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Hillary Rodham Clinton surprises Yale graduates
By KATIE NELSON,Associated Press Writer AP - Tuesday, May 26
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a surprise return to her alma mater on Monday, picking up an honorary degree from Yale University 36 years after earning her law degree from the Ivy League school.
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Graduates celebrating commencement at Yale erupted in cheers as Clinton was introduced. In keeping with Yale tradition, the names of honorary degree recipients are a closely held secret, although word began trickling out Sunday of Clinton's participation.
None of the 10 honorary degree recipients spoke during the morning ceremony held for the university at large, where Yale handed out 2,868 undergraduate and graduate degrees. It was the school's 308th commencement ceremony.
Clinton did speak for about five minutes during the Yale Law School's separate commencement event held in the early afternoon. There, the 60-year-old Clinton reminisced about her days at Yale, saying the law school was an "encampment for protests and frivolity" when she arrived in the fall of 1969.
She met her future husband, Bill Clinton, at the school the following year, 22 years before he was elected the nation's 42nd president.
She expressed hope that every graduate would "use every creative gene you have" in order to work "on behalf of the public good."
Clinton drew laughs from the crowd when she jokingly apologized for taking Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh "away from the law school and putting him to work in Washington." Koh was nominated by President Barack Obama to be legal adviser to the State Department, and remains a possible nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a nod to the rough job market, Clinton also urged the new law school graduates to apply for work in the Obama administration, at the State Department and with the United States Agency for International Development.
Koh said after the law school ceremony he hoped his students learned from Clinton "what is possible to achieve in one lifetime."
"Everyone who got the honorary degrees were in these seats not that long ago," Koh said. "And you know, what they know is, they could be a mother, a lawyer and U.S. senator, Secretary of State, presidential candidate. There's no limit. That's what they should think. There's no limit to what they can do."
Actress and activist Mia Farrow was among the parents in the audience who heard Clinton speak. Ronan, Farrow's 21-year-old son with director Woody Allen, completed a law degree and is currently going through the security clearance process to work in the Obama administration, she said.
"It was inspiring and wonderful to have a son graduating. And to hear those words (from Clinton) and to see a path, a clear path ahead. He's joining government and this is a proud day for all the parents here," she said.
Erin Phillips, 24, is headed to Boston to clerk for a federal district court judge, and was also inspired by Clinton's visit.
"We heard some rumors last night that she was coming. I was really excited," Phillips said after the ceremony. "I think it meant a lot and I think everyone has been kind of uniformly thrilled about it. It was a nice surprise."
Clinton was last in New Haven in 2008, when she visited Yale the day before the Connecticut presidential primary and her own failed presidential bid. She then fondly recalled her days attending Yale Law School and her early career as a child advocate at the Yale Child Study Center.
She spoke to Yale graduates once before, in 1991 when she gave the traditional Class Day speech, which is the major address to graduating seniors held the day before commencement. This year's Class Day address was delivered Sunday by author Christopher Buckley, a 1975 Yale graduate.
Sculptor Richard Serra, Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer John McPhee were among the others receiving honorary degrees from the university Monday.
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