Post by pizzanight on May 19, 2015 13:21:07 GMT -5
My undergrad speaker was Mr. Rogers too. He was great.
I was too hungover at my law school graduation to remember - the hooding was more important to me anyway. It was the night before graduation and one of our professors spoke at that. The graduation was for the whole goddamn university and it was so long and boring- and it was a graduation requirement that you attend it. Still bitter.
...Right after his book came out, and I remember he referenced his book a few too many times in the speech.
Law school was then-Chief Judge Kaye of the NYS Court of Appeals. She was pretty good, much better than the US Attorney who spoke at graduation the year before (when Calvin graduated), who basically told everyone to not be unethical assholes. Right-o.
My undergrad speaker was Mr. Rogers too. He was great.
I was too hungover at my law school graduation to remember - the hooding was more important to me anyway. It was the night before graduation and one of our professors spoke at that. The graduation was for the whole goddamn university and it was so long and boring- and it was a graduation requirement that you attend it. Still bitter.
The law students graduate in the same ceremony as the undergrads here. There were 2 ceremonies, but I think the morning one was medical, dental, etc and the afternoon was undergrad and law students. It was still really long. 3hrs maybe?
The state's governor, who is rumored to be a dark horse VP candidate with Hillary. It's unlikely though. He's kind of the Sarah Palin of the liberal western Dems. He once branded "Veto" on a bunch of legislative bills. As in fire and branding iron branded.
Ours was Tim Russert. He gave a great speech but you could barely hear him. At the time, our college was doing renovations and had hired a non-union contractor. The unions picketed our graduation and were really loud and chanting during it. He 'shushed' them several times.
My parents' tenant dated him for a while. We shared a washer/dryer at the time (it was in our kitchen) so one day my mom came down in the morning to find him sitting at her kitchen table in his boxers.
Post by chickens987 on May 19, 2015 14:26:51 GMT -5
Judith Shapiro, before the scandal. She was terrible and basically told us we were spoiled overprivileged brats because we weren't soldiers like the ones she was embedded with.
I did hear Jimmy Carter speak a couple of weeks before I graduated and on the same day I got a job offer. That was pretty much the best day of college.
The actual commencement exercises speakers are always students. It's selected by essay and then speaking competition. One was a speech about a confluence of rivers. The other one was about being a fish. I submitted an entry about baseball and randomness and things you can't control and blah blah and was sad I want picked. It was way better than the rivers speech.
The day-before, undergrad students only, no parents/faculty etc. speaker was Notorious RBG. This was 2002, so she was just RBG at the time. She wasn't a very engaging orator. Probably better in an interview format.
ETA: An African-American opera soloist received an honorary degree. She was supposed to perform at the ceremonial swearing in of the new University President but because of 9/11 she couldn't get a flight, or something. I remember recognizing her by name and appearance, but it escapes me now. Norma something? Something Norman? Help, operagirl!
Judith Shapiro, before the scandal. She was terrible and basically told us we were spoiled overprivileged brats because we weren't soldiers like the ones she was embedded with.
Who is this? The internet gives a president Bryn Mawr, and "Judith Shapiro scandal" doesn't turn up much.
Do you mean Judy Miller? (the NYT journalist at the center of the Plame scandal who also stovepiped a bunch of shitty right-wing conspiracy theories about 9/11 and Iraq into the Times)
The state's governor, who is rumored to be a dark horse VP candidate with Hillary. It's unlikely though. He's kind of the Sarah Palin of the liberal western Dems. He once branded "Veto" on a bunch of legislative bills. As in fire and branding iron branded.
Brian Schweitzer? I met him once at a medium-dollar fundraiser for a local elections pac in WA. I hadn't thought about it, but "Sarah Palin of the liberal western Dems" is exactly right! I hear stories that in person he is even more ... um ... "colorful".
I thought he was going to try to "run" for President though.
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!
Bob Ryan? Bill Simmons? Dan Shaughnessy? (sp?) Peter Gammons?
Judith Shapiro, before the scandal. She was terrible and basically told us we were spoiled overprivileged brats because we weren't soldiers like the ones she was embedded with.
Who is this? The internet gives a president Bryn Mawr, and "Judith Shapiro scandal" doesn't turn up much.
Do you mean Judy Miller? (the NYT journalist at the center of the Plame scandal who also stovepiped a bunch of shitty right-wing conspiracy theories about 9/11 and Iraq into the Times)
My parents' tenant dated him for a while. We shared a washer/dryer at the time (it was in our kitchen) so one day my mom came down in the morning to find him sitting at her kitchen table in his boxers.
HA! I was involved in the graduation ceremony, so was in the back room with him. He wasn't particularly friendly - to the 3 or 4 students in the room. He was chatting it up with the professors, and totally ignored us. I tried to talk to him about one of his books, and he was like "meh". I kind of thought "dude, it's not like that many 20 year olds read have read any of your books!"
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.
We actually met Bill Nye at a college graduation (HMC 2008). Mr.Kirkette had him sign a Bill Nye book he's had since he was in elementary school. Mr. Kirkette almost fainted. hulley
I graduated in December so I just walked at the one for my college (JMAC). Our speaker was some c-level at Sonic, which is headquartered near my alma mater. She was actually really good and the speech was very interesting and funny.
I went to a smaller school. We just had some alumni that were inducted into our hall of fame on that day. All I remember us that their speeches sucked and nobody had ever heard of them or their respective companies.