2004 Commencement Speakers

•Ashland University (Ohio)
 Robert C. Springer
 Colonel, United States Marine Corps, retired NASA astronaut director 

•Bennett College (N.C.)
 Gwendolyn E. Boyd
 National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 

•Bucknell University (Pa.)
 Ralph Nader
 Consumer advocate, lawyer, author and presidential candidate 

•California State University – Fullerton
 Susan Elizabeth George
 Educator, novelist and founder of the Elizabeth George Foundation 

•Cameron University
 (Okla.)
 Linda Wertheimer
 Senior National Public Radio correspondent and former host of "All Things Considered." 

•Case Western Reserve
 University (Ohio)
 Elie Wiesel
 Holocaust survivor, author, teacher and storyteller; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom and the United States Congressional Gold Medal 

•Claremont Graduate
 University (Calif.)
 John Seely Brown
 Vice president and chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 

•Clark University (Mass.)
 The Honorable Margaret Marshall
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 
•Colgate University (N.Y.)
 Steve Burke
 President of Comcast Cable and a Colgate University alumnus 

•Duke University (N.C.)
 Madeleine Albright
 Former U.S. Secretary of State 

•Emory University (Ga.)
 Mary Robinson
 Advocate of universal respect for fundamental rights and freedoms; Ireland's first woman president; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Harvard Law fellow; Winston Churchill Medalist
•Oxford College of
 Emory University
 Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
  President, Spelman College
 
•Grinnell College (Iowa)
 Dr. William F. Schulz
  Executive director of Amnesty
 International USA
 
•Hampden-Sydney College (Va.)
  Dr. J. Alfred Broaddus Jr.
  President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
•Harvard University (Mass.)
  Kofi Annan
  Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize winner