Maya Angelou, author, poet, and actress, speaks at Commencement.
1981Molly Luce Burroughs, Honorary Degree Recipient
Molly Luce Burroughs, painter, is awarded an honorary degree.
1981Richard Lewis Thornburgh, Honorary Degree Recipient
Richard Lewis Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1981Virginia Judson Thornburgh, Honorary Degree Recipient
Virginia Judson Thornburgh 1961, activist for the disabled and first lady of Pennsylvania, is awarded an honorary degree.
1982Garry Trudeau Speaks at Commencement
Gary Trudeau, political satirist and Doonesbury cartoonist, speaks at Commencement.
1982Maurice L. Clemence, Honorary Degree Recipient
Maurice L. Clemence, director and CFO of the Kendall Company and Wheaton trustee emeritus, is awarded an honorary degree.
1982Alice Huang, Honorary Degree Recipient
Alice Huang, Director of Laboratories of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital in Boston, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1982Louise Nevelson, Honorary Degree Recipient
Louise Nevelson, sculptor, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1983Barbara Walters Speaks at Commencement
Barbara Walters, TV journalist and interviewer, speaks at Commencement.
1983Nancy Hemenway Barton, Honorary Degree Recipient
Nancy Hemenway Whitten Barton 1941, artist and weaver, is awarded an honorary degree.
1983Walter A. Haas, Jr., Honorary Degree Recipient
Walter A. Haas, Jr., CEO and President of Levi Strauss & Co. and Wheaton Trustee, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1983Evelyn Murphy, Honorary Degree Recipient
Evelyn Murphy, Deputy Governor of Massachusetts, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1984Jehan al-Sadat Speaks at Commencement
Jehan el-Sadat, widow of Anwar Sadat, speaks at Commencement.
1984Seiji Ozawa, Honorary Degree Recipient
Seji Ozawa, Music Director of the Boston Symphony, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1985Sandra Day O’Connor Speaks at Commencement
Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, speaks at Commencement.
1985Indira Gandhi, Honorary Degree Recipient
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1985John W. Gardner, Honorary Degree Recipient
John W. Gardner, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, & Welfare, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1985Giovinella M. Gonthier, Honorary Degree Recipient
Giovinella M. Gonthier, U.N. Ambassador to Seychelles, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1985Grace Murray Hopper, Honorary Degree Recipient
Grace Murray Hopper, Mathematician for the U.S. Navy, is an Honorary Degree Recipient.
1985Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Honorary Degree Recipient
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Past President of IBM and US Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., is an Honorary Degree Recipient.