Summer 2015
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Quiz: Class Day Speakers
How well do you know the distinguished speakers from recent Class Day ceremonies?
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- This U.S. Senator and Columbia parent was the most recent keynote speaker (2006) who was not a College alumnus/a.
- Name the 2005 speaker who owns four Super Bowl championship rings.
- He twice won Tony Awards for Best Lead Actor in a Play, in 1999 for Death of a Salesman and in 2003 for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and was the speaker in 2000.
- Name the former NAACP president who spoke in 2010.
- The 2009 speaker served as U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015.
- This playwright won a Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Awards for Angels in America and spoke in 2004.
- A book author as well as a senior contributor for ABC News’ Good Morning America, this alumna was White House correspondent for rival network NBC when she spoke in 1999.
- Name the four-time Tony Award-winning playwright who was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1996 and spoke in 2013.
- A Law School alumnus, this 2002 speaker was the National Basketball Association commissioner from 1984 to 2014.
- This Clinton administration Secretary of the Treasury spoke in 1996.
Bonus: This actor and screenwriter spoke one year ago.