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2007 AJCU Undergraduate Commencement Speakers

Boston College - May 21, Jack Connors, BC '63, Founding partner of the national marketing and communications agency Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos.

Canisius College - May 19, Marv Levy, Buffalo Bills General Manager.

College of the Holy Cross - May 25, John G. Roberts Jr., chief justice of the United States .Supreme Court.

Creighton University - May 12, Rev. John P. Schlegel, President of Creighton University.

Fairfield University - May 20, Rev Thomas J. Regan, S.J., Provincial Superior of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus.

Fordham University - May 19, Willie Randolph, New York Mets manager and former New York Yankees baseball player.

Georgetown University - May 19, Reverend Jim Wallis, President and CEO, Sojourners/Call to Renewal; Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, preacher, speaker, activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life.

Gonzaga University - May 13, Alan Mulally, President and CEO of Ford Motor Company, formerly executive vice president of Boeing and the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

John Carroll University - May 20, Sandra Pianalto, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Le Moyne College - May 20, Maureen K. Byrnes, '78, Executive Director of Human Rights First, a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization based in New York and Washington, DC.

Loyola College in Maryland - May 19, Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek magazine and a leading commentator on faith in America.

Loyola Marymount University - May 5, Lee S. Shulman, Ph.D., president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Stanford professor emeritus.

Loyola University Chicago - May 11, College of Arts and Sciences - Arts Speaker: Larry Cox, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA; College of Arts and Sciences - Sciences Speaker: Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology at Brown University and preeminent evolutionary scientist.

Loyola University New Orleans - May 12, Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Marquette University - May 20, Steve Rushin, Award-winning sports journalist, joined Sports Illustrated as a reporter in 1988 after graduating from Marquette University.

Regis University - May 6, Rev. Michael Sheeran, S.J., President of Regis University.

Rockhurst University - May 13, Graduating senior Natalie Kurowski, who is majoring in biology with a minor in philosophy, and has been accepted to Creighton Dental School.

Saint Joseph's University - May 12, Mary Louise Quinlan '75, author of Just Ask a Woman: Cracking the Code of What Women Want and How They Buyand women's correspondent for CBS' The Early Show.

Saint Louis University - May 19, Yogi Berra, one of the most recognizable figures in Major League Baseball history and an American cultural icon.

Saint Peter's College - May 20, Thomas C. Fox, a former reporter, editor and publisher of the National Catholic Reporter (NCR).

Santa Clara University - June 16, David S. Broder, a national political correspondent reporting on the political scene for The Washington Post; Broder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in May 1973 for distinguished commentary.

Seattle University - June 10, Gary Smith, S.J., the author of Radical Compassion.

Spring Hill College - May 13, Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb, of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Mobile, AL.

University of Detroit Mercy - May 12, Alwan Riham Mazen, graduating senior who is receiving a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Arts in English.

University of San Francisco - May 19,  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

University of Scranton - May 27, Ashraf Ghani, Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert on effective state building, post-conflict reconstruction and global governance, is the Chancellor of Kabul University in Afghanistan and Afghanistan's former finance minister.

Wheeling Jesuit University - May 12, Barbara J. Masekela, ambassador to the United States for South Africa.

Xavier University - May 19, A.G. Lafley, Chairman, President and CEO of the Procter & Gamble Co.