CANTON -- Commencement at St. Lawrence University is set for 10 a.m. Sunday, May 19, outdoors on the Creasy Commencement Commons. If the proceedings are to be moved indoors, the Commencement Web site will be updated Saturday afternoon.

Commencement will be followed by a reception in the Herring-Cole Grove or Leithead Field House.

A St. Lawrence alumnus, an American economist, a former college president and a North Country service organization will be among those honored at St. Lawrence University’s 2013 Commencement.

Honorary degree recipients are John J. O’Shea, Class of 1974, an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); economist and nonprofit board leader Roger W. Ferguson Jr.; and retired SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy.

The university will award the North Country Citation to Hospice and Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley.

Hospice’s board of directors, its professional and medical staff and the countless volunteers who bring comfort, dignity and peace to patients and families at the end of life, are to be honored for 30 years of service. The organization serves an average of 90 patients a day, a census that has tripled in the last decade alone. Hospice’s services include its Comfort Care Program and palliative services, responding to tragic deaths in schools or other parts of the community, providing transition of care to home for people leaving the hospital with a chronic illness, and offering educational programs and training.

The commencement ceremony will be webcast. Visit http://www.b2tv.com/upcoming_events.asp.