Commencement Archives
Past Speakers and Medalists
2024
2023
2022
(Celebration)
2020-2021
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
Sheryl Sandberg
Roberta Guaspari
Jenny Holzer
Sylvia Rhone
2010
Meryl Streep
Thelma Golden
Olympia J. Snowe
Shirley M. Tilghman
2009
Hillary Clinton
Kay Crawford Murray
Indra K. Nooyi
Irene Winter
2008
Thelma C. Davidson Adair
Michael R. Bloomberg
Billie Jean King
David Remnick
Judith R. Shapiro
2007
Joan Didion
Nicholas D. Kristof
Mary Patterson McPherson
Muriel Petioni
Anna Deavere Smith
2006
Francine du Plessix Gray ’52
Linda Greenhouse
Audra McDonald
| 2005 |
Carla D. Hayden |
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| 2004 |
Sylvia A. Earle |
| 2003 |
Susan Band Horwitz |
| 2002 |
Barbara Novak ’50 |
| 2001 |
Morris Dees |
| 2000 |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| 1999 |
Zoe Caldwell |
| 1998 |
Mary Lowe Good |
| 1997 |
Sarah Brady |
| 1996 |
Rita R. Colwell |
| 1995 |
Madeleine K. Albright |
| 1994 |
Walter Cronkite |
| 1993 |
Arthur Ashe (posthumous) |
| 1992 |
Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen ’40 |
| 1991 |
Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ’50 |
| 1990 |
Jacqueline K. Barton ’74 |
| 1989 |
Joan Kaplan Davidson |
| 1988 |
Augusta Souza Kappner ’66 |
| 1987 |
Judith S. Kaye ’58 |
| 1986 |
A. Bartlett Giamatti |
| 1985 |
Marian Wright Edelman |
| 1984 |
Arthur G. Altschul |
| 1983 |
Mario M. Cuomo |
| 1982 |
Carol Bellamy |
| 1981 |
Robert L. Hoguet |
| 1980 |
Dorothy I. Height |
| 1979 |
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin |
| 1978 |
Samuel R. Milbank |
| 1977 |
Joan S. Mondale |