Past Speakers
An archive of the addresses given by past commencement speakers.
- 2019 – Larry Gies (transcript posted to Medium)
- 2018 – Max Levchin (transcript posted to Medium) (video)
- 2017 – Nick Offerman (transcript posted to Medium) (video)
- 2016 – Jeff Huber (PDF transcript)
- 2015 – Risa Juanita Lavizzo-Mourey (PDF transcript)
- 2014 – Colonel Michael Hopkins (PDF transcript)
- 2013 – Shahid Khan (PDF transcript)
- 2012 – Cokie Roberts, Orion Samuelson (transcripts not available)
- 2011 – William Daley (PDF transcript)
- 2010 – Timothy Shriver (PDF transcript)
- 2009 – Suze Orman (PDF transcript), Carl Schramm (PDF transcript)
- 2008 – Mannie Jackson (PDF transcript)
- 2007 – Jawed Karim (PDF transcript) (video)
- 2006 – Thomas M. Siebel (PDF transcript) (video)
- 2005 – Bill Geist (PDF transcript) (video)
- 2004 – Lani Guinier (PDF transcript)
- 2003 – Barry Bearak (PDF transcript)
- 2002 – Maya Angelou (transcript not available)
- 2001 – Stanley O. Ikenberry (PDF transcript)
- 2000 – Paul Simon
- 1999 – Richard Kaplan
- 1998 – Robert D. Novak
- 1997 – Diane Sawyer
- 1996 – George M. C. Fisher
- 1995- Stanley O. Ikenberry
- 1994 – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- 1993 – Marian Wright Edelman
- 1992 – Steven R. Nagel
- 1991 – Oscar Arias Sanchez
- 1990 – Carl Sagan
- 1989 – Richard Salant
- 1988 – George F. Will
- 1987 – Arnold O. Beckman
- 1986 – Frank H. T. Rhodes
- 1985 – Thomas A. Murphy
- 1984 – John E. Cribbet
- 1976-1983 – No speaker
- 1975 – Lyle H. Lanier
- 1974 – Robert Bingham Downs
- 1973 – Warren B. Cheston
- 1972 – None
- 1971 – David Dodds Henry
- 1970 – Allen S. Weller
- 1969 – Richard B. Ogilvie
- 1968 – William L. Everitt
- 1967 – David E. Lilienthal
- 1966 – Theodore M. Hesburgh
- 1965 – Leland John Hawort
- 1964 – W. Albert Noyes, Jr.
- 1963 – Henry T. Heald
- 1962 – Otto Kerner
- 1961- Lawrence A. Kimpton
- 1960 – James R. Killian, Jr.
- 1959 – Arthur S. Fleming
- 1958 – Thomas W. Baldwin
- 1957 – Henning Larsen
- 1956 – Robert D. Calkins
- 1955 – Russell J. Humbert
- 1954 – H. Clifford Northcott
- 1953 – Allan Nevins
- 1952 – Harlan H. Hatcher
- 1951 – Raymond Walters
- 1950 – Governor Adlai E. Stevenson
- 1949 – Herold C. Hunt