Graduation Speakers
| 1944 |
Alan Gregg P’44 Rockefeller Medical Foundation, President |
| 1946 |
Robert Frost G'46,'48 Poet |
| 1956 |
Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady, Social Reformer |
| 1957 |
David Reisman Harvard Sociologist, The Lonely Crowd |
| 1958 |
Elmer Rice Journalist |
| 1960 |
Walter Reuther P’60, ’65 Labor Organizer, President, UAW |
| 1962 |
Gordon Boyce President, Experiment in International Living |
| 1965 |
John Kenneth Galbraith Economist |
| 1969 |
Richard Sewall P’65 English Professor, Yale University |
| 1971 |
William Sloan Coffin Yale Chaplain |
| 1972 |
Howard Zinn Historian, A People's History of the United States |
| 1972 |
Richard Goodwin Presidential advisor, author |
| 1977 |
Bob Woodward Journalist, The Washington Post |
| 1978 |
Helen and Scott Nearing Writers, Founders, Social Science Institute |
| 1980 |
Tom Wicker Journalist, The New York Times |
| 1981 |
B.F. Skinner Psychologist |
| 1982 |
Clark Clifford Attorney |
| 1985 |
Wallace Shawn '61 Film Writer, Actor |
| 1986 |
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '69 Lieutenant Governor of Maryland |
| 1987 |
Harriet Crosby '64 Founder, Institute for Soviet-American Relations |
| 1989 |
Errol Morris '65 Filmmaker, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time |
| 1990 |
John Wirth '54 Professor of history, Stanford University |
| 1991 |
Peter Shumlin P’09, ’10 Vermont State Senator |
| 1993 |
James Atlas Writer, Editor, The New York Times Magazine |
| 1995 |
Gerald Stern Poet |
| 1996 |
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo '77 Founder, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights |
| 1997 |
Timothy Daly '74 Actor Director |
| 1998 |
Dr. Leon Botstein President, Bard College |
| 1999 |
Demetria Royals ’73 Filmmaker |
| 2000 |
Paul Zaloom '73 "Beakman" on science educational TV show "Beakman's World" |
| 2001 |
Peter A. A. Berle Host and director of the radio program the Environment Show, and former president and chief executive officer of the National Audubon Society |
| 2003 |
Carol King P'75,'76,'78, G'96,'08,'10,'11 Educator, Civil Rights Activist |
| 2004 |
Jeffrey Hollender ’73 Founder of Seventh Generation |
| 2005 |
Tim Weiner '76 International Desk for the New York Times |
| 2006 |
James S.Merkel Sustainability Coordinator at Dartmouth College and author of the book, Radical Simplicity. |
| 2007 |
Eric Reeves Smith College professor and Darfur expert |
| 2008 |
Caitlin Baggott '95 Director of PolitiCorps |
| 2009 |
Reid Hoffman '85 (2009) Founder of LinkedIn |
| 2010 |
Josh Viertel (2010) President, Slow Foods USA |
