Who spoke at your college graduation??
CHANGEinWAVES
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I myself have yet to get a college degree, but at my ex husbands graduation from Temple, Bill Cosby was the guest speaker.
His speech was quite scary and he basically yelled at the class telling them they are the future and they had to change the way the world perceived them. He had a point but it was the way he went about it that was scary.
I was wondering who has had famous guest speakers at their college graduations?
His speech was quite scary and he basically yelled at the class telling them they are the future and they had to change the way the world perceived them. He had a point but it was the way he went about it that was scary.
I was wondering who has had famous guest speakers at their college graduations?
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The year I graduated, they dropped the ball and weren't paying attention. We got a local Cleveland newscaster. Talk about your rotten luck eh?
On the other hand, I did get to hear Henry Kissinger give his incoming chancellor's speech. Gotta love a marble-mouthed apologist for war crimes. But hey, he did get Nixon to China. :?
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
My college dropped the ball too.
I went to Fordham, and we had 2 speakers at our graduation in '05:
1) Senator Chuck Schumer, who gave the same exact speech that he gave at my high school graduation
2) The President of NYU, who graduated from Fordham in the '60s
Who picks the president of your biggest rival college as your commencement speaker??!
every year our firm has a promotion day and we always get celebrity guests. queen latifah and jennifer hudson were the past 2...and i heard in the past they've had bill cosby, and had performances by diana ross and the who! :shock:
Let's just breathe...
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I graduated UCLA last year. The speaker was SUPPOSED to be Bill Clinton, but one of the labor unions, who were on strike at the time, pressured him to cancel a week before the ceremony. Then they tried to get Bill Maher, then Arianna Huffington, then even Kal Penn (Kumar). None came through, either because they couldn't prepare in time or because the union also got to them. And they picketed the ceremony as well. I was really disappointed and pissed off that my graduation experience had to suffer because of unrelated issues. Seems most others were too, because Pauley Pavilion was full of booing when the Chancellor mentioned Clinton.
So my graduation speaker was the student government president.