News Archive: 2002

Tony at Allegheny College commencement

Allegheny College commencement

Tony was named an Honorary Doctor of Arts and delivered the 2002 commencement address at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.

“His artistic ambitions have been founded on an unglamorous commitment to a community of local lives. For us, as for so many, he has been a great and generous neighbor.”

Allegheny College Associate Professor of English Ben Slote spoke these words about Tony as he presented him to receive a doctor of arts degree, honoris causa, at Allegheny's commencement services.