<p>I’ll start. Archibald Cox.</p>
<p>I had to go look them up, I honestly couldn’t remember.</p>
<p>Lewis Thomas, and Tom Wicker.</p>
<p>Peter Ueberroth, after he headed up the 1984 Olympic Committee - pretty good speaker</p>
<p>Malcolm Forbes</p>
<p>Margaret Atwood.</p>
<p>Ted Kennedy.</p>
<p>Didn’t stick around for graduation - LOL I was so glad to be outta there (SUNY Bing!).</p>
<p>Pierre Salinger. (who?)</p>
<p>I have no recollection. It was supposed to be Desmond Tutu but he was unavoidably “detained”.
I do remember it was one of my shining moments in political activism by wearing a purple ribbon. It allegedly made a statement that we wanted Columbia to divest its holdings in S Africa. (I got better at it as years went by.)</p>
<p>This is cool!!! Would you mind listing the name as your alma mater as well?</p>
<p>Jose Ferer (the actor). The year before us got Neil Armstrong, and the year after us got Meryl Streep. </p>
<p>Rachaha, I think we went to the same school. What year did you graduate?</p>
<p>Archibald Cox was Wheaton. (Mass.) and topical in that it was four years after Watergate. These speakers so far are all ones I would have liked to hear!</p>
<p>ABsolutely no clue, and a medium length search of the internet didn’t provide that little nugget of info. Someplace in the garage is a box of old papers which may contain a program for the day. </p>
<p>Wonder where the college diploma is…</p>
<p>My school did not have a big-name speaker in my graduating year, but my sister’s was William F. Buckley (UC Riverside).</p>
<p>alwaysamom: Margaret Atwood!!! She would have scared the proverbial socks off me!</p>
<p>Illinois State University. Our speaker was Donald McHenry. He was an alum and had just been appointed UN Ambassador.</p>
<p>fencersmother - Not back then! 
I’ve met her on several occasions since then and she is a very interesting and nice woman. Not at all scary! She actually lives just around the corner from my D who is at Univ. of Toronto.</p>
<p>The head of the Psych department… Oh well, John V. Lindsay spoke at my HS graduation (anyone remember him)? And Martin Luther King spoke at my father’s CCNY grad school commencement (I was there - but have no memory of it).</p>
<p>I don’t remember who mine was, but Mr. Rogers was my brother’s at Lafayette in 1977 :)</p>
<p>^ I would have LOVED to see/hear Mr. Rogers!!! :)</p>