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ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTRESS GOLDIE HAWN TO ADDRESS UNDERGRADUATES AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY'S 2004 COMMENCEMENT IN LOS ANGELES

May 7, 2004 - Academy Award-winning Actress Goldie Hawn will deliver the 2004 undergraduate commencement address at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 8, at 10 a.m., today announced President Robert B. Lawton, SJ.

Said Lawton, "Goldie Hawn has dedicated herself to helping people, especially the nation's children, to develop their potential and become more fully alive. In doing so, she herself has been a person of warmth, generosity, humor, joy and intelligence."

Best known for a successful array of more than 30 feature films, Hawn will accept an honorary degree of Doctorate of Humane Letters from LMU.

Hawn first achieved recognition on the highly popular variety hour "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," and subsequently has starred in a wide variety of successful dramatic and comedic films. She won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe in 1971 for her first major film role in "Cactus Flower." In 1981, she received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a young society woman who enlists in the army in "Private Benjamin." Hawn has appeared in "Bird on a Wire" (1990), "Death Becomes Her" (1992), "The First Wives Club" (1996), "Town and Country" (2001) and "The Banger Sisters" (2002), among many other films. During the course of her career she has been nominated for the Golden Globe eight times and the Emmy Award three times.

A creative force behind the camera on projects that demonstrate a commitment to probing complex social issues, Hawn directed the 1997 television movie "Hope," the story of a young girl in the American South in the turbulent 1960s. She also was an executive producer on the film, as well as other projects, including the television movies "When Billie Beat Bobby" (2001) and "The Matthew Shepard Story" (2002).

In 2003, Hawn started Cosmic Entertainment with Kurt Russell and two of her three children, Kate and Oliver Hudson.

Graduate Commencement
Joseph Jabbra, LMU's Academic Vice President, will deliver the graduate commencement address on Sunday, May 9, at 10 a.m. in Gersten Pavilion.

Jabbra, who will accept an honorary degree of Doctorate of Humane Letters at the ceremony, has been Academic Vice President and professor of Political Science at LMU since 1990. He recently was named President of the Lebanese American University in Beirut, effective June 1, 2004.

A native of Lebanon, he received his Licence in Law at the Universit� Saint-Joseph in Beirut in 1965 and his PhD in political science at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, in 1970. He then went on to hold a number of positions at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, including Vice President, Academics and Research, from 1980 to 1990.

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