Year/Speaker(s) |
|
Info |
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| 1920 |
George
E. Vincent, Ph.D. |
|
Vincent,
President
of the Rockefeller Foundation , spoke of "The
Community Spirit". |
|
| 1921 |
Charles
Reynolds Brown |
|
Brown was
a
Congregational minister, Dean of Yale Divinity School and an author. |
|
| 1922 |
Remsen
Brinckerhoff Ogilby |
|
Ogilby was president of Trinity College in Hartford. |
|
| 1923 |
Samuel
McChord Crothers |
|
Crothers was a theologian, missionary and author.
|
|
| 1924 |
Benjamin
Tinkham Marshall |
|
Marshall was the second president of Connecticut
College for Women (now Connecticut College). He
served from 1917 to 1928. His topic for commencement
was "Ideals
in Practical Education". |
|
| 1925 |
James
L. McConaughy |
|
McConaughy was president of Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Conn. at the time he gave his address
in 1925. He successfully ran for governor in 1946.
He died in office March 7, 1948. |
|
| 1926 |
James
Gordon Gilkey |
|
Gilkey was pastor of
the South Congregational Church of Springfield,
Massachusetts from 1917 to 1954. |
|
| 1927 |
Charles
Hyde Warner |
|
Warner was dean of the Sheffield Scientific School
at Yale University. For the annual alumni reunion
held during commencement week, all six members
of the Class of 1887 returned to the Storrs campus
for their 40th reunion. |
|
| 1928 |
Henry
S. Graves |
|
Graves, dean of forestry at Yale University,
was the second chief of the U.S. Forestry Service
from 1910 to 1920. |
|
| 1929 |
Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise |
|
Wise, Rabbi of the Free Synagogue in New York
City, was also an activist and author.
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