I don't remember his name, but he was some sort of sports writer for a Boston paper, or maybe an ESPN type site? He was interesting enough. I would have loved to have Bill Nye!
I had to pop in as a lurker to say that the speaker at my graduation was Eric Estrada, and I was super disappointed that it was not the guy from Chips, but some business guy. Lame.
A few years ago my school had Julie Andrews, and although I have long since graduated I was sad I missed that
College was the CEO of Sony. I don't remember his name. The university was too large to do one commencement so they divided up the graduations by the various schools within the university. So the business school, music school, and engineering schools were combined into one commencement. Given that, the speaker made sense.
Random story: when I was student teaching some snobby girls from the University of Michigan who were student teaching at the same high school were all like, "oooooh, we get Bill Clinton as our commencement speaker, oooohhhh." They asked me who my speaker was going to be (I went to the smaller state school six miles away) and I was so embarrassed to say I didn't know who it was. I was still embarrassed when I looked up who it was. In hindsight this seems like a really trivial thing to be embarrassed of.
::hair flip::
In truth, I'm still jealous some of you got such better speakers!
In our basement he's got a framed photo of himself posting with Bill Nye and Ed Begley Jr. at some scientific teachers' convention he attended.
We watched that episode of The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon brought Bill Nye to meet Professor Proton (Bob Newhart) and he was giggling like a schoolgirl at the entire scene.
It was supposed to be Jodie Foster. She then had an issue with her pregnancy, which made her unable to travel, so she was replaced at the last minute with Elizabeth Dole. Talk about a giant letdown. My entire class is still bitter about it, 17 years later.
College was David McCullough. When I graduated from law school, the university speaker was Bono. No recollection of who spoke at the law school graduation.
Post by penguingrrl on May 19, 2015 11:10:35 GMT -5
Dude, Rutgers is getting better speakers these days lol! We had some bigwig from Verizon who was an alum and he gave the most boring speech ever. It was before Rutgers did one big graduation ceremony, when there were still distinct colleges.
The guy the college was named after. He had given an enormous amount of money and they renamed the school after him. My class was the first graduated class that had attended all 4 years as (NEW NAME) University, so they had the guy come and speak.
Post by dr.girlfriend on May 19, 2015 11:34:34 GMT -5
My university didn't give honorary degrees, so we usually don't get anyone good. My year it was Jacques Cousteau's son. My sister had Cab Calloway. He sang Minnie the Moocher. It was awesome.
My undergrad was Blair Underwood. My grad school was Rene Auberjonois, the next year DH graduated from the same school with his Master's. That year they had Tom Ridge.
My sister went to a christian college. They managed to get George W. Bush in 2004.
I still live in the area. This year my alma mater had Alan Alda. The local news covered the fact that he spoke at the graduation for some reason.
For about a nano second, I was going to freak out that you had Frank Underwood as your speaker. Then I learned to read and also remembered that he is a fictional character