<p>Just for kicks, I'm interested in who is speaking at what college's commencement ceremony this year.
I'll begin with the ones that i know: </p>
<p>Northwestern: Sen. John McCain
Stanford: Steve Jobs (founder/CEO of Apple and Pixar)
Naval Academy: Pres. George W. Bush
Calvin College: Pres. George W. Bush</p>
<p>USC: alumnus Neil Armstrong</p>
<p>The University of Michigan keynote speaker as this year's graduation was John Seely Brown, Michigan alumnus, former chief-scientist of Xerox Corporation and leading contemporary thinker on the influence of technology on modern life. Doesn't sound as impressive as the usual speaker at Michigan but I hear his speech was quite impressive.</p>
<p>i just heard on the news that Cheney spoke at the Air Force Academy</p>
<p>I wish McCain weren't coming to Nu.....</p>
<p>Ithaca College: Ben Stein</p>
<p>I saw John Seely Brown speak before (not for a commencement speech). If I remember correctly, he was pretty interesting for having kind of a dry topic. I actually don't remember it that well though.</p>
<p>I know one of Georgetown's commencement speaker(s): the Crown Prince of Asturias, Felipe de Bourbon. I can only assume he's speaking for the SFS, although I got this list from the Washington Post.</p>
<p>GWU has some correpondent from 60 Minutes. I forget his name. </p>
<p>American has Senator Daniel Inouye, and a few others.</p>
<p>GWU had Andy Rooney.</p>
<p>Ashcroft spoke at Northwest University ( not Northwestern)
Marian Wright Edleman spoke at Colgate</p>
<p>BU had the president of Afghanistan, who had just begun his visit to the US.</p>
<p>He wasn't the keynote speaker, but Warren Beatty gave the commencement speach for the public policy kids at Cal.</p>
<p>Denis Leary at Emerson
Tom Brokaw at Emory
Hillary Clinton at Agnes Scott</p>
<p>Tom Hanks at vassar</p>
<p>gentleman: i remember reading about Beatty's speach at the public policy school at Cal in the SF Chronicle. I hear it was a really good speach about california politics. Apparently theres some talk that he wants to be the democratic candidate to take down arnold next year.</p>
<p>Tommy Lasorda at USC</p>
<p>Hamid Karzai's address at BU was pretty amazing, at least from what the news articles said. Makes me proud to be going there.</p>
<p>Duke -------> Ricardo Lagos, former Duke grad, president of Chile</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton also spoke this year at Manhattan Marymount College... ive never heard of it.</p>
<p>Penn (general commencement): Kofi Annan
Wharton: Alan Greenspan</p>