By Andrea Genovese Soares (May 28, 2003)

Fox News reporter Molly Henneberg, a 1991 George Mason graduate, will be flying 1,000’s of miles from Baghdad to provide the commencement address for the Mason graduating class of 2003. 

Henneberg started her journalism career as editor of Mason’s Lasso student newspaper and recently has been covering the White House until called up for a month-long assignment in the Middle East. She will be the first Mason graduate to give the commencement address to her alma mater, though she will be arriving only a couple of days before the graduation in which her brother William will be graduating.
 

In e-mails from Baghdad, Henneberg has described the interesting situations in which she has been involved or has witnessed. Though she had only 20-hours notice and had to be fitted for a bulletproof vest before embarking for Iraq, she says, "It’s [the mission] so exciting!" She also went on to describe the scenery: "You’ll see this government building, with pictures of Saddam, that’s all bombed out and surrounding it are parks, apartment buildings, and stores that are not damaged at all. You also see a lot of abandoned Iraqi tanks: not necessarily damaged by bombs, but abandoned by the side of the road.

Fox News reporter Molly Henneberg,  recently visited her old high school’s journalism class to give an  inside look on what it is like to be a TV journalist.

"When we go out to do stories, women have to wear long sleeves and pants and sometimes a scarf—depending on where we go. All of my female colleagues say it is really debilitating to have on that much clothing (no matter how light) in this heat. I don’t see how the Iraqi women do it. Most of them wear black from head to toe, but not covering their faces." 

For graduation, Henneberg will be leaving this scene to join the class of 2003 at Constitution Hall on June 18.