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Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of NBC’s Meet
the Press and political analyst for the network’s Nightly
News and Today programs, will deliver the
College’s Commencement address to the graduating
class of 2005 on Friday morning, May 27.
A graduate of a Jesuit high school and college, Russert
will receive an honorary degree from the College at the 159
th graduation exercises.
The College has announced that the following individuals
will also receive honorary degrees: Rev. Daniel Harrington,
S.J.,w idely published and renowned scripture
scholar who is professor of the New Testament at the Weston
Jesuit School of Theology; Edward P. Jones ’72, acclaimed
fiction writer and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The
Known World; and retiring Trustee Park B. Smith ’54,successful
entrepreneur, designer and wine connoisseur, whose generosity
to the College is marked by the Carol and Park B. Smith Hall
and the Carol and Park B. Smith Wellness Center.
Russert joined NBC News in 1984, and, the following year,
supervised the live broadcasts of the Today program
from Rome , negotiating and arranging an appearance by Pope
John Paul II - a first for American television. In 1991,
he took over the helm of Meet the Press, which has
since become the most-watched Sunday morning interview program
in America . He also anchors The Tim Russert Show,
a weekly interview program on CNBC and serves as a contributing
anchor for MSNBC. In addition, Russert is the senior vice
president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News.
During his career, he has interviewed nearly every major
figure on the American political scene and has moderated
numerous gubernatorial, U.S. Senate and presidential primary
candidate debates.
In his bestselling memoir, Big Russ and Me, Russert
writes with fondness and appreciation of his Jesuit education.
He is a graduate of Canisius High School in Buffalo , John
Carroll University in Cleveland and the Cleveland-Marshall
College of Law.
Russert lives in Washington , D.C. , with his wife, Maureen
Orth, who is a writer for Vanity Fair magazine.
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