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Commencement Ceremony
Monmouth College’s one hundred and forty-sixth commencement ceremony was held on Sunday, May 11. Prior to the processional at 11:30am, the Pipes and Drums performed on Wallace Lawn.

Speaker
Carl W. Vogt, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, was the featured speaker at Monmouth College’s 146th commencement exercises. Vogt, who currently is of counsel in the Washington office of the international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, was appointed in 1992 to head the National Transportation Safety Board by former President Bush.

The NTSB is an independent federal agency that determines the causes of major transportation accidents and makes safety improvement recommendations. As CEO, Vogt was instrumental in the investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800. In 1994, he returned to Fulbright & Jaworski, where he had been a senior partner and the managing partner of the firm’s Washington office.

In 1999, Vogt again left the firm to serve for one year as interim president of his alma mater, Williams College, which is consistently one of the top-ranked national liberal arts colleges in the nation. Vogt, who remains a trustee at Williams, was just the 15th president in its 210-year history.

A native of Houston, Texas, Vogt earned his bachelor’s degree from Williams in 1958. He then served four years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a jet fighter pilot with duty aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the western Pacific. Following his service, Vogt attended law school at the University of California-Berkeley and graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1965.

In 1991, he was appointed by President Bush for a four-year term as a member of the board of directors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation and, five years later, he was appointed by President Clinton as a member of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security.