MILLOR ORATOR

In honor of the late Reverend William J. Millor, S.J., who served the University in a variety of posts over twenty-eight years, the Student Union president, the president of Alpha Sigma Nu, and a panel of faculty, staff, administrators, and senior students each year select a member of the graduating class to be the lone student presenter at the commencement ceremony. The Millor Orator is chosen from a pool of senior applicants who desire to be chosen as the only student speaker at graduation. Each applicant submits a written speech and other accompanying materials, and is judged based upon involvement on and off campus, leadership, and commitment to learning, as well as content, knowledge and identification of the Jesuit Mission. Finalists audition their speeches in front of a panel of faculty, administrators, and students, who then choose the best student on the basis of speech content, knowledge and identification of the Jesuit mission, poise and presentation.

Applications are made available each spring.

Questions about the Millor Orator application or selection process can be directed to Joel Mullner, Graduate Assistant in the Office of Student Activities, at jmullner07@jcu.edu.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2008 MILLOR ORATOR, THOMAS GREGORY HAREN!

Tom Haren presented the 2008 Millor Orator Address at the Commencement Exercises held on Sunday, May 18, 2008. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. A native of Lowellville, Ohio, Tom was a member of One-in-Four, a sexual assault peer education organization; Rhapsody Blue, the men's a capella group; and the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. He also participated in the Students Today Leaders Forever (STLF) "Pay it Forward" spring break service trip, an immersion trip to Chicago, and the Labre Project. This fall, Tom will embark on a legal career by attending the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

To read the text of Tom's 2008 Millor Orator Address, click here (available in pdf format).

Millor Orators 1977 - 2009