Michigan First Lady Michelle Engler will be the featured speaker at Northern Michigan University commencement exercises, April 29, and she will also receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree from NMU.
Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer and social critic, will be Scripps College's commencement speaker on May 14.
The first woman to summit three of the world's 8,000 meter peaks, Charlotte Fox, will speak at the Hollins University commencement; she will be sharing insight about her ordeal on Mt. Everest during the three-week period in which climbers annually scale the mountain.
Lech Walesa, workers' rights advocate, former president of Poland, and the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will deliver the commencement address at Middlebury College's graduation ceremony and he will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
Kweisi Mfume, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, will be the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland, College Park's May commencement.
The University of Washington has selected Robert Pinsky, the 39th poet laureate of the U.S., to be the commencement speaker in ceremonies to be held June 10.
Donna E. Shalala, secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services, will deliver the North Carolina State University Commencement address on Saturday, May 20, at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Raleigh.
Margaret Urquhart, chief operations officer and executive vice president of Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corp., will deliver the address at the Babcock Graduate School of Management's annual hooding ceremony on May 14.
Georgia's senior U.S. senator, Paul Coverdell, will speak at the University of Georgia's spring semester commencement on May 13.
Leading Christian author and commentator Charles W. Colson will speak to graduates and their families at commencement ceremonies May 6 and 7 at Wheaton College.
Sir Brian Urquhart, a British former U.N. undersecretary, will deliver the address at Hamilton College's 188th commencement on May 21; his talk is entitled, "Nationalism, Globalism and Common Sense."
Eavan Boland, described as one of Ireland's most influential poets, will be the speaker at Bucknell's 150th Commencement on May 21.
David Halberstam, author and journalist, and Bernice Johnson Reagon, musician and historian, will give commencement addresses at the University of Michigan graduation ceremonies on April 28-30.
Two individuals who have made significant contributions to national and international financial and scientific communities, James D. Wolfensohn and Rita R. Colwell, will speak at Michigan State University's spring commencement ceremonies, May 5.
United Press International White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas has accepted Ohio University's invitation to speak at two undergraduate commencement ceremonies on June 10.
United States Congresswoman Diana DeGette, a 1979 Colorado College alumna, will speak during Colorado College's 2000 commencement ceremony scheduled for Monday, May 22, beginning at 8:30 a.m. on campus.
A list of Spring 2000 commencement speakers at several colleges and universities across the nation.
Herbert W. Boyer, a University of Pittsburgh graduate who co-founded Genentech, Inc., the company considered the pioneer in the field of biotechnology, will be the main speaker at the University of Pittsburgh's 2000 commencement ceremonies, April 30.
John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems Inc., a leader in Internet networking, will deliver Wake Forest University's commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 15.
United States Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, will give the address May 20 at Southern Methodist University's 85th annual commencement ceremony.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater will be the featured speaker at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Commencement 2000, May 13.
Helen Thomas, White House Bureau Chief for United Press International, will deliver the commencement address for the University of San Francisco's College of Arts and Sciences on May 19.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi A. Annan, will be the principal speaker at the University of Notre Dame's 155th Commencement on Sun., May 21.
Kevin O'Connor, CEO and co-founder of DoubleClick, the world's first web advertising network, will speak at the Spring Commencement of the University of Michigan College of Engineering on Sat., April 29.
Geraldine Laybourne, the CEO of Oxygen Media and among the most prominent women in both the management and creative sides of media in the U.S. today, will deliver Vassar College's 136th commencement address on Sun., May 21.
Marsha Norman, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner, will deliver the commencement address at her alma mater, Agnes Scott College, on Saturday, May 13, at 9:30 a.m.
At Ohio University's graduate commencement on June 11 in Athens, the speaker was Martin Schwartz, Ph.D., chair of OU's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
On what I know is a foreboding, but challenging note, your generation will have to find an energy replacement for oil, or by 2050; you will be facing an economic, political and social barrier unknown since the dark ages. -- Rand Araskog
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. and Birmingham business leader H. Corbin Day, chairman of Jemison Investment Co., will be honored during graduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).
University at Albany Dean of Undergraduate Studies John Pipkin will be the featured speaker at the University at Albany's 155th undergraduate commencement ceremony Sunday, May 23. He replaces poet Maya Angelou.
Comedian Bill Cosby delivered the final lecture to Colgate University's Class of 1999, and when he had finished his address to the college's 178th annual commencement he hugged and greeted each of the 677 members of the class individually.
Bishop John R. Kinney will deliver the 1999 spring commencement address to the College of Saint Benedict graduating seniors on Saturday, May 22, at 2 p.m., in the Clemens Field House in CSB's Haehn Campus Center.
Rand V. Araskog, retired chair and chief executive of ITT Corporation, will deliver the commencement address at Gustavus Adolphus College at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30 on the college's Hollingsworth Field.
Diane M. Capstaff, executive vice president at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., will be the speaker at the Monday, May 24, Commencement exercises of Boston College's Graduate School of Management.
Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt urged the Classes of 1999 to commit themselves to "enlightenment" in the form of knowledge, new ideas and service to others. In his farewell remarks during Commencement ceremonies on May 14, Wyatt described the shared sense of community, purpose and vision that characterizes a Vanderbilt education.
Former U.S. Vice President and ambassador to Japan Walter F. Mondale will be guest speaker at St. Olaf College's 110th annual commencement Sunday, May 23.
Graduation speakers at The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada (May 19-20, 1999) include soprano Wendy Nielsen; Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable Romeo LeBlanc; Justice Louise Arbour, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals at the International Court in The Hague; and Edward F. (Ted) Boswell, retired chairperson of E.B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd.
On May 29, 571 students in University of Colorado Health Sciences Center schools and programs will graduate during commencement exercises, which begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Bookstore Quadrangle on campus.
Fox News Anchor Paula Zahn will be the keynote speaker at the undergraduate commencement ceremony at Quinnipiac College at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 16.
Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs and White House Correspondent for NBC News who covered Jesse Jackson's recent visit to Belgrade, will deliver the Samford University Commencement address. Mitchell will speak during 10 a.m. exercises Saturday, May 22, at Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center Complex Arena.
Former Sen. George Mitchell, Chairman of the Irish Peace Negotiations, Offers Address at Fordham's 154th Commencement. Magician David Copperfield to Receive Honorary Degree.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will deliver the address at Boston University's 126th commencement exercises Sunday, May 23. Rev. Also receiving honorary degrees will be Dr. Ray Hammond, a physician, clergyman, and chairman of the Ten Point Coalition, James Carlin, businessman and chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education; actress and alumna Geena Davis; and Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of The George Washington University.
Best-selling author Iris Rainer Dart and six honorary degree recipients, including three Nobel Prize winners, will be the headliners at Carnegie Mellon University's 102d commencement, 11 a.m., Sunday, May 16 in Gesling Stadium, where more than 2,100 degrees will be conferred.
John F. Kennedy Jr., magazine editor and advocate for the disabled, will speak at Washington College's commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23 in Chestertown, MD.
Jesuit father and President of Catholic Charities USA, Fred Kammer, S.J., will be the keynote speaker at the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law commencement on Saturday, May 15, at 10 a.m. in the Morris Jeff Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park.
Congressman Lane Evans of Illinois will return to his alma mater to speak at Augustana College's 139th Commencement.
Former Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, who began the peace process that led to the historic Good Friday peace accord reached in Northern Ireland last year, will be the speaker for the 1999 undergraduate commencement at the University of San Diego on May 30.
Dr. Lee S. Shulman will will deliver Drury College's commencement address Sunday, May 16, aat the college's 125th anniversary celebration.
Centre College commencement exercises are set for Sunday, May 30, with former Centre President Michael F. Adams to give the keynote address. Adams now is president of the University of Georgia. His son, David, is a member of Centre's graduating class.
Rudolph Crew, chancellor of the Board of Education of the City of New York and a UMass alumnus, will deliver the main address at the 129th Commencement of the University of Massachusetts, to be held at 10:30 a.m. on Sun. May 23, in Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium.
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