Newswise — Central Connecticut State University's Undergraduate Commencement Exercises will be held on Saturday, May 20, 2006, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Hartford Civic Center. Some 1,885 students are eligible to participate in this year's undergraduate commencement exercises.
This year's Undergraduate Commencement speaker is Bob Englehart, editorial cartoonist for The Hartford Courant. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Englehart attended the American Academy of Art and began his newspaper career in 1967 at The Chicago American, since renamed Chicago Today.
In 1972, Englehart began working for the Fort Wayne morning daily Journal-Gazette, drawing free-lance editorial cartoons. Three years later, he became the full-time editorial cartoonist for the Dayton, Ohio Journal Herald. In December 1980, he joined The Hartford Courant as the first full-time editorial cartoonist in the history of the country's oldest continuously published newspaper, founded in 1764. Englehart has awards from the Overseas Press Club, John Fischetti Contest, Planned Parenthood, and Free Press Association, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. His cartoons have appeared in USA Today, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, and The London Times.
His cartoons are in the collections of the Thomas Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut State University, Connecticut Historical Society, Ohio State University, Indiana University-Purdue University library, and The Newseum in Washington, DC.
Englehart has appeared in a political comedy review on Broadway, had cartoon shows on ESPN and Connecticut Public Television, illustrated a children's book, drawn a daily and Sunday comic strip, and has written many articles for The Courant's op-ed page and Northeast magazine, now called NE. He describes his political philosophy as "moderately confused."
Tickets are not required for guest admission to CCSU's Undergraduate Commencement. Persons with physical disabilities should identify themselves to one of the Civic Center ushers for assistance. A sign language interpreter will be present at the ceremony. Doors to the Civic Center open at 9 a.m.
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