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Undergraduate Ceremony

 

James MorrisJames Morris
Former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme.

James Morris was director of the WFP, the world's largest humanitarian agency from 2002-07.

Prior to leading the WFP, Morris was chairman and CEO of the Indianapolis Water Company, as well as chairman of the board of trustees at Indiana University. He has also served as a member of both the United States Olympic Committee and the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross.

Biography provided by the Xavier Newswire. Photo obtained from the United Nations web site.

 

Graduate Ceremony

 

Rabbi Abie IngberRabbi Abie Ingber
Director of Interfaith Community Engagement, Xavier University

For more than three decades Ingber served as the executive director of the Hillel Jewish Student Center in Cincinnati. He is a founding director of Xavier's Interfaith Community Engagement Center, and also serves as adjunct faculty in the Department of Theology at Xavier and as a lecturer in homiletics at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Photo provided by Greg Rust