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Speeches of Note

 

Here are several opportunities to read what members of the Colgate community and guests have discussed at major campus events.

August '11
Founders' Day convocation address by Professor George Hudson

May '11
• Commencement address by Howard Fineman '70
Commencement remarks  by Colgate President Jeffrey Herbst
Baccalaureate address by Rev. Maria A. Scates

October '10
Inauguration remarks by President Jeffrey Herbst

August '10
Convocation address by President Jeffrey Herbst

May '10
Commencement keynote  by Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers and a University of Chicago professor (See a related story, photos)
Commencement remarks  by Lyle Roelofs, interim president
Baccalaureate address by Rev. Roger A. Ferlo '73

August '09
Convocation address  by Lyle Roelofs, interim president (See a related story, photos)

May '09
Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (See a related story, photos)
Commencement keynote by Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone
Baccalaureate address  by Jerry Balmuth,  Harry Emerson Fosdick Professor of philosophy and religion

August '08
Convocation address  by Ellen Percy Kraly, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of geography (See a related story, photos)

May '08
Commencement keynote  by CBS journalist Leslie Stahl
Commencement remarks  by President Rebecca Chopp

May '07
Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (Listen to the speech and see a related story, photos)
Commencement keynote by Bob '83, former co-anchor of World News Tonight, and Lee McCaughnay Woodruff '82, journalist (Listen to the speech and see a related story, photos)
Baccalaureate sermon by Rabbi David Ellenson (See a related story, photos)


August '06

Convocation address  by Peter Balakian,
Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar  Professor of the humanities; director of creative writing  (See a related story, photos)

May '06
Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (Listen to the speech and see a related story, photos)
Commencement address by Eliot Spitzer, New York state attorney general (Listen to the speech See a related story, photos)
Baccalaureate sermon by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (See a related story, photos)

August '05
Convocation address by Jill Tiefenthaler, professor of economics, associate dean of the faculty, director of the Upstate Institute (See a related story, photos)

May '05
Commencement remarks by President Rebecca Chopp (See a related story, photos)
Commencement address by Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund
Baccalaureate sermon by the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir

August '04
Convocation address by Lourdes Rojas, professor of Spanish, division director of University Studies

May '04
Commencement address by Stephen Burke '80, president of Comcast Cable (See a related story, photos)

May '03
Commencement address by Anna Quindlen, author

September '02
Convocation address by President Rebecca Chopp

September '02
• Inaugural address (PDF) by President Rebecca Chopp
• Remarks (PDF) by James T. Laney, president emeritus of Emory University and former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, at President Chopp's inauguration