Commencement 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009, Mead Hall Lawn
Past Drew University Commencement Speakers
| 2009 | Gerald Stern, Poet |
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| 2008 | Cory Booker, Mayor of the City of Newark, New Jersey |
| 2007 | The Honorable Richard Codey, President New Jersey Senate |
| 2006 | Candy Crowley, senior political correspondent, CNN |
| 2005 | Thomas H. Kean, president of Drew University |
| 2004 | Shirley Tilghman, president of Princeton University |
| 2003 | Governor James E. McGreevey |
| 2002 | Bill Cosby, actor |
| 2001 | Richard Holbrooke, Former Ambassador to U.N. |
| 2000 | Bill Richardson, U.S. Secretary of Energy |
| 1999 | Christopher Reeve, actor |
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| 1998 | James Earl Jones, actor |
| 1997 | Governor Christine Todd Whitman |
| 1996 | First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| 1995 | Andrew Shue, Do Something Wendy Kopp, Teach for America |
| 1994 | Mario Cuomo |
| 1993 | Olympia Dukakis, actress |
| 1992 | David Halberstam, author |
| 1991 | Thomas Pickering, UN Ambassador |
| 1990 | George Romney, former Gov. of Michigan |
| 1989 | Arno Penzias |
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| 1988 | Rosalyn Yalow |
| 1987 | John Amos, actor |
| 1986 | Richard Reeves, journalist |
| 1985 | Bill Bradley, US Senator |
| 1984 | John Brademas, President of NYU |
| 1983 | Marie L. Garibaldi, New Jersey Supreme Court Justice |
| 1982 | Thomas H. Kean, Governor of New Jersey |
| 1981 | Dr. William O. Baker, Chairman (ret) Bell Laboratories |
| 1980 | Eudora Welty, Novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner |
| 1979 | Alan Alda, actor |
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| 1978 | Jean Rey, Ministre d'Etat, Belgium |
| 1977 | Jennifer E. Beaver, BA 1977, representing all of the schools |
| 1976 | Millicent Fenwick, Congresswoman, Fifth District of NJ |
| 1975 | Kenneth E. Grebenstein, SGA president, representing all schools |
| 1974 | Terry Sanford, President of Duke University |
| 1973 | William Pearson Tolley, Chancellor emeritus, Syracuse University |
| 1972 | Otto Klineberg, Director of the International Center for Intergroup Relations |
| 1971 | James E. Cheek, President of Howard University |
| 1970 | William R. Keast, President of Wayne State Universitiy |
| 1969 | Louis T. Benezet, President of Claremont University Center |
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| 1968 | Sharvy G. Umbeck, Chairman American Council on Education |
| 1967 | Erwin D. Canham, Editor in Chief, Christian Science Monitor |
| 1966 | Harry D. Gideonse, President Brooklyn College, CUNY |
| 1965 | Harrison E. Salisbury, Asst Managing Editor, NY Times |
| 1964 | Robert Fisher Oxnam, President of Drew University |
| 1963 | Robert Fisher Oxnam, President of Drew University |
| 1962 | Robert Fisher Oxnam, President of Drew University |
| 1961 | Robert Fisher Oxnam, President of Drew University |
| 1960 | Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator, NASA |
| 1959 | Fred G. Holloway, President of Drew University |
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| 1958 | Charles C. Parlin |
| 1957 | C. Douglas Dillon, Deputy Under Secretary of State |
| 1956 | Fred G. Holloway, President of Drew University |
| 1955 | Fred G. Holloway, President of Drew University |
| 1954 | Fred G. Holloway, President of Drew University |
| 1953 | Fred G. Holloway, President of Drew University |
| 1952 | Fred G. Holloway, President of Drew University |
| 1951 | Arolo Ayres Brown, President Emeritus, Drew University |
| 1950 | Rev. Donald B. Aldrich, Dean of the Chapel, Princeton University |