Clooney among potential EKU honorary degree recipients

Clooney among potential EKU honorary degree recipients

Bryan Marshall
Register News Writer
Eastern Kentucky University may be going Hollywood.

Two well-known filmmakers with Kentucky ties are among several notable candidates for honorary doctorate degrees at the university.

The Board of Regents will vote during its quarterly meeting Saturday whether to approve the candidates recommended by the University Honorary Degree Nominating Committee.

Kentucky native George Clooney, an Academy-Award and Golden-Globe winning actor, director, producer and screenwriter, is among those nominated.

Clooney was presented with the 2007 Summit Peace Prize Award by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and, in January, he was appointed as a UN Messenger of Peace.

His father, Nick Clooney, was awarded an honorary degree last school year.

Already a recipient of a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, actor, writer, producer and director Garry Marshall also could receive an EKU honorary degree.

Marshall began his career as a joke writer and became a writer for the “Tonight Show with Jack Paar.”

He moved to Hollywood to created the TV shows “Happy Days,” “Laverne and Shirley” and “Mork and Mindy” and direct several hit movies, including “Beaches,” “Pretty Woman” and “The Princess Diaries.”

“Both nominees have earned recognition for their accomplishments and have made significant contributions to society,” said Janna Vice, chair of the Honorary Degree Nominating Committee and EKU associate provost. “They both have Kentucky ties. George Clooney was born in Kentucky. Garry Marshall has ties to Richmond and visits periodically.”

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