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Past Commencements

Class of 2008

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Robert E. Diamond Jr. '73

Commencement 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

Class of 2007

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2007 Commencement

Commencement Speaker: Thomas Schelling, Nobel economist
Senior Class Speaker: Kate Braemer
Honorary Degree Recipients:
John Barth | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Sonny Rollins
Thomas Schelling | Adam Weinberg

Class of 2006

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2006 Commencement

Commencement 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

Class of 2005

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2005 Commencement

Commencement 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

Class of 2004

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Class Speakers

Commencement 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

Class of 2003

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Class of 2003

Commencement 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

Class of 2002

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Class of 2002

Commencement 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

Class of 2001

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President "Bro" Adams

Commencement 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