Reverend Albert H. Plumb Speaks at Commencement

John Walsh, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, speaks at Commencement.

Gloria Steinem is the fifth recipient of the Otis Social Justice Award. Her keynote, “Putting Women into History and Vice Versa,” is accompanied by a panel presentation, “Major Issues in the Three Waves of Feminism,” including Kathryn Baxter 2000, Coordinator… Read More »

Historian and writer Howard Zinn receives the Otis Social Justice Award.

Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist and author, speaks at Commencement and is awarded an Honorary Degree.

Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough speaks at Commencement.

Author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich receives the seventh Otis Social Justice Award. The event, including a panel made up of Professors John Bezis-Selfa, Paula Krebs and John Miller and students Aislinn Stetson 2004 and Diana Noriega 2004, is moderated by… Read More »

Keith Lockhart, Conductor of the Boston Pops, lectures about the importance of music in life, as part of the Jane E. Ruby Lecture Series.

David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, speaks at Commencement.

Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, speaks at Commencement and is awarded an Honorary Degree.

Molly Ivins, national political correspondent, receives the eighth Otis Social Justice Award. Her keynote is entitled “Human Rights and War.”

Senator Ted Kennedy speaks to Wheaton College students after receiving the Otis Social Justice Award.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a journalist, speaks at Commencement and is awarded an Honorary Degree.

Cokie Roberts, a journalist, speaks at Commencement.

Freeman Hrabowski III, President of the University of Massachusetts, speaks at Commencement.

Katherine T. Bartlett, Professor of Law at Duke University, speaks at Commencement.

Deval Patrick, Govenor of Massachusetts, speaks at Commencement and is presented with the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law.

Ann Curry, a television journalist, mistakes Wheaton College in Norton with the Wheaton College in Illinois as she speaks at Commencement.

Johnetta B. Cole, President Emerita of Bennett College and Spelman College and director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian, is the 10th recipient of the Otis Social Justice Award.

Sister Helen Prejean, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, receives the Otis Social Justice Award.

Peggy McIntosh, associate director of Wellesley’s Centers for Women, receives the Otis Social Justice Award. Her keynote is entitled “Power and Privilege.”