Commencement Speakers at Ohio University
| 2007 |
Conley, Martin Valerie |
Assoc. Professor of Education |
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Hwang, Jennie S. |
President of H-Technologies Group |
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Clarey,Alison |
President of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons |
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| 2006 |
Unger, Brian |
TV/radio personality, producer, and alumnus |
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Vest, Charles, Ph.D. |
Former President, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology |
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Pach, Chester |
Assoc. Professor of History |
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Brooks, Sister Anne E., D.O. |
Founder of Tutwiler Clinic |
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| 2005 |
Moyer, Thomas J., J.D. |
Chief Justice, Ohio Supreme Court |
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Beasley, Pheobe |
Artist |
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Modaff, Daniel |
Assoc. Professor, School of Communication Studies
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| 2004 |
McCullough, David |
Author |
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Vis, Morgan L. |
Assoc. Prof. of Environmental and Plant Biology |
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| 2003 |
Savidge, Martin |
CNN News Anchor |
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Bolon, Douglas S. |
Associate Professor of Health Sciences |
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Biscup, Robert |
DO, Orthopedic Surgeon |
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| 2002 |
Wilhelm, David |
President, Wilhelm and Conlon Public Strategies |
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Krouse, Mary Beth |
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology |
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Schlotterer, William |
DO, Family Practitioner |
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| 2001 |
Hale, Claudia |
Professor of Interpersonal Communications |
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Page, Clarence |
Columnist, Chicago Tribune |
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Ping, Charles |
President Emeritus |
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| 2000 |
Jain, Surender K. |
Professor of Mathematics |
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Thomas, Helen |
Journalist, Former White House Correspondent |
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Anderson, William, D.O. |
Associate Dean, Kirksville College of Osteopathic
Medicine |
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| 1999 |
Harris, Leon |
Newscaster, CNN |
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| 1998 |
Anderson, Terry |
Former Associated Press Chief Middle East
Correspondent |
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Gingrich, Newt |
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives |
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| 1997 |
Clinton, Hillary |
First Lady of the United States |
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Matt Lauer |
Newscaster, NBC Today Show |
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| 1996 |
Rota, Joseph |
Director, Communications and Developmental Studies |
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Brown, Richard H. |
President and Chief Operating Officer,
H&R Block |
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| 1995 |
Ungar, Irwin A. |
Environmental Studies Chair |
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Riley, Richard W. |
U.S. Secretary of Education |
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| 1994 |
Nelson, Jenny L. |
Associate Professor, School of Telecommunications |
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Ping, Charles J. |
President of Ohio University |
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| 1993 |
Myers, Frank W. |
Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine |
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Page, Clarence |
Columnist, Chicago Tribune |
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| 1992 |
Rothwell, Gar W. |
Professor of Botany |
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Momaday, N. Scott |
Author |
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| 1991 |
Washburn Patrick S. |
Asst. Director of Scripps School of Journalism |
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Voinovich, George |
Governor of Ohio |
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| 1990 |
McDaniel, Drewrey O. |
Director, School of Telecommunications |
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Coulture, William B. |
Ohio Board of Regents |
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| 1989 |
Pugh, Dwight A. |
Associate Professor of Finance |
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| 1988 |
Brose, John A. |
Head of Academic Training Programs Sector and
Ass. Professor, College of Osteopathic Medicine, OU |
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Ruppe, Loret Miller |
Director of the Peace Corps |
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| 1987 |
Dewine, Sue |
Professor of Interpersonal Communications |
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Pease, Donald J. |
U.S. Congressional Representative, Ohio |
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| 1986 |
Wagner Eric A. |
Professor of Sociology |
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Uberroth, Peter |
Commissioner of Major League Baseball |
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| 1985 |
Celeste, Richard |
Governor of Ohio |
| 1984 |
Gruson, Sydney |
Vice Chair of New York Times Co. |
| 1983 |
Sauter, Van Gordon |
Ohio University Alumnus |
| 1982 |
Taylor, Milton J. |
Chairman, Ohio University Board of Trustees |
| 1981 |
Forbes, Malcolm S. |
President, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine |
| 1980 |
Hitam, Dato Musa |
Minister of Education in Malaysia |
| 1979 |
Baker, John C. |
President Emeritus, Ohio University |
| 1978 |
Hollinshead, Ariel |
Professor, Division of Oncology, Dept. of
Medicine, George Washington University |
| 1977 |
Fuller, Stephen |
Vice President of General Motors Co. |
| 1976 |
Wexler, Jacqueline |
President, Hunter College |
| 1975 |
Sevareid, Eric |
Newscaster/Reporter CBS News |
| 1974 |
Walker, Daniel |
Hon. Gov. of Illinois |
| 1973 |
Jagow, Elmer |
President, Hiram College |
| 1972 |
Doolen, Richard M. |
Asst. Professor of History, Ohio University |
| 1971 |
Kendall, Paul |
Regents Professor Emeritus of English |
| 1970 |
Commencement Cancelled |
Cancellation by President Sowle |
| 1969 |
Alden, Vernon R. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1968 |
Murphy, Franklin D. |
Chancellor, UCLA |
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| 1967 |
Smith, Thomas S. |
Vice President, Academic Affairs |
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No Speaker Recorded |
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Harry Groves |
President, Central State |
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| 1966 |
Shriver, Phillip |
President, Miami University |
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Christensen, Alphus R. |
President, Rio Grande University |
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No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1965 |
White, Robert |
President, Kent State University |
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Alden, Vernon |
President, Ohio University |
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Maxfield, Otis A. |
Rector, 1st Com. Church Columbus, Ohio |
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| 1964 |
Jerome, William T. |
President, Bowling Green |
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Alden, Vernon R. |
President, Ohio University |
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Fuller, Stephen H. |
Associate Dean, Harvard School of Business Admin. |
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| 1963 |
Stauffer, John N. |
President Elect, Wittenberg University |
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Loucheim, Katie |
Dep. Asst. Secretary of State, Public A. |
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Gresham, Perry |
President, Bethany College |
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| 1962 |
Merry, Robert Walter |
Professor, Business Admin. Harvard University |
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Kenney, Barnaby C. |
President, Brown University |
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Harlan, Neil E. |
Asst. Secretary of the Air Force |
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| 1961 |
Fawcett, Novice G. |
President, Ohio State University |
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Baker, John C. |
President, Ohio University |
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Sharp, Paul F. |
President, Hiram College |
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| 1960 |
Allan, Brooke E. |
Major General U.S. Air Force |
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Munro, Sir Leslie |
New Zealand's representative to the US |
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Starcher, George W. |
President, University of North Dakota |
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| 1959 |
Wilcox, Francis |
Asst. Secretary for State of International Affairs |
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David, Donald K. |
Vice Chair Ford Foundation |
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Knapp, A. Blair |
President, Denison University |
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| 1958 |
Bolton, Francis P. |
U.S. Congressional Representative, Ohio |
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Besse, Ralph |
Exec. VP. Cleveland Illuminating Co. |
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Wickham, William Terry |
President, Heidelburg University |
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| 1957 |
Steveson, W.E. |
President, Oberlin College |
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O'Neill C. William |
Governor of Ohio |
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Weaver, Donald |
Editor, Columbus Citizen |
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| 1956 |
Engen, Hans |
Norwegian Representative to the United States |
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Hensel, H. Struve |
Former Ass't Secretary of Defense |
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Smith, Stewart H. |
President, Marshall College |
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| 1955 |
Young, Phillip |
Chairman of Civil Service Commission |
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Bricker, John W. |
U.S. Senator, Ohio |
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Gould, Samuel Brookner |
President, Antioch College |
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| 1954 |
Bowman, George A. |
President, Kent State University |
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Fairless, Benjamin F. |
Chairman |
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Irvine, W. Bay |
President of Marietta College |
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| 1953 |
Riggleman, Leonard |
Morris Harvey College |
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Mallot, Deane |
Cornell University |
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Ramseyer, Lloyd L. |
President, Bluffton College |
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| 1952 |
Swensrud, Sidney A. |
President, Gulf Oil of Pittsburgh |
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Howard, J. Gordon |
President, Otterbein College |
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| 1951 |
McGregor, Douglas M. |
President, Antioch College |
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Bevis, Howard L. |
President, Ohio State University |
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Fall, Paul |
President, Hiram College |
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Glennan, T. Keith |
President, Case Western Int. of Tech. |
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| 1950 |
Jones, Howard Mumford |
Professor of English, Harvard University |
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Taft, Robert A |
U.S. Senator, Ohio |
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Montgomery, Robert N. |
President, Muskingham College |
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| 1949 |
Holmes, Henry W. |
Professor Emeritus of Harvard University |
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Broomfield, Louis |
Author, Agriculture Malabar Farm, OH |
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Gibson, John |
Asst. Secretary of Labor, Washington D.C. |
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| 1948 |
Larson, Roy |
President of Time Inc. |
| 1947 |
Connant, James Bryant |
Harvard University |
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| 1946 |
Douglas, William O. |
Associate Justice, Supreme Court |
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Walter Raymond D. |
President, University of Cincinnati |
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| 1945 |
Wichenson, William E. |
Case School of Applied Sciences |
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| 1944 |
Fisher, Dorothy C. |
Author |
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Brown, Kenneth I. |
Author, Denison University |
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| 1943 |
Carmichael, Oliver C. |
Chancellor, Vanderbilt University |
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Chubb, Edwin Watts |
Dean Emeritus, College of Arts & Sciences |
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| 1942 |
Nash, Phillip Curtis |
President, University of Toledo |
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| 1941 |
Stuffacher, Albert D. |
D.D. Plymouth Congregational Church |
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Zimmerman, James Fulton |
President, University of New Mexico |
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Tugwell, Rexford Guy |
Chairman of Planning Commission NYC |
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| 1940 |
McVey, Frank |
President, University of Kentucky |
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Spencer, William Homer |
Dean, School of Business, University of Chicago |
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Palmer, Albert W. |
President Chair. Theological Seminary |
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| 1939 |
Dystra, Clarence A. |
President, University of Wisconsin |
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| 1938 |
Tullis, Don |
D.D., the Tourist Church, Dayton, OH |
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Smith, Thomas Vernon |
Philosophy Professor, University of Chicago |
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| 1937 |
Harrison, Shelby M. |
General Manager, Russell Sage Foundation |
| 1936 |
Arhana, Oswald |
Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S. |
| 1935 |
Overstreet, Harry A. |
Head, Dept. of Philosophy, Coll. of City, New York |
| 1934 |
Biddle, Clinton Poston |
Associate Profressor/Dean, Harvard University |
| 1933 |
Graves, Frank Pierpoint |
President, University of New York |
| 1932 |
Bryan, William Lowe |
President, Indiana University |
| 1931 |
Jessup, Walter A. |
President, University of Iowa |
| 1930 |
Bryan, Enoch Albert |
State College of Washington |
| 1929 |
Coffman, Lotus Delta |
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| 1928 |
Bryan, John Stewart |
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| 1927 |
Clifton, John L. |
State Director of Education |
| 1926 |
Greggs, Edward Howard |
L.H.D., New York City |
| 1925 |
Laing, Gordon Jennings |
Dean, University of Chicago |
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| 1924 |
Bryan, Elmer Burritt |
President, Ohio University |
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Fosdick, Harry Emerson |
D.D., Union Theological Seminary |
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| 1923 |
Smith, Payson |
Commissioner of Education, MA |
| 1922 |
McConnell, Francis J. |
Bishop |
| 1921 |
Shailer, Matthew |
Dean, University of Chicago |
| 1920 |
Spaeth, John Duncan |
Professor of English, Princeton University |
| 1919 |
Phillipson, David |
D.D. Cincinnati, OH |
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| 1918 |
Pomerene, Altee |
LL.D. Canton, OH |
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Cox, James M. |
Governor of Ohio |
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| 1917 |
Shenk, C.E. |
D.D. Rev. Cincinnati, OH |
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Gladden, Washington |
D.D., LL.D. Columbus, OH |
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| 1916 |
Wilcox, A.Y. |
Reverend |
| 1915 |
Cole, Raplh d. |
Findlay, OH |
| 1914 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1913 |
Ellis, Alston |
President, Ohio University |
| 1912 |
Ellis, Alston |
President, Ohio University |
| 1911 |
Ellis, Wade |
Hon. Washingston D.C. |
| 1910 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1909 |
Campbell, James E. |
Hon. LL.D. Columbus, OH |
| 1908 |
Douglas, Albert |
LL.D., Hon. |
| 1907 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1906 |
Cranston, Earl |
Bishop |
| 1905 |
Shenk, C.E. |
D.D. Rev. Hamilton, OH |
| 1904 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1903 |
Ellis, Alston |
President, Ohio University |
| 1902 |
Ellis, Alston |
President, Ohio University |
| 1901 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1900 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1899 |
Gleed, James Willis |
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| 1898 |
Crook, Isaac |
President, Ohio University |
| 1897 |
Crook, Isaac |
President, Ohio University |
| 1896 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1895 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1894 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1893 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1892 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1891 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1890 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1889 |
Mayo, A.D. |
D.D. Boston, MA |
| 1888 |
Super, Charles W. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1887 |
Super, Charles W. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1886 |
Super, Charles W. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1885 |
Super, Charles W. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1884 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1883 |
Scott, W.H. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1882 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1881 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1880 |
Scott, W.H. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1879 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1878 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1877 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1876 |
Scott, W.H. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1875 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1874 |
Scott, W.H. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1873 |
Scott, W.H. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1872 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1871 |
Howard, Solomon |
President, Ohio University |
| 1870 |
Howard, Solomon |
President, Ohio University |
| 1869 |
Howard, Solomon |
President, Ohio University |
| 1868 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1867 |
Howard, Solomon |
President, Ohio University |
| 1866 |
Storer, Bellamy |
Hon. |
| 1865 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1864 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1863 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1862 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1861 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1860 |
Howard, Solomon |
President, Ohio University |
| 1859 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1858 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1857 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1856 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1855 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1854 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1854 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1853 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1852 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1851 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1850 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1849 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1848 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1847 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1846 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1843 |
McGuffey, William H. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1842 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1841 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1840 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1839 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1838 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1837 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1836 |
Read, Daniel |
Professor, Ohio University |
| 1835 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1834 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1833 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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| 1832 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1831 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1830 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1829 |
Wilson, Robert G. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1828 |
Wilson, Robert G. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1827 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1826 |
No Program Preserved |
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| 1825 |
Wilson, Robert G. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1824 |
Wilson, Robert G. |
President, Ohio University |
| 1821 |
No Speaker Recorded |
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