<p>Add Emory University: Benjamin Carson, MD</p>
<p>University of Michigan - Dr. Sanjay Gupta</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis: Mike Peters (Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist and alum)</p>
<p>Adding - Michelle Obama - Oregon State University</p>
<p>Adding actress Viola Davis (The Help) to the list as this years Commencement speaker at Providence College.</p>
<p>Oberlin College - Dr. Thomas Frieden '82. Director, Centers for Disease Control</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania - Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.</p>
<p>Gonzaga Desmond Tutu
Philip Rivers NC State
Nancy Cartrwright (Voice of Bart Simpson) Ohion University
Cyma Zarghami (President Nickelodeon Networks) University of Vermont</p>
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<p>BC has not announced it, but read in the Globe this morning tht Vickie Kennedy is speaking at the BC Law School graduation.</p>
<p>Dickinson College will have David Petraeus.</p>
<p>Consolidating the list:</p>
<p>■Amherst College: Biddy Martin
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Boston College Law School: Vickie Kennedy
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Dickinson College: David Petraeus
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■Emory University: Benjamin Carson, MD
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Gonzaga: Desmond Tutu
■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.
■Marquette: Hank Aaron
■MIT: Sal Khan
■NC State: Philip Rivers
■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
■Oberlin College: Dr. Thomas Frieden '82. Director, Centers for Disease Control
■Ohio University: Nancy Cartrwright (Voice of Bart Simpson)
■Oregon State University: First Lady Michelle Obama
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Providence College: actress Viola Davis
■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 Michigan - Dr. Sanjay Gupta
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■University of Pennsylvania: Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.
■University of Vermont: Cyma Zarghami (President Nickelodeon Networks)
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Virginia Tech: First Lady Michelle Obama
■Washington University in St. Louis: Mike Peters (Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist and alum)
■Wellesley College: Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC host, columnist and author)
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer
■Xavier: Ursula Burns</p>
<p>Here’s an article you might find interesting about this years speakers</p>
<p>[The</a> 2012 Commencement Speakers - Business Insider](<a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com/the-2012-commencement-speakers-2012-3]The”>The 2012 Commencement Speakers)</p>
<p>Tallwood High School = VP Joe Biden</p>
<p>I think the students get more excited about a speaker who doesn’t require an (explanation of who they are) after their name.</p>
<p>My older daughters college always has an alum do the commencement speech. Make a lot of sense to me.
The year she graduated, Tamin Ansary '70, gave the address.</p>
<p>University of Southern California (USC) - Christiane Amanpour</p>
<p>Harvard Class Day: Eric Holder, Commencement: Fareed Zakaria</p>
<p>■Amherst College: Biddy Martin
■Barnard College: President Obama
■Boston College Law School: Vickie Kennedy
■Bucknell University: Anna Quindlen
■Caltech: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla, PayPal)
■Dickinson College: David Petraeus
■Duke University: Fareed Zakaria, journalist and CNN anchor
■Emory University: Benjamin Carson, MD
■George Washington: Brian Williams
■Gonzaga: Desmond Tutu
■Grinnell College: Jamaica Kincaid
■Hampshire: “coming soon”
■Harvard Class Day: Eric Holder, Commencement: Fareed Zakaria
■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.
■Marquette: Hank Aaron
■MIT: Sal Khan
■NC State: Philip Rivers
■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
■Oberlin College: Dr. Thomas Frieden '82. Director, Centers for Disease Control
■Ohio University: Nancy Cartrwright (Voice of Bart Simpson)
■Oregon State University: First Lady Michelle Obama
■Pomona: Cameron Munter, US Ambassador to Pakistan
■Princeton: Michael Lewis
■Providence College: actress Viola Davis
■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 Michigan - Dr. Sanjay Gupta
■University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
■University of Pennsylvania: Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.
■University of Vermont: Cyma Zarghami (President Nickelodeon Networks)
■UVa: Katie Couric
■Vanderbilt: Tom Brokaw
■Virginia Tech: First Lady Michelle Obama
■Washington University in St. Louis: Mike Peters (Pulitzer-Prize-winning cartoonist and alum)
■Wellesley College: Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC host, columnist and author)
■Wesleyan: Senator Michael Bennet
■W&M: Jim Lehrer
■Xavier: Ursula Burns</p>
<p>Dr. Paul Farmer is also giving a commencement address at College of the Holy Cross. He will be speaking at the Yale Divinity School in April and I might go if I have time. He’s a very interesting and giving person.</p>
<p>First Lady Obama is also speaking at NC A&T State, the only HBCU of those that she’s addressing. It’s located in my area, but it’s not open to the public of course. I’ll be watching it to find out what she has to say, however.</p>
<p>Hampshire: Eugene Mirman (comedian/writer/filmmaker, alum)</p>
<p>Mount Holyoke: Azar Nafisi (author)</p>
<p>Yale Class Day: Barbara Walters</p>
<p>Brandeis: Deborah Bial (founder The Posse Foundation, alum)</p>
<p>Fordham: John Brennan (counterterrorism advisor to Pres. Obama)</p>
<p>Brown: Ruth Simmons</p>
<p>Vassar: Leymah Gbowee (Nobel Peace, Women of Liberia…)</p>
<p>Ithaca College: Amy Kule (exec prod Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, alum)</p>