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YONKERS, NEW YORK, RESIDENT KEVIN RADER DELIVERS VALEDICTORY SPEECH AT MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S 162ND GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Yonkers, New York, resident Kevin Rader recently delivered the valedictory address at Manhattan College’s 162nd Spring (Graduate) Commencement.  The ceremony took place Wednesday, May 19 in the College’s main chapel.  Manhattan College awarded more than 200 degrees in the graduate programs of biotechnology, education and engineering, along with undergraduate degrees in organizational management through the College’s adult degree completion program.

Mr. Rader earned a Master of Engineering degree from the School of Engineering.  Apart from being chosen this year’s valedictorian, Mr. Rader, who studied environmental engineering, also is the recipient of the W. Wesley Eckenfelder Award.  This award was donated by W. Wesley Eckenfelder ’46 in recognition of outstanding graduate students in environmental engineering and science.  Mr. Rader is a member of Tau Chi Alpha, the national honor society for environmental engineering students.  The society was formed to acknowledge students for academic excellence and special achievements in this field.

In his valedictory address, Mr. Rader said, “Today I receive a master’s degree from a college that has already given me so much: an excellent Lasallian education, an opportunity to forge new friendships and strengthen old relationships and a chance to grow as a person.  Indeed Manhattan College offers this to all who attend.”

During the ceremony, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree was presented to Manhattan alumnus Peter Quinn ’69, corporate editorial director at Time

Warner and former speechwriter for past New York Govs. Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853  by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.  Manhattan College, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2003, is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science. 

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