Waddell, who was presented the honorary degree, doctor of humane letters, was one of six people to receive honorary degrees at this year’s commencement ceremonies. The others were economics scholar and international adviser to political leaders Padma Desai, doctor of laws; Vermont’s long-serving senator, Patrick Leahy, doctor of laws; local volunteer and activist Dorothy Bigelow Neuberger ’58, doctor of humane letters; geneticist and director of the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute Edward M. Rubin, doctor of science; and civil rights activist Maxine Atkins Smith, doctor of humane letters, who earned a master’s degree in French from Middlebury in 1950 and won the Freedom Award from the Memphis-based National Civil Rights Museum in 2003.
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