Seniors just got an email with a lot of capital letters and Z’s instead of S’s (student council…it’s just like Bwog!)

Included in that email was a list of potential Class Day speakers. And here they are:

  • Richard Axel, Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist.
  • Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of the Washington Post; not as dashing as Bill Keller.
  • Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice.
  • Ric Burns, your and Eric Foner’s favorite PBS documentary producer, his daughter niece Lily graduated a few years ago.
  • Alexandra Wallace Creed, executive producer of NBC Nightly News, CC’88
  • Julius Genachowski, Chairman of Federal Communications Commission
  • Sen. Judd Gregg, Senator from New Hampshire
  • Pres. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia
  • Jodi Kantor,  New York Times journalist
  • Anne Kornblut, Washington Post journalist
  • Li Lu, Columbia alum and Chairman of Himalaya Capital Management
  • Terrence McNally, former Varsity Show writer, current playwright
  • Michael Mukasey, CC’63, 81st Attorney General of the United States
  • Anna Paquin, still on a leave of absence from Columbia after a year of college, that girl from True Blood
  • Elizabeth Rubin, New York Times journalist
  • Julia Stiles, former John Jay resident
  • Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent for PBS Newshour

Discuss!