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2012
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| December |
Andrew N. Nunemaker, CEO for Dynamis Software
Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors of Valparaiso University |
| May |
Randall T. Shepard, former Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justic
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2011
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December
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Rt. Rev. Dr. Munib Younan,
bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and president of the Lutheran World Federation
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May
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Bonnie E. Raquet,
corporate vice president (ret.) at Cargill Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Valparaiso University
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2010
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| December |
John P. "Jody" Kretzmann, Co-Director of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute and Research Associate Professor in The School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University |
| May |
Dr. Kurt Senske, President & Chief Executive Officer, Lutheran Social Services of the South |
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2009
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| December |
Mary Burce Warlick, Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia |
| May |
Walt Wangerin Jr., Author and Emil and Elfriede Jochum University Professor |
| May Law |
Robert D. Rucker, Indiana Supreme Court |
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2008
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| December |
David J. Hessler, Senior Partner, Wegman, Hessler & Vanderburg |
| May |
Undergraduate Ambassador Clayton Yeutter, Senior Adviser, Hogan & Hartson |
| May Law |
John F. Sandner, Chicago Mercantile Exchange |
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2007
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| December |
Paul A. Strasen, Phoenix Restaurant Partners |
| May Undergraduate |
Bill Kurtis, Producer, A&E Network and The History Channel |
| May Law |
Pat Choate, Founder and Director, Manufacturing Policy Project |
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2006
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| December |
Stephen A. Furbacher, president and chief operating officer of Dynegy Inc |
| May Undergraduate |
Myles Brand, President, NCAA |
| Law Undergraduate |
Lee Iacocca, Chairman, the Iacocca Foundation |
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2005
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| December |
Lloyd G. McClendon, Coach, Detroit Tigers |
| May Undergraduate |
Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Zero Gravity Corporation |
| May Law |
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., Governor, State of Indiana |
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2004
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| December |
Doris K. Christopher, Founder and Chairman, The Pampered Chef |
| May Undergraduate |
Jacki Lyden, alumna, author and NPR correspondent |
| May Law |
Randall Shepard, Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court |
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2003
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| December |
Alumna Rebecca Pallmeyer, U.S. District Court Judge |
| May Undergraduate |
Tom Skilling, Chicago meteorologist |
| May Law |
Carl Brizzi, prosecuting attorney, Marion County |
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2002
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| December |
Alumnus Richard Kauzlarich, former U.S. ambassador |
| May Undergraduate |
Richard G. Lugar, Republican leader of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee in the Senate |
| May Law |
Herbert F. Stride, partner, Stride, Craddock and Stride |
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2001
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| December |
Bruce Berner, Valparaiso University School of Law faculty |
| May Undergraduate |
Homer Drew, Head Coach, Men’s Basketball |
| May Law |
The Honorable Ilana Diamond Rovner, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
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2000
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| December |
Walter Wangerin, Jr., faculty member |
| May Undergraduate |
Linda Chavez, author and president of the Center for Equal Opportunity |
| May Law |
Peter J. Rusthoven, partner resident in the Indianapolis office of Barnes & Thornburg |
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1999
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| December |
Walter Wangerin Jr., faculty member |
| May Undergraduate |
Alumnus James C. Hunter, author of The Servant: A Simple Story about the True Essence of Leadership |
| May Law |
Victor Rosenblum, Nathaniel L. Nathanism Professor of Law in the School of Law at Northwestern University |
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1998
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| December |
Judith Peters, recently retired faculty member |
| May Undergraduate |
LouAnne Johnson, author of My Posse Don’t Do Homework |
| May Law |
N. Cornell Boggs III, associate general counsel for Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. |
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1997
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| December |
Alumna Kathryn Baerwald, assistant university counsel at Georgetown University; formerly general counsel at United Way of America |
| May Undergraduate |
Alan C. Page, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice |
| May Law |
Robert A. Stein, Executive Director of the American Bar Association in 1994 |
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1996
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| December |
Jean Bethke Elshtain, faculty member at University of Chicago; honorary degree Recipient |
| May Undergraduate |
Paul Schrage, retired business executive, alumnus and member of Board of Directors; honorary degree recipient |
| May Law |
The Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit |
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1995
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| December |
George C. Heider, Ph.D., President, Concordia University, River Forest, Ill. |
| May Undergraduate |
Rev. August Bernthal, alumnus, pastor and member of Board of Directors
Also speaking: the retiring president of the student body. |
| May Law |
The Honorable William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice, The Supreme Court of the United States |
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1994
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| December |
Christa Klein, alumna and member of Board of Directors; consultant with The Cheswick Center |
| May Undergraduate |
Ronald Ploszaj, deputy assistant laboratory director, Technical Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena Calif. (Doctor of Science)
Walter Sorell, retired professor, distinguished teacher, critic, and cultural historian, New York, N.Y. (Doctor of Letters) |
| May Law |
Luis V. Gutierrez, Representative of the Fourth District of the State of Illinois |
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1993
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| December |
Episcopal Bishop Craig Barry Anderson, dean and president, General Theological Seminary in New York |
| May |
Kathleen Obier Ell, professor of social work, University of Southern California |
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1992
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| December |
Dr. Warren Rubel, retiring professor of humanities in Christ College |
| May |
Frederick M. Bernthal, deputy director, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. |
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1991
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| December |
Fred L. Kuhlmann, vice chairman of the board, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. |
| May |
Dr. Charles H. and Jeannette R. Kramer, Oak Park, Ill.
Dr. Kramer – full professor, Northwestern University Medical School dept. of psychiatry and behavioral education.
Mrs. Kramer – assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School dept. of psychiatry and behavioral education. |
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1990
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| December |
Representative Jill Long, U.S. House of Representatives from northeast Indiana’s 4th congressional district |
| May |
Robert C. Maynard, editor and president of the Oakland, Calif., Tribune |
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1989
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| December |
Prof. Normand Widiger, associate professor of theology |
| May |
Rev. Edward J. Mahnke, Houston, Tex., director of chaplaincy and pastoral education at the University of Texas Cancer Center at M.D. Anderson Hospital, Houston |
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1988
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| December |
Dr. Paul Phipps, professor of English |
| May |
Margretta Styles, president of the American Nurses Assoc. who holds the Livingston Chair of Nursing at the University of California – San Francisco. |
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1987
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| December |
No record |
| May |
Richard John Neuhaus, director of the Center on Religion and Society in New York City |
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1986
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| December |
Dr. Paul Phipps, recently installed as the first Walter G. Friedrich Professor of American Literature |
| May |
Margretta M. Styles, dean of the School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
(two speakers spoke briefly) Walter Wangerin, Jr., faculty member |
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1985
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| December |
No record |
| May |
Dr. Paul Manske, holder of the Fred C. Reynolds Chair of Orthopedic Surgery and Chairman of the Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Washington Univ. of St. Louis |
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1984
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| December |
No record |
| May |
The Rev. Dr. Martin Kretzmann, LCMS (brother to O.P. Kretzmann) |
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1983
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| December |
Dr. John Strietelmeier, professor of geography |
| May |
The Honorable Richard K. Fox, Jr., foreign service officer and deputy inspector general, Dept. of State, Washington, D.C. |
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1982
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| December |
Dr. Alice Rechlin, professor of geography, VU |
| May |
Edwin Meese, III, counselor to the President of the United States since 1981 |
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1981
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| December |
Dr. Willis Boyd, professor of history |
| May |
Rev. Paul Hartling, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
