| 2007 |
Former U.S. secretary of state and member of the Wellesley class of 1959 Madeleine K. Albright |
| 2006 |
Global public health activist Ophelia Dahl, Wellesley class of 1994, founding trustee and executive director of Partners In Health |
| 2005 |
Patricia
J. Williams, Wellesley class of 1973, author and
professor of law at Columbia University School of Law |
| 2004 |
Toni
Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning author |
| 2003 |
Linda
Wertheimer, Wellesley class of 1965, broadcast journalist |
| 2002 |
Whoopi
Goldberg, actress, comedian and humanitarian |
| 2001 |
Jehan
Sadat, human rights activist, scholar |
| 2000 |
Pamela
Daniels, Wellesley class of 1959, Wellesley College class
dean, author |
| 1999 |
Lynn
Sherr, Wellesley class of 1963, ABC News 20/20 correspondent,
author |
| 1998 |
Pamela
A. Melroy, Wellesley class of 1983, astronaut |
| 1997 |
Oprah
Winfrey, talk show host |
| 1996 |
Nora
Ephron, Wellesley class of 1962, writer, film director and
producer |
| 1995 |
Madeleine
Korbel Albright, Wellesley class of 1959, U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations |
| 1994 |
Cokie
Roberts, Wellesley class of 1964, ABC News Congressional correspondent
and National Public Radio senior news analyst |
| 1993 |
Gloria
Steinem, feminist |
| 1992 |
Hillary
Rodham Clinton, Wellesley class of 1969, attorney |
| 1991 |
Madeleine
L'Engle, author |
| 1990 |
Barbara
Bush, first lady, United States of America
Raisa Gorbachev,
first lady, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics |
| 1989 |
Susan Estrich, Wellesley class of 1974, law professor and manager
of Dukakis presidential campaign |
| 1988 |
Gloria Steinem, feminist |
| 1987 |
Elizabeth Hanford Dole, U.S. Secretary of Transportation |
| 1986 |
Diane Sawyer, Wellesley class of 1967, journalist |
| 1985 |
Geraldine Ferraro, former congresswoman and vice presidential candidate |
| 1984 |
Carol Gilligan, educator, psychologist, author |
| 1983 |
Susan
Sontag, essayist, film director and novelist |
| 1982 |
Maya Angelou, poet, author and actress |
| 1981 |
Ellen Goodman, columnist |
| 1980 |
Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonsbury cartoon strip |
| 1979 |
Nora Ephron, Wellesley class of 1962, author and journalist |
| 1978 |
Jill Wine-Volner, general counsel to the Army, former assistant
Watergate special prosecutor |
| 1977 |
Elizabeth Brenner Drew, Wellesley class of 1957, writer and TV
commentator |
| 1976 |
Rosemary Murray, vice chancellor of Cambridge University, Cambridge,
England |
| 1975 |
Patricia Carbine, editor-in-chief and publisher, Ms Magazine |
| 1974 |
John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of economics, Harvard University |
| 1973 |
Shirley Chisholm, congresswoman from New York |
| 1972 |
Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman, New York City Commission on Human
Rights |
| 1971 |
Kate Millett, feminist |
| 1970 |
George Wald, professor of biology, Harvard University |
| 1969 |
Edward
W. Brooke, U.S. senator from Massachusetts |
| 1968 |
Howard W. Johnson, president of MIT |
| 1967 |
Sol M. Linowitz, U.S. representative to the Organization of American
States |
| 1966 |
Eugene R. Black, former president of the World Bank, special advisor
to President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 1965 |
Elisabeth Luce Moore, Wellesley class of 1924, trustee of Wellesley
College |
| 1964 |
McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the president for National Security
Affairs |
| 1963 |
Erwin Dain Canham, editor of The Christian Science monitor |
| 1962 |
Santha Rama Rau, Wellesley class of 1944, author |
| 1961 |
Vera Micheles Dean, editor, Foreign Policy Association--World Affairs
Center |
| 1960 |
Fred M. Hechinger, education editor of The New York Times |
| 1959 |
Neil H. McElroy, U.S. secretary of defense |
| 1958 |
James Reston, chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times |
| 1957 |
Edward Weeks, editor of The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1956 |
McGeorge Bundy, professor of government and dean of the faculty of
arts and sciences, Harvard University |
| 1955 |
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr., judge of U.S. District Court, Massachusetts |
| 1954 |
John H. Finley Jr., professor of Greek literature, Harvard University |
| 1953 |
Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College, 1936-49 |
| 1952 |
Erwin Dain Canham, editor of The Christian Science Monitor |
| 1951 |
Archibald MacLeish, poet and professor of rhetoric and oratory, Harvard
University |
| 1950 |
John Knox Jessup, chairman, board of editors of Fortune |
| 1949 |
Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College, 1936-49 |
| 1948 |
Edward A. Weeks Jr., editor of The Atlantic Monthly |
| 1947 |
James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of the Navy |
| 1946 |
Harold E. Stassen, ex-governor of Minnesota |
| 1945 |
Leverett Saltonstall, U.S. senator from Massachusetts |
| 1944 |
Vice-Admiral Randall Jacobs, U.S. Navy, chief of naval personnel |
| 1943 |
Harvey Hollister Bundy, special assistant to the U.S. secretary of
war |
| 1942 |
Hu Shih, ambassador from China to the U.S. |
| 1941 |
Archibald MacLeish, poet and librarian of Congress |
| 1940 |
Karl Taylor Compton, president of MIT |
| 1939 |
Stephen Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education,
N.Y. |
| 1938 |
Ernest Hatch Wilkins, president of Oberlin College |
| 1937 |
Josephine Roche, U.S. assistant secretary of the Treasury |
| 1936 |
Charles Seymour, provost of Yale University |
| 1935 |
Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor |
| 1934 |
George E. Vincent, dean emeritus of Yale Divinity School |
| 1933 |
James G. McDonald, chairman of the Board of the Foreign Policy Association |
| 1932 |
M. Roy Ridley, fellow and chaplain of Balliol College, Oxford |
| 1931 |
Willard Learoyd Sperry, dean of the Harvard Divinity School |
| 1930 |
Raymond Blaine Fosdick, lawyer |
| 1929 |
Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law School |
| 1928 |
Sir Robert Falconer, president of University of Toronto |
| 1927 |
Michael Pupin, professor of Electro-Mechanics, Columbia University |
| 1926 |
Chauncey Brewster Tinker, professor of English Literature, Yale University |
| 1925 |
Robert Morss Lovett, editor of The New Republic |
| 1924 |
Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers |
| 1923 |
Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, judge, Supreme Court of Ohio |
| 1922 |
Raymond B. Fosdick, lawyer |
| 1921 |
Gutzon Borglum, sculptor and orator |
| 1920 |
Charles Evans Hughes, former governor of New York |
| 1919 |
Albert Parker Fitch, professor of the history of religion, Amherst
College |
| 1918 |
Rev. Raymond Calkins |
| 1917 |
William Ernest Hocking, professor of philosophy, Harvard University |
| 1916 |
George Edgar Vincent, president of the University of Minnesota |
| 1915 |
William Howard Taft, former U.S. president, professor of law at Yale |
| 1914 |
John Finley, New York State commissioner of education |
| 1913 |
Bliss Perry, professor of English literature, Harvard |
| 1912 |
Talcott Williams, president of Columbia School of Journalism |
| 1911 |
John Farwell Moors, Boston broker |
| 1910 |
Curtis Guild, Jr., former governor of Massachusetts |
| 1909 |
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, senator from Iowa |
| 1908 |
Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers |
| 1907 |
William Roscoe Thayer, author |
| 1906 |
James Hulme Canfield, librarian of Columbia University |
| 1905 |
William De Witt Hyde, president of Bowdoin College |
| 1904 |
George Herbert Palmer, professor of philosophy, Harvard |
| 1903 |
Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century |
| 1902 |
LeBaron Russell Briggs, dean of Harvard College |
| 1901 |
Caroline Hazard, president of Wellesley College, 1899-1910 |
| 1900 |
Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, professor of international law, Yale
University |
| 1899 |
Hamilton Wright Mabie, associate editor of The Outlook |
| 1898 |
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, professor of Greek, Cornell |
| 1897 |
Calvin Thomas, professor of Germanic languages and literature, Columbia |
| 1896 |
Albert Bushnell Hart, professor of history, Harvard |
| 1895 |
Woodrow Wilson, professor of jurisprudence and politics, Princeton
University |
| 1894 |
Rev. James Gardiner Vose |
| 1893 |
G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University |
| 1892 |
Rev. Philip Stafford Moxom |
| 1891 |
Rev. Heman Lincoln Wayland |
| 1890 |
Alice Freeman Palmer, president of Wellesley College, 1881-87 |
| 1889 |
Jacob Gould Schurman, professor of philosophy, Cornell |
| 1888 |
W. C. P. Breckenridge, congressman from Kentucky |
| 1887 |
James 0. Murray, professor of English language and literature, Princeton |
| 1886 |
Rev. Marvin R. Vincent |
| 1885 |
Daniel C. Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University |
| 1884 |
Rev. Charles Dana Barrows |
| 1883 |
George S. Morris of Johns Hopkins and University of Michigan |
| 1882 |
Rev. N. Howard Crosby |
| 1881 |
[no Commencement exercises] |
| 1880 |
John D. Long, governor of Massachusetts |
| 1879 |
Rev. R. S. Storrs |
