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In recognition of the role that Chancellor Emeritus William H. "Bill" Danforth, the late Elizabeth (Ibby) Gray Danforth, the Danforth family and the Danforth Foundation have played in the evolution of Washington University in St. Louis, the Hilltop Campus — home to six of the university's seven schools — was named the Danforth Campus at a ceremony in Graham Chapel on September 17, 2006.
The ceremony featured remarks from Danforth; Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton; David W. Kemper, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bancshares Inc. and chairman of the university's board of trustees; Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., Washington University's Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences; and senior Laura Kleinman, a Truman and Danforth scholar at the university who is majoring in philosophy in Arts & Sciences.
The keynote speaker was Harold T. Shapiro, Ph.D., president emeritus and professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, whose talk was titled "A Larger Sense of Purpose: Higher Education and Society" — the same as his most recent book.
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