Agnes Scott College
Saturday, May 15, 9:30 a.m. EDT
Vickie Escarra, executive vice president/chief
marketing officer, Delta Airlines
** "According to a cover story
in I magazine just two months ago, one in three women
with MBAs have elected not to work full-time . . . This
trend disturbs me a lot. If women are not in the boardroom
pushing for change, then work-life balance will never
be achieved. If female voices are not heard at the top
of companies, then women’s perspectives will continue
to be overlooked or dismissed. We need our best and
brightest – like you – to model, mentor
and pave the way for all the other women who don’t
have a voice or a choice."
www.agnesscott.edu/about/p_newsarticle.asp?id=212
Alma College
Saturday, April 17, 2 p.m. EDT
Lee Posey, former Alma College trustee
and founder of Palm Harbor Homes in Dallas
www.alma.edu
Amherst College
Sunday, May 23, 10 a.m. EST
Anthony W. Marx, President, Amherst
College
** "If we believe in diversity of class, ethnicity,
origin and interest among our students, then we must
also embrace economic diversity. Yet, on the elite campuses
of this great nation of opportunity, we are 25 times
more likely to get to know and learn with a student
from the wealthiest top fourth than from the poorest.
How can we then claim to prepare students for a world
of astounding, powerfully broad economic disparity?
Only in the experience of getting to know each other
can we learn to live together and learn from one another.
Good intentions do not substitute for the moral reckoning,
humility and, ultimately, the strength that comes from
personal contact, example and action. If we do not now
increase the opportunity for the less wealthy to engage
the highest level of education, we will neither prepare
any of our students for the world, nor will we serve
our role in that world."
www.amherst.edu/commencement
Bard College
Saturday, May 22, 2:30 p.m. EST
Robert Redford, actor, director, environmental
activist; founder, Sundance Film Festival
www.bard.edu
Barnard College
Tuesday, May 18, 2:30 P.M. EST
Barbara Ehrenreich, writer, activist
and social critic (2003 bestseller, Nickel and Dimed:
On (Not) Getting By in America)
** "What we need is a tough new kind of feminism
with no illusions,' said Ehrenreich, who noted that
three of the seven soldiers charged with prisoner abuse
at Abu Ghraib are women. She urged the graduates, as
the brightest of their generation, to become tough-minded
activists for change. "It is not enough to assimilate,"
she said. "We need to create a world worth assimilating
into. We need a kind of woman who doesn't want to be
one of the boys when the boys are acting like sadists
or fools."
www.barnard.edu
Bates College
Monday, May 31, 10 a.m. EDT
Rita R. Colwell, former National Science
Foundation director; Milton L. Lindholm,
class of 1935 and dean emeritus of admissions; John
C. Whitehead, retired investment bank executive,
former diplomat, current chair of Lower Manhattan Development
Corp., and participant in invasions of Normandy, Iwo
Jima and Okinawa.
David Levering Lewis, a historian and
biographer twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his
multi-volume biography of African American writer-philosopher
W.E.B. Du Bois:
** "Nothing could be more obvious
to us now than that the civil rights struggle of African
Americans commenced the fight for the optimal expansion
of everybody's rights." Lewis went on to caution
graduates against accepting the "Faustian bargain"
of trading liberties for security. "Unless we take
great care, the Homeland Security state and its Justice
Department handmaidens, Patriot Acts I and II, may well
leave our civil liberties as maimed as the New York
cityscape has been by the Al Qaeda jihadists."
www.bates.edu/commencement.xml
-- full text, audio, and video of the speech
Bennington College
Friday, June 4, 6 p.m. EDT
Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel
Peace Prize, Iranian lawyer, human rights and democracy
activist
www.bennington.edu
Berea College
Sunday, May 23, 2:00 pm, EDT
Julian Bond, Civil rights leader, former
Georgia legislator, chairman of the NAACP, and grandson
of James Bond (who was born a slave in 1863; graduated
from Berea College in 1892; served as a trustee of the
College from 1896-1914)
www.berea.edu
Birmingham-Southern College
Saturday, May 29, 3:30 p.m. CDT
Fredricka Whitfield, CNN News Anchor
www.bsc.edu
Bryn Mawr College
Saturday, May 15, 2:30 p.m. EDT
Anna Deavere Smith, one-woman documentary
performer, playwright and professor at New York University
www.brynmawr.edu/news/2004-03-25/smith.shtml
Bowdoin College
Saturday, May 29, 10 a.m. EDT (commencement)
Friday, May 28, 4 p.m. EDT (baccalaureate ceremony)
Eavan Boland (baccalaureate speaker), Irish
poet and professor of humanities at Stanford University
doubletop.bowdoin.edu/sun/fullpage.asp?Item=2143600245
Bucknell University
Sunday, May 23, 10 a.m. EDT
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, lawyer,
and author
www.bucknell.edu/In_the_News/More_News/April_2004/Ralph_Nader.html
Centre College
Sunday, May 23, 3 p.m. EST
Sandra Day O’Connor, Supreme
Court Justice
** "Our nation needs hard-working, innovative and
dedicated people to devote their working lives to its
operation and improvement. [Building bridges is] the
task in which Centre College and your professors have
been engaged while you were here. I'm confident they
succeeded and that you graduates will cross the bridges
they've built for you -- and perhaps build some of your
own in the future."
www.centre.edu/web/news/2004/commence04.html
Chatham College
Sunday, May 23, 10 a.m. EST
Shirley Malcom, Ph.D., head of the
Education and Human Resources Directorate, American
Association for the Advancement of Science; Lorenzo
Malfatti,long-time director of Vocal Activities
at Chatham, professor emeritus at the University of
Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, former
artistic director of the Opera Theatre and Music Festival
of Lucca (Italy); Marie C. Wilson, President,
Ms. Foundation for Women
www.Chatham.edu
Coe College
Sunday, May 9, 10 a.m. CDT
Millard Fuller, Habitat for Humanity
Founder and President
www.coe.edu
Colby College
Sunday, May 23, 10 a.m. EDT
Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author
www.colby.edu
Colgate University
Sunday, May 16, 1:30 EDT
Steve Burke, President, Comcast Cable
www4.colgate.edu/commencement
Colorado College
Monday, May 17, 8:30 a.m. MDT
Eric Schlosser, journalist and author
of books including Fast Food Nation
** "I have absolutely no patience
with people who say you can’t change the world.
Of course you can. Look at what's happening right now
in Washington, D.C. I happen to disagree with our president
on almost every issue … but he's changing the
world. He and his friends have caused momentous changes
worldwide in just three and a half years. So, if you
don't change the world, somebody else will. Somebody
who believes it can be done, who isn't apathetic. And
you may not like what they do. So you better do it instead."
www.ColoradoCollege.edu/commencement
-- transcript, photos, video
Connecticut College
Sunday, May 23, 1 p.m. EDT
Anita L. DeFrantz, Olympic medalist,
current member and former vice president of the International
Olympic Committee (IOC) and Connecticut College alumni
and trustee emeritus
camel2.conncoll.edu/commencement
Davidson College
Sunday, May 16, 10 a.m. EDT
Robert F. Vagt, President of Davidson
College
www.davidson.edu
Denison University
Sunday, May 16, 2004, 12:30 p.m. EDT
Michael H. Armacost, U.S. foreign policy
expert and former ambassador
to Japan and The Philippines
www.denison.edu/publicaffairs/pressreleases/commencement_2004.html
DePauw University
Sunday, May 23, 1 p.m. EST
Nick Mourouzis, DePauw Head Football
Coach (1981-2003)
** "Your future is going to be a combination of
successes and setbacks.
There will be times when things go well and there'll
be times when
you're feeling like nothing is working for you. You
will have to learn
from the mistakes you make, turning negatives into positives
and using
them as stepping stones to the future. Overcoming obstacles
and failures
is a significant part of becoming successful."
www.depauw.edu/news/story.asp?id=381308189814815
-- video, audio, photos, other commencement links
Dickinson College
Sunday, May 23, 10 a.m. EST
Lawrence Small, 11th Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution
www.dickinson.edu/commence
Drew University
Saturday, May 15, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Dr. Shirley Tilghman, President of
Princeton University
www.drew.edu/commencement/
Eckerd College
Saturday, May 22, 9 a.m. EDT
Dr. Blenda J. Wilson, president and
CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation
** "The point I want to make here is that however
hard you have studied and however much you have learned,
the future in which you will live out the rest of your
life will be dramatically different from the world we
live in today. Because that is so, the most essential
gift of the education you have received at Eckerd --
perhaps the real purpose of education -- is the intellectual
vitality to analyze and adapt to whatever the future
has in store. Your knowledge of a global society --
fostered by Eckerd's exemplary international opportunities
-- will provide you with perspective and empathy to
appreciate other cultures and embrace the ever-changing
ethnic dynamics within our own country. And when you
face difficulties that seem insurmountable, the faith
you have nurtured here will give you fortitude and a
moral compass for setting your goals."
www.eckerd.edu/commencement
Franklin & Marshall College
Sunday, May 16, 10 a.m. EDT
Dr. Richard N. Haass, president of
the Council on Foreign Relations
** "Nothing is likely to be more important in reducing
the supply of potential terrorists than changing Arab
and Muslim societies so that young men and women perceive
reason to live. This translates into introducing educational
and economic reform so that young people can acquire
the skills to work in a modern global economy. It also
means political reform, so that people feel they have
a stake in their own societies and have the ability
to work within the system, peacefully, for change."
www.fandm.edu/departments/communications/commencement
-- full transcript, photos, etc.
Gettysburg College
Sunday, May 23, 11 a.m. EST
David Hartman, 1972 graduate of Gettysburg
College, psychiatrist, and first blind person to earn
a medical degree from a U.S. medical school, Temple
University:
** "Each of us is disabled in one way or another.
Some of us are shy, some of us are overconfident...the
important thing is how we deal with those disabilities.
So often, medicine is focused on disease and handicaps,
but it's important to look at individual strengths and
how we can compensate. A society required to accept
greater individual difference is, thereby, enriched
and we enrich ourselves."
www.gettysburg.edu/administration/public_relations/news/2004/commencement_speaker04.html
Goucher College
Friday, May 21, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Maurice Sendak, Caldecott Medal winner
and the only American illustrator to win the Hans Christian
Andersen Award
www.goucher.edu/commencement
Grinnell College
Monday, May 17, 10 a.m. CDT
William F. Schulz, executive director
of Amnesty International USA
** Schulz asked the class of 2004
to think ahead to the day before the day
they will die. "What do you need to do to insure
that you not discover, on the day before
the day you die, that you have not truly lived?"
Schulz quoted the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: "The
secret is to 'treasure with such eager care the light
that plays on each passing moment. The second way to
hold onto your life is to give it away. To give your
life to something that transcends it-to a passion, to
a cause, to a child, to a faith."
www.grinnell.edu
Hamilton College
Sunday, May 23, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Mike Castle, Delaware Congressman
and 1961 Hamilton graduate
http://www.hamilton.edu/Commencement
Hampshire College
Saturday, May 22, 11 a.m.
Amy Goodman, host and executive producer
of "Democracy Now"
www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=3561
Haverford College
Sunday, May 16, 10 a.m. EDT
Jane Goodall, world-renowned chimpanzee
expert and wildlife conservationist:
** "The reasons for hope for the future, when all
seems bleak -- the amazing human brain, the resilience
of nature that can make it come back, the tremendous
indomitable spirit of mankind, of people around you
who tackle impossible tasks or seemingly impossible
tasks who won’t give up. All these things are
reasons for hope. And without hope we fall into apathy,
and young people sometimes become depressed, bitter,
angry and violent. But the most important reason for
hope that you have lies in each of your own hands. You
have this wonderful beginning. Hang on to what you have
learned about your important role in this life."
Paul Krugman, New York Times
columnist and Princeton economics and international
affairs professor:
** "There’s fundamental sort of rules and
ethics of what you should do with your education, what
you should do with what you’ve learned in school
and beyond, which is first, whatever it is you’re
worried about, learn as much as you can. Try to understand,
don’t decide you know what you want to believe
and go with it, but learn as much as you can. Try to
understand, whether it’s the details of international
trade theory or the subject that’s the hottest
political debate of the week. The other is, after having
learned, and learning what other people think and what
other people have said, think for yourself."
Sonia Sanchez, Temple University poet
and professor:
** "So listen, gentle persons,
I come to you with two voices: the voice of the praiser,
praising these young graduates, and I come to you with
the voice of the poet, a weaver of words threading silver
and gold into our veins. So listen, gentle men, gentle
women, pull your hearts out of your armpits, get your
tuxedoes out of mothballs, put your long red dress on,
girls, and snap your breasts into place, as we go sailing
on tongues, loving, living, learning to speak without
a crutch."
James Turrell, award-winning artist:
** "After my graduation, I set out looking for
my destiny. I was really looking for signs, ways they
would appear to me…There are signs about, and
sometimes we’re the ones who make these signs.
These signs are simple and part of the self-fulfilling
prophecy that we create as we make our life, and these
are in the small choices made everyday, small choices
that, when put together, fulfill a life."
Hendrix College
Saturday, May 15, 9 a.m. CDT
Bishop Janice Riggle Huie, Bishop for
the Arkansas Area of the United Methodist Church
** "On a recent trip to Africa,
a woman from Mozambique was puzzling with me
about the culture of the United States as she understood
it. The incredible
affluence of a few while so many have nothing. The apparent
lack of concern
for the earth. A seemingly increasing use of force to
get our own way. I
tried to explain. ... In the end, she shook her head.
In explaining her
culture to me, she quoted an African proverb which I
offer to you today, 'If
you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk
far, walk together.' "
www.hendrix.edu/NewsCenter/default.php?item=625
Hiram College
Saturday, May 15, 2 p.m. EST
Alphonso Jackson, 13th Secretary of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development
www.hiram.edu
Hobart and William Smith
Colleges
Sunday, May 16, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's "Hardball
with Chris Matthews"
** "Whatever your ambitions, whatever the field
you want to enter,
if you want to play a game, go to where it's played.
If you want to be a
lawyer, go to law school. If you can't get into the
best law school, get
into the best one you can. ... The important thing is
to get your seat
at the table. Name your dream; there's a place people
are pursuing it."
www.hws.edu/news/speakers/transcripts/matthewscomm2004.asp
www.hws.edu/academics/registrar/commencement/2004.asp
-- other commencement links
Hollins University
Sunday, May 23, 10 a.m. EDT
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, best-selling
author and Hollins alumna
www.hollins.edu/news-events/commencement/commencement.htm
College of the Holy Cross
Friday, May 28, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, noted
physicist and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
** "The greatest challenge you will face -- and
one I believe you are uniquely prepared to address --
will be the resolution of the ethical dilemmas arising
from the increasing confluence -- and sometimes collision
-- of science, commerce, and public policy. These convergences,
and collisions, occur frequently -- especially within
the context of research."
college.holycross.edu/commencement/jackson_address.html
-- full text
Illinois Wesleyan
University
Sunday, May 2, 1 p.m. CDT
Carlina Tapia-Ruano, immigration attorney,
Illinois Wesleyan alumna and parent of member of the
Class of 2004
** "I have the opportunity to represent people
who have come to this country for many of the same reasons
my parents did. They bring a common theme to our country:
a deep appreciation for our great freedoms. So often,
immigrants understand freedom even better than Americans
do, because they have lived in places where they have
not been free. As an immigration lawyer, and as an immigrant,
I believe that immigration is good for America:; it
is our national identity, and it is what makes us strong."
www.iwu.edu/iwunews/commencement
(full text, audio, and video of the speech)
Kenyon College
Saturday, May 22, 10:30 a.m. EDT
John W. Snow, U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury and an alumnus
www.kenyon.edu
Lafayette College
Saturday, May 22, 2:30 p.m. EDT
Edward G. Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania
www.lafayette.edu
Lewis & Clark College
Sunday, May 9, 10 a.m. PDT
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director, National
Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases
www.lclark.edu
Lewis & Clark Law School
Saturday, May 22, 11 a.m. PDT
Patricia A. Madrid, Attorney General,
State of New Mexico
www.lclark.edu
Lewis & Clark Graduate
School of Education
Sunday, June 6, 10 a.m. PDT
James A. Banks, director, Center for
Multicultural Education,
University of Washington
www.lclark.edu
Macalester College
Saturday, May 15, 1:30 p.m. CDT
Judge David S. Tatel, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia
A long-time civil rights and education lawyer, Tatel
was appointed to the
country's second most important court by President Clinton
in 1994.
** "Whether you become a teacher,
a lawyer, a carpenter, a doctor or a nurse, whether
you choose a career in government or in business, whether
you stay home with your children -- whatever your calling
-- public service should be part of your life. Use your
Macalester education to tackle America’s problems,
and you will enrich not just America, but your own lives
as well. So enjoy your gift of educated citizenship
in the world’s greatest democracy. And like generations
of college graduates before you, accept the obligation
to pass this Republic along to future generations in
better shape than we bequeath it to you today."
www.macalester.edu/commencement/commencement2004/commencementaddress2004.pdf
Manhattan College
Undergraduate: Sunday, May 16, 1 p.m. EDT
Gwen Ifill, political broadcast journalist
and senior correspondent for
PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and managing
editor of Washington
Week.
Spring (Graduate) Commencement: Wednesday, May 19, 4:30
p.m.EDT
Peter Quinn, corporate editorial director
at Time Warner and seasoned
writer, historian and Manhattan College alumnus.
www.manhattan.edu
McDaniel College
Saturday, May 22, 2 p.m. EDT
James Lehrer, journalist, author, and
host of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Kate
Lehrer, journalist and author
** "My honorary degree is dependent upon my ability
to speak into a microphone," said Jim Lehrer. Demonstrating
the microphone skills he used working in a small-town
bus station, he recited a litany of stops and called
out, "All aboard! Don’t forget your baggage,
please." Sharing the podium with her husband, Kate
Lehrer smiled. "I never minded that he got all
those awards, but I really hate it that he’s got
that bus call and I don’t have anything close."
Jim Lehrer shared his guidelines for journalists, saying,
"And finally, I am not in the entertainment business."
Meanwhile, Kate Lehrer spoke from her own experience.
"I got off course, I stumbled, I delayed, but I
got hooked on my dreams, I got hooked on the world,"
she said. "It’s your turn, and it’s
your plans, and it’s your dreams. And every one
of us is counting on those plans and those dreams and
we’re counting on you."
www.mcdaniel.edu/news/photoessay/commencement04.shtml
Middlebury College
May 23, 10 a.m. EDT
Christopher Reeve, actor and Chairman
of the Board of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation;
and Dana Morosini Reeve, actor and
activist.
www.middlebury.edu/offices/pubaff/news_releases/news_2004/commencement+04+Feb.htm
Morehouse College
Sunday, May 16, 8 a.m. EDT
Dr. William "Bill" Cosby Jr.,
actor and comedian
www.morehouse.edu
Mount Holyoke College
Sunday, May 23, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Kim Campbell, former prime minister
of Canada
www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/commencementspeaker04.shtml
Oglethorpe University
Saturday, May 8, 9:30 a.m. EDT
Dr. Janice A. Galleshaw, noted Atlanta
oncologist, 2004 recipient of the Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation award
www.oglethorpe.edu
Ohio Wesleyan University
Sunday, May 9, 1 p.m. EDT
Branch Rickey III, President of the
Pacific Coast Baseball League and grandson of Branch
Rickey, and Sharon Robinson, author,
Major League Baseball educational consultant, and daughter
of Jackie Robinson
news.owu.edu/2004/commencement.html
Pomona College
Sunday, May 16, 2:30 p.m. PDT
Walter Cronkite, commentator and former
CBS News anchorman:
** "You will be among those making a major contribution
toward achieving what
realists would say is impossible - a permanent peace
among the peoples of
our globe. I happen to believe we've got to put idealism
on at least an
equal footing with practicality. We're going to make
it, we human beings
-- if we cling to the belief -- if we work for, bringing
to reality the
achievement of peace."
Other speakers:
R. Stanton Hales '64, President, College
of Wooster
Andrea Van de Kamp, Senior Vice President
and Chairman, West Coast
Operations, Sotheby's
www.pomona.edu/ADWR/President/commencement.shtml
University of Puget Sound
Sunday, May 16, 2 p.m. PDT
Denis A. Hayes, Head of the Earth Day
Network and President of the Bullitt Foundation
** Hayes had three closing thoughts for graduates: Stay
young forever, don't expect anyone to pass you a torch
(seize one!), and don't wait. "Time is the most
valuable thing you will ever possess... There is not
one 90-year-old millionaire in the world who would not
eagerly trade everything he owns to be your age again...
I'm not saying you should become a workaholic drudge.
In fact, just the opposite. I once took off and spent
three years hitchhiking all over Africa and Asia, and
I don't regret a moment of it. What I am saying is simply
this: Live every day to the fullest. Time is not a free
good."
www.ups.edu/news/releases/2003-04/hayesspeech.shtml
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Sunday, May 16, 10 a.m. EST
Honorable Frank Hull '70, Judge, United
States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
www.rmwc.edu
Ripon College
Sunday, May 16, 1:30 p.m. CDT
Karen A. Holbrook, president of The
Ohio State University
** "As a culture, we recognize our dependence on
science and technology and the importance it plays in
our success and safety. In doing so, we hold researchers
and scholars in high esteem, and that, of course, is
good. But we also tend to relegate science to the scientists,
to partition it off into a technological corner of our
world, and isolate it from our consciousness until we
can benefit from its spin-offs. This is where we make
a mistake, I believe. Just as politics is too important
to be left to the politicians, so too is science too
important to be left to the scientists."
www.ripon.edu/commencement/address.html
-- full transcript
College of Saint Benedict
Saturday, May 8, 2 p.m. CDT
Krista Tippett, host of Minnesota Public
Radio's Speaking of Faith
www.csbsju.edu/news/commencement
St. Lawrence University
Sunday, May 16, 10 a.m. EST
Karen Hitchcock '64, former president
of SUNY Albany:
** "I call on each of you to be truly engaged in
the issues that confront
our increasingly interdependent global society, to increase
your
resolve and commitment to the principles that define
our
democracy as well as to the values that unite all civilized
peoples.
It is not enough to be a well-educated, articulate but
detached
observer of our complex new world. All of us must be
willing to
act on our beliefs, at times to get into the fray."
www.stlawu.edu/commence
-- full transcript, plus comments from
other speakers
Other speakers:
Mark Klett '74 photographer, geologist and
professor of art
Lorrie Moore '78, novelist
Saint John's University
Sunday, May 9, 2 p.m. CDT
Tom Beaudoin, visiting assistant professor
of theology at Boston College
www.csbsju.edu/news/commencement
St. John's
College
Annapolis, Md.: Sunday, May 16, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Chester Burke, St. John's Tutor
Santa Fe, N.M.: Sunday, May 22, 11 a.m. MDT
Danielle Allen, associate professor
in Classical Languages and Literatures, University of
Chicago.
www.stjohnscollege.edu
St. Olaf College
Sunday, May 30, 2:30 p.m. CDT
Alan Page, associate justice, Minnesota
Supreme Court; former defensive tackle, Minnesota Vikings
www.stolaf.edu
Sarah Lawrence College
Friday, May 21, 10 a.m. EST
Grace Paley, political activist, fiction
writer, former Sarah Lawrence faculty member
www.sarahlawrence.edu
Scripps College
Sunday, May 16, 3 p.m. PDT
Gloria Steinem, writer, founder of
Ms. magazine
www.scrippscollege.edu
Southwestern University
Saturday, May 8, 2 p.m. CDT
Ernesto Nieto, Founder and President
of the National Hispanic Institute
www.southwestern.edu/whats-new/news/news-040407.html
Spelman College
Sunday, May 16, 4:30 p.m. EST
Benjamin S. Carson Sr., M.D., director
of Pediatric Neurosurgery at The
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; and professor of
neurosurgery, oncology,
plastic surgery and pediatrics:
** "Those who are graduating today will embark
upon some things that will not
be successful, at least not in the beginning. But the
important thing is
to learn from those things and use that for your next
endeavor. You know
Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb
didn't work which
means he did not give up. And most of you have heard
of the cleaning
formula 409. Why do they call it 409? Because the first
408 attempts did
not work. But they learned from those situations and
they were able to
move on."
www.spelman.edu/calendar/commencement04
Swarthmore College
Sunday, May 30, 10 a.m. EDT
Alfred H. Bloom, President, Swarthmore
College
www.swarthmore.edu
Trinity College
Sunday, May 16, 11 a.m. EDT
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, the nation's
pioneering psychosexual therapist
** "... the biggest mistake you can make is to
be complacent and think that you have lots of extra
time on your hands. You might, but you also might not.
A crisis could hit you at any moment ... if there is
one lesson you should learn today, it's not to waste
one precious second of your life ...There's so much
to do that you can't possibly let one second slip by
that's not filled to the brim. For example, there are
something like 130,000 books published in this country
every single year. They might not all be worth reading,
but let's face it, you're not even going to make a dent
in such a pile. Or if you look at the newspaper there's
always a concert or a play or a movie to go to. And
there are museums filled with exhibits. And a whole
world of wonders to visit. And there are friends and
family to see. Sporting events to take part in. Fabulous
foods to taste. Delicious wines to sip. And, in my special
arena, great moments to share with a partner."
www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/commencement
-- full transcript, webcast, photos
Trinity University
Saturday, May 15
Graduate commencement, 9 a.m. CDT
Walter R. Huntley Jr., Class of '71,
president of Huntley & Associates of Atlanta and
Trinity Trustee
Undergraduate commencement, 10:30 a.m. CDT
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, Class of '73
www.trinity.edu
Ursinus College
Saturday, May 15, 10 a.m. EST
Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian
Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard
University
www.ursinus.edu
Wabash College
Sunday, May 16, 2:30 p.m. EST
Dustin DeNeal and Michael Bricker,
members of the graduating class and honors graduates
www.wabash.edu
Washington College
Sunday, May 16, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Maryland Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.,
whose 18 years in public service also include terms
as a state legislator and a congressman
www.washcoll.edu
Washington and Lee University
Thursday, June 3, 10 a.m. EDT
Thomas G. Burish, President, Washington
and Lee University
http://parents.wlu.edu/commencement
Wellesley College
Friday, May 28, 10:30 a.m. EDT
Toni Morrison, author
www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2004/030504.html
Wesleyan College
(Macon, Georgia)
Saturday, May 8, 10 a.m. EDT
Diane McWhorter, journalist, winner
of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for
"CARRY ME HOME: Birmingham, Alabama-The Climactic
Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution"
www.wesleyancollege.edu
Westmont College
Saturday, May 8, 10 a.m. PDT
Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale philosophy
professor, speaking on
the difference between finding a job and finding a calling
www.westmont.edu
Wheaton College
(Norton, Mass.)
Saturday, May 22, 10 a.m. EDT
Mary Robinson, former president of
Ireland and former UN high commissioner for human rights
** "We learn that over a billion people, some thousand
million people, live on less than $1 a day. We learn
from UNICEF that more than 6 million children die of
hunger in our rich, resourced world. And yet what we
need to do more is to think, not so much in terms of
statistics, but in terms of individuals and their families
and their community. …The governments of the world
have committed to legal treaties, covenants, and conventions
that are to address these divides…and what is
needed is to hold these governments to accountability
and that's where you, the Class of 2004, come in."
www.wheatoncollege.edu/CR/CR2004/Commencement/
-- transcript, photos, on-demand webcast
Whitman College
Sunday, May 23, 11:00 a.m. PST
Michael Ignatieff, historian and social
critic
www.whitman.edu/commencement/comm2004.pdf
William Jewell College
Saturday, May 8, 2 p.m. CDT
David L. Sallee, President, William
Jewell College
www.jewell.edu/contacts/headlines/headline_763.html
Williams College
Sunday, June 6, 10 a.m.
David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist and author
www.williams.edu/home/commencement/
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