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Baccalaureate Speakers
Year | Speaker |
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Prior to 1910 | the President |
1910 | Prof. Edward I. Bosworth |
1911-1925 | the President |
1926 | Rev. Dr. Thomas Wesley Graham |
1927 | the President |
1928 | Dr. D. F. Bradley '82 |
1929 | Dr. J. B. Hayden '09 |
1930 | Dr. Harold C. Phillips |
1931 | Dr. Francis J. McConnell |
1932 | Dwight J. Bradley '12 |
1933 | President W. J. Hutchins |
1934 | Dr. Carl S. Patton '88 |
1935 | Dr. J. T. Stocking |
1936 | Douglas Horton |
1937 | Raymond Calkins |
1938 | John Edgar Park |
1939 | Albert W. Palmer |
1940 | Albert Buckner Coe |
1941 | Walter William Van Kirk |
1942 | Norman Vincent Peale |
1943 | Douglas Horton |
1944 | Boynton Merrill |
1945 | Frank Halliday Ferris |
1946 | Charles Whitney Gilkey |
1947 | Rev. Chester B. Emerson |
1948 | Rev. Thomas W. Graham |
1949 | Dr. Harold Cooke Philips |
1950 | Dr. Clarence Tucker Craig |
1951 | Dr. Roland Herbert Bainton |
1952 | Dr. Leonard Albert Stidley |
1953 | Dr. Karl Heath Kopf |
1954 | Dr. Douglas Erin Steere |
1955 | Dr. Albert Jacob Penner |
1956 | Dr. Harry Hitt Crane |
1957 | Dr. Theodore Otto Wedel |
1958 | Dr. Jesse Edward Thomas |
1959 | Dr. Joseph Ferguson King |
1960 | Dr. Walter Marshall Horton |
1961 | Dr. Victor Obenhaus |
1962 | Rev. Stephen Trowbridge Crary |
1963 | Rev. Herbert Ensign Van Meter |
1964 | Rev. Lawrence Lazelle Durgin |
1965 | R. H. Edwin Espy |
1966 | Rev. Robbins Strong |
1967 | Rev. Paul William Wedgewood Green |
1968 | Rev. B. Whitman Dennison |
1969 | Rev. Paul R. Dettman |
1970 | Donald K. Swearer |
1971 | David Mechem Byers |
1972 | Edward LeRoy Long, Jr. |
1973 | David Mechem Byers |
1974 | George Simons |
1975 | Rev. Peter Beebe |
1976 | Rev. Dr. Eleanor Jeannetta Woodcock |
1977 | Clyde A. Holbrook |
1978 | Dean Carl H. Marbury |
1979 | Rev. Dr. Howard Schomer |
1980 | Robert Rankin |
1981 | Rev. O. Eugene Pickett |
1982 | Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. |
1984 | Rev. John A. Kruse |
1985 | Rev. Dr. George A. Parsons |
1986 | Rev. Richard A. Thompson |
1987 | Rev. Dr. Harvey G. Cox |
1988 | Rev. Albert Ladue Jeandheur |
1989 | Rev. Dr. Major J. Jones |
1990 | Rev. Lloyd E. Gressle |
1991 | Rev. Dr. John Dixon Elder '53 |
1992 | Alda Marsh Morgan |
1993 | Rev. Dr. Fred L. Steen |
1994 | Rev. Susan E. McGarry |
1995 | Rabbi Daniel Dorfman |
1996 | Rev. Dr. William F. Schulz '71 |
1997 | Jane Redmont '72 |
1998 | Rev. Dr. John Dixon Elder '53 |
1999 | Johnnetta Betsch Cole '57 |
2000 | Rev. Jim Wallis |
2001 | Bishop Anthony Pilla |
2002 | Charles M. Sennott |
2003 | Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi |
2004 | Imam Dr. Ahmad Sakr |
2005 | Sharon Daloz Parks |
2006 | Dr. Joseph E. Lowery |
2007 | Dr. David W. Orr |
2008 | Gilbert C. Meilaender, Jr. |
2009 | Rev. Prof. Peter J. Gomes |
2010 | Rabbi David Saperstein |
2011 | James Carroll |
2012 | Daisy Khan |
2013 | Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia |
2014 | Mary Evelyn Tucker |
2015 | Johnnetta B. Cole |
2015 | Marian Wright Edelman |
2015 | Alan B. Wachtel |
2015 | Harris L. Wofford |
2016 | Rev. Frank Chikane* |
2017 | Rabbi Jill Jacobs |