Year/Speaker(s) |
|
Info |
|
| 1970 |
Theodore
P. Lockwood |
|
Lockwood was president of Trinity College in
Hartford, Conn. |
|
| 1971 |
Kingman
Brewster, Jr. |
|
Brewster was president of Yale University. |
|
| 1972 |
Homer
D. Babbidge, Jr. |
|
Babbidge ended his ten years as UConn president
in 1972 and made a brief run for governor. He
also served as Masater of Yale's Timothy Dwight
College and the Hartford Graduate Center. |
|
| 1973 |
Charles
E. Shain |
|
Shain was president of Connecticut College in
New London, Conn.
|
|
| 1974 |
Glenn
W. Ferguson |
|
Ferguson was UConn's president from 1973 to 1978. |
|
| 1975 |
Jill
Conway |
|
Conway, then president-elect ofSmith College,
was the first woman to address a UConn commencement. |
|
| 1976 |
Alexander
Heard |
|
Heard was Chancellor
of Vanderbilt University and chair of the Ford
Foundation. |
|
| 1977 |
Clifton
R. Wharton, Jr. |
|
Wharton was the president of Michigan State University. |
|
| 1978 |
Colin
G. Campbell |
|
Campbell was president of Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Conn. |
|
| 1979 |
Jacqueline
Grennan Wexler |
|
Wexler was president of Hunter College of the
City University of New York.
|
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