Commencement Speeches 2005

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COMMENCEMENT
  C-SPAN SPECIAL
Commencement Speeches 2005
Every summer, C-SPAN offers a selection of the graduation season's college commencement addresses. This year's speeches air on American Perspectives every Sat. at 8pm on C-SPAN.


PREVIOUSLY AIRED COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES 
 
 
THURSDAY, JUNE 2: 
  Tom Wolfe, Author
Washington and Lee Univ. - Lexington, VA  

MONDAY, MAY 30: 
  Brian Williams, NBC Anchor
Bates College - Lewiston, ME  

SUNDAY, MAY 29: 
  Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, Gretchen Morgenson
St. Olaf College - Northfield, MN  

SATURDAY, MAY 28: 
  Pres. of the American Bar Assn. Robert Grey
Northern Illinois Univ. - DeKalb, IL  

THURSDAY, MAY 26: 
  Fmr. Vice Pres. Al Gore
Johns Hopkins Univ. - Baltimore, MD
  Pres. George W. Bush
U.S. Naval Academy - Annapolis, MD
 

SUNDAY, MAY 22: 
  Tom Hanks, Actor & Producer
Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, NY
  Afghani Pres. Hamid Karzai
Boston Univ. - Boston, MA
  Chief Justice of Massachusetts
Supreme Court Margaret Marshall

Brandeis Univ. - Waltham, MA
  Chris Matthews, Creator and Host of "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on MSNBC and host of "The Chris Matthews Show"
Quinnipiac Univ. - Hamden, CT
  Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)
George Washington Univ. - Washington, DC

SATURDAY, MAY 21: 
  Pres. George W. Bush
Calvin College - Grand Rapids, MI
  Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN)
Valparaiso Univ. Law School - Valparaiso, IN
  Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
American Univ. - Washington, DC
  Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for
NBC News

Univ. of MD - College Park, MD
  Fmr. Solicitor Gen. Theodore Olson
Univ. Georgia Law School - Athens, GA
  New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
State Univ. of New York - Albany, NY
  Dwight Tierney, MTV founder and Senior Exec. V.P. for Viacom Inc.
Monmouth College - Monmouth, IL

FRIDAY, MAY 20: 
  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Goucher College - Baltimore, MD

MONDAY, MAY 16: 
  Tom Brokaw, Fmr. Anchor and Managing Editor of
NBC Nightly News

Emory Univ. - Atlanta, GA

SUNDAY, MAY 15: 
  Fed. Chairman Alan Greenspan
Univ. of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

SATURDAY, MAY 14: 
  U.N. Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan
Univ. of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
  Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Christendom College - Front Royal, VA
  4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Harvie Wilkinson
Duke Univ. School of Law - Durham, NC
  Fmr. Independent Counsel Ken Starr
Hillsdale College - Hillsdale, MI

MONDAY, MAY 9: 
  Dana Gioia, Author
Seton Hall Univ. - South Orange, NJ

SUNDAY, MAY 8: 
  Judith McHale, President & CEO, Discovery Communications
American Univ. - Washington, DC

  Tim Russert, Journalist and News Presenter for NBC and MSNBC
American Univ. - Washington, DC

SATURDAY, MAY 7: 
  Lonnie Bunch, Historian and Educator
Lake Forest College - Lake Forest, IL
  Stephen King, Author
Univ. of Maine - Orono, ME
 
 
MAY 2005: 
  Fmr. NAACP CEO Kweisi Mfume
Howard Univ. - Washington, DC
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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