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Commencement Speakers  Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will address the Class of 1997 at commencement exercises on Sunday, June 15. Breyer, Class of ’59, was appointed to the high court by President Clinton in 1994. The justice “was our first choice,” said Yu-Jin Kim, one of the four senior class presidents who submitted a list of names to President Gerhard Casper, who made the formal invitation. Breyer’s son, Michael, a senior, will be among the graduates. Breyer was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, in 1980 and elevated to chief judge on that court in 1990. With his 1994 confirmation, he became the fourth Stanford graduate on the high court, joining Chief Justice William Rehnquist, ’48, J.D. ’52; Sandra Day O’Connor, ’50, J.D. ’52; and Anthony Kennedy, ’58. Breyer graduated from Stanford with great distinction with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. He was a member of Delta Sigma Rho, a national honorary speech and debate fraternity, and co-chair of the Foreign Scholars Commission, a student organization dedicated to easing the social adjustment of foreign students here. He attended Oxford University and earned his law degree from Harvard in 1964.

Terman Fellows  Six young science, engineering and medical school faculty members ­ whose work ranges from atomic physics to developmental neurobiology ­ have been named Frederick E. Terman Fellows. The new fellows, who all hold the rank of assistant professor, are Ben Andrews, mathematics; Mary Baker, computer science and electrical engineering; G. Scott Herron, dermatology; Mark Kasevich, physics; Thomas A. Rando, neurology and neurological sciences; and Michael Simon, biological sciences. This is the third group of fellows to be named since the program was launched in 1994 with a $25 million gift from William Hewlett and David Packard. The two alumni of the Electrical Engineering Department endowed the fellowships as a tribute to the late provost Terman, to whom they gave credit for much of their own success, as well as Stanford’s and Silicon Valley’s.

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