Commencement Speakers & Honorary Degree Recipients

*Rensselaer president
Title Commencement Speakers Honorary Degree Recipients
June 12, 1912
  • Henry W. Hodge '85 Consulting Engineer, NY City
None
June 18, 1913
  • John Sterling Deans Chief Engineer, Phoenix Bridge Co.
None
June 17, 1914
  • John Houston Finley, LL.D. President, University of the State of NY
None
June 16, 1915
  • Hiram F. Mills '56 Hydraulic Engineer
None
June 14, 1916
  • Alfred Tredway White '65, C.E.
  • Robert W. Hunt Degree Received D.Eng.
June 13, 1917
  • Charles Whiting Baker Consulting Editor, Engineering News-Record
None
May 1, 1918
  • Edwin Wilbur Rice, Jr. President General Electric
  • Onward Bates '75 Degree Received D.Eng.
  • William H. Burr Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Henry W. Hodge '85 Degree Received D.Eng.
  • A. C. Humphreys Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Edwin Rice, Jr. Degree Received D. Eng.
  • Francis E. House Degree Received M.C.E.
December 21, 1918
  • Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Odell
None
June 16, 1920
  • Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Odell
  • Col. Ransom H. Gillett
  • Herbert C. Hoover Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Leonard Wood Degree Received D.Sc.
June 17, 1921
  • Frederick B. Smith
None
June 16, 1922
  • Dallas L. Sharp Prof. of English Literature, Boston University
  • Arthur M. Greene, Jr. Degree Received D.Eng
June 15, 1923
  • Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau '91
None
June 13, 1924
  • George S. Davison President '78 Gulf Refining Co.
  • Henri Abraham Degree Received D.Eng.
  • James R. Angell Degree Received Ph.D.
  • Edward A. Birge Degree Received Ph.D.
  • Carl E. Grunsky Degree Received D.Eng.
  • William Kelly Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Frederick R. Low Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Charles L. Morgan Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Luigi Luiggi Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Livingston Farrand Degree Received Ph.D.
  • Albert A. Michelson Degree Received D.Sc.
  • Farley Osgood Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Samuel W. Stratton Degree Received Ph.D.
  • Arthur Surveyor Degree Received D.Eng.
June 19, 1925
  • John Van Wicheren Reynders '86 Consulting Engineer
  • Henry Ford Degree Received D.Eng.
June 14, 1926
  • Ralph Earle President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • George S. Davison Degree Received D.Eng.
June 10, 1927
  • Philip W. Henry '87
None
June 11, 1928
  • Percival M. Sax '90 Consulting Engineer
None
June 15, 1929
  • Morris R. Sherrerd '86 Consulting Engineer
None
June 14, 1930
  • John N. Shannahan President, Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.
None
June 13, 1931
  • Charles Butler Architect, New York City
  • Charles Butler Degree Received D.Sc.
  • William Leland Thompson Degree Received LL.D.
June 11, 1932
  • Clarence F. Hirshfeld Detroit Edison Company
  • Clarence F. Hirshfeld Degree Received D.Eng.
  • William L. Robb Degree Received D.Eng.
June 17, 1933
  • Leonor F. Loree President, D & H Railroad Co.
  • Leonor F. Loree Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Charles P. Perin Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Daniel L. Turner Degree Received D.Eng.
June 16, 1934
  • Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett Prime Minister of Canada
  • Richard B. Bennett Degree Received LL.D.
  • Hugh L. Cooper Degree Received D.Eng.
  • George O. Knapp Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Howard McClenahan Degree Received D.Eng.
June 15, 1935
  • Major General Edward Murphy Markham Chief Engineers, USA
  • Edward W. Arms Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Edward M. Markham Degree Received D.Eng.
June 13, 1936
  • Samuel Ferguson Chairman of the Board, Hartford Electric Light and Power Co.
  • Samuel Ferguson Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Edwin S. Fickes Degree Received D.Eng.
  • Louis D. Ricketts Degree Received D.Eng
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