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The Senior Class Committee, made up of Class Marshals elected earlier in the year, goes through months of meetings, hundreds of names, and hours of deliberations before they are finally able to submit their choice for speaker to the Alumni Association.
Post-polling, the committee begins to meet to discuss possible speakers. The initial range of potential invites is long and eclectic; past speakers have included Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Conan O’Brien ’85 and Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Ali G.
After much deliberation, this year’s committee settled on Christiane Amanpour, CNN foreign correspondent and internationally respected journalist. Amanpour is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in addition to being named an honarary citizen of the city of Sarajevo due to her in...
From there, the Committee is left to wait while the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) works out the details of engaging the speaker.
The Committee announced Christiane Amanpour as Class Day Speaker on Feb. 17, 2010, the earliest time in recent history that they have been able to do so. “The Committee has put in hours and hours and hours of work, and they have taken their job very seriously...