The year in q: honorary degrees
Aside from the BET Humanitarian Award we looked back at earlier in the week, Quincy received a trio of honorary degrees in 2008. As Quincy told Gene Stout, pop music critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, back in June, “They’re doctoring me up this year.”
Quincy was presented with an honorary doctor of humane letters from Washington University in St. Louis on May 16, alongside TV commentator Chris Matthews, businessman/philanthropist Lee Seng Tee, conservative movement leader/author Phyllis Schlafly, and Washington University professors emeritus Egon Schwarz and Jessie L. Ternberg. You can read all about it here.
Princeton University honored Quincy as a doctor of music on June 3. Others receiving honorary degrees that day included George Kateb, a political theorist and Princeton’s William Nelson Cromwell, Professor of Politics Emeritus; Mary-Claire King, a geneticist whose work extends to human rights; Haruki Murakami, an author; and John Waterbury, a university president and Princeton’s William Stewart Tod Professor of Politics and International Affairs Emeritus. You can read more about it here.
At the University of Washington in Seattle, Quincy served as the commencement speaker and picked up another honorary doctrate on June 14. You can read more about it here and here.
Below you can watch Quincy’s introduction at the University of Washington commencement and hear a portion of his speech.
Splendid !
A disease is cured in music of sir.Quincy.
we get well as soon as the stress of the mind&soul&body cries & more.