Flagler
College Commencement Speakers
1972
Dr. Grellet C. Simpson, Chancellor,
Mary Washington College.
1973
Dr. S. Walter Martin, President,
Valdosta State College.
1974
Mr. Lawrence Lewis, Jr.,
Chairman, Flagler College
Board of Trustees.
1975
Dr. Rufus Carrolton Harris,
President, Mercer University.
1976
Dr. Franklyn A. Johnson,
Program Director, Arthur
Vining Davis Foundation.
1977
Honorable Jerry Thomas, Florida
State Senator, Chairman of
the Board, First Marine Bank,
Inc.
1978
Honorable William V. Chappell,
Member United States House
of Representative, 4th Florida
Congressional District.
1979
Honorable Samuel P. Bell
III, Member Florida House
of Representatives, District
Thirty.
1980
Honorable Beverly B. Burnsed,
Member Florida House of Representatives;
Chairman, House Education
Committee.
1981
Dr. William L. Proctor, President,
Flagler College.
1982
Dr. L. Richard Meeth, Executive
Dean, International Graduate
School.
1983
D. Burke Kibler III, President,
Holland and Knight.
1984
Dean Robert F. Carberry,
Dean of Flagler College.
1985
Richard J. Salem, Board of
Trustees Chairman, Florida
School for the Deaf and the
Blind.
1986
Dr. Michael V. Gannon, Associate
Dean, College of Liberal
Arts and Science, University
of Florida.
1987
Reverend Dr. David Redding,
Pastor, Liberty Church of
Delaware, Ohio.
1988
Honorable T. Terrell Sessums,
Former Speaker of the Florida
House of Representatives,
and past chairman of the
Florida Board of Regents
of the State University System.
1989
Dr. J. Stanley Marshall,
President, James Madison
Institute for Public Policies.
1990
William. S. Sessions, Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1991
Dr. Russell P. Kropp, Professor
of Higher Education and Assistant
to the Provost at Florida
State University.
1991-1992
(Fall) Robert B. Bickel,
Professor of Law, Stetson
University College of Law.
(Spring) Robert
B. Mautz, Regents
Professor, University
of Florida.
1992-1993
(F) Allan R. Nagle, President,
Tupperware, International.
(S) Honorable
Richard O. Watson,
Circuit Judge,
Seventh Judicial
Circuit of Florida.
1993-1994
(F) Honorable Tracy W. Upchurch,
Florida House of Representatives,
District 20.
(S) Dr. I. King
Jordan, President,
Gallaudet University.
1994-1995
(F) Ronald O. Harrison, Adjutant
General, Florida National
Guard.
(S) Martha Walters
Barnett, Chair
of the House
of Delegates
of the American
Bar Association
and partner,
Holland and Knight.
1995-1996
(F) Patrick L. M. Williams,
General Manager, The Orlando
Magic.
(S) Honorable
Frank T. Brogan,
Commissioner
of Education,
State of Florida.
1996-1997
(F) Matthew Glavin, President
and CEO, Southeastern Legal
Foundation.
(S) Professor
Robert F. Carberry,
Associate Professor
of Political
Science at Flagler
College.
1997-1998
(F) Frances Bartlett Kinne,
Chancellor Emeritus of Jacksonville
University.
(S) Honorable
John Thrasher,
Florida House
of Representatives.
1998-1999
(F) Honorable Sandra Mortham,
Secretary of State, Florida.
(S) Philip D.
Lewis, former
Florida Senator
(1970-1980).
1999-2000
(F) Dr. T. K. Wetherell,
President, Tallahassee Community
College.
(S) Major General
Peter James Boylan,
Jr., President,
Georgia Military
College.
2000-2001
(F) The Honorable Alexander
M. Crenshaw, United States
House of Representatives.
(S) The Honorable
Charles T. Canady,
General Counsel
to Gov. Jeb Bush,
former member
of the U.S. House
of Representatives.
2001-2002
(F) F. Philip Handy, Chairman,
Florida Board of Education.
(S) Jim Horne,
Secretary of
Education, Florida
Board of Education.
2002-2003
(F) Stephen R. Wise, Florida
State Senate.
(S) Dr. Paula
J. Dobriansky,
Under Secretary
of State, United
States Department
of State (Address)
2003-2004 (F) Dr. Jonathon T. Howe, Executive Director,
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
(S)
The Honorable John L. Mica, United States Representative
2004-2005 (F)The Honorable Joe. H. Pickens, Florida House of Representatives
(S)
Mr. Robert Danzig, Former Chief Executive Office of the Hearst Newspaper Group
and Former Vice President of the Hearst Corporation |
