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DAVID BRODER TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT MUHLENBERG
ALLENTOWN, Pa., -- (March 7, 2000) - Pulitzer Prize winning columnist David S. Broder will serve as the Commencement speaker for the class of 2000 during Muhlenberg College's 152nd Commencement Exercises Sunday, May 21.
Born in Chicago Heights, Ill., Broder received his bachelor's degree and an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago. He served two years in the U.S. Army and began his newspaper career at the Bloomington Pantagraph. Today, Broder is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post. He writes a twice - weekly column that covers American political life. The column, syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group, is carried by more than 300 newspapers across the nation.
Broder won the 1997 William Allen White Foundation's award for distinguished achievement in journalism, and, in the same year, was given the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Lifetime Achievement Award. Also in 1997, he was named among the 25 most influential Washington journalists by National Journal and among the capital city's top 50 journalists by the Washingtonian magazine, a list he has appeared on since 1973.
In May of 1973, Broder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. He has also been named "Best Newspaper Political Reporter" by Washington Journalism Review.
Broder has won numerous awards, including the White Burkett Miller Presidential Award in 1989, and the prestigious 4th Estate Award from the National Press Foundation in 1990, which also honored him with the Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award in 1993. He received the Elijah Parrish Lovejoy Award from Colby College in 1990, and was elected to Sigma Delta Chi's Hall of Fame.
Before joining the Post in 1966, Broder covered national politics for The New York Times (1965-66), The Washington Star (1960-65) and Congressional Quarterly (1955-60). He has covered every national campaign and convention since 1960.
Broder is a regular commentator on CBS's "Inside Politics" and makes regular appearances on NBC's "Meet the Press," as well as "Washington Week In Review." He is the author or co-author of six books: The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point with Washington Post alumnus Haynes Johnson (Little, Brown and Company, 1996); The Man Who Would be President: Dan Quayle with Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, 1992); Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the News is Made (Simon & Schuster 1981); Changing of the Guard: Power and Leadership in America (Simon & Schuster, 1980); The Party's Over: The Failure of Politics in America (Harper and Row, 1972); and The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the G.O.P. with Stephen Hess (Harper and Row, 1967).
The 152nd Commencement Exercises will begin at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 21 on Muhlenberg's College Green.
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