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Graziadio School Celebrates Fall 2007 Graduation 

The Graziadio School of Business and Management (GSBM) invites the Malibu and Pepperdine communities to celebrate the fall 2007 graduation of GSBM students on Saturday, December 8, at 10:30 a.m. in Firestone Fieldhouse on the Malibu campus. Roger Ailes, chair and CEO of FOX News and chair of Fox Television Stations, will receive an honorary doctorate. Forescee M. Hogan-Rowles, president and CEO of Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC), will be honored as a Distinguished Alumnus. 

Roger Ailes, chair and CEO of FOX News and chair of Fox Television Stations, bears responsibility for Fox’s 35 broadcast television stations and Twentieth Television’s syndication group, overseeing all national operations for FOX News. In addition, he serves as a senior advisor to Rupert Murdoch, chair and CEO of News Corporation Ltd. Ailes began his career in television at the age of 25, rising from prop boy to executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning The Mike Douglas Show.

Forescee M. Hogan-Rowles is president and CEO of Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC).  CFRC is a nonprofit corporation that provides comprehensive economic development and financing to enhance the economic wealth and capacity of residents and businesses throughout Los Angeles. Prior to joining CFRC in 1995, Hogan-Rowles served as the executive director of the Coalition for Women’s Economic Development (CWED) in Los Angeles. She later became executive director of Westview Economic Development Strategies in Carson, California.