Lorraine Monroe, Ed.D., a highly respected and inspirational educator and author and executive director and founder of the School Leadership Academy at the Center for Educational Innovation in New York City, speaks at Trinity College's 173rd Commencement on Sunday, May 23.
Judson C. Green, a 1974 DePauw University graduate and chairman of Walt Disney Attractions, Inc., will give the address when DePauw awards 478 bachelor's degrees in its 160th Commencement on Saturday, May 22.
Peace Corps Director Mark D. Gearan will visit Humboldt State University next weekend to deliver a commencement address and to honor the university's unparalleled legacy of service to the agency.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman will be the commencement speaker for the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, on Sunday, May 23.
U.S. Sen John Breaux of Louisiana will speak at LSU's 240th commencement exercises May 14. After the main ceremony, students will go to separate diploma ceremonies for their individual colleges. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, will be speaking at the School of Social Work diploma ceremony.
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announces that Hunter "Patch" Adams, MD, will be this year's commencement speaker. The BUSM Commencement will be held on Sunday, May 23 at 3:00 p.m. at the World Trade Center in Boston.
Kenan-Flagler Business School MBA graduation, May 16, 1999, 7 p.m., Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill. Graduation speaker: Crandall Bowles, chairman of the board and CEO of Springs Industries.
Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan will present the commencement address during the University of Missouri-Rolla's 126th Annual Commencement, Saturday, May 15.
Tony Award winning actress Zoe Caldwell to give keynote address at Barnard College 107th Commencement at 2:30 p.m., May 18th at the College's 107th Commencement on Lehman Lawn.
Former U.S. Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. and NBC correspondent Sara James are among scheduled speakers for Finals Weekend at the University of Virginia on May 22 and 23.
Noted pharmaceutical scientist Leslie Benet will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Long Island University's Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on Friday, May 21 at 1 p.m.
Julian Bond, chair of the board of the NAACP, will speak at the University of Washington commencement June 12.
The 128th Commencement of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be held in two ceremonies May 16 (Sunday) at the Assembly Hall, 1800 S. First St., Champaign. The speaker at both ceremonies will be Rick Kaplan, president of CNN/USA, veteran network news producer and adjunct professor of broadcast journalism at the U. of I.
Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell, Director of the National Science Foundation, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree and speak at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 25.
St. John's University Calendar of Commencement Events and Speakers, including NBC News' Tim Russert.
Rocket Boy Homer H. "Sonny" Hickam of the popular movie October Sky will address nearly 3,000 West Virginia University graduates and their families Sunday, May 16, during 130th commencement exercises at the Coliseum. Doors open at noon; no tickets are necessary.
Annette Gordon-Reed, author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy, and Law Professor at New York Law School, to speak at 41st Commencement Exercise at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Thursday, May 27, 1999 at 10:00 a.m.
Temple University's Class of 1999 will march down the aisle to receive their degrees on Thursday, May 20, at The Apollo of Temple.
A weekend of beginnings commences Friday, May 14, for the approximately 4,000 students eligible to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring. Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and law professor at New York Law School, will speak.
The Medical College of Wisconsin will bestow honorary Doctor of Science degrees to William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D., President of The Johns Hopkins University, and Ann E. Heil, an active community volunteer and leader at the College's May 22nd Commencement.
Former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine -- who served in the Senate for 14 years and more recently chaired the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland -- will deliver the main address at Dartmouth's 1999 Commencement exercises.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma, has agreed to give the address at Bucknell's commencement May 16. However, university officials say someone else will have to deliver the speech for her.
Elizabeth Dole, former president of the American Red Cross and a career public servant who has been named one of the world's 10 most admired women, will be the principal speaker at the University of Notre Dame's 154th Commencement May 16 (Sun.).
Dayton Duncan, noted author, historian and co-creator of "Louis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery", will speak and receive an honorary degree at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H., during commencement on Sunday, May 16.
The University of Vermont has announced that Dr. John Hope Franklin, professor emeritus of history at Duke University and the University of Chicago, will give the commencement address to the graduating class of 1999 on Sunday, May 23.
Louis J. Freeh, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will deliver the Commencement address at the University of Delaware on Saturday, May 29, before members of the graduating Class of 1999 and their families and friends.
In an unprecedented example of academic excellence at the University of Maine, two valedictorians and three salutatorians have been named for May Commencement ceremonies at UMaine. UMaine's 194th Commencement May 8 will feature two ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., in Alfond Sports Arena. Attending one or both of the ceremonies will be the five highest ranking baccalaureate students.
Sen. John Edwards, a graduate of North Carolina State University, will deliver the NC State Commencement address on Saturday, May 15, at Carter-Finley Stadium.
Presidential candidate and senator John McCain, R-Ariz., will speak to graduating seniors at Johns Hopkins at their May 27 commencement.
George Lundberg, M.D., embattled former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association and recently named editor-in-chief of Medscape, a leading Internet site for health and medical information, is the commencement speaker for Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine May 27, 1999.
Psychologist Frances T.M. Mahoney, a Tarrytown resident, will speak at the commencement ceremony of Long Island University's Westchester Campus on Thursday, May 13 at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry. She played a major role in bringing the University's Westchester Graduate Program to the campus of Mercy College in 1976.
Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Angela's Ashes" will be the keynote speaker at the 81st commencement ceremonies at Connecticut College Saturday, May 29, beginning at 10 a.m. in New London, CT.
Mention journalist Michel McQueen's name to most ABC network news viewers of "Day One," and "Nightline," and comments involving her stellar reporting will surface. The Emmy award-winning McQueen will visit Ohio Wesleyan's campus on Sunday, May 9, as Commencement speaker for the University's 155th graduation ceremony.
Eric Schmidt, the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of network computing giant Novell Inc., will be Virginia Tech's commencement speaker during ceremonies in Lane Stadium on Saturday, May 15, beginning at 9 a.m.
On Sunday, May 23, Anna Quindlen, novelist, social critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will deliver Mount Holyoke College's 162nd commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.
Maj. Gen. Daniel M. Dick, vice commander of the 12th Air Force and U.S. Southern Command Air Forces at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, will speak at the commencement exercises of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets.
University Distinguished Professor James K. Mitchell of the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has been chosen to speak at the 1999 Graduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 14. The event will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Cassell Coliseum.
Brian Lamb, president and on-air host of C-SPAN, will be the speaker at the Ursinus College Commencement at 10 a.m., Saturday May 15, on the front lawn of the campus.
Ann Bancroft, the world's most preeminent woman arctic explorer, will serve as Marlboro College's commencement speaker this year. Bancroft will receive an honorary doctorate for her accomplishments as the first woman to travel across ice to both the North and South Poles.
Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, national security adviser, will speak at the Senior Convocation the day before Cornell University's 131st Commencement on Sunday, May 30. By tradition, the commencement address on Sunday will be given by Cornell president Hunter Rawlings.
CNN senior White House correspondent, Wolf Blitzer, one of UB's most famous alumni, will be the university's commencement speaker at 10 a.m. on May 16 in Alumni Arena.
Texas Governor George W. Bush will give the address at Southern Methodist University's 84th annual commencement ceremony on May 15.
Jean Chretien, the Prime Minister of Canada since 1993, will address Michigan State University's candidates for advanced degrees Friday, May 7.
Mitt Romney, president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games 2002, will give the commencement address at the University of Utah's 130th annual commencement May 7.
Sam Donaldson, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, will address graduates at Old Dominion University's spring 1999 commencement ceremony, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 8, at Norfolk Scope Convention Center.
A veteran of U.S. politics and an international business leader will share the honor and responsibility of sending the Class of 1999 into the world at this year's University of Arkansas commencement.
Dr. Alan I. Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and a 1965 F&M graduate, and Dr. David L. Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) will speak and receive honorary degrees from Franklin & Marshall College at its May 9 Commencement ceremonies.
John Glenn, former senator from Ohio, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, and later the oldest person ever to go into space, will deliver the address at Case Western Reserve University's commencement convocation Sunday, May 16.
Award-winning actress and former NEA chair Jane Alexander to speak at Smith commencement. Honorary degrees to be awarded to Alexander, Hanan Ashrawi, Carol Gilligan, Lani Guinier, and Romila Thapar.
A former astronaut and a decorated Air Force general are two of the speakers slated for commencement ceremonies at Colorado State University May 14 and 15.
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