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BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARTY MARKOWITZ CONGRATULATES
DEPUTY BOROUGH PRESIDENT YVONNE GRAHAM AS SHE RECEIVES
HONORARY DOCTORATE AT BROOKLYN’S ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE

Photographs by Kathryn Kirk

In photo standing: Borough President Marty Markowitz congratulates Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham on receiving an honorary doctorate from St. Joseph’s College. Sitting front row left to right: Sister Loretta McGrann, VP for Academic Affairs, Yvonne Graham, Brooklyn Deputy Borough President, Father Thomas Ahern, campus minister, Sister George Aquin O’Connor, President Emerita

On Thursday, June 3rd, Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater St. Joseph’s College and gave a keynote address encouraging the graduates to be leaders.

“Your time at St. Joseph’s has served you well, you have accumulated knowledge and developed the tools that will allow you to forge a successful career…the most important of these tools is leadership,” Deputy Borough President Graham said. “I am here to tell you that you can be a leader in any and every walk of life.”

The Deputy Borough President was introduced as the college’s most famous alumnus by Borough President Marty Markowitz.