<p>Nice to know that about John Bogle! I’ll be at the graduation so I hope he is a scintillating speaker, too!</p>
<p>Auburn University: Auburn University alumnus Tim Cook, chief operating officer for Apple Inc., will deliver the commencement address at Auburn’s spring ceremonies on Friday, May 14.</p>
<p>Catherine Bertini, leader in the fight against world hunger, to speak at the University of Delaware’s 161st Commencement May 29. Bertini was the driving force behind reform of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), serving as its chief executive for 10 years. She is currently a professor of public administration at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.</p>
<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a great speech at Emory. Wasn’t sure what to expect but he was funny and gave some great advice. I did not expect to like him but really did.</p>
<p>I want to go see Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep. That’s how shallow I am. Streep is at my kid’s school, but she graduated last year. Speaker was Hillary Clinton. DD got to shake her hand. That was cool.</p>
<p>Tulane had Ellen last year. She was a riot. I bet Baldwin will be funny, too.</p>
<p>Adding: Lafayette - Joan Lunden (my son didn’t know who she is, but she hosted Good Morning America for 17 years, now she hosts women health shows on Lifetime and has won a couple of Emmys.)</p>
<p>Barnard folks - you’re in for a treat. I heard Meryl Streep speak at commencement at Lafayette in the 80’s, she was terrific.</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
Lafayette: Joan Lunden
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>Looking forward to hearing Katie Couric at Case Western as my son in law gets his PhD!</p>
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<p>Adding John C. Bogle (founder Vanguard Funds, author) for Trinity College:</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
Lafayette: Joan Lunden
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
Trinity College (CT): John C. Bogle, founder Vanguard Funds, author
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>Adding Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters for Villanova.</p>
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<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, CNNs chief international correspondent
Johns Hopkins: Michael Bloomberg
Lafayette: Joan Lunden
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
Trinity College (CT): John C. Bogle, founder Vanguard Funds, author
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)
Villanova University: Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters)
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- Jon Hunstman Jr. was absolutely excellent. He may not be a household name (he made fun of himself for that) but did an incredible job.</p>
<p>We were at the Rice graduation last weekend and really enjoyed Muhammad Yunus’ talk. I don’t think he said anything you couldn’t find in a Wikipedia article about him, but it was still nice to hear from the originator of the idea of microlending.</p>
<p>Adding Michelle Kwan for Southern Vermont College.</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, CNNs chief international correspondent
Johns Hopkins: Michael Bloomberg
Lafayette: Joan Lunden
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
Southern Vermont College: Michelle Kwan
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Trinity College (CT): John C. Bogle, founder Vanguard Funds, author
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)
Villanova University: Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters)
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>Adding Governor Robert McDonnell for Virginia Tech</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
Lafayette: Joan Lunden
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
Southern Vermont College: Michelle Kwan
Stanford: Ambassador Susan Rice, Eboo Patel, and Professor Debra Satz
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Trinity College (CT): John C. Bogle, founder Vanguard Funds, author
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)
Villanova University: Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters)
Virginia Tech: Gov. Robert McDonnell (governor of Virginia)
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>U Utah: Jon Huntsman Jr. (yes, he also spoke at Penn) - US Ambassador to China
Utah State: Danny Glover - actor of Lethal Weapon fame
U Alaska Fairbanks: Tom Albanese - CEO of Rio Tinto</p>
<p>Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, sure does get around. He’s also going to be the main speaker at Boston College this year.</p>
<p>U.S. Senator Scott Brown will be the commencement speaker for Boston College’s Law School. (He’s an alum of the law school.)</p>
<p>William H. Gates, Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation( UW Class of 1949), will be the speaker at the University of Washington’s 135th Commencement Ceremony at Husky Stadium on June 12, 2010</p>
<p>Wabash had Will Shortz, NYT crossword puzzle</p>
<p>California State university Monterey Bay- Sylvia Panetta, wife of Leon Panetta (current director of the CIA). Mr. Panetta was also present on stage</p>
<p>^^ Will Shortz was not the commencement speaker at Wabash. He was there to receive an honorary degree.</p>
<p>The University of Iowa - Liberal Arts had Tom Brokaw</p>