{"id":8968,"date":"2011-05-30T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2011-05-30T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:54:08","slug":"unesco-president-alma-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/unesco-president-alma-graduates","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO President Addresses Alma Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8976\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8976 \" title=\"alma-dhepburn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alma-dhepburn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alma-dhepburn.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alma-dhepburn-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alma-dhepburn-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davidson Hepburn receives an honorary degree from Alma College President Jeff Abernathy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ALMA, Mich., USA \u2014 Bahamian statesman and career diplomat Davidson Hepburn, president of the 35th General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), delivered the 2011 Alma College commencement address.<\/p>\n<p>Hepburn, who began his professional career in the English faculty at Alma College in the 1960s, also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the ceremony for approximately 300 graduation candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Commencement took place at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 23 in the Art Smith Arena in the Hogan Centre at Alma College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Hepburn has had a remarkable career as a diplomat and is internationally recognised for his advocacy for small developing nations,\u201d says Alma College President Jeff Abernathy. \u201cHe has served as an ambassador and policymaker for the Commonwealth of The Bahamas for many years and is recognised for numerous achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to call Dr. Hepburn a colleague and to welcome him back to Alma College,\u201d says Abernathy.<\/p>\n<p>Hepburn\u2019s diplomatic skills are reflected in his role as both vice chairman and chairman of the UN Committee of Disarmament and in his election as president of the 35th Session of UNESCO\u2019s General Conference by representatives of UNESCO\u2019s 58 member states.<\/p>\n<p>He has served numerous roles as a diplomat, including ambassador to the United Nations, Haiti and Cuba, and permanent secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Immigration and Employment. He also is a ruling elder of St. Andrew\u2019s Presbyterian Church in Nassau, The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>He has received numerous honours. He was awarded the Paul Harris Award by Rotary International, the Order of the British Empire and, in 1995, was named Chevalier de la Legion d\u2019Honneur by the French government.<\/p>\n<p>Hepburn has a bachelor\u2019s degree from Florida A&amp;M University, a master\u2019s degree from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in comparative language and literature from the University of Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian statesman and career diplomat Davidson Hepburn, president of the 35th General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), delivered the 2011 Alma College commencement address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-8968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}