Charles O. Rossotti, 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue, will deliver the commencement address to the Simon School graduating Class of '99 Sunday, June 13, 1999, at 10:00 a.m. in the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York.
Microsoft Founder Paul Allen will address grads when he receives Washington State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Award-winning television journalist and talk show host Charlie Rose will deliver the commencement address to 1,300 graduates and 4,200 guests of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University on Sunday, May 9, 1999.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., noted author and director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, will deliver the commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 23, at 10:30 a.m.
Acclaimed author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. will give the address at Agnes Scott College's 110th commencement exercises at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 15.
Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt--a leading advocate of the European Monetary Unit (EMU) and an influential voice in European politics and economics--will deliver the commencement speech at Rice University on Saturday, May 15.
Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, and Shirley M. Malcom, director of education and human resources at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will gave commencement addresses at the University of Michigan graduation ceremonies April 30-May 2.
Dr. Nathan O. Hatch, provost of the University of Notre Dame and a distinguished alumnus of Wheaton College, will address both the undergraduate and graduate classes of 1999 during commencement exercises at Wheaton College on May 8-9, 1999.
A college dean known for his best-selling autobiography about growing up black in Muncie, and a former CEO of a Fortune 500 company will be awarded honorary doctorates at Ball State University's May 8 commencement.
More than 3,500 University of California, San Diego students will receive their degrees during commencement ceremonies scheduled June 6, June 12 and June 13 on the La Jolla campus. For the third year in a row, an all-campus commencement will precede individual graduation rites held by the various UCSD colleges.
On May 22, Maya Angelou, world-renowned author, educator, producer, director, actress and civil rights activist, will speak at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou will receive an honorary degree.
Houston Astros Baseball Club owner and Texas business leader Drayton McLane Jr., will be the keynote speaker for The University of Tulsa's 103rd commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 8, 1999.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Elie Wiesel--Nobel laureate, human rights advocate and world-renowned Jewish scholar--will be Michigan State University's 1999 spring convocation speaker.
Christine Todd Whitman, Republican governor of New Jersey, will serve as the keynote speaker at Dickinson College's 226th commencement ceremony.
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.
Dr. Judah Folkman to deliver Commencement Address at Muhlenberge College
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.
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.
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.
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.
Boston Reverend Eugene Rivers, warrior against teen crime will speak at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus's 69th Commencement on Thursday, May 20.
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.
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.
Bill Daley delivers the commencement address in front of 1,400 University of Illinois at Chicago and their families.
Celebrated actor James Earl Jones will be Vassar College's 135th commencement speaker on Sunday, May 23.
Madeleine Albright will address the afternoon ceremony at the May 15 University of Arizona Commencement. She and Ben Vereen will receive honorary doctorates.
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