Commencement programs, 1940-2010

Printed commencement programs, 1940-2010. The programs include a list of names, degrees, and honors awarded. Also includes names of speakers and honorary degree recipients. Many of the copies retained here are identified as "marked" with penciled additions and deletions made to the list after the program was printed, indicating that these are the corrected copies which were editied by the Registrar's Office after the programs were printed. The bound volumes are for the periods 1941 - 1947, 1948 - 1953, 1954 - 1958, 1959 - 1962, and 1959 - 1963. The collection also contains correspondence, memos, "final lists," for various years, procession order and seating plans for 1999, and postcard invitations for staff for 2003-2006. A register of the commencement of programs is listed here, with the name of the commencememnt speaker and/or honorary degree recipient.

1941 January

Alfred Kauffmann

1941 June

Albert W. Hawkes

1942 January

Raymond J. Koch

1943 February

Wilfred Sykes

1943 May

Rev. Joseph M. Egan, S. J.

1943 October

John I. Yellott

1944 February

Edward Charles Elliott

1944 June

George David Birkhoff

1944 October

Rev. Harold W. Ruopp. D.D.

1945 February

John Pomeroy Sanger

1945 June

Alex Davison Bailey

1945 October

John Day Larkin

1946 February

Ernest C. Colwell

1946 June

Louis L. Mann

1947 January

James Clinton Peebles

1947 June

Rev. Harold W. Ruopp, D. D.

1948 January

Harold C. Hunt

1948 June

Martin H. Kennelly (Mayor)

1949 January

Lenox Riley Lohr

1949 June

John J. Schommer

1950 January

Leverett Samuel Lyon

1950 June

Edwin Griswold Nourse

1951 January

Charles H. Percy

1951 June

Preston Bradley

1952 January

Kenneth Hildebrand

1952 June

Paul G. Armstrong, Alex D. Bailey

1953 January

Philip Sporn

1953 June

Alex D. Bailey

1954 January

Lewis K. Silcox

1954 June

Sterling Morton, Thomas Drever

1955 January

Charles Joseph Turck

1955 June

James Scott Kemper

1956 January

Dorothy Thompson

1956 June

Leonard Edward Read

1957 January

Arthur Burton Goetze

1957 June

Carter Davidson

1958 January

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

1958 June

William Littell Everitt

1959 January

Theodore von Karman

1959 June

James E. Day

1960 January

C. Virgil Martin

1960 June

Joseph L. Block

1961 January

Robert S. Stevenson

1961 June

Lloyd S. Michael

1962 January

Everett McKinley Dirksen, Senator

1962 June

Alan T. Waterman, Grover M. Hermann

1963 January

Arthur E. Summerfield

1963 June

Charles H. Malik

1964 January

David M. Kennedy

1964 June

Axel A. Hofgren, James Scott Kemper

1965 January

Harris Perlstein, Ronald Percy Bell

1965 June

Richard J. Daley (Mayor)

1966 January

Henry T. Heald

1966 June

Sr. Mary Huberta

1967 January

Raymond W. Ketchledge

1967 June

Abe M. Zarem

1968 January

Raymond W. Ketchledge

1968 June

Eric Goldberg, Joseph L. Block, Louis S. Hardin, Raymond J. Koch, Robert I. Wishnick

1969 January

Maynard P. Venema

1969 June

E. Douglas Schwantes

1970 January

Henry W. McGee

1970 June

John R. Cortelyou

1970 December

Louie B. Nunn

1971 May

Alexander Goldberg

1971 December

Julius J. Hoffman, Judge

1972 May

James F. Oates

1972 December

James A. Campbell

1973 May

James B. Holderman

1973 December

Rolf A. Weil

1974 May

Stanton R. Cook

1974 December

Edward E. David, Jr.

1975 May

H. Guyford Stever

1975 December

James M. Furman

1976 May

Thomas L. Martin

1976 December

Thomas L. Martin

1977 May

Thomas L. Martin

1977 December

Roland A. Budenholzer

1978 May

Sidney A. Guralnick

1978 December

Lewis M. Collens

1979 May

Maynard P. Venema

1979 December

Martin Kilpatrick

1980 May

Robert A. Pritzker; Robert Filler

1980 December

Albert B. Dick III

1981 May

Bennett Archambault

1981 December

Joseph B. Lanterman

1982 May

Thomas L. Martin

1982 December

None recorded

1983 May

None recorded

1983 December

None recorded

1984 May

None recorded

1984 December

None recorded

1985 May

None recorded

1985 December

None recorded

1986 May

None recorded

1986 December

Thomas L. Martin, Jr.

1987 May

None recorded

1987 December

None recorded

1988 May

None recorded

1988 December

None recorded

1989 May

Meyer Feldberg

1989 December

None recorded

1990 May

None recorded

1990 December

None recorded

1991 May

None recorded

1991 December

None recorded

1992 May

None recorded

1992 December

None recorded

1993 May

None recorded

1993 December

None recorded

1994 May

None recorded

1994 December

None recorded

1995 May

Robert M. White, Charles W. Finkl

1996 December

None recorded

1997 May

Serope Kalpakjian

1997 December

Mary Good, Max McGraw

1998 May

Charles M. Vest, James Ingo Freed

1998 December

Adele Simmons, M.A.

1999 May

Valdas Adamkus, Martin C. Jischke

1999 December

Elmer Johnson

2000 May

Neal F. Lane

2000 December

Robert F. Bernard

2001 May

Susan Solomon

2001 December

Undergraduate. Edward Reingold

2001 December

Graduate. Michael Witherell, Richard M. Jaffee, John W. Madigan

2002 May

James G. Roche

2002 December

Hamid Arastoopour

2003 May

Richard J. Durbin, Lin Weigan

2003 December

Undergraduate. Hermann Grunder

2003 December

Graduate. Candace Wark

2004 May

Marty Cooper. Student speaker - Kalindi Ashvin Parikh

2004 December

Undergraduate. Herek L. Clack. Student speaker Betsy Maria Raju

2004 December

Graduate. Darsh T. Wasan Note: Program has a world map recognizing IIT's international students' counties of origin.

2005 May

Presentation of regents, Robert Pritzker, Robert Galvin, & M.A. “Al” Self substituted for commencement speaker; Student Speaker Guillermo A. Casas

2005 December

Undergraduate Alexander J. Flueck. Student speaker Nicholas Campion

2005 December

Graduate M. Zia Hassan

2006 May

Patrick Whitney, Student speaker Natalie Carroll Rezek

2006 December

Undergraduate Robert Rosner. Student speaker Maram Kittaneh

2006 December

Graduate Helmut Jahn

2009 May

None recorded

2010 May

None recorded