Honors Convocation Speaker
Past Speakers (present - 1960)
2024 Dr. Margo Hobbs, Professor of Art, "Keep Your Eyes Open"
2023 Dr. Amy Hark, Professor of Biology, "Transition States: Lessons from Biochemistry for Higher Education"
2022 Dr. Ranajoy Ray-Chaudhuri, Associate Professor of Economics, "The Privileges, Complexities and Remarkable Honor of Global Citizenship"
2021 Dr. Jill Stephen, Professor of English, “We’re Building the Ship as we Sail It"
2020 Dr. Lanethea Mathews-Schultz, Professor & Chair of Political Science, “See You in the Classroom”
2019 Dr. James Peck, Professor of Theatre “6:55: The Time of Rehearsal in Art and Life”
2018 Dr. Christopher Borick, Professor of Political Science “Questioning Yourself: The Value of Self Reflection in a Polarized Era.”
2017 Dr. Elizabeth McCain, Professor of Biology "Lessons From Nature”
2016 Dr. Grant Scott, Professor of English
2015 Linda McGuire, Mathematics and Computer Science
2014 Curtis Dretsch, Theatre and Dance
2013 Laura Edelman, Psychology
2012 Ted Schick, Philosophy
2011 William W. Dunham, Mathematics and Computer Science
2010 Samuel M. Laposata, Accounting, Business, Economics and Finance
2009 Kathleen E. Harring, Psychology
2008 Joan Marx, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
2007 Jack Gambino, Political Science
2006 Bruce D. Anderson, Chemistry
2005 Frederick Norling, Accounting, Business, Economics and Finance|
2004 Anna Adams, History
2003 Alec Marsh, English
2002 Patrice DiQuinzio, Philosophy
2001 Marjorie Hass, Philosophy
2000 Lawrence Hass, Philosophy
1999 Devon Allen, Theatre and Dance
1998 No speaker - President Taylor
1997 Richard A. Niesenbaum, Biology
1996 Kathryn A. Wixon, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
1995 Christine T. Sistare, Philosophy
1994 John S. Meyer, Mathematical Sciences
1993 Nelvin L. Vos, Vice President and Dean of the College
1992 Ann Wonsiewicz, Education
1991 Daniel Wilson, History
1990 Jay H. Hartman, English
1989 Vimla Sinha, Psychology
1988 Donald W. Shive, Chemistry
1987 Albert Kipa, Foreign Languages and Literature
1986 Walter E. Loy, Jr., Physics
1985 Alton Slane, Political Science
1984 Frederick M. Busch, Professor of English at Colgate University
1983 Barbara Crossette, Assistant Foreign Editor, The New York Times
1982 Charles E. Mortimer, Chemistry
1981 Charles C. Richter, Theatre
1980 Minotte M. Chatfield, English
1979 Henry M. M. Richards, Accounting, Business and Economics
1978 John J. Reed, History
1977 Andrew H. Erskine, Theatre
1976 Edwin R. Baldrige, History
1975 Joanne S. Mortimer, History
1974 Henry A. Acres, Chancellor, EVI
1973 Philip B. Secor, Dean of the College
1972 Hagen Staack and J. Harold Wilson
1971 Ludwig F. Schlecht, Philosophy
1970 Katherine S. Van Eerde, History
1969 Charles S. Bednar, Political Science
1968 Mason W. Gross, President of Rutgers University
1967 Millard E. Gladfelter, President, Temple University
1966 Theodore A. Distler, President and Consultant of the Commission for Independent Colleges and Universities, Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities
1965 Morris S. Greth, Sociology
1964 Academic Festival for the Quarter centenary of Shakespeare’s Birth Eulogy by Harold L. Stenger, Professor of English
1963 John J. Reed, History
1962 Charles E. Mortimer, Chemistry
1961 G. N. Russell Smart, Chemistry
1960 J. Conrad Seegers, President
