that serves many Fortune 500 companies. Among his work is Marygrove College's Alumni Hall, which he redesigned for its 1999 renovation.
NCCJ is a non-profit human relations organization founded in 1927 as the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Its work involves transforming communities through institutional change by empowering leaders so that all people will have access to opportunities.
Syrian-born Emad Ghith transferred from Oakland Community College with two magna cum laude Associate Degrees in Liberal Arts and General Studies. On the Dean's List since Winter 2003, he was the first to earn the Marygrove College Arabic Translation Certificate in Fall 2004. Ghith aspires to a Master's degree followed by a college-level teaching career.
Judith Cavanaugh began her teaching career in 1975 at Our Lady of Sorrows, took 14 years off to raise two children and returned to teaching at Northville High School in 1993. She was one of 54 teachers from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and the Netherlands who were sent to study Japanese education by the International Educators to Japan and the Japanese Business Society in Summer 2000.
Marygrove College is located at 8425 W. McNichols Rd. in Detroit. More than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, science, theater, music and the fine arts. Call 313-927-1200 or visit www.marygrove.edu.