1914

The Honorable Thomas Mott Osborne, Auburn, New York

1915

Chancellor David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford Junior University

1916

Dr. William Oxley Thompson, President, Ohio State University

1917

Dr. Samuel M. Crothers, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1918

Dr. Liberty H. Bailey, Ithaca, New York

1919

Dr. Robert M. Wenley, University of Michigan

1920

Dean Harry Luman Russell, University of Wisconsin

1921

The Honorable Woodridge N. Ferris, Big Rapids, Michigan

1922

David Friday, President

1923

Dr. John W. Laird, President

1924

Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball, Cornell University

1925

The Honorable Frank O. Lowden, Illinois

1926

Dr. Francis J. McConnell

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

Dr. Charles R. McKenny, President, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti

1932

1933

Dr. W. D. Henderson, Director of University Extension, University of Michigan

1934

Dr. Ernest O. Melby, Professor of Education, Northwestern University

1935

Professor Edwin Mims, Head of Department of English, Vanderbilt University

1936

Dr. Gordon Laing, Professor in the University of Chicago

1937

William G. Cameron, Ford Motor Company

1938

The Honorable Frank Murphy, Governor of Michigan

1939

Dr. Howard C. Elliott, President, Purdue University

1940

Dr. Allen A. Stockdale, Speakers' Bureau, National Association of Manufacturers, New York

1941

Dr. Raymond A. Kent, President, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

1942

Dr. John J. Tiver, President, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

1943

Dr. C.A. Dykstra, President, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1944

Dr. Howard L. Bevis, President, Ohio State University, Columbia

1945

Dr. Franklin B. Snyder, President, Northwestern University, Evanston

1946

Dr. Edmund E. Day, President, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1947

Dr. James L. Morrill, President, University of Minnesota

1948

Charles F. Kettering

1949

The Honorable David Lilienthal, Chairman, United States Atomic Commission

1950

The Honorable Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States

1951

The Honorable Nelson A. Rockefeller, Chairman, International Advisory Board

CHANGE TO FALL. WINTER AND SPRING COMMENCEMENTS

1951-F:

Dr. W. W. Whitehouse, President, Albion College

1952-W:

Dr. C. L. Anspach, President, Central Michigan College

1952-S:

Paul G. Hoffman, Director of the Ford Foundation

1952-F:

Dr. John S. Everto, President, Kalamazoo College

1953-W:

Dr. Paul V. Sangren, President, Western Michigan College

1953-S:

Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, President of Purdue University

1953-F:

Dr. Eugene Elliott, President, Eastern Michigan College

1954-W:

Dr. John S. Harker, President, Alma College

1954-S:

Dr. Arthur S. Adams, President, American Council on Education

1954-F:

Dr. Harry Newburn, President, Education, Television and Radio Center

1955-W:

Dr. James W. Miller, Controller for the State of Michigan

1955-S:

Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.

1955-F:

Dr. Jon A. Dawson, President, Adrian College

1956-W:

Dr. Welmer K. Hicks, President, Kalamazoo College

1956-S:

Dr. Virgil M. Hancher, President, State University of Iowa

1956-F:

Dean Charles E. Odegaard, College of Literature, University of Michigan

1957-W:

Dr. L. Dale Faunce, Vice President, Western Michigan College

1957-S:

The Honorable Richard M. Nixon, Vice President of the United States

1957-F:

Reverend Robert D. Swanson, President, Alma College

1958-W:

Dr. John Van Pelt, President, Michigan College of Mining and Technology

1958-S:

The Honorable Adlai E. Stevenson

1958-F:

Dr. Edgar Harden, Northern State College

1959-W:

Dr. Gus Turbeville, President, Northland College

1959-S:

The Right Honorable John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada

1959-F:

Dr. Irwin J. Lubbers, President, Hope College

1960-W:

Dr. Victor F. Spathelf, President, Ferris Institute

1960-S:

The Honorable Harry S. Truman, Thirty-third President of the United States

1960-F:

Dr. A.L. Knoblauch, President, Western Illinois University

1961-W:

Dr. Louis W. Norris, President, Albion College

1961-S:

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

1961-F:

George Romney, President, American Motors Corporation

1962-W:

Stephen S. Nisbet, President, Constitutional Convention

1962-S:

The Honorable Michael J. Mansfield, United States Senator from Montana

1962-F:

Dr. Samuel Miller Brownell, Superintendent of Public Schools, Detroit

1963-W:

The Very Reverend Laurence V. Britt, President, University of Detroit

1963-S:

The Honorable Frederick Russell Kappel, Chairman of the Board, A.T.&T.

1963-F:

Mr. Durward B. Varner, Chancellor of Oakland University

1964-W:

Walter P. Reuther, President, United Auto Workers and Vice President, AFL-CIO

1964-S:

Dr. John W. Gardner, President, Carnegie Corporation

1964-F:

The Honorable Philip A. Hart, United States Senator from Michigan

1965-W:

The Honorable Gerald R. Ford, United States Representative, Fifth District, Michigan

1965-S:

The Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States

1965-F:

The Honorable John C. Mackie, Member of Congress, Seventh District of Michigan

1966-W:

The Honorable Martha W. Griffiths, Member of Congress, 17th District of Michigan

1966-S:

The Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey, Vice President of the United States

1966-F:

Stephen J. Wright, President of the United Negro College Fund

1967-W:

O. Meredith Wilson, President, University of Minnesota

1967-S:

President John A. Hannah, Michigan State University

1967-F:

Robben W. Fleming, President-Designate, University of Michigan

1968-W:

Dr. Logan Wilson, President, American Council on Education

1968-S:

Dr. Benjamin Eligah Mays, President Emeritus, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia

1968-F:

The Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, President, Notre Dame University

1969-W:

Dr. Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture

1969-S:

Dr. Calvin Hastings Plimpton, President, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

1969-F:

Dr. Kingman Brewster, Jr., President of Yale University

1970-W:

William David McElroy, Director, National Science Foundation

1970-S:

Mrs. Esther Peterson (Oliver A.), Legislative Representative for Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO

1970-F:

Durward B. Varner, Chancellor, University of Nebraska

1971-W:

The Honorable Wade H. McCree, Jr., Judge, United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, Detroit

1971-S:

Alan Pifer, President, Carnegie Corporation

1971-F:

John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University

1972-W:

Vernon E. Jordon, Jr., Executive Director, National Urban League

1972-S:

Osborn Elliott, Chairman of the Board, Newsweek

1972-F:

Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

1973-W:

Miss Nancy Hanks, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

1973-S:

Walter Cronkite, Managing Editor, CBS Evening News

1973-F:

Mrs. Barbara Ward, International Economist

1974-W:

Robben W. Fleming, President, University of Michigan

1974-S:

The Honorable Edward W. Brooke, Massachusetts, The United States Senate

1974-F:

Van Cliburn, Pianist

1975-W:

The Honorable James G. O'Hara, Representative, The State of Michigan, The United States House of Representatives

1975-S:

Katherine Graham, Publisher of the Washington Post

1975-F:

Clark Kerr, Chairman, Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education

1976-W:

Russel E. Train, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

1976-S:

George W. Ball, Partner, Lehman Brothers, Inc. and former Under Secretary of State

1976-F:

Martha Griffiths, Former United States Congresswoman, and Attorney

1977-W:

John A. Meyers, Publisher of Sports Illustrated

1977-S:

The Honorable Andrew J. Young, United States Ambassador to the United Nations

1977-F:

Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., President, Michigan State University

1978-W:

Thomas A. Bartlett, President, Association of American Universities

1978-S:

The Honorable Thomas S. Foley, Representative, State of Washington, United States House of Representatives

1978-F:

Richard C. Atkinson, Ph.D., Director, National Science Foundation

1979-W:

Gene F. Jankowske, President, CBS Broadcast Group

1979-S:

John A. Hannah, President Emeritus, Michigan State University

1979-F:

Walter Adams, Former President, Distinguished Professor in Economics, Michigan State University

1980-W:

Cospeakers:   Eric John Berglund                            Diane Ellen Adunczyk

                       Honors Graduate, 1978                     Honors Graduate, 1979

1980-S:

Edgar L. Harden, President Emeritus, Michigan State University

1980-F:

The Honorable William D. Ford, United States Congressman

1981-W:

Peter S. Carlson, John A. Hannah Professor, Michigan State University

1981-S:

Francis James McDonald, President, General Motors

1981-F:

Cospeakers:   Benjamin Streeter, III                         Ann Waldron

                       Honors Graduate, 1976                     Honors Graduate, 1980

1982-W:

David K. Scott, Ph.D., John A. Hannah Professor in Nuclear Science, Michigan State University

1982-S:

The Honorable William G. Milliken, Governor of the State of Michigan

1982-F:

Cospeakers:   Steven A. Polio                                  Susan Finkbiner Bartz

                       Honors Graduate, 1977,1980            Honors Graduate, 1980

1983-W:

Dr. Guy L. Bush, Professor in Evolutionary Biology

1983-S:

The Honorable James J. Blanchard, Governor of the State of Michigan

1983-F:

Cospeakers:   Craig A. Fedore                                 Pamela K. Withrow

                       Honors Graduate, 1978                     Honors Graduate, 1975

1984-W:

Linda Wagner, Professor of English, Michigan State University

1984-S:

M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for International Development

1984-F:

Cospeakers:   Judith Brown-King                             Steven P. Spivey

                       Graduate, 1983                                  Graduate, 1977

1985-W:

Daniel R. Ilgen, John A. Hannah Professor in Psychology & Management

1985-S:

Richard H. Austin, Secretary of State, State of Michigan

1985-F:

Cospeakers:   Michael McConnell                            Mary Norton McConnell

                       Honors Graduate, 1976                     Honors Graduate, 1977

1986-W:

Martin J. Bukovac, Distinguished Professor, Department of Horticulture

1986-S:

John DiBiaggio, President, Michigan State University

1986-F:

Cospeakers:   Valente Espinoza                               David Hales

                       Graduate, 1985                                  Graduate, 1984

1987-W:

Ruth Hamilton, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology

1987-S:

Joe H. Stroud, Editor, Detroit Free Press

1987-F:

Harold T. Shapiro, President, University of Michigan

1988-W:

The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson

1988-S:

Robert L. Clodius, President, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges

1988-F:

Clifton R. Wharton, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund

1989-W:

Darlene C. Hine, Hannah Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University

1989-S:

Lauro F. Cavazos, United States Secretary of Education

1989-F:

Stevland Morris (A.K.A. Stevie Wonder)

1990-W:

Abel B. Sykes, Jr., President, Lansing Community College

1990-S:

Lee A. Iacocca, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Chrysler Corporation

1990-F:

Molly K. Brennan, Rhodes Scholar, Class of 1982

1991-W:

Gordon Hirabayashi, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada

1991-S:

The Honorable John M. Engler, Governor, The State of Michigan

1991-F:

Walter Adams, Former President, Distinguished Professor in Economics, MSU

1992-W:

Harold (Red) Poling, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board, Ford Motor Company

1992-S:

Walter E. Massey, Director, National Science Foundation

CHANGED TO FALL AND SPRING COMMENCEMENTS

1992-F:

Dick Beals, Voice Actor

1993-S:

Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State, The United States

1993-F:

Mary Fisher, Founder, Family AIDS Network

1994-S:

Ernest Green, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers

1994-F:

Peter A Seligmann, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Conservation International

1995-S:

The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, Forty-second President of the United States

1995-S:

Ingrid Saunders Jones, Vice President of Corporate External Affairs for the Coca-Cola Company and Chairperson of the Coca-Cola Foundation

1995-F:

Frederik Meijer, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Meijer Incorporated

The Honorable Spencer Abraham, The United States Senate

1996-S:

Helen Thomas, United Press International, White House Bureau Chief

1996-F:

The Honorable David C. Hollister, Mayor, The City of Lansing, Michigan

William David Brohn, Orchestrator, Broadway Theater

1997-S:

William H. Gray, III, President and Chief Executive Officer, The College Fund/United Negro College Fund

1997-F:

Branford Marsalis, Grammy Award Winning Saxophonist and Educator, Catherine Herrick Cobb Distinguished Lecturer at Michigan State University

John F. Smith, Jr., Chairman of the Board, CEO, President, General Motors Corporation

1998-S:

Gregory Kelser, Former Professional Basketball Player for the NBA, and Sports Broadcaster

1998-F:

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author, journalist and PBS and NBC panelist/commentator

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Sr Foreign Policy Advisor

1999-S:

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize

1999-F:

Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2000-S:

Dr. James D. Wofensohn, President, The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.

2000-F:

Alejandro Junco de la Vega, Award-winning journalist, and Publisher, Grupo Reforma, Monterrey, Mexico

Jeffrey N. Cole, Honors College Alum 1970, Former Chairman and CEO, Ferrous Processing and Trading Company, Birmingham, MI

2001-S:

Thomas Izzo, Head Coach, Men=s Basketball, Intercollegiate Athletics, Michigan State University

Ronald Mason, Head Coach, Hockey, Intercollegiate Athletics, Michigan State University

2001-F:

W. Clark Bunting, Executive Vice President and General Manager, The Discovery Channel, Bethesda, Maryland

Lee C. Bollinger, President, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2002-S:

The Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America

2002-F:

Eli Broad, Chairman, AIG SunAmerica Inc. Founder, The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, California

Eleanor M. Josaitis, Chief Operating Office and Cofounder, Focus: HOPE, Detroit, Michigan

2003-S:

The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm, 47^th Governor of the State of Michigan

2003-F:

The Honorable Deborah A. Stabenow, United States Senator from the State of Michigan

Bernard B. Kerik, Author and Chief Executive Officer, Giuliani-Kerik LLC, New York, New York

2004-S:

Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, National Security Council, Washington, D.C.

2004-F:

Dan L. DeGrow, Superintendent, St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA)

The Honorable Carl Levin, United States Senator from the State of Michigan

2005-S:

Dr. Maya Angelou, Best-Selling Author and Inaugural Poet, Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Historian, Actress, Playwright, Producer and Director.

2005-F:

Dr. Jared M. Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, and Professor Geography, UCLA

Dr. Mary R. Dawson, Curator Emeritus, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA

2006-S:

Berry Gordy, Founder of Motown Records