Past Commencements

 
Tony BlairCommencement Speaker: The Right Honorable Tony Blair
Senior Class Speaker: Samuel C. Deeran
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Ralph J. Cicerone  |  Tonya Gonnella Frichner  |  Robert D. Putnam  |  David E. Shaw  |  Randy Weston
 
 
Aleah StarrCommencement Speaker: Rajiv Shah, Administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development
Senior Class Speaker: Aleah Starr
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Adelaide M. Cromwell  |  Richard Ford  |  Bernard Osher  |  Rajiv Shah  |  Peter G. Vigue
 
 
Judith A. McHaleCommencement Speaker: Judith A. McHale, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Senior Class Speaker: Steven A. Tatko
Honorary Degree Recipients:
    Kwame Anthony Appiah   |   Helene Gayle  |  Richard Rhodes  |  Joshua Silver
 
 
QiamuddinCommencement Speaker: Greg Mortenson, bestselling author
Senior Class Speaker: Qiamuddin Amiry
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Greg Mortenson   |   Jack Goldsmith III
   Joseph Boulos  |  Margaret Geller  |   Thomas Chappell and Kate Cheney Chappell
 
 
Robert E. Diamond Jr. '73Commencement Speaker: Bob Diamond Jr. ’73, president of Barclays
Senior Class Speaker: Patrick Sanders
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Gabriella De Ferrari   |   Robert E. Diamond Jr. '73
   Amory Lovins  |  David Simon   |   Sunita Williams
 
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2007 CommencementCommencement Speaker: Thomas Schelling, Nobel economist
Senior Class Speaker: Kate Braemer
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   John Barth   |   Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala   |   Sonny Rollins
   Thomas Schelling   |   Adam Weinberg
 
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2006 CommencementCommencement Speaker: Anna Quindlen, novelist and essayist
Senior Class Speaker: Francis Tapiwa Chapuredima
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Ray Anderson   |   David Botstein   |   Robert P. Moses
   Jette and Alan Parker   |   Anna Quindlen   |   Paul J. Schupf
 
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2005 CommencementCommencement Speaker: Dan Harris '93, ABC News correspondent
Senior Class Speaker: Josh Kahn
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey   |   David M. Childs
   Dan Harris '93   |   Fred H. Gage   |   Rocco Landesman '69
 
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Class SpeakersCommencement Speaker: Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Richard Russo
Senior Class Speaker: Catherine A. Chuprevich
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Dawn Marie Rossignol   |   Shelby M.C. Davis
   Shirley Ann Jackson   |   Barry Charles Mazur
   Bernice Johnson Reagon   |   James Richard Russo
 
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Class of 2003Commencement Speaker: Dr. Helen Vendler, poetry critic
Senior Class Speaker: Evan McGee
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Clifford Geertz   |   Edward Norton Lorenz
   Sonia Picado   |   Peter Meredith Ralston
   Helen Hennessy Vendler
 
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Class of 2002Commencement Speaker: Arthur Kopit, playwright
Senior Class Speaker: John "Monty" Hobson
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Ana Castillo   |   Scott David Cowan
   Elizabeth Farnsworth   |   Robert Sydney Gelbard
   Arthur Lee Kopit
 
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President "Bro" AdamsCommencement Speaker: Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Prof. of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, Harvard University
Senior Class Speaker: Todd W. Miner
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Gerald Dorros   |   Robert H. Edwards
   Linda J. Greenlaw   |   Reverend Peter J. Gomes