A scientist alum and female financier headlined the day, as six hundred students received their degrees at commencement on May 21. Muriel Siebert, the first woman ever to become a member of the New York Stock Exchange, gave the commencement address. Also receiving honorary degrees were baccalaureate speaker A. R. Bernard Sr., founder and CEO of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, and Vincent Fischetti '62, professor and head of the Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Immunology at Rockefeller University in Manhattan. Fischetti's research has led to groundbreaking insights into pathogen structure and new methods of bacterial control.
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