Bowdoin Commencement Speakers, 1900-
Before 1900, it was often (but not always) customary for all graduating seniors to speak at commencement. Records of those nineteenth-century commencement parts may be found with speeches and other commencement information in the class files.
Currently, two seniors are selected to deliver commencement addresses and a third student is awarded the honor of delivering a Baccalaureate address.
- 2023
- Sarah Lührmann (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Ethan Drake McLear
- Ayana Ray Opong-Nyantekyi
- 2022
- Brianna Marie Cunliffe (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Journey Browne
- Ryan Matthey Britt
- 2021
- Sarisha Kurup
- David Zhou
- Ruby Chimereucheya Ahaiwe
- 2020
- Julianna Lenoff
- Kiley Mamadou Diaw
- James O'Shea
- 2019
- Gerlin Leu (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Anuoluwapo Adebunmi Asoulu
- Julia Jeanne O’Rourke
- 2018
- Diana Furukawa (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Jepté Vergara Benitez
- Jasper Houston
- Helen Galvin Ross
- 2017
- Laura Hernandez (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Starling Irving
- Raisa Tolchinsky
- 2016
- Mara Reyes (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Darren Walker (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Matthew Williams (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Bill De La Rosa
- Rachel Snyder
- 2015
- Robert Matthew Feeney (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Margaret Ruth Lindeman (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Stephanie "Stevie" Lane
- Jared Todd Littlejohn
- 2014
- Samuel Bernard Burnim (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- James Wholley Denison IV
- Kate Kearns
- 2013
- Marissa Daisy Alioto (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Hannah Elisabeth Glover
- RaiNesha L. Miller
- 2012
- Tanu Kumar (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- William Marvin Alexander III
- Chanwoong Baek
- 2011
- Kelsey Aaron Goldstine Cole (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Joelinda Coichy
- Edward Stevens Gottfried
- 2010
- Nathan Irving Isaacson (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Luke John Mondello
- Jessica Jung Eun Song
- 2009
- Mary Helen Miller (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Samantha Lena Ollivierre-Scully
- Ian Fisher Yaffe
- 2008
- Daniel Farrell Brady (speech delivered at Baccalaureate)
- Vanessa Lisbeth Vidal Castellanos
- Nathan Reuben Chaffetz
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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