Thursday, May 24, 2012

Wiseman, Ergen Receive Honorary Degrees

Eric Wiseman and Charles Ergen, alumni of the Wake Forest University Schools of Business, were among the notable people who received honorary degrees at this year's Commencement ceremony.
Ergen, who also gave the speech at the May 21 Commencement (video here), is the chairman of DISH Network. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, to go along with his bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from Wake Forest.
Wiseman, the chairman, president and chief executive of VF Corp., received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Wiseman, who spoke at the hooding ceremony for the Wake Forest University Schools of Business (video here), holds a bachelor's degree in business and an MBA from Wake Forest.
Other recipients of honorary degrees included Elizabeth Lacy, the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Virginia;Willie May, the associate director for laboratory programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Jonathan Reckford, the chief executive of Habitat for Humanity International.

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