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List of Bates College commencement speakers
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The following is a list of keynote speakers at the commencement of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, United States. * 1944 - Robert Moses * 1945 - Sumner T. Pike * 1946 - Harold E. Stassen * 1947 - Warren R. Austin * 1948 - Christian A. Herter *1949 - Lucius D. Clay *1950 - Paul H. Douglas *1951 - Lester B. Pearson *1952 - Alfred E. Driscoll *1953 - Lester Markel *1954 - Sherman Adams *1955 - Edmund S. Muskie *1956 - Harold W. Richardson *1957 - Luis Munoz-Marin *1958 - Alfred M. Gruenther *1959 - Frank M. Coffin *1960 - Karl L. Rankin *1961 - Kazushige Hirasawa '36 *1962 - George Olmstead Jr. *1963 - James Madison Nabrit, Jr. *1964 - Grayson Kirk *1965 - Hudson Hoagland *1966 - William H. Schumann *1967 - Margaret Chase Smith *1968 - Steward Udall / Nils Y. Wessell *1969 - R. Buckminster Fuller *1970 - Russell E. Train *1971 - Coretta Scott King *1972 - Robert Coles *1973 - Paul A. Freund *1974 - Gerard Piel *1975 - George Wildman Ball *1976 - Paul Webster McAvoy *1977 - Horton Guyford Stever *1978 - Ian Lennox McHarg *1979 - Robert B.W. MacNeil *1980 - Elliot L. Richardson *1981 - Warren Christopher *1982 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault *1983 - Bernard Lown *1984 - Ernest L. Boyer *1985 - George Mitchell *1986 - Donald F. McHenry *1987 - Ellen Ash Peters *1988 - Donald M. Stewart *1989 - Paul A. Volcker *1990 - Catharine R. Stimpson *1991 - Freeman John Dyson *1992 - John Hope Franklin *1993 - Lester C. Thurow *1994 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. *1995 - Garry Wills *1996 - Chinua Achebe *1997 - Oscar Arias *1998 - Doris Kearns Goodwin *1999 - Richard C. Holbrooke *2000 - Desmond Tutu *2001 - Robert B. Reich *2002 - Steven Weinberg *2003 - Stephen L. Carter *2004 - John C. Whitehead, Rita R. Colwell, David Levering Lewis, Milton L. Lindholm '35 *2005 - Brian Williams, Thomas J. Anderson, Lynn Margulis, Paul Soros, Daisy Soros *2006 - David McCullough, Marjorie Garber, David Ho, Mark Morris *2007 - Eric Carle, Corey Harris ’91, Dean Kamen, Anna Devere Smith *2008 - Susan Berresford, Phillip Sharp, Warren Washington, Pauline Yu *2009 - Fareed Zakaria, Geena Davis, Robert M. Franklin Jr., Mimi A.R. Koehl, Ralph T. Perry ’51 *2010 - Rennie Harris, James McCarthy, Jane Pauley, Elizabeth Strout ’77, Teresa Woodruff *2011 - Frank Glazer, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Robert S. Langer *2012 - Robert De Niro *2013 - Gary Hirshberg *2014 - Isabel Wilkerson
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