Weather Update

Due to the storm, Barnard College will close at 4pm today, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.  

Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information. 

Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed.  The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open.  For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS. 

3:12 PM 02/08/2013

Past Speakers and Medalists

1977

  • Joan S. Mondale

1978

  • Samuel R. Milbank
  • Richard Rodgers
  • Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger ’14
  • Rosalyn S. Yalow

1979

  • Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
  • Helen Gahagan Douglas ’24
  • Eleanor Thomas Elliott ’48
  • William A. Marsteller
  • Toni Morrison
  • Francis T.P. Plimpton

1980

  • Dorothy I. Height
  • Julius S. Held
  • Mary Dublin Keyserlng ’30
  • Margaret S. Mahler
  • Alan Pifer
  • Henriette H. Swope ’25

1981

  • Robert L. Hoguet
  • Elizabeth Hall Janeway ’35
  • Beverly Sills

1982

  • Carol Bellamy
  • Raymond J. Saulnier
  • Twyla Tharp ’63

1983

  • Mario M. Cuomo
  • Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
  • Mirra Komarovsky ’26

1984

  • Arthur G. Altschul
  • Annette K. Baxter ’47 (posthumous)
  • Joseph G. Brennan
  • Anna Hill Johnstone ’34

1985

  • Marian Wright Edelman
  • S. Dillon Ripley
  • Elizabeth Man Sarcka ’17

1986

  • A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Frances Lehman Loeb
  • Helen M. Ranney ’41

1987

  • Judith S. Kaye ’58
  • Sally Falk Moore ’43
  • Rev. James Parks Morton
  • Ellen Stewart

1988

  • Augusta Souza Kappner ’66
  • Ntozake Shange ’70
  • Maxine Singer

1989

  • Joan Kaplan Davidson
  • Eugene M. Lang
  • Bernice Segal (posthumous)
  • Lottie L. Taylor-Jones

1990

  • Jacqueline K. Barton ’74
  • Robert L. Bernstein
  • Jean Blackwell Hutson ’35
  • Julie V. Marsteller ’69

1991

  • Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ’50
  • Tisa Chang ’63
  • Mamphela Alette Ramphele

1992

  • Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen ’40
  • Fred W. Friendly
  • Millicent McIntosh
  • Frank Stella

1993

  • Arthur Ashe (posthumous)
  • Elizabeth B. Davis, M.D. ’41
  • Helene L. Kaplan ’53
  • Bette Bao Lord
  • Cyrus R. Vance

1994

  • Walter Cronkite
  • Ellen V. Futter ’71
  • Barbara S. Miller ’62 (posthumous)
  • Arthur Mitchell
  • Sheila E. Widnall

1995

  • Madeleine K. Albright
  • Rosemary Park Anastos
  • Derek Bok
  • Sissela Bok

1996

  • Rita R. Colwell
  • Kitty Carlisle Hart
  • Maya Lin
  • Dame Anne Warburton ’46

1997

  • Sarah Brady
  • Merce Cunningham
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1998

  • Mary Lowe Good
  • Joan Ganz Cooney
  • David A. Kessler

1999

  • Zoe Caldwell
  • Abby Joseph Cohen
  • Esther Dyson
  • William Golden

2000

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Hanna Holborn Gray
  • Annie Leibovitz
  • Kathie L. Olsen

2001

  • Morris Dees
  • Maxine Greene ’38
  • Susan Hendrickson
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon

2002

  • Barbara Novak ’50
  • Alice M. Rivlin
  • Harold Varmus

2003

  • Susan Band Horwitz
  • Judith Miller ’69
  • Martha Nussbaum

2004

  • Sylvia A. Earle
  • Louise Glück

2005

  • Carla D. Hayden
  • Amartya K. Sen

2006

  • Francine du Plessix Gray ’52
  • Linda Greenhouse
  • Audra McDonald

2007

  • Joan Didion
  • Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Mary Patterson McPherson
  • Muriel Petioni
  • Anna Deavere Smith

2008

  • Thelma C. Davidson Adair
  • Michael R. Bloomberg
  • Billie Jean King
  • David Remnick
  • Judith R. Shapiro

2009

  • Kay Crawford Murray 
  • Indra K. Nooyi
  • Irene Winter
  • Hillary Clinton

2010

  • Thelma Golden
  • Olympia J. Snowe
  • Shirley M. Tilghman
  • Meryl Streep