Newswise — The 11 a.m. ceremony will take place on the north side of Pennsylvania Hall. In addition to speaking, Woodruff, a senior correspondent for PBS' "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and Hunt, a managing editor of Bloomberg News, will receive honorary degrees. The two are married and often speak as a duo. Carol Bellamy, a 1963 Gettysburg College graduate who has served as director of both the Peace Corps and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and is president and CEO of World Learning, and Simon Schama, a professor of art history and history at Columbia University, will also receive honorary degrees. A student from the Class of 2009 will also be selected to speak.
Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. For 12 years, she was an anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday program "Inside Politics." From 1983 to 1993, she was the chief Washington correspondent for PBS' "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." From 1984 to 1990, she anchored PBS' award-winning weekly documentary series, "Frontline with Judy Woodruff." In 2007, Woodruff completed an extensive project on the views of young Americans called "Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard." In 2006, Woodruff was a visiting professor at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, teaching a seminar on media and politics. In 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where she led a study group for students on contemporary issues in journalism. Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, which promotes and encourages women in communication industries worldwide. She serves on the boards of the Freedom Forum, National Museum of American History, the Newseum and Global Rights: Partners for Justice. She is also a member of The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, of which she is a trustee emerita.
Hunt is the Washington, D.C., executive editor of Bloomberg News. Previously, he was a congressional and national political reporter, bureau chief and executive editor for The Wall Street Journal for 35 years. Hunt wrote the weekly column, "Politics & People" and directed the paper's political polls. For 17 years, Hunt was a regular panelist on CNN's weekly public affairs program, "The Capital Gang" and a member of CNN's "Novak, Hunt & Shields," which featured in-depth interviews with top newsmakers. He has also served as a panelist on NBC's "Meet the Press" and PBS' "Washington Week in Review," and a political analyst for CBS Morning News. In 1999, Hunt received the William Allen White Foundation's national citation, one of the highest honors in journalism and in 1995, he and Woodruff received the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism for the University of South Dakota. Hunt received a Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting in 1976. Hunt earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Wake Forest University, where he is on the Board of Trustees. He is also on the boards of the Children's Charities in Washington and Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
Bellamy assumed the leadership of World Learning in May 2005, having completed 10 years as executive director of UNICEF. She increased UNICEF's work in emergencies, doubled its funding, put the issues of child exploitation on the global agenda and fought for children's health, protection and education. Prior to UNICEF, Bellamy was director of the United States Peace Corps. Having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala from 1963 to 1965, she was the first former volunteer to run the organization. Bellamy was also a managing director of Bear, Stearns & Co. from 1990 to 1993 and a principal at Morgan Stanley from 1986 to 1990. Between 1968 and 1971, she was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Bellamy spent five years in the New York State Senate. Then in 1977, became the first woman elected to citywide office in New York when she was elected President of the NYC Council, a position she held until 1985. She earned her law degree from New York University in 1968. She is a former Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and an honorary member of Phi Alpha Alpha, the U.S. National Honor Society for Accomplishment and Scholarship in Public Affairs and Administration. In 2004, Bellamy was named to Forbes Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.
Schama has taught history at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard universities prior to Columbia. He is the author of numerous books that have been translated into 15 languages. His books have won the Wolfson Award for History, W.H. Smith Prize for Literature, National Academy of Arts, Letters Award for Literature and National Book Critics' Circle Award for Non-Fiction. He has been an essayist and critic for The New Yorker since 1994, where his art criticism won the National Magazine Award in 1996. His art essays have also been collected and published. His television work for the BBC and PBS as writer-presenter includes two films on Rembrandt; the award-winning, Emmy-nominated "A History of Britain;" the eight-part "Power of Art;" and "The American Future: A History."
Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with approximately 2,600 students. It is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1832.
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