2010 Commencement Speakers

ALF
Mon, 31 May 2010 10:56:23 +0000

Alaska Fairbanks: Tom Albanese - CEO of Rio Tinto
Amherst: Anthony W. Marx (President of the College)
Barnard: Meryl Streep
Beloit College: David Axelrod
Bradley: Nancy Brinker
Brandeis: Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the US spoke, and Paul Simon
Berkeley: Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker, Founder, Intl Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
Boston College: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Boston College Law: U.S. Senator Scott Brown
Cal State Monterey Bay: Sylvia Panetta, wife of Leon Panetta
Caltech: Charles Bolden (head of NASA)
Carnegie Mellon - Ian Rawson
Case Western: Katie Couric
Clemson - James Clyburn - African-American Representative in SC
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
Hampshire: Peter Cole, poet and literature translator, Alum ‘80
Harvard: Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter '61 + Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent
Iowa – Tom Brokaw
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
Mount Holyoke: Gail Collins, the first woman to head the NY Times’ editorial page
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
SUNY- Oneonta: Astronaut Ronald Garan Jr. (Class of '82)
Syracuse: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase
Tulane: Anderson Cooper
UCLA: Gustavo Arellano, Columnist of ‘¡Ask a Mexican!’
UNC Chapel Hill: John Grisham
Utah: Jon Huntsman Jr. - US Ambassador to China
Utah State: Danny Glover - actor of Lethal Weapon fame
Vanderbilt: Khaled Hosseini
Vassar: Lisa Kudrow (Vassar Class of '85)
Washington: William H. Gates Sr., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation((Class of 1949)
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