Georgetown College Commencement Archives
Class of 2009
- Address to the graduates by Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’s “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”
Class of 2008
- Address to the graduates by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder, Teach for America
Class of 2007
- Address to the graduates by Rev. Jim Wallis, President and CEO, Sojourners/Call to Renewal
Class of 2006
- Address to the graduates by Ken Burns, Filmmaker
- Honorary degree citation for Ken Burns
- Cohonguroton Oration by Leigh Frances Shadko, Georgetown College Tropaia Exercises
Class of 2005
- Address to the graduates by W. Richard West, Jr. Founding Director, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.
- Honorary degree citation for Richard West
Class of 2004
- Honorary degree citation for Rita Rossi Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland College Park and at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Class of 2003
- Senior Convocation
- Cohonguroton Oration by J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Georgetown College Tropaia Exercises
- Commencement program
- John Carroll Medal of Merit to Rev. Joseph T. Durkin, S.J.
- Honorary degree citation for Francis Cardinal Arinze, Prefect Of Divine Worship And The Discipline Of The Sacraments
- Closing reflections by President John J. DeGioia
Class of 2002
- Honorary degree citation for Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity College, Washington, D.C.
Class of 2001
- Honorary degree citation for Charlayne Hunter-Gault,Johannesburg Bureau Chief and Correspondent, CNN
Class of 2000
- Address to the graduates by Roald Hoffmann, Professor, Cornell University
- Honorary degree citation for Roald Hoffmann
Class of 1999
- Address to the graduates (in Spanish) by H.E. Most Rev. Pedro Meurice Estiu, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba
- English translation
- Honorary degree citation for Archbishop Pedro Meurice
Class of 1998
- Honorary degree citation for John William O'Malley, S.J.
Class of 1997
- Honorary degree citation for Vera Rubin
Class of 1996
- Honorary degree citation for Louis Dupré
Class of 1995
- Honorary degree citation for Dorothy Qunicy Thomas
Class of 1994
- John Carroll Medal of Merit to William J. Curtin
Class of 1993
- Honorary degree citation for Mona Van Duyn
Class of 1992
- Honorary degree citation for Robert N. Bellah
- Honorary degree citation for Richard Manning Karp
