2010 Commencement Speakers

SaintSaens
Tue, 18 May 2010 17:35:58 +0000

Adding Michelle Kwan for Southern Vermont College.

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)
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