LYCOMING COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS 1991 – 2007

2007 – Rev. Dr. John F. Piper, Jr. - Professor Emeritus of History, and Dean Emeritus of Lycoming College.

2006 - Dr. William A. Turnbaugh - Professor of Sociology/Anthropology 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 Komanyakaa – Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Currently teaches at Princeton.

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 Physics, Professor at George Mason University.

1991 – Dr. George E. Reedy – Neiman Professor of Journalism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.