<p>Adding Reed College ( they always have an alum-) this year it is Larry Sanger '91- co-founder of Wikipedia -philosopher.
The year my D graduated the speaker was Tamim Ansary '70, an Afghan-American writer.</p>
<p>( Gustavo Arellano, Columnist of ‘¡Ask a Mexican!’ )</p>
<p>I love that column ;)</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
Reed College : Larry Sanger '91, Wikipedia
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 Whitman College: Juan Williams, one of my favorite NPR correspondants. Too bad mine isn’t a senior.</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)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
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
Whitman College: Juan Williams, journalist, writer widely known for “Eyes on the Prize” that became a PBS series
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</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)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
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
Liberty: Glenn Beck
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
Whitman College: Juan Williams, journalist, writer widely known for “Eyes on the Prize” that became a PBS series
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>
<p>Look at my post 98 above. Someone told me that Drew Brees is actually the commencement speaker for Loyola University of New Orleans (right next door to Tulane). I checked their website and its true. How ironic. So I added that one here:</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)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
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
Liberty: Glenn Beck
Loyola University of New Orleans: Drew Brees
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
Whitman College: Juan Williams, journalist, writer widely known for “Eyes on the Prize” that became a PBS series
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</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>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)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
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
Liberty: Glenn Beck
Loyola University of New Orleans: Drew Brees
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
Princeton: Jeff Bezos
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
Whitman College: Juan Williams, journalist, writer widely known for “Eyes on the Prize” that became a PBS series
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton </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)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
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
Liberty: Glenn Beck
Loyola University of New Orleans: Drew Brees
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
MIT: Raymond S. Stata, MIT alumnus '57
Northwestern: Christiane Amanpour
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Princeton: Jeff Bezos
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
Whitman College: Juan Williams, journalist, writer widely known for “Eyes on the Prize” that became a PBS series
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>
<p>Penn- Huntsman (as in Huntsman Hall family- former Ambassador to China). I don’t care if Howdy Doody is the speaker, as long as my kid graduates and I get to have $$ again!</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)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
Case Western: Katie Couric
Coastal Carolina: Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter (Chair of the American Red Cross)
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
Liberty: Glenn Beck
Loyola University of New Orleans: Drew Brees
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
MIT: Raymond S. Stata, MIT alumnus '57
Northwestern: Christiane Amanpour
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Princeton: Jeff Bezos
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
Whitman College: Juan Williams, journalist, writer widely known for “Eyes on the Prize” that became a PBS series
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 was just searching the web to see who Brown’s commencement speaker was until I came across this on its commencement website:</p>
<p>“Unlike most colleges and universities, Brown invites no Commencement speaker for the College ceremonies. On the College Green on Commencement morning, two members of the senior class, selected by a faculty committee, deliver short orations.”</p>
<p>Huh, I never knew that. I like how it focuses on the students but at the same time it feels like a little bit of a cop out.</p>
<p>According to my daughter, they announced at Savannah College of Art and Design: Isabella Rossellini</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)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
Case Western: Katie Couric
Coastal Carolina: Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter (Chair of the American Red Cross)
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
Liberty: Glenn Beck
Loyola University of New Orleans: Drew Brees
Michigan: Obama
Middlebury: married authors Nicholas Kristof (NYT columnist) and Sheryl WuDunn
MIT: Raymond S. Stata, MIT alumnus '57
Northwestern: Christiane Amanpour
Notre Dame: Brian Williams
NYU: Alec Baldwin
Oberlin: Julie Taymor
Ohio Wesleyan: John McCain
Pomona: Janet Napolitano
Princeton: Jeff Bezos
Rice: Muhammad Yunus
RIT: Bob Schieffer, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Savannah College of Art and Design: Isabella Rossellini
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
Whitman College: Juan Williams, journalist, writer widely known for “Eyes on the Prize” that became a PBS series
William and Mary: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Williams: Jay McInerney (author and Williams alum)
Yale: Bill Clinton</p>
<p>Trinity’s commencement speaker is Vanguard Fund’s John Bogle:</p>
<p>Cited in 1999 as one of four investment giants of the 20th century by Fortune Magazine, John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, will be the featured speaker at Trinitys 184th Commencement on Sunday, May 23.</p>
<p>John Bogle is a wonderful man! He is an alum of my kid’s prep boarding school and goes back there to lecture. The kids adore him and he is brilliant.</p>