Commencement Speakers 2012

<p>I’ll throw in the speaker for Pomona, my son’s school, Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan. Looking forward to the speech Munter’s last post before Pakistan was Deputy Chief of Mission in Baghdad so I guess he’ll have a few experiences to share.</p>

<p>MIT - Sal Khan
[Sal</a> Khan is Commencement speaker - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N57/khan.html]Sal”>http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N57/khan.html)</p>

<p>Oooh, Khan is a great choice!</p>

<p>I’m having one of those “CC” moments. I was just reading along, and then I came to 70’s Grad’s post listing Pomona’s speaker, Cameron Munter. Holy cow. I <em>know</em> Cameron Munter. I had no idea what he’d got up to in the past 25 years, but he worked for me on the 1984 Olympic Planning Committee. Thanks for the inadvertent update. As it happens, I vouched for his character when he applied for his first job at the State Department. So strange!</p>

<p>For all of us obsessive readers, here’s a consolidated list. When you want to add to this list, please copy the list from the last post and add your entry, alphabetically.</p>

<p>■Amherst College: Anthony W. Marx
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Lafayette College: Garry Marshall
■Loyola University Maryland: Rev. Greg Boyle, founder and chief executive officer of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the United States.
■MIT: Sal Khan
■Northeastern University: Colin Powell, the retired four star general and former U.S. secretary of state.
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Rice University: Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
■Smith College: Jane Lynch
■Stanford: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ
■Syracuse University: Aaron Sorkin
■Tulane: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA and alum
■University of Massachusetts: Ted Koppel
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer</p>

<p>Caltech’s is Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)</p>

<p>■Amherst College: Anthony W. Marx
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Lafayette College: Garry Marshall
■Loyola University Maryland: Rev. Greg Boyle, founder and chief executive officer of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the United States.
■MIT: Sal Khan
■Northeastern University: Colin Powell, the retired four star general and former U.S. secretary of state.
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Rice University: Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
■Smith College: Jane Lynch
■Stanford: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ
■Syracuse University: Aaron Sorkin
■Tulane: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA and alum
■University of Massachusetts: Ted Koppel
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer</p>

<p>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Cokie Roberts, Senior News Analyst for NPR News and Political Commentator for ABC News </p>

<p>■Amherst College: Anthony W. Marx
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Lafayette College: Garry Marshall
■Loyola University Maryland: Rev. Greg Boyle, founder and chief executive officer of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the United States.
■MIT: Sal Khan
■Northeastern University: Colin Powell, the retired four star general and former U.S. secretary of state.
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Rice University: Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
■Smith College: Jane Lynch
■Stanford: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ
■Syracuse University: Aaron Sorkin
■Tulane: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA and alum
■University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Cokie Roberts
■University of Massachusetts: Ted Koppel
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer</p>

<p>Changing Amherst College to the current President, Biddy Martin.</p>

<p>■Amherst College: Biddy Martin
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Lafayette College: Garry Marshall
■Loyola University Maryland: Rev. Greg Boyle, founder and chief executive officer of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the United States.
■MIT: Sal Khan
■Northeastern University: Colin Powell, the retired four star general and former U.S. secretary of state.
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Rice University: Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
■Smith College: Jane Lynch
■Stanford: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ
■Syracuse University: Aaron Sorkin
■Tulane: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA and alum
■University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Cokie Roberts
■University of Massachusetts: Ted Koppel
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer</p>

<p>Northwestern–Paul Farmer</p>

<p>■Amherst College: Biddy Martin
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Lafayette College: Garry Marshall
■Loyola University Maryland: Rev. Greg Boyle, founder and chief executive officer of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the United States.
■MIT: Sal Khan
■Northeastern University: Colin Powell, the retired four star general and former U.S. secretary of state.
■Northwestern: Paul Farmer
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Rice University: Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
■Smith College: Jane Lynch
■Stanford: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ
■Syracuse University: Aaron Sorkin
■Tulane: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA and alum
■University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Cokie Roberts
■University of Massachusetts: Ted Koppel
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer</p>

<p>Adding
Reed College-Robert Smith '89( The NPR correspondent, not The Cure frontman) ;)</p>

<p>How about NYU? They have announced earlier in years past…this year that I have a child graduating there is not an announcement yet!</p>

<p>Cornell - NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg will speak at Senior Convocation.
University Pres. Skorton will deliver Commencement address.</p>

<p>High Point University-Laura Bush</p>

<p>Athol Fugard will deliver the 107th commencement address at Juilliard’s 2012 ceremony.</p>

<p>Athol Fugard, William Christie, James Earl Jones, Peter Martins, Nancy Wilson, Steven Naifeh, and Gregory White Smith will receive honorary doctoral degrees.</p>

<p>Adding NYU- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor</p>

<p>■Amherst College: Biddy Martin
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Lafayette College: Garry Marshall
■Loyola University Maryland: Rev. Greg Boyle, founder and chief executive officer of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the United States.
■MIT: Sal Khan
■Northeastern University: Colin Powell, the retired four star general and former U.S. secretary of state.
NYU- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
■Northwestern: Paul Farmer
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Rice University: Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
■Smith College: Jane Lynch
■Stanford: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ
■Syracuse University: Aaron Sorkin
■Tulane: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA and alum
■University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Cokie Roberts
■University of Massachusetts: Ted Koppel
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer</p>

<p>S1 graduated in '09 (Harvard) and the speaker was Steven Chu, kind of a hot ticket with the administration still so new. S2 graduates in May (PSU) and the speaker at his grad commencement ceremony will be . . . Steven Chu. Undergrad College of Engineering speaker is Bobbie Braun, former NASA Chief Technologist.</p>

<p>University of Puget Sound-The first marine ecologist and first woman to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Jane Lubchenco. </p>

<p>Thanks for the thread. I had not thought to check previously!</p>

<p>If your bracket in the March Madness didn’t win, try your luck picking the best gradutaion speaker in the May Madness contest: [url=&lt;a href=“http://■■■■■■/aKedB]MayMadness[/url”&gt;http://■■■■■■/aKedB]MayMadness[/url</a>]</p>

<p>Notre Dame: Haley Scott DeMaria</p>

<p>Adding Virginia Tech - First Lady Michelle Obama</p>

<p>■Amherst College: Biddy Martin
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Lafayette College: Garry Marshall
■Loyola University Maryland: Rev. Greg Boyle, founder and chief executive officer of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention program in the United States.
■MIT: Sal Khan
■Northeastern University: Colin Powell, the retired four star general and former U.S. secretary of state.
■NYU- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
■Northwestern: Paul Farmer
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Rice University: Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy.
■Smith College: Jane Lynch
■Stanford: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, NJ
■Syracuse University: Aaron Sorkin
■Tulane: Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA and alum
■University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Cokie Roberts
■University of Massachusetts: Ted Koppel
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Virginia Tech: First Lady Michelle Obama
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer</p>