Four persons--Mary Frances Berry, scholar and public servant; Robert B. Fiske Jr., trial lawyer and public servant; Sergei Godunov, mathematician from Russia; and Eugene L. Roberts Jr., newspaper editor--received honorary degrees at the University of Michigan's Spring Commencement on a chilly and wet May 3 in Michigan Stadium.


MARY FRANCES BERRY,
DOCTOR OF LAWS

'In the vanguard of the ongoing struggle for civil rights for women and persons of color for more than a quarter century.'

The Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, Berry earned a doctorate in history in 1966 and a juris doctorate in 1970, both from the University of Michigan.

Rising through the academic ranks, she provided national leadership in the emerging field of African American studies in the 1970s and went on to serve as chancellor of the University of Colorado, Boulder. A member of the US Civil Rights Commission since 1980 and currently its chairperson, Dr. Berry has been instrumental in expanding the scope of the bipartisan Commission's work, from leading efforts to deny tax credits to universities with histories of segregation to analyzing links between discrimination and poverty.

ROBERT B. FISKE JR.,
DOCTOR OF LAWS

'One of the nation's most experienced and respected trial lawyers and a highly regarded public servant and prosecutor.'

A Yale University graduate and partner in the New York firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, Fiske is a 1955 graduate of the U-M Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and associate editor of the Michigan Law Review.

SERGEI GODUNOV,
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

'One of the founders of the field of computational fluid dynamics and the modern theory of conservation laws,' he has 'influenced the theory and practice of scientific computation as much as anyone in this century.'

A member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and department head at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk, Russia, Godunov was the first to recognize that computational methods must pay attention to the physics of a problem in order to produce meaningful results. He introduced into computational science a completely new style of thinking by using exact physical solutions as miniature building blocks.

EUGENE L. ROBERTS JR.,
DOCTOR OF LAWS

'Legendary dean of American newspaper editors, the recognized voice of journalism's universal core values: accuracy, balance, and courage.'

Roberts chairs the International Press Institute, which protects freedom of the press, and is vice chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the guardian of reporters and editors worldwide.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina and reporter and editor at several regional newspapers, he joined The New York Times in 1965 and is now its managing editor. He headed that paper's coverage of the 1960s civil rights movement in the South and served as chief correspondent in Vietnam during the war.

He is a member of the Michigan Journalism Fellows Board.