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Past Speakers

Lycoming College Commencement Speakers 1991 – 2023

Year	Speaker	About Speaker
2023	Alicia Tillman	Chief Marketing Officer for Delta, 1997 Alumna
2022	Dr. Brenda Alston-Mills	Emerita Trustee, Biology Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University, 1966 Alumna
2021	Dr. Stanley W. Sloter	Chair of Board of Trustees, President of Paradigm Companies, 1980 Alumnus
2020	Dr. Kent Trachte	President of Lycoming College
2019	Steven P. Johnson	President of UPMC Susquehanna, 1976 Alumnus
2018	Thomas H. Woodruff, Jr.	Co-Founder of Amalgated Dynamics, Inc., Academy Award Winner, 1980 Alumnus
2017	Mary Ann Schmitt-Carey	President of Say Yes to Education
2016	Gov. Rafael Moreno Valle	Governor of Puebla, Mexico, 1991 Alumnus
2015	Hon. Thomas I. Vanaskie	Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1975 Alumnus
2014	Dr. Gene L. Dodaro	Comptroller General of the United States, 1973 Alumnus
2013	Dr. James E. Douthat	14th president of Lycoming College from 1989-2013
2012	Dr. David L. Warren	President of NAICU
2011	Dr. Arthur A. Haberberger	Chairman of the Lycoming College Board of Trustees, 1959 Alumnus
2010	Dr. L. Gregory Jones	Dean and Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School
2009	Dr. Elijah Anderson	William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology at Yale University
2008	Dr. Sandra Steingraber	Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Ithaca College
2007	Rev. Dr. John F. Piper, Jr.	Professor Emeritus of History, and Dean Emeritus of Lycoming College
2006	Dr. William A. Turnbaugh	Professor of Anthropology/Sociology at the University of Rhode Island
2005	Dr. William G. Dever	Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona
2004	Dr. Robert L. Shangraw	Chairman of the Lycoming College Board of Trustees, 1958 Alumnus
2003	Ambassador Robert Krueger	United States Ambassador to Burundi and Botswana, United States House of Representatives and United States Senator, Texas
2002	Ambassador Ismael Gaspar-Martins	Republic of Angola's permanent representative to the United Nations
2001	Mr. Edmund L. Jenkins	Chairman of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Norwalk, Connecticut
2000	Dr. David L. Holmes	College of William and Mary in Virginia - Professor of Religion
1999	Dr. Yusef Komunyakaa	Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Currently teaches at New York University
1998	Mr. James Lehrer	Host of the program, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on public broadcasting television
1997	Dr. Martin A. Marty	Professor of the History of Modern Christianity at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago since 1963
1996	Dr. Louis E. Lataif	Dean of the School of Management at Boston University since 1991. Twenty seven year career with Ford Motor Co., President of Ford Europe and Corporate Vice President for World Wide Quality and Marketing
1995	Dr. Gary A. Sojka	Served as Bucknell University's thirteenth president for more than a decade
1994	Rev. Dr. Kenneth B. Wilson	President of Westminster College, Oxford. Ordained Minister, United Methodist Church
1993	Dr. Richard E. Rosser	President of National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
1992	Dr. James M. Buchanan	Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor at George Mason University
1991	Dr. George E. Reedy	Neiman Professor of Journalism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin