Commencement Speakers 1900-
Before 1900, it was often (but not always) customary for all graduating seniors to speak at commencement. Records of commencement parts may be found with speeches and other commencement information in the class files.
This list is in reverse chronological order. To locate a specific decade
choose from the years below:
2000 /
1990 / 1980 / 1970
/ 1960 / 1950 / 1940
/ 1930 / 1920 / 1910
/ 1900
- 2007
- Larissa Curlik (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Haley Sara Bridger
- Anthony Joseph DiNicola
- 2006
- Ely Josef Delman (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- David Duhalde-Wine
- Alexandra Honor Yanikoski
- 2005
- Haliday Douglas (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Truc Trong Huynh
- Caitlin Susanne Woo
- 2004
- Shanique P. Brown (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Norman Joel Moser
- Alison Ashley Rau
- 2003
- George T. Hubbard (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Tyler Cowan Lange
- Gloria W. Shen
- 2002
- Phillip J. Prest (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Homa Mojtabai
- Tara A. Talbot
- 2001
- Michael Micciche III (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Christine Anne DeTroy
- Nathaniel Chase Vinton
- 2000
- Kristen Brooke Winters (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Gretchen Susan Selcke
- Naeem Ahmed
- 1999
- Charles Wyman Olcott (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Joy Maria Cushman
- Amit Shah
- 1998
- Peter Sims (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Christopher Martin Giordano
- Ranjit Rauniyar
- 1997
- Herlande Rosemond (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Calif Xuan Tran
- Julie Tess Johnson
- Sarah Page Hammond (alternate)
- 1996
- Andrew Jacob Lyczak (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Adriana Bratu
- Hugh Glenn Graham
- Timothy William Blakely (alternate)
- 1995
- L. Oliver Dorta Fernandez (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Holly Vanessa Malin
- Richard Franklin Bland
- 1994
- Sarah Jessica Thistle (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Jessica Ruth Skwire
- Iris Noemi Rodriguez-Fonseca
- 1993
- Karen Marie Kaliski (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Michele Lee Cobb
- Emily Elliot Platt
- 1992
- Marie Pele Gindhart (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Whitney Susan Smith
- Brendan Patrick Rielly
- 1991
- Dana Matthew Stanley
- Jenckyn Anne Goosby
- Kristin Leah Hall
- 1990
- Jennifer Lynn Goldsmith
- Jennifer Antonia Quagan
- Marnita Thompson
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- 1989
- Elizabeth Low Drier
- Todd Alan Caulfield
- John Edward Cahill III (speech may not have been delivered)
- Andrea Jill London
- 1988
- Laurie Masha Duchovny
- Samuel Brooks Shepherd
- Susan Maria L. Anderson
- 1987
- Suzanne Funk Colburn
- Matthew Henry J. Cordes
- Moira Danielle Kelly
- 1986
- Kurt Bentley Mack
- Jason Leland Adams '85
- Geoffrey Field Herman
- 1985
- Paul Edward Dyer
- Hossein Sadeghi-Nejad
- Peter Arthur Reed '84
- 1984
- Thomas John Putnam
- Kaoru Umino
- Garth Andrew Myers
- 1983
- Daniel Berns Shapiro
- Melissa Romaine Roderick
- Lisa Rachel Cooperman
- 1982
- Jeffrey Paul Hopkins
- Christopher Eli Kraus
- Wanda Evelyn Fleming
- Hermon Eugene Fleming, Jr.
- 1981
- Edith Anne Smith
- Lisa Marie Trusiani
- Charles Rodney Patton
- Daniel Burke Spears
- 1980
- Julie Ann Spector
- Barrett Fisher
- Peter Francis Honchaurk
- Theresa Skaling Fortin '81
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- 1979
- Cornelius James McCarthy
- Norman Frederick Carlin
- Michael Wayne Walker
- Diana S. Fried
- Cynthia Perri Neipris
- Lisa Beth Tessler
- Michael Aryeh Rozyne '78
- 1978
- Kenneth Alfred Clarke
- Linda Susan Bliss
- Patrick Leo Meehan
- John Joseph Studzinski
- 1977
- George Richard Alkalay
- Susan M. Pollak
- Joseph Anthony Farrell, Jr.
- William Lawrence Pohl
- 1976
- Julia Logan Anderson
- Nancy Elizabeth Collins
- David John Larsson
- Karen L. Schroeder
- 1975
- Paul William Dennett
- Deborah Mary Mann
- William Creighton Linsay, Jr.
- Dianne Marie Bazell
- 1974
- Arthur Ray Baker, Jr.
- William Stewart Blackburn
- Alvin Darnell Hall
- Edward George Simeone, Jr.
- 1973
- Charles Rinker Buck
- Saul Philip Greenfield
- Mark Lec Silverstein
- Deborah Ann Stanges
- 1972
- Jonathan Simms Piper
- C. Mitchell Goldman
- Everett Brown Carson '69
- Robert Lawrence Bassett
- 1971
- Mark Timothy Parker
- Martin Friedlander
- Timothy Judson Parsons
- Susan Dene Jacobson
- 1970
- Edward Howland Burtt, Jr.
- Clark Thomas Irwin, Jr.
- Harry Allan George
- George Steven Isaacson
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- 1969
- David James Hutchinson
- Timothy Allen Sabin
- Bradley Alan Bernstein
- Timothy O. Devlin
- 1968
- Nathaniel Beach Harrison
- Douglas William Lister
- Richard Burnham Spear
- Peter Francis Hayes
- 1967
- Thomas Hodge Allen
- Bruce Lawrence Bushey
- Richard Halle Bamberger
- David Frederic Huntington
- 1966
- Stephen Allen Kay
- David Emmert Brewster
- Raymond Edward Lapine
- Harold Robert Davis
- 1965
- Gary Crosby Brasor
- Donald John Krogstad
- Jonathan Carl Raymond
- Louis Arthur Fourcher
- 1964
- Geoffrey Williams Chapman
- Sanford Philip Markey
- William Lester Hughes, Jr.
- Jeffrey Martin Lang
- 1963
- Charles Na Li
- John Robert Russell
- Frank Robert Ciaccio
- Gotthard Karl Rudolf Galinsky
- 1962
- Henry Wilson Eastman
- Christian Peter Potholm II
- Francis Sabatino Mancini
- William Stephen Piper
- 1961
- Jonathan Church MacDonald
- Louis Stephen Asekoff
- Francis Herbert Fuller
- Stephen William Silverman
- 1960
- Peter Sheridan Smith
- Pierre Rodolphe Paradis
- Eric French Taylor
- John Thomas Gould, Jr.
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- 1959
- Reginald Whitney Mitchell '58
- George Raymond Babineau
- Peter Nicholas Anastas, Jr.
- David Alfred Kraner
- 1958
- David Cook Young
- Edward Leland Baxter
- Paul Zachary Lewis
- Allan Delmas Wooley, Jr
- 1957
- William John Beckett
- Robley Conant Wilson, Jr. '52
- John LaFollette Howland
- Ludwig Rang
- 1956
- Calvin Benjamin Kendall
- Henry Dyermoore Sherrerd '52
- John Steward LaCasce
- Raymond Foster Kierstead
- 1955
- William Van Syckel Carhart
- Sharab Wangfel Tenduf La
- George Curtis Webber, II
- Louis Edward Roberts '53
- 1954
- Gerard Lucien Dube '55
- Peter Blake Powell
- Paul Peter Brountas
- Christian Berend Johann von Hoyningen-Huene
- 1953
- Wilmot Brookings Mitchell, III
- James Richard Dorr
- Robert Johnston Chamberlain
- William Frank Wyatt, Jr.
- 1952
- Michael Andreas von Hoyningen-Huene
- Josiah Bridge '49
- Irving Paul Fleishman
- John Alan Ritsher
- 1951
- Keith Williams Harrison
- Carl Wilcken Roy
- Paul Huoschinsky
- Charles Rush Forker
- 1950
- Merton Goodell Henry
- Ronald Sargent Potts
- Harlan Berkley Peabody, Jr.
- John Albert Mitchell
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- 1949
- Charles Woodside Carruthers '50
- Frederick William Willey, Jr. '47
- Basil James Guy '47
- Lawrence Morrill Burke, Jr. '50
- 1948
- Richard Arthur Wiley '49
- Alexander Johnson Curtis '49
- Olaf Hansson
- Lewis Perley Pickett, Jr.
- 1947
- Paul Kendall Niven, Jr. '46
- James Eells, Jr. '48
- George Milner Hooten, Jr.
- Douglas Carmichael '44
- 1946
- Nathan Thomas Whitman '47
- Lacey Baldwin Smith '44
- 1945
- Theodore Roosevelt Saba '42
- Robert George O'Brien '44
- Philip Horn Hoffman
- 1944
- Ernest Martin Hopkins, LL.D.
- 1943
- John Ellsworth Hess '44
- Crawford Beecher Thayer '44
- George Alexander Burpee '44
- John Frederick Jaques
- 1942
- Charles Thomas Ireland, Jr.
- Robert Henry Lunt
- Frederick George Fisher, Jr.
- John Lincoln Baxter, Jr.
- Donald Charles Keaveney
- Robert Bruce Hill
- 1941
- Ashton Holman White
- Charles Henry Mergendahl, Jr.
- Norman Allan Workman
- David Watson Daly Dickson
- Lendall Barton Knight
- Ward Theodore Hanscom
- 1940
- Ernest Francis Andrews, Jr.
- Jeffrey James Carre
- Richard Townsend Eveleth
- Richard Bigelow Sanborn
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- 1939
- Louis William Brummer, Jr.
- Philip Storeer Campbell
- Milton Myer Goldberg
- Robert Shiland Mullen
- Theodore Stern
- 1938
- Donald Franklin Bradford
- Philip Freeland Chapman, Jr.
- Andrew Hood Cox
- William Frost
- Edward Lynch O'Neill, Jr.
- 1937
- Richard Kenneth Barksdale
- Charles Foss Brewster
- William Smith Burton
- Frederick Landis Gwynn
- Paul Welsh
- 1936
- Bernard Nathan Freedman
- Lawrence Sargent Hall
- Burroughs Mitchell
- Everett Lewis Swift
- Howard Hollister Vogel, Jr.
- 1935
- Donald Frederic Barnes
- Frederic Alvin Fisher, Jr.
- Joseph Lyman Fisher
- Allan Forbes Hubbell
- John Otis Parker
- 1934
- William Ward Fearnside
- Alfred Soroker Hayes
- Walter Drew Hinkley
- Herbert Clay Lewis
- W. Chandler Redman
- 1933
- Albert Samuel Davis, Jr.
- Jacob Saul Fine
- Donald Pearson McCormick
- Henry Allan Perry
- Edward Davis Woodberry Spingarn
- 1932
- Hubert Crampton Barton, Jr.
- Melcher Prince Fobes
- George Burgess Pottle
- George Tingey Sewall
- Morrill McArthur Tozier
- 1931
- Albert Edward Jenkins
- Robert Morton McFarland
- Albert Francis Richmond
- Paul Andrew Walker
- Francis Alfred Wingate
- 1930
- Harrison Merrill Davis, Jr.
- William Henry Dean, Jr.
- George William Freiday, Jr.
- James Mitchell Parker
- George Stuart Willard
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- 1929
- Richard Lindley Brown
- William Butler Mills
- Harold Saul Schiro
- Philip Allerton Smith
- Dana Merrill Swan
- 1928
- George Gardner Beckett
- Ralph Pierson Case
- Joseph Hubbard Darlington
- Maurice Edgar Graves
- 1927
- Gifford Davis
- Chi-Hai Fong
- Paul Arthur Palmer
- John Kimball Snyder
- Donald Wedgwood Webber
- 1926
- Albert Abrahamson
- William Frederick Gordon Bell
- Carl Kenneth Hersey
- Herbert Lincoln Houghton
- 1925
- Athern Park Daggett
- Edward Garland Fletcher
- Lawrence Brock Leighton
- Crosby Gilman Hodgman
- 1924
- Walter Knowlton Gutman
- George Edwin Hill
- Harvey Bulfinch Lovell
- Edward Wesley Raye
- Clarence Dana Rouillard
- 1923
- Per Otto Gunnar Bergenstrahle
- Theodore Wells Cousens
- William Beale Jacob
- George Hunnewell Quinby
- Frederick King Turgeon
- 1922
- Edward Billings Ham
- Ralph Brown Knight
- Hartley Fremont Simpson, Jr.
- George Baker Welch
- 1921
- Maurice Sydney Coburne
- Harry Helson
- Robert Winthrop Morse
- Alexander Thomson
- 1920
- Jere Abbott
- Robert Haviland Adams
- Alexander Henderson
- Irving Trefethen Richards
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- 1919
- Lewis Albert Burleigh, Jr.
- Fred Babson Chadbourne
- Roy Anderson Foulke
- Bela Winslow Norton
- 1918
- Harlan Lewis Harrington
- Paul Campbell Young
- 1917
- Philip Hacker Cobb
- Edward Carleton Moran, Jr.
- Forbes Rickard, Jr.
- Joseph Walton Tuttle, Jr.
- 1916
- Sydney MacGillvary Brown
- Alfred Charles Kinsey
- Guy Whitman Leadbetter
- Donald Sherman White
- 1915
- George William Bacon
- Robert Peter Tristam Coffin
- John Ralph Hamel
- Austin Harbutt MacCormick
- Kenneth Elmer Ramsey
- 1914
- Elwyn Collins Gage
- Leonard Henry Gibson, Jr.
- Robert Devore Leigh
- Kenneth Allan Robinson
- Neal Dow Tuttle
- Paul Lambert White
- 1913
- Edward Oliver Ticknor Baker
- Laurence Alden Crosby
- Cedric Russell Crowell
- Clifton Orville Page
- Alfred Henry Sweet
- Fred Dixon Wish, Jr.
- 1912
- Charles Francis Adams
- Eugene Francis Bradford
- Kenneth Churchill
- John Arnett Mitchell
- Edward Longworth Morss
- Ellison Smullen Purington
- 1911
- John Leslie Brummett
- Arthur Harrison Cole
- Charles Boardman Hawes
- Chester Elijah Kellogg
- William Folsom Merrill
- Earl Baldwin Smith
- 1910
- John Leland Crosby
- Edgar Crossland
- Robert Hale
- Henry Quinby Hawes
- Warren Eastman Robinson
- Ralph Lane Thompson
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- 1909
- Harrison Atwood
- Harold Hitz Burton
- Max Pearson Cushing
- Dudley Hovey
- Jasper Jacob Stahl
- Fred Veston Stanley
- 1908
- Jay Lyman Gray
- Arthur Harold Ham
- George Palmer Hyde
- Arthur Lincoln Robinson
- Carl Merrill Robinson
- Chester Henry Yeaton
- 1907
- George Allen Bower
- Edward Augustin Duddy
- Seth Gurney Haley
- Roscoe Henderson Hupper
- William Shephard Linnell
- Charles Wilbert Snow
- 1906
- James Austin Bartlett
- Philip Freeland Chapman
- Charles Luff Favinger
- Oscar Peterson
- George Carroll Soule
- Robie Reed Stevens
- 1905
- Stanley Perkins Chase
- Edwin LaForest Harvey
- Henry Alfred Lermond
- Arthur Lewis McCobb
- John Edward Newton
- Leonard Augustus Pierce
- 1904
- John Merrill Bridgham
- Myrton Andrew Bryant
- Philip MacLean Clark
- Marshall Perley Cram
- William Edward Lunt
- Arthur Carlton Shorey
- 1903
- George Bourne Farnsworth
- William Morris Houghton
- Selden Osgood Martin
- Clement Franklin Robinson
- Scott Clement Ward Simpson
- Leon Valentine Walker
- 1902
- Robert Sanford Benson
- Lyman Abbott Cousens
- Daniel Irving Gross
- Eugene Robert Kelley
- Ralph Bushnell Stone
- George Rowland Walker
- 1901
- Ripley Lyman Dana
- Murray Snell Danforth
- George Lothrop Lewis
- Kenneth Charles Morton Sills
- George Currier Wheeler
- Stanley Chandler Willey
- 1900
- Harry Annesley Beadle
- Clifford Sawyer Bragdon
- Henry Woodbury Cobb
- Frederick Crosby Lee
- Everett Birney Stackpole
- William Billings Woodbury
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Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421
email: scaref@bowdoin.edu / telephone: (207) 725-3288
©Bowdoin College 2004