Coles shosen to speak at ceremony

Psychiatris and author Robert Coles will deliver address at commencement

Dr. Robert Coles, a noted psychiatrist and author, will deliver this year's commencement address.

Coles spoke at President Dye's inaugural symposium on community service last year. "I think members of the honorary degree committee remembered that," said Secretary of the College Bob Haslun.

Coles has long been involved in the field of community service. Daniel Gardener, special assistant to the president for community service, characterized Coles as "thoughful, interesting and powerful."

In the recent book Conversations with Robert Coles, Coles is quoted as saying, "Service is a tremendous way for students to learn sociology and anthropology, psychology and social ethics ... One does learn by doing as well as by reading."

Coles is a research psychiatrist for Harvard University Health Services and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Coles has previously been a recipient of the Pultizer Prize, a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur foundation, and the McAlpin Medal of the National Assosciation of Mental Health.

Stage and television actor Avery Brooks, bioinorganic chemist Harry Gray and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse OC `71 will also receive honorary degrees.