1990s Commencement Speakers

Commencement speakers dating from Fall 1999 back to Spring 1990 can be found here.

Ceremony	Speaker Name	Profession
Fall 1999	Gerald J. Butters	President, Lucent Technologies’ Optical Networking Group
Spring 1999	Senator John Edwards	United States Senator from North Carolina
Fall 1998	Benjamin S. Ruffin	Chairman, Board of Governors
Spring 1998	General Henry Hugh Shelton	Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Fall 1997	Dr. Marcus L. Martin	Professor and Chairman, Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia
Spring 1997	The Honorable J. D. Hayworth	United States Congressman from Arizona
Fall 1996	Dr. Jerry Punch	ESPN Sports Reporter
Spring 1996	Fred McFeely Rogers	Host, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS
Fall 1995	The Honorable Burley B. Mitchell, Jr.	Chief Justice, The Supreme Court of North Carolina
Spring 1995	Dr. E. Gordon Gee	President, The Ohio State University
Fall 1994	Dr. Albert Carnesale	Acting President and Provost, Harvard University
Spring 1994	Elizabeth Dole	President, American Red Cross
Fall 1993	Dr. Ernest L. Boyer	President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Learning
Spring 1993	Governor James B. Hunt	Governor of North Carolina
Fall 1992	Dr. John Hope Franklin	James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus, Duke University
Spring 1992	John T. Caldwell	Chancellor Emeritus, NC State University
Fall 1991	General Maxwell R. Thurman	U. S. Army [retired]
Spring 1991	Dr. William Friday	President Emeritus, The University of North Carolina
Fall 1990	Dr. Larry K. Monteith	Chancellor, NC State University
Spring 1990	Maya Angelou	Reynolds Professor of American Studies