The 96th Commencement at Albertus Magnus College this Sunday, May 19, 2019 will include a Commencement address for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Kerry Alys Robinson, the speaker at this year’s Commencement ceremony, revives the tradition that began in 1928. She is joining a long list of previous speakers that include: The Honorable Judge Ellen Bree Burns; Senator Joseph Lieberman; Governor Lowell P. Weicker; author Calvin Trillin; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; actor Susan Saint James; Arvin Brown, long-time director of the Long Wharf Theater; and Dr. Henry Lee.
Kerry Alys Robinson is the founding executive director and global ambassador of the Leadership Roundtable. The Leadership Roundtable is dedicated to promoting excellence and best practices in the management, finances, and human resources development of the Catholic Church in the United States.
William F. Buckley, a well-known intellectual and conservative author who founded The National Review was the speaker at the 1987 Commencement.
The Honorable Judge Ellen Bree Burns, speaker at the 1974 commencement is an Albertus Alumna, Class of 1944. Judge Burns, a Circuit Court judge beginning in 1973, was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut in 1978.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family and known as the founder of the Special Olympics, was the speaker at the 1985 Commencement ceremony.
E. Kennedy Shriver stated on May 19, 1985,
“Follow the dictates of what you know is right and good.”