Gov. George Bush: Commencement Speaker
Southern Methodist UniversityTexas Governor George W. Bush will give the address at Southern Methodist University's 84th annual commencement ceremony on May 15.
Texas Governor George W. Bush will give the address at Southern Methodist University's 84th annual commencement ceremony on May 15.
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.
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.
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.
Celebrated actor James Earl Jones will be Vassar College's 135th commencement speaker on Sunday, May 23.
Bill Daley delivers the commencement address in front of 1,400 University of Illinois at Chicago and their families.
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.
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.
Boston Reverend Eugene Rivers, warrior against teen crime will speak at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus's 69th Commencement on Thursday, May 20.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr. Judah Folkman to deliver Commencement Address at Muhlenberge College
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.
Madeleine Albright will address the afternoon ceremony at the May 15 University of Arizona Commencement. She and Ben Vereen will receive honorary doctorates.