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UCSD Professor Receives National Humanities Medal

I am pleased to announce that Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, Professor Emeritus of
Latin American History at the University of California, San Diego, is
one of nine distinguished Americans who will be awarded the 1998
National Humanities Medal by President and Mrs. Clinton at the White
House on November 5. Professor Ruiz, a foremost historian of Hispanic
America, will receive his medal at a special ceremony on the South Lawn
of the White House at 9:30 a.m. All recipients will be honored at a
White House dinner that evening.

In addition to Professor Ruiz, the 1998 National Humanities Medalists are:
historian Stephen E. Ambrose; novelist E.L. Doctorow; religious scholar
Diana L. Eck; literacy advocate Nancye Brown Gaj; African-American
scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; education administrator Vartan
Gregorian; historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; and syndicated
columnist Garry Wills.

All of us at UCSD salute and congratulate Professor Ruiz on this
richly deserved honor. His intellectual achievements over a remarkable
30-year career and his leadership as a cultural scholar have brought
great honor to our humanities programs and the entire campus.

Marsha A. Chandler Senior Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs