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Lauren Hill receives honorary doctorate

520 views · Published 9 February 2015 · 2:23 · Indexed 3 October 2026

Channel: LOCAL 12 · 2015 · News & Politics

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) -- When Local 12 first reported about Lauren Hill in October 2014, it was about her desire to play one college basketball game.
  
But that apparently was just a steppingstone. Friday night, Feb. 6, was another milestone.
   
She played in four games for Mt St. Joseph, raised nearly $1.5 million for The Cure Starts Now, and Friday night, in a private ceremony, Lauren received an honorary doctorate at her university. Lauren has spent most of the week in the hospital to readjust her pain pump and prepare for the ceremony. At the back of the chapel, she got out of her wheelchair and with her father's help walked down the aisle as she passed about 200 family, teammates, and friends. 

The degree is an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters bestowed on a few others before her: Bob Castellini, Nick Clooney, and Neil Armstrong. The presentation was made by University President Anthony Arentz.
 
Lauren then went to a party with dinner and dancing at the farm on Anderson Ferry Road in Delhi. She was tired and in a lot of pain. Local 12 gave her a pass on the post doctorate interview but the Tri-State and the rest of the country that has followed the last several months congratulates the newest Dr. of Humane Letters, Lauren Hill.

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