COMMENCEMENT SPEECH

Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan is scheduled to deliver the commencement address Saturday at Loyola Marymount University.

Administrators will present Riordan with an honorary doctorate of humane letters during the ceremony. The honorary degree is in recognition of Riordan’s humanitarian and charitable activities, said Norm Schneider, spokesman for Loyola.

Riordan has been a friend of the school for a number of years--in fact, there is an internship program named for him, Schneider said. The Riordan Foundation, established by the mayor, endows Loyola’s Educational Participation in Communities internship program, which provides students with scholarships for their work in the community.

The program offers paid and unpaid internships in various academic disciplines, among them education, business, law, creative arts, social service, science, health, engineering and lay ministry.