Commencement Speakers & Honorary Degree Recipients

*Rensselaer president

Title	Commencement Speakers	Honorary Degree Recipients
May 31, 1974	Ivar Giaever Research Physicist, GE Co.	The Baron Bowden of Chesterfield Degree Received D.Sc. Ivar Giaever Degree Received D.Sc. Ralph B. Peck Degree Received D.Eng. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. Degree Received D.Eng.
June 6, 1975	Carl Edward Sagan Director, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Cornell University	Arthur M. Bueche Degree Received D.Eng. Edgar M. Cortright Degree Received D.Eng. Carl Edward Sagan Degree Received D.Sc. Arthur R. Taylor Degree Received D.H.L.
May 14, 1976	Walter Cronkite CBS News Anchor	Nathan Cohn Degree Received D.Eng. Walter Cronkite Degree Received D.H.L. Ruth Patrick Degree Received D.Sc.
May 20, 1977	Jacques-Yves Cousteau Explorer and Environmentalist	Jaques-Yves Cousteau Degree Received D.H.L. Courtland D. Perkins Degree Received D.Eng. Charles C. Price Degree Received D.Sc. Robert M. White Degree Received D.Sc.
May 26, 1978	Dixy Lee Ray Governor of Washington State	Ioeh Ming Pei Degree Received D.F.A. Dixy Lee Ray Degree Received D.Sc. Alan M. Voorhees Degree Received D.Eng.
May 18, 1979	Harry Andrew Blackmun Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court	Harry A. Blackmun Degree Received LL.D. Walter A. Fallon Degree Received D.Sc. Mark Sheppard, Jr. Degree Received D.Eng.
May 16, 1980	Theodore Martin Hesburgh President, Notre Dame University	Theodore Martin Hesburgh Degree Received D.H.L. J. Christopher Jaffe '47 Degree Received D.Sc. James Lighthill Degree Received D.Eng.
May 15, 1981	Harrison Hagen Schmitt U.S. Senator, New Mexico	H. Joseph Gerber '47 Degree Received D.Eng. Harrison Hagen Schmitt Degree Received D.Sc. John B. Slaughter Degree Received D.Eng. Rosalyn S. Yallow Degree Received D.Sc.
May 21, 1982	George A. Keyworth II Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy, Executive Office of the U.S. President	Michael S. Brown Degree Received D.Sc. Edward E. David, Jr. Degree Received D.Eng. Joseph L. Goldstein Degree Received D.Sc. George A. Keyworth II Degree Received D.Sc.
May 20, 1983	Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Senator, NY	J. Dyson Freeman Degree Received D.Sc. David McCullough Degree Received D.H.L. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Degree Received LL.D. John J. Redfern, Jr. '33 Degree Received LL.D
May 18, 1984	Lt. General James A. Abrahamson Director of Strategic Defense Initiatives, US Dept. of Defense	James A. Abrahamson Degree Received D.Eng. John C. Polanyi Degree Received D.Sc. Carl J. Thomsen '38 Degree Received LL.D.
May 17, 1985	Dr. Richard L. Garwin Fellow, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center	Richard L. Garwin Degree Received D.Sc. Percy A. Pierre Degree Received D.Eng. Roger B. Smith Degree Received LL.D. Kenneth D. Snelson Degree Received D.A.&H.L.
May 16, 1986	Garry B. Trudeau Cartoonist and Author	Garry B. Trudeau Degree Received D.H.L. Daniel Bell Degree Received D.Sc E. Margaret Burbridge Degree Received D.Sc Leslie Robertson Degree Received D.Eng
May 15, 1987	John F. Akers Chairman of the Board, IBM	John F. Akers Degree Received LL.D. Elmer L. Gaden, Jr. Degree Received D.Eng. William J. Kennedy Degree Received D.A.&H.L. Howard E. Simmons Degree Received D.Sc. Jack S. Parker Degree Received LL.D.
May 20, 1988	Hon. James B. Hunt, Jr. Senior Partner, Poyner & Spruill Law Firm, Former Governor of North Carolina	James B. Hunt, Jr. Degree Received LL.D. Raymond Kurzweil Degree Received D.Sc. Wassily Leontief Degree Received D.H.L. An Wang Degree Received D.Eng. C. Sheldon Roberts '48 Degree Received D.Eng.
May 19, 1989	Walter E. Massey VP for Research for Argonne National Laboratory & Professor of Physics, Univ. of Chicago	Erich Bloch Degree Received LL.D. Mariam K. Chamberlain Degree Received D.H.L. Jerry R. Junkins Degree Received D.Eng. Walter E. Massey
May 18, 1990	D. Allan Bromley Asst. to the President of the United States for Science and Technology	D. Allan Bromley Degree Received D.Sc. Nancy D. Fitzroy '49 Degree Received D.Eng. Jack S. Kilby Degree Received D.Eng. George W. Rickey Degree Received D.F.A. Claiborne Pell Degree Received LL.D.
May 17, 1991	Peter V. Ueberroth Investor and Entrepreneur	Myles N. Brand '64 Degree Received D.H.L. Elias J. Corey Degree Received D.Sc. Hanna H. Gray Degree Received LL.D. Peter V. Ueberroth Degree Received D.H.L. Paul C. Lauterbur Degree Received D.Eng.
May 15, 1992	Thomas L. Clancy, Jr. Author	Thomas L. Clancy, Jr. Degree Received D.H.L. Gordon E. Moore Degree Received D.Eng. Arno A. Penzias Degree Received D.Sc.
May 14, 1993	Robert Resnick Professor Physics	Ralph A. Alpher Degree Received D.Sc. Max E. Bleck '50 Degree Received D.Eng. Arthur Eisenkraft Degree Received D.Sc. Richard Selzer Degree Received D.A.
May 20, 1994	Dr. William Mow '59 Chairman & CEO, Bugle Boy Industries	Jewel Plummer Cobb Degree Received D.Sc. Mary L. Good Degree Received D.Sc. David T. Kearns Degree Received D.H.L. Guy W. Numan '53 Degree Received D.Eng.
May 19, 1995	G. David Low Astronaut, NASA	Evelyn Fox Keller Degree Received D.H.L. G. David Low Degree Received D.Eng. James W. Mitchell Degree Received D.Sc. Arati Prabhakar Degree Received D.Eng.
May 17, 1996	Peter Eio President, Lego Systems, Inc.	Philip M. Condit Degree Received D.Eng. Peter Eio Degree Received LL.D. Gertrude B. Elion Degree Received D.Sc. Wynton Marsalis Degree Received D.F.A. Dean Kamen Degree Received D.Eng.
May 16, 1997	Michael E. Herman '62 President, Kansas City Royals	Michael E. Herman '62 Degree Received D.H.L. William J. LeMessurier Degree Received D.Eng. Nam June Paik Degree Received D.F.A. Paul A. Samuelson Degree Received D.Sc.
May 15, 1998	Michael E. Herman '62 President, Kansas City Royals	Michael E. Herman '62 Degree Received D.H.L. William J. LeMessurier Degree Received D.Eng. Nam June Paik Degree Received D.F.A. Paul A. Samuelson Degree Received D.Sc.