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Berkeley Divinity School to present honorary degrees during convocation

Three distinguished individuals will be presented with honorary degrees by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale during a Service of Evensong at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13, in Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St. The service and ceremony are part of the annual convocation of the Divinity School and the Berkeley Divinity School. All are invited to attend.

The three individuals who will receive honorary degrees are:

The Reverend Canon Rees Hay '43, who will be honored for a life of service to the church and the community. Hay founded Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, Florida, the premiere Episcopal secondary school in central Florida. He also served as host of a weekly television program in the Orlando area through which he engaged the community in addressing religious issues. Throughout his career as minister, educator, and community leader, Hay and his wife have opened their home and provided for the education of over a dozen Cuban, Hungarian and Colombian refugee children.

The Reverend Brenda Husson, rector of St. James Parish in New York City and the first female "Cardinal Rector" of a prominent Manhattan parish, who will be honored for her deep commitment to social action. In overseeing St. James' large outreach program, she is noted for bringing both passion and scriptural scholarship to the intersection of economics, theology, and international relations.

Dr. Margaret Lawrence, who will be honored for her distinguished career as a child psychiatrist and lay leader who, along with her late husband Charles Lawrence, has been an important voice for justice within the Anglican communion. Lawrence's life story, from her girlhood in segregated Vicksburg, Missisippi, to being the only black undergraduate at Cornell and finally training under Benjamin Spock at Columbia Medical School, is the subject of "Balm in Gilead," a book written by her daughter, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, a professor at Harvard University.