<p>I think it would be interesting to learn who is the commencement speaker at your son's or daughter's college/university.</p>
<p>Harvard--JK Rowling I'm excited but some of the students don't think she's "relevant."</p>
<p>USA Today had a list of many of the commencement speakers in yesterday's Life section.</p>
<p>Harvard can switch with the University of Maryland. We've got Carl Bernstein, one of the journalists who uncovered the Watergate story. Should be fairly interesting to hear speak, but personally I'd prefer JK Rowling :)</p>
<p>Chris Matthews spoke at the WUSTL commencement yesterday.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton will speak at UCLA</p>
<p>Craig Newmark, Customer Service Representative and Founder, craigslist at CAL</p>
<p>Al Gore at Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>William and Mary - Mike Tomlin, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers and 1995 grad.</p>
<p>UW Seattle will have Quincy Jones:</p>
<p>Quincy Jones to be UW commencement speaker, receive honorary doctorate</p>
<p>But I think UW Bothell, the smaller and less prestigious campus of UW, got a much more interesting speaker:</p>
<p>The University of Chicago tends to get a professor to speak at Commencement. The practice gets mixed reviews. I have no idea who it is this year.</p>
<p>Juilliard will have Placido Domingo.</p>
<p>Vassar - Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio program Fresh Air</p>
<p>Whitman will have William Gates (Sr.) who will presumably talk about his passion for improving the lives of the poor around the globe and his work as co-chair of the Gates Foundation, not about his famous son....</p>
<p>Oberlin has Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International.</p>
<p>UCSD - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</p>
<p>Yale has Tony Blair. His son is about to graduate from grad school there and he'll be a lecturer in the fall.</p>
<p>Duke had Barbara Kingsolver</p>
<p>Madeleine Albright at Knox College. They always get great commencement speakers.</p>
<p>I thought Wash. U. was going to have Phyllis Schlafly. What happened? Guess the communal outrage worked.</p>
<p>J.K. Rowling -- what an embarrassment. I'd feel cheated. We had Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1978.</p>