John Lewis , U.S. Representative (D-GA 5th), and a veteran Civil Rights leader, is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 173rd Commencement Exercises on May 31. He will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. City College will also honor Edward S. Plotkin, ’53, one of its distinguished alumni, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on the South Campus Great Lawn, 135th St. and Convent Ave., Manhattan. A renowned civil engineer, Plotkin will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Science. Hailed as “one of the most courageous persons the Civil Rights Movement ever produced,”
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