1975        Bill Cohen, Commencement Speaker

1976        John Parrish March ’76, Commencement Speaker

1977        Samuel Eliot, Commencement Speaker

1978        Elmer Beal, Jr., Commencement Speaker

1979        Richard S. Davis, Commencement Speaker

1980        No Commencement Speaker

1981        Barbara Trafton, Commencement Speaker

1982        Leo Marx and Edward Kaelber, Commencement Speakers
                 Edward G. Kaelber, Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1983        Bill Carpenter, Commencement Speaker
                 Father James Gower, Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1984        Helen Nearing (1904-1995), Commencement Speaker
                 Richard S. Davis (-1982), Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1985        Jackson Gilman, Commencement Speaker
                 Leslie C. Brewer, Honorary BA in Human Ecology
                 Rev. A. C. McGiffert (1891-1991) , Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1986        Maxine Green, Commencement Speaker
                 John C. Dreier (1907-1994), Honorary BA in Human Ecology               

1987        Joanne Woodward, Commencement Speaker
                Donald Meiklejohn (1910-1991), Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1988        Thomas Crum, Commencement Speaker
                 Thomas S. Hall (), Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1989        Wendell Berry, Commencement Speaker
                 Alida M. Camp (1909-1998), Honorary BA in Human Ecology
                 Donald B. Straus (1916-2007), Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1990        Robert Coles, Commencement Speaker, Honorary BA in Human Ecology
                 Neva Goodwin, Honorary BA in Human Ecology
                 Charles R. Tyson, Honorary BA in Human Ecology      

1991        Madeleine Kunin, Commencement Speaker, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                William H. Drury, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

1992        Medea Benjamin, Commencement Speaker
                 Robert Blum (1899-1999), Honorary BA in Human Ecology
                 Millard Dority, Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1993        Father James Gower, Commencement Speaker
                 Liane N. Peach, Honorary BA in Human Ecology
                 Louis Rabineau (1924-2011), Honorary BA in Human Ecology
                 Elizabeth Thorndike (1908-1992) Posthumous Honorary BA in Human Ecology

1994        H. Patricia Hynes, Commencement Speaker
                 Edward Meade, Jr. (1931-1994), Posthumous Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 George J. Mitchell, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

1995        Elijah Anderson, Commencement Speaker
                 Edward McC. Blair, Sr. (1915-2010), Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Walter Litten (-2004), Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

1996        Ashley Bryan, Commencement Speaker, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996), Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

1997        Barbara Bramble, Commencement Speaker
                 Jill Goldthwait, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

1998        William Drayton, Commencement Speaker
                 Ian McHarg(1920-2001), Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

1999        Terry Tempest Williams, Commencement Speaker, Hon. MPhil in Human Ecology

2000       U. Utah Philips, Commencement Speaker
                 James Russell Wiggins (1903-2000), Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2001        James Gustave Speth, Commencement Speaker, Hon. MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. , Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2002       Amy Goodman, Commencement Speaker

2003       Chaia Heller, Commencement Speaker

2004       Frederick R. Steiner, Commencement Speaker, Hon. MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Shelby and Gale Davis, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2005       William Coperthwaite, Commencement Speaker

2006       Bernd Heinrich, Commencement Speaker, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Jeffrey Sachs, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2007       Chellie Pingree, Commencement Speaker, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2008        JoAnne Carpenter, Commencement Speaker
                 Henry L.P. Schmelzer, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Elizabeth Allen Straus (1916-2010), Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2009        Steven K. Katona, Commencement Speaker, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Thomas Chappell, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 John N. Kelly, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Lucy Bell Sellers, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2010        Carl Pope, Commencement Speaker, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Samuel M. Hamill, Jr., Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Bo Lidegaard, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                Janusz Reiter, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2011        Jane Alexander, Commencement Speaker, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                Henry B. Sharpe, Jr., Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                Peggy Sharpe, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology

2012        Robert Krulwich, Commencement Speaker
                 William G. Foulke, Jr., Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology
                 Richard Levins, Honorary MPhil in Human Ecology