who was your commencement speaker?

[sniffa]

i was just griping (after reading the jon stewart, commencement speech at W&M) about the commencement speaker at my graduation.

biLLie jean king


so who was yours?

[Lavender Brown]

1. Stephen King

He was pretty good.

[StephNW4Clark]

2. Bono for Class Day Speaker

Retiring President of the University for Commencement

[SaveElmer]

3. John Kenneth Galbraith

American University 1984

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Sorenson, JFK's speechwriter

He was pretty awful too, for a speechwriter.

[roguevalley]

5. It was to be Louis Armstrong but he died. (1976)

[notadmblnd]

6. L. Brooks Patterson

Oakland County MI Prosecutor.

[mainer]

7. Daniel patrick Moynihan

(1975)

[LionInWinter]

8. Secretary of the Navy John Lehman

Penn State - 1987

I don't remember one single word of it! :)

[TheWizardOfMudd]

9. 1) Sen. Don Nickles. 2) Abe Lemons

If you understand who Abe Lemons was, you'll believe me when I tell you that there were 10,000 people simultaneously rolling in the aisles with laughter.

Notable Abe Lemons quotes:

Legendary University of Texas basketball coach Abe Lemons was never at a loss for a wisecrack. He once reprimanded his starting center for grabbing only one rebound in the first half of a game. "That's one more rebound than a dead guy."

With his stellar 599-343 career win-loss record, legendary college basketball coach Abe Lemons left many opponents in the dust - even at Christmas. "I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town!"

Abe Lemons was fiercely proud of his Oklahoma heritage. Speaking to Howard Cosell, Lemons stated, "You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma you're nobody!"

"I don't jog. If I'm going to die, I want to be sick!"

Well, maybe you had to be there.

[lgreen]

10. speaker

We had George Bush I. College of William and Mary, class of 1995.
Yuck. He gave his thousand points of light speech. A bunch of us were trying to get Hillary Clinton but to no avail.

[GOPisEvil]

15. Welcome to DU!

Bush the Elder spoke at the Texas A&M graduation in 1989. I missed him by a year, thank goodness.

His library is there, though. :puke:

Welcome again. :hi:

[Skinner]

11. Jodie Foster.

Great speech, BTW.

[Neshanic]

12. HS...Millicent Fenwick....what a great person she was.

Did not go to college graduation, was happy to just get the hell out.

[GOPisEvil]

13. The President of the U of TX at El Paso.

Dr. Diana Natalicio

http://www3.utep.edu/aboututep/presidentsbio.aspx

A very positive speech!

I was a summer graduate - we didn't get the big names. :D

[Burma Jones]

14. Ismat Kittani

Former President of the UN General Assembly

[GumboYaYa]

16. The Honrable Harry A. Blackmun spoke at my graduation

fromn law school. It was the year of he announced his retirement from the Court, and he honored us with his speech despite an abundance of requests for him to speak publicly. To say it was a treat to have this great man speak on a day of such import to me personally is to give new meaning to understatement.

[sir_captain]

17. Al Franken

for Class Day and Daniel Patrick Moynihan for commencement in the rain

[I_like_chicken]

18. Charles Schumer!!!!

well he wasn't the main speaker, but he showed up to give a few remarks. That man is an awesome senator!!

[OneBlueSky]

19. Kurt Vonnegut and R. Buckminster Fuller . . .

Hobart College, 1974 . . . a rather unforgettable afternoon . . .