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Commencement Speakers

1892     Prof. W. C. Perry

1905     Prof. S. A. Long 1896 

1907     William W. Parson, President of Indiana State Normal

1908     Dr. Robert L. Kelly, President of Earlham College

1909

1910     Dr. Robert J. Aley, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

1911

1912     Dr. L. J. Rettger

1913     Hon. J. Frank Hanley

1914     Dr. J. A. Woodburn, head of Department of History, Indiana University

1915     Dr. Ezra Allen Van Nuys

1916

1917

1918     Dr. M. M. Sherrick '18

1919

1920     Dr. Herbert L. Willet

1921

1922     Dr. Ozora Davis

1923

1924

1925    Thomas R. Marshall, former Indiana governor and former U.S. Vice-President

1926     Dr. Ernest F. Tittle

1927     V. F. Schwalm '13, President-Elect McPherson College

1928

1929

1930     W. G. Clippinger

1931     Dr. Homer P. Rainey, President of Franklin College

1932     Dr. Paul Voelker, President of Battle Creek College

1933     Dr. W. S. Bovard

1934     Dr. W. W. Peters '15

1935     Dr. Gould Wickey

1936     Dr. J. O. Engleman, President of Kent State University

1937     Bishop Francis J. McConnell, New York City

1938     L. A. Pittenger, President of Ball State Teachers' College

1939     J. Ruskin Howe, President-Elect of Otterbein College

1940     Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, Dean of the Chapel, The University of Chicago

1941     Dr. A. J. Brumbaugh '14, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, University of Chicago

1942     Dr. Albert Buckner Coe

1943     Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle

1944     Dr. Harry M. Gage

1945     Dr. Harold C. Case

1946     Dr. W. O. Mendenhall

1947     Dr. Clark George Kuebler, Ripon College

1948     Dr. Andrew Wellington Cordier '22, Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General, United Nations

1949     Dr. John B. Thompson, Dean of the Chapel, University of Chicago

1950     Bishop Hazen G. Werner

1951     Dr. D. Elton Trueblood

1952     Dr. Russell Humbert

1953     Dr. Carl S. Winters

1954     Dr. Clark G. Kuebler

1955     Rev. Harry K. Zeller, Jr.

1956     V. F. Schwalm '13, President

1957     Dr. Desmond W. Bittinger

1958     Dr. Melvin W. Hyde, President of Evansville College

1959     Dr. Andrew W. Cordier '22, Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

1960     Dr. Russell J. Humbert, President of DePauw University

1961     Dr. Elton Trueblood, Quaker educator, lecturer, and author

1962     Dr. Calvert N. Ellis, President of Juniata College

1963     Howard E. Sollenberger '41, dean of School of Language and Area Studies, Foreign Service Institute

1964     Dr. Harold A. Bosley, Minister of Christ Church, Methodist, New York City

1965     Dr. Elvis J. Stahr, President of Indiana University and former Secretary of the Army

1966     Norman Cousins

1967     Dr. Theodore Hesburgh

1968     Dr. Myrl E. Alexander '30, Director of U. S. Bureau of Prisons

1969     Dr. Earl J. McGrath, Director of Higher Education Center at Temple University

1970     Hon. Richard G. Lugar, Mayor of Indianapolis

1971     Dr. Andrew W. Cordier '22, Dean of School of International Affairs, Columbia University

1972     Hon. James Farmer, Former Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

1973     J. Irwin Miller, CEO and chairman of the board of Cummins Engine Company, Inc.

1974     Frederic W. Ness, President of Association of American Colleges

1975     Paul J. Flory '31, Nobel prize in Chemistry, Stanford

1976     Hans J. Morganthau, author and political scientist

1977     Sister Ann Ida Gannon, B.V.M., Professor of Philosophy at Mundelein College

1978     Dr. Landrum R. Bolling, Chair and CEO of Council on Foundations, Inc.

1979     Governor Otis R. Bowen, M.D., Governor of Indiana

1980     Jean Childs Young '54, Chairperson, U.S. Commission on the International Year of the Child

1981     Dr. Ernest L. Boyer, President of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

1982     Dr. John Brademus, President of New York University and former Congressman from South Bend

1983     Dr. John W. Ryan, president of Indiana University

1984     Mark O. Hatfield, Senator

1985     Ian Rolland, president and CEO of Lincoln National Corporation

1986     Dr. A. Blair Helman, Retiring President of Manchester College

1987     Dr. Wayne F. Geisert, President of Bridgewater College

1988     Dr. Franklin B. Walter '51, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ohio Department of Education

1989     Dr. John F. Young '42, Associate Superintendent of Fort Wayne Community Schools

1990     Dr. Jane Henney '71, Vice Chancellor of University of Kentucky's Medical Center

1991     Dr. J. Herman Blake, Vice Chancellor of IUPUI

1992     Dr. Hyedmia Garga Bwala '71, Former commissioner of health for Borno State in Nigeria

1993     Andrew Murray

1994     Dr. Joanne Lantz, retiring chancellor at IPFW

1995     Jo Luck, Heifer Project International Director

1996     Boniface Hardin, President of Martin University, and Gary Milhollin, Founding Director of Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

1997     Patricia Helman, author, and Paul Hoffman, President of McPherson College

1998     Richard B. Safran, Rabbi

1999     Werner Schaal, President of Philipps-Universitat Marburg

2000     Dr. Andrew Young

2001     Dr. Eugene R. Roop '64

2002     Dr. Jane Henney '69

2003    Gene Gressley '52 & Hank Leander

2004    Robert Johansen '62

 

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