Spring
May 11 & 18, 2003 |
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Commencement
Speech by Theodore C. Sorensen
Sorensen
wrote President John F. Kennedy's historic
speech given at AU's commencement in June 1963, which called
on the Soviet Union to work with the United States to achieve
a nuclear test ban treaty and help reduce the considerable
international tensions and the specter of nuclear war at that
time. Sorenson wrote the 1965 book, "Kennedy," an
international best seller, and seven other books on the presidency,
politics, and foreign policy. |
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Commencement
Speech by Charlayne Hunter Gault
Gault, currently
the Johannesburg bureau chief of CNN, has had a distinguished
career in journalism and communications with nearly 20 years
with PBS where she was national correspondent for The News
Hour with Jim Lehrer; National Public Radio as chief Africa
correspondent; and a reporter for the New Yorker and the New
York Times. She also was the first African American woman to
enroll & graduate from the University of Georgia (as one
of the first two African American students). |
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Commencement
Speech by Garry Wills
Wills, a
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has written close to 30 books
on American political and social history, and won the Pulitzer
for his book, "Lincoln at Gettysburg." He also has
written on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Henry Adams, John
F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, the Catholic Church,
and other topics of American history and thought. |
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Commencement
Speech by Judge Gerald Bruce Lee
Judge Gerald Bruce Lee sits on the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia, having been appointed for by President
Clinton in 1998. Previously, he sat on Virginia's 19th Judicial
Circuit Court, and was in private law practice with the firm Cohen,
Dunn & Sinclair. He
earned his BA from American University and his JD from AU's Washington
College of Law. He has received numerous awards for his work on behalf
of female and minority students. |
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President Ladner's Gharge to Graduates |
Winter
February 2, 2003 |
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Commencement Speech
by Sam
Donaldson
ABC journalist Sam Donaldson received an
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree for his journalistic work
of more than four decades, covering topics from Vietnam to President
Clinton. |
