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History of Graduate Commencement

Commencement Speakers in the 1980s

Year/School(s)
Speaker
Info
 
1980 Graduate School Jaraoslav Pelikan
Sterling Professor of History, Yale University
 
1980 School of Law Ellen Bree Burns
Justice, Federal District Court
 
1980 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Jean Mayer
President, Tufts University
 
1981 Graduate School
Robert W. Blanchette
Director, Federal Railroad Administration, University Scholar - 1953
 
1981 School of Law Derrick Bell
Dean, Oregon School of Law
 
1981 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Homer D. Babbidge, Jr.
President, Hartford Graduate Center, former president, UConn, 1962-1972
 
1982 Graduate School Edward J. Bloustein
President, Rutgers
 
1982 School of Law Grant Gilmore
Professor emeritus, Yale Law School
 
1982 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Ann R. Somers
Professor of Family Medicine, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
 
1983 Graduate School Lattie F. Coor
President, University of Vermont
 
1983 School of Law Jack B. Weinstein
Chief Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
 
1983 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Arnold S. Relman
Editor, New England Journal of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
 
1984 Graduate School Robert W. Rosenzweig
President, Association of American Universities
 
1984 School of Law Jon O. Newman
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 
1984 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Howard H. Hiatt
Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
 
1985 Graduate School
Ernest L. Boyer
President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
 
1985 School of Law Thomas I. Emerson
Lines Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale University
 
1985 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine
John J. Paris, S.J.
Professor of Social Ethics, College of the Holy Cross
 
1986 Graduate School Mary Hatwood Futrell
President, National Education Association
 
1986 School of Law
Ellen Ash Peters
Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
 
1986 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Joseph Califano
Former Secretary, Health, Education and Welfare
 
1987 Graduate School
Donald M. Stewart
President, The College Board
 
1987 School of Law José Cabranes
Judge, U.S. District Court
 
1987 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
U.S. Senator, (R-Conn.), and later, Governor of Conn.
 
1988 Graduate School Dorothy C. Goodwin
Connecticut State Board of Education, former State Representative (D-54, Mansfield), former UConn Assistant Provost and Director of Institutional Research
 
1988 School of Law
Jacob Zeldes
Attorney at Law, Zeldes, Needle and Cooper
 
1988 Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine Joseph M. Healey, Jr.
Associate Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care, UConn School of Medicine.
 
1989 Graduate School
John Archibald Wheeler
Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University, Ashbel Smith and Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor, Emeritus, University of Texas, Austin
 
1989 School of Law Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
President, Research! America, former U.S. Senator and later, Governor of Conn.
 
1989
Schools of Medicine & Dental Medicine
James F. Childress
Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Medical Education, University of Virginia
 
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