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 |
