Bakersfield-bred country music legend Merle Haggard didn't make it out
of ninth grade, but his level of educational attainment will soon cease
to be an issue -- as if it ever was.
Haggard and Buck Owens, his onetime mentor and co-architect of the Bakersfield Sound, will receive the highest honors California State University Bakersfield has within its power to bestow: an honorary doctor of fine arts for Haggard, the first such honorary doctorate CSUB has ever awarded; and a posthumous Presidential Medal of Honor from CSUB President Horace Mitchell for Owens, who died in 2006. The Medal of Honor is the highest posthumous award that can be given by the CSU system.
Both awards will be presented at the School of Arts and Humanities' June 14, 2013 commencement ceremony. MORE HERE
Haggard and Buck Owens, his onetime mentor and co-architect of the Bakersfield Sound, will receive the highest honors California State University Bakersfield has within its power to bestow: an honorary doctor of fine arts for Haggard, the first such honorary doctorate CSUB has ever awarded; and a posthumous Presidential Medal of Honor from CSUB President Horace Mitchell for Owens, who died in 2006. The Medal of Honor is the highest posthumous award that can be given by the CSU system.
Both awards will be presented at the School of Arts and Humanities' June 14, 2013 commencement ceremony. MORE HERE
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