Posted on 05/27/2009 2:56:44 PM PDT by GSWarrior
Do you remember anything that he/she said?
My commencement speaker was John Glenn in 1984. He gave a big long political speech that interested no one. Near the end of his speech he said “and in conclusion” and when he said that I mean to tell you the graduates bursted into applause. LOL!
One of my commencement speakers was John Ashcroft and no, I don’t remember a thing and I didn’t know who he was back in ‘85.
John McCain..sadly at the end of his life; the worst mistake Jerry Sr. ever made (Dr. Falwell)!
Actor Danny Thomas spoke at my college commencement at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. I don’t remember much of what he said....it was a long time ago.
The only person I recognize is Art Buchwald, although the guy up top looks like Peter Cushing as a vampire but I’m guessing he’s cardinal or something.
I don’t remember my commencement speaker, former Dean of the university or something. However, my oldest sister’s commencement speaker was Maxine Waters. It was thoroughly boring, highly liberal, and I’ve tried to block it out. That woman is like nails on a blackboard.
RICHARD JAMES (CARDINAL) CUSHING of Boston ... I forgot to mention, in his speech he predicted that all during our lifetime we would see small wars being fought, by countries we never heard of, all over the world ... seems he was correct.
Art Buchwald ........not to take yourself and especially politics too seriously
Dr. Robert Ballard [one of the greatest living explorers and distinguished scientist] ....... follow your dream, yada, and without a single note spoke about his how and why he discovered JFK’s PT-109 ...fascinating
Heck if I know. I graduated a semester early and blew off graduation because I had been working since 2 weeks after I got out.
PS: I do remember we had a streaker, though :-)
Things loosened up when a new university head took office. Other speakers were allowed, especially in nonelection years.
But when people put down the celebrity culture and all the airhead actors and actresses and athletes we bow down to, remember that if politicians had their way, things could be far worse.
I attended neither high school, nor college, nor post-grad convocation. Number one, I wasn’t interested; number two, I had always left one area for the next (for work or more school - could never afford one of those “take a few months off to unwind after graduation” deals) in the time between completing the given diploma or degree requirements and the actual ceremony.
For HS, the speaker was a Cardinal Archbishop whose name I cannot recall. For undergrad, it was a Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor, name escapes me. For post-grad it was a European ex-PM who apparently gave a really good address - Ahlo or Ahko or something.
I graduated from High School three years ago. I don’t even know if we had one, but I’m sure we did. In college, I haven’t graduated yet, but I did watch the last one, and the guy admitted that he wanted to make sure that they would remember him, so he gave all the graduates a copy of his book to make sure :D.
Probably read it in the Bible and said it to impress your young skull, full of mush.
I probably would have paid to hear Michener!
Don't remember much of her speech, though. I'm sure it had something to do with living in a post-9/11 world, however.
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