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SUNY New Paltz Commencement Update

05/21/2000

NEW PALTZ -- SUNY New Paltz commencement special guest, Mr. Floyd Patterson, cannot attend today's ceremony to receive the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He has been called away to be with his brother who is undergoing surgery in Europe. The university hopes to reschedule this honorary degree conferral for the near future.

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Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, 90 minutes from metropolitan New York City, the State University of New York at New Paltz is a highly selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz delivers an extraordinary number of majors in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts and Education.

New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and independent minded people from around the world create close personal links with real scholars and artists who love to teach.

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