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History of Graduate Commencement

Commencement Speakers in the 1970s

Year/School(s)
Speaker
Info
 
1970 Graduate School, School of Law Nathan L. Whetten
A professor of sociology, Whetten was dean of the UConn Graduate School.
 
1971 Graduate School, School of Law Philip Handler
Handler was president of the National Academy of Sciences.
 
1972 Graduate School, School of Law, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and gave his address at the first ceremony to include UConn's Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine.
 
1973 Graduate School, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine
Dean E. McHenry
McHenry was Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz.
 
1973 School of Law Robert B. McKay
Dean, New York University School of Law
 
1974 Graduate School, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine Steven Muller
Muller was president of Johns Hopkins University
 
1974 School of Law Charles S. House
House was Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
 
1975 Graduate School, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine Homer D. Babbidge, Jr.
Babbidge was then-Master, Timothy Dwight College, Yale University, andformer president, UConn, 1962-1972.
 
1975 School of Law Paul A. Freund
Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School
 
1976 Graduate School, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine Lewis Thomas
President, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
 
1976 School of Law Clarence C. Ferguson, Jr.
Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
 
1977 Graduate School, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine Sol M. Linowitz
Ambassador, Co-negotiator for Panama Canal Treaty
 
1977 School of Law Stephen J. Trachtenberg
President-elect, University of Hartford
 
1978 Graduate School, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine John Hope Franklin
The John Matthews Manley Distinguised Service Professor, University of Chicago
 
1978 School of Law Thomas Erlich
President, Legal Services Corporation, Washington, D.C.
 
1979 Graduate School, Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine
Amitai Etzioni
Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, Director of the Center for Policy Research
 
1979
School of Law
Fleming James, Jr.
Professor, UConn School of Law
 
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