Longtime Education and Community Leader Raymond J. Brokamp to Receive Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati

Raymond J. Brokamp, a longtime educator and administrator for Cincinnati Public Schools, as well as a distinguished military veteran and community leader, will receive an

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at the University of Cincinnati Commencement Ceremony at 9 a.m., Saturday, June 12, in Fifth Third Arena at Shoemaker Center.

The honorary degree represents the highest award from the University of Cincinnati.

For more than 30 years, Brokamp served as an educator for Cincinnati Public Schools, beginning as a math teacher at Woodward High School, serving as principal at Lyons Junior High School and Walnut Hills High School, and serving as an assistant superintendent before retiring as interim superintendent in 1987.

Following his retirement from Cincinnati Public Schools, he served as director of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s Leadership Cincinnati program from 1987 through 2008, one of the most active alumni associations of the more than 600 such leadership programs throughout the country. He was named a Great Living Cincinnatian in 2009.

Brokamp earned his bachelor’s degree in secondary education from UC in 1951 and earned a master’s degree in educational foundations from UC in 1955. He served as a radar site commander with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves in 1978.

His civic leadership includes service as chair of the boards of the Cincinnatus Association; the Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati; Inroads; Bridges for a Just Community and Hoxworth Blood Center. He also serves on the advisory councils of several organizations, including CET public television, the Junior League and UC’s College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services (CECH). He received the CECH Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.

“His long history as an educator and administrator in the Cincinnati Public Schools and his excellent tenure as the director of Leadership Cincinnati speak directly to his character, his service ethic and his long-term, tireless dedication to this community, especially its children,” says Lawrence J. Johnson, dean of CECH.