First Lady Hillary Clinton will not attend Dartmouth's Commencement ceremonies, College President James Freedman said Friday.
Clinton had been invited by Freedman to receive an honorary degree at the June 11 ceremonies. U.S. President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at Commencement and receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from the College.
Scheduling conflicts will keep Mrs. Clinton from joining her husband at Dartmouth's Commencement, Freedman said.
Freedman said he and Acting College President James Wright recently discussed plans for Commencement.
Freedman said he is "very pleased" that Clinton will speak at the event.
The other honorary degree recipients are: Sidney Altman, a Nobel Laureate in chemistry; Rita Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States; Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and William H. Gray III, president of the United Negro College Fund.
British actor Sir Derek Jacobi, Duke University President Nannerl Keohane, author Anna Quindlen and Derek Walcott, a Nobel Laureate in literature, will also receive honorary degrees.
