2010 Commencement Speakers

<p>Hamilton College: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric</p>

<p>I assume the same people who complained about McCain will complain about Obama giving a speech as well?</p>

<p>anyway…</p>

<p>William and Mary: Christina Romer ('81), Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors</p>

<p>hopefully she has something to talk about other then how there are no jobs for the new graduates.</p>

<p>Syracuse has Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Add:</p>

<p>NYU: Alec Baldwin (alum)</p>

<p>Bradley: Nancy Brinker</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>The President usually rotates between one of the military academies. Does anyone know which military academy will get Obama this year?</p>

<p>Princeton- Jeff Bezos will give the 2010 Baccalaureate address. (founder and CEO of Amazon.com…graduated electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton in 1986.)</p>

<p>Kat</p>

<p>Lukester-He was at USNA last year.</p>

<p>Kat</p>

<p>Michelle Obama is now confirmed at GW. They completed the 100,000 hours of community service required for her to agree to speak.</p>

<p>Berkeley (aka Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & Co-founder, The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences</p>

<p>Wake Forest is having Kenneth Chenault, Chairman & CEO of American Express</p>

<p>Added - Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize). Goes with the school’s “greening” initiatives.</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Adding: Northwestern - Christiane Amanpour - apparently Harvard wasn’t enough :-)</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Northwestern: Christiane Amanpour
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Added Cal Berkeley and Wake Forest</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Berkeley (UC/Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
Wake Forest: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Julie Taymor ('74 alum) at Oberlin </p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Berkeley (UC/Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
Wake Forest: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Adding Williams:
Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Berkeley (UC/Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
Wake Forest: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Add Johns Hopkins: Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, a Hopkins Alum.</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Berkeley (UC/Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Johns Hopkins: Michael Bloomberg
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
Wake Forest: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Added Colorado College: Wade Davis, Anthropologist/Ethnobotanist</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Berkeley (UC/Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Colorado College: Wade Davis (Anthropologist/Ethnobotanist)
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Johns Hopkins: Michael Bloomberg
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
Wake Forest: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>I’ll be at the Tulane graduation. The only thing better than Anderson Cooper this year would have been Drew Brees.</p>

<p>Added:
Dartmouth: Stephen Henry Lewis, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
MIT: Raymond S. Stata, MIT alumnus '57
Southern California (USC): Steven B. Sample, USC President
UCLA: Gustavo Arellano, Columnist of ‘¡Ask a Mexican!’</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Berkeley (UC/Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Colorado College: Wade Davis (Anthropologist/Ethnobotanist)
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Dartmouth: Stephen Henry Lewis, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Johns Hopkins: Michael Bloomberg
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
MIT: Raymond S. Stata, MIT alumnus '57
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Southern California (USC): Steven B. Sample, USC President
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UCLA: Gustavo Arellano, Columnist of ‘¡Ask a Mexican!’
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
Wake Forest: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Adding Goucher College (Charles F. Bolden, Jr., current NASA administrator):</p>

<p>Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Berkeley (UC/Cal): Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder/The Webby Awards & The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Case Western: Katie Couric
Colorado College: Wade Davis (Anthropologist/Ethnobotanist)
Cornell: Nancy Pelosi
Dartmouth: Stephen Henry Lewis, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
Duke: Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Emory: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Franklin & Marshall: Judy Woodruff
George Washington University: Michelle Obama (tentatively)
Goucher: Charles F. Bolden Jr., administrator of NASA
Hamilton: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Johns Hopkins: Michael Bloomberg
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
MIT: Raymond S. Stata, MIT alumnus '57
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Scripps: Sue Monk Kidd
Smith: Rachel Maddow
Southern California (USC): Steven B. Sample, USC President
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UCLA: Gustavo Arellano, Columnist of ‘¡Ask a Mexican!’
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington University in St. Louis - Steven Chu, US Energy Secretary (1997 Nobel Prize)
WPI: Curt Schilling
Wesleyan: John Hickenlooper, Denver Mayor and Colorado gubernatorial candidate
Wake Forest: Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>