Commencement Speakers & Honorary Degree Recipients

*Rensselaer president

Title	Commencement Speakers	Honorary Degree Recipients
June 15, 1887	Henry R. Pierson NYS Regent	None
June 13, 1888	B. F. Isherwood Chief Engineer, US Navy	None
June 19, 1889	Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter Bishop of NY	None
June 18, 1890	Chauncey M. Depew, LL.D. Matthew Hale, LL.D	None
June 17, 1891	Charles Macdonald '57, C.E.	None
June 15, 1892	William Metcalf '58, C.E.	None
June 14, 1893	Joseph H. Mullin '69, C.E.	None
June 13, 1894	Joseph M. Wilson '58, C.E.	None
June 12, 1895	Othniel F. Nichols '68, C.E.	None
June 10, 1896	Theodore Voorhees '69, C.E.	None
June 16, 1897	G. S. Morison	None
June 15, 1898	Alfred Tredway White '65, C.E.	None
June 14, 1899	Capt. Henry C. Taylor Commander U. S. Battleship Indiana, US Navy	None
June 13, 1900	Rear Admiral Mordecai T. Endicott '68 Chief of Yards & Docks, US Navy	None
June 19, 1901	Col. Henry G. Prout Editor, Railroad Gazette	None
June 18, 1902	Capt. Robert Woolston Hunt	None
June 19, 1903	George W. Plympton '47 Director, Cooper Institute	None
June 20, 1904	Foster Crowell	None
June 14, 1905	Nelson P. Lewis '79 Chief Engineer, Board of Estimate and Apportionment, NY City	None
June 13, 1906	Rev. Charles Wood	None
June 12, 1907	W. Harvey Wiley Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry	None
June 17, 1908	Walter C. Kerr President, Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co.	None
June 16, 1909	Onward Bates '75 President, ASCE	None
June 15, 1910	Frank C. Osborn '80 Osborn Engineering Co.	None
June 14, 1911	Admiral Robert E. Peary Civil Engineer Corp, US Navy	None