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Robert E. Diamond Jr. '73Commencement Speaker: Bob Diamond Jr. ’73, president of Barclays
Senior Class Speaker: Patrick Sanders
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Gabriella De Ferrari   |   Robert E. Diamond Jr. '73
   Amory Lovins  |  David Simon   |   Sunita Williams
 
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2007 CommencementCommencement Speaker: Thomas Schelling, Nobel economist
Senior Class Speaker: Kate Braemer
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   John Barth   |   Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala   |   Sonny Rollins
   Thomas Schelling   |   Adam Weinberg
 
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2006 CommencementCommencement Speaker: Anna Quindlen, novelist and essayist
Senior Class Speaker: Francis Tapiwa Chapuredima
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Ray Anderson   |   David Botstein   |   Robert P. Moses
   Jette and Alan Parker   |   Anna Quindlen   |   Paul J. Schupf
 
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2005 CommencementCommencement Speaker: Dan Harris '93, ABC News correspondent
Senior Class Speaker: Josh Kahn
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey   |   David M. Childs
   Dan Harris '93   |   Fred H. Gage   |   Rocco Landesman '69
 
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Class SpeakersCommencement Speaker: Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Richard Russo
Senior Class Speaker: Catherine A. Chuprevich
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Dawn Marie Rossignol   |   Shelby M.C. Davis
   Shirley Ann Jackson   |   Barry Charles Mazur
   Bernice Johnson Reagon   |   James Richard Russo
 
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Class of 2003Commencement Speaker: Dr. Helen Vendler, poetry critic
Senior Class Speaker: Evan McGee
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Clifford Geertz   |   Edward Norton Lorenz
   Sonia Picado   |   Peter Meredith Ralston
   Helen Hennessy Vendler
 
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Class of 2002Commencement Speaker: Arthur Kopit, playwright
Senior Class Speaker: John "Monty" Hobson
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Ana Castillo   |   Scott David Cowan
   Elizabeth Farnsworth   |   Robert Sydney Gelbard
   Arthur Lee Kopit
 
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President "Bro" AdamsCommencement Speaker: Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Prof. of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, Harvard University
Senior Class Speaker: Todd W. Miner
Honorary Degree Recipients:
   Gerald Dorros   |   Robert H. Edwards
   Linda J. Greenlaw   |   Reverend Peter J. Gomes