Commencement Speakers

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Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Jane Smiley: Commencement Speaker
Scripps College

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and educator Jane Smiley will speak to approximately 200 graduating seniors at the Scripps College 1999 Commencement on Sunday, May 16, at 3 p.m., on the campus's Elm Tree Lawn.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Chief Justice William Rehnquist: Commencement Speaker
Washington and Lee University

William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will deliver the address at the Washington and Lee University School of Law commencement on Sunday, May 16.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
University of Missouri

Focusing on topics including balanced community health systems and elimination of racial disparities in health care, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., will speak to the 1999 graduating class of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine during commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 8.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Mother of Two: Commencement Speaker
Indiana State University

LaDonna Spragg, a Terre Haute, Ind., wife and mother who is a graduating senior at Indiana State University, will give what is believed to be the first-ever student address at the 128th Spring Commencement May 8.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Possible Pope: Commencement Speaker
Wake Forest University

Cardinal Francis Arinze, a renowned Roman Catholic leader, will deliver the 1999 commencement address at Wake Forest University on May 17. Arinze, frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II, is president of the Vatican's office for promoting mutual understanding, respect and collaboration between Catholics and followers of other religions.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Former President George Bush: Commencement Speaker
Texas A&M University

Former President George Bush, Lt. Gov. Rick Perry and State Agriculture Commissioner Susan Combs will be the speakers at Texas A&M University's three spring commencement exercises May 14-15 for approximately 4,500 graduates.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
John Wallach: Commencement Speaker
Middlebury College

John Wallach, founder and president of Seeds of Peace and an award-winning author and journalist, will deliver the commencement address at Middlebury College's graduation ceremony on May 23. He and seven others will receive an honorary degrees.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Elie Wiesel: Commencement Speaker
Michigan State University

Elie Wiesel--Nobel laureate, human rights advocate and world-renowned Jewish scholar--will be Michigan State University's 1999 spring convocation speaker.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
New Jersey Governor: Commencement Speaker
Dickinson College

Christine Todd Whitman, Republican governor of New Jersey, will serve as the keynote speaker at Dickinson College's 226th commencement ceremony.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer: Commencement Speaker
Long Island University Post (LIU Post)

Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer for New Yorker magazine, will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Southampton College of Long Island University on Sunday, May 23 at 2 p.m.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Cancer Researcher, Commencement Speaker
Muhlenberg College

Dr. Judah Folkman to deliver Commencement Address at Muhlenberge College

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Three To Get Honorary Degrees
St. Lawrence University

Three people will receive honorary degrees at St. Lawrence University's Commencement ceremony May 23, and all three will speak at the event: Diane DiPrima, poet and playwright of the "Beat" generation; Adirondack photographer Nathan Farb; and The Honorable John Fraser, until recently Canada's Ambassador for the Environment.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Christopher Reeve, Commencement Speaker
Williams College

Actor Christopher Reeve (47), who has continued to work despite physical paralysis, will give the main address at Williams College's 210th Commencement on Sunday, June 6, 1999.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Three Dog Bakery's Ronald Butler, Hooding Speaker
Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management

Ronald H. Butler, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Three Dog Bakery, will deliver the address at the Babcock Graduate School of Management's annual hooding ceremony on May 16 at Wake Forest University.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Mister Rogers, Commencement Speaker May 8
Rider University

On Saturday, May 8, 1999, at 9 o'clock a.m., Fred Rogers, host of the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood television show, will be the commencement speaker at Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Fiery Rev. Eugene Rivers Commencement Speaker
Long Island University Post (LIU Post)

Boston Reverend Eugene Rivers, warrior against teen crime will speak at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus's 69th Commencement on Thursday, May 20.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
'Dead Man Walking' Nun, Commencement Speaker
University of San Francisco

Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., advocate for the abolishment of capital punishment, will receive an honorary degree and speak at the University of San Francisco commencement on at 3 p.m. on Friday May 21.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Donna Shalala, Commencement Speaker
University of Illinois Chicago

Donna E. Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will deliver the commencement address at the graduation ceremony of UIC's School of Public Health on Friday, May 7.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
William Daley, Commencement Speaker
University of Illinois Chicago

Bill Daley delivers the commencement address in front of 1,400 University of Illinois at Chicago and their families.

Released: 6-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
James Earl Jones, Commencement Speaker
Vassar College

Celebrated actor James Earl Jones will be Vassar College's 135th commencement speaker on Sunday, May 23.



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