Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, will receive an honorary degree and will give a commencement address when more that 3,500 students receive their degrees at five separate ceremonies during DePaul University's 99th commencement exercises June 14 and June 15.

Wiesel joins Peter B. Edelman, Georgetown University Law Center professor; Lynn Martin, the U.S. Secretary of Labor in the administration of former President Bush; William F. Sharpe, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences; Robert M. Metcalfe, computer innovator and the inventor of the Ethernet; Asa G. Hilliard, III, the Fuller E. Callaway professor of Urban Studies at Georgia State University; Mary Nelson, founding president of the Bethel New Life, Inc. and Bennett Reimer, the John W. Beattie Professor of Music at Northwestern University, in receiving honorary degrees from DePaul during weekend ceremonies.

Wiesel, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor for the Humanities at Boston University, will speak during ceremonies for graduates of DePaul's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LA&S), at 2 p.m., June 15th, at the Rosemont Horizon, 6920 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemont.

A Holocaust survivor, has was recently named international chairman of the Special Fund for Victims of the Holocaust by the Swiss government.

Wiesel has worked on behalf of Holocaust victims and oppressed people for most of his adult life. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award.

During the LA&S ceremony Nelson will receive an honorary degree. Bethel New Life, Inc., is a church-based community development corporation that has worked with residents of Chicago's West Side since 1979 to find affordable housing, employment and training for residents.

From 1963 to 1965 Nelson was head of the English department at Ashira Secondary School, Moshi, Tanzania, East Africa, and an instructor at the University of East Africa. She returned to the United States in 1965 and served as director of planning and development for an ecumenical community-based organization of 13 churches that developed an alternative high school, eight day care centers, a nursing home and other initiatives. She remained in that position until 1978.

Nelson, who holds a Ph.D. from Union Graduate School in Yellow Springs, Ohio, has received a host of honors, including the Distinguished Pioneer in Urban Ministry award in 1992, the City of Chicago's 37th Ward Community Organization of the Year in 1990 and 1992, and the 1993 Raoul Wallenberg Humanitarian Award.

Hilliard will be the speaker and will receive an honorary degree as DePaul's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, School of Education and School for new Learning hold joint graduation ceremonies at 11:15 a.m., June 14, at the Medinah Temple, 600 N. Wabash Ave.

Hilliard holds joint appointments in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at Georgia State.

A teacher, psychologist and historian, Hilliard has helped develop several national assessment systems, such as proficiency assessments for professional educators and developmental assessments for children and infants.

During these joint ceremonies Metcalfe will receive an honorary degree. A graduate of MIT, Metcalfe invented Ethernet, the local area networking (LAN) technology, with D.R. Boggs in 1973. In 1979, Metcalfe founded 3Com Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and served in many capacities until he retired in 1990.

Metcalfe then began a writing career and in 1993, he became vice president of technology for International Data Group, parent company of InfoWorld Magazine. He currently writes a weekly internationally syndicated column "From the Ether."

DePaul's School of Music and Theatre have scheduled joint commencement exercises at 9 a.m., June 14, at the Merle Reskin Theatre, 60 E. Balbo Drive.

Reimer will receive an honorary degree and will be the commencement speaker. He directs the Center for the Study of Education and the Musical Experience, a research group of doctoral students and faculty at Northwestern.

Reimer began his musical career as a clarinetist, then an oboist, before he became a specialist in the philosophy of music education, curriculum development, theory of research and comprehensive arts education programs. His book, "A Philosophy of Music Education," was published in 1970, revised in 1989.

Edelman will be honored and will speak when College of Law graduates receive their degrees at 2:30 p.m., June 14, at the Medinah Temple.

Until 1996, Edelman was the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He resigned to protest President Clinton's signing of the welfare reform bill.

Edelman, a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1982, had served as issues director for the 1980 presidential campaign of Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and was a legislative assistant to the late Robert F. Kennedy from 1965 to 1968.

Martin will receive an honorary degree and will be the speaker during ceremonies for DePaul's College of Commerce at 9 a.m. on June 15 at the Rosemont Horizon. Prior to serving as Secretary of Labor, Martin represented the Illinois 16th Congressional District from 1981 to 1991. Martin currently chairs DeLoitte and Touche's council on the Advancement of Women. She is a regular panelist on public television's, "To the Contrary," is a frequent guest commentator on the economy on national television and writes opinion columns for national publications.

Sharpe, STANCO 25 Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, will receive an honorary degree at the College of Commerce ceremony.

One of the originators of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Sharpe also developed the Sharpe ratio for investment performance analysis, a widely used method for the valuation of options and other contingent claims, a computer algorithm used in many asset allocation procedures and a technique for evaluating the style and performance of investment funds.

The weekend's commencement events will begin with a Baccalaureate Mass at 4 p.m., June 13, at St. Vincent's Church, 1010 W. Webster Ave., for graduates, their families and faculty.