<p>@AsleepAtTheWheel - Good stuff! Gotta love those kinds of stories.</p>
<p>Anything?</p>
<p>Nothing yet. Kind of surprising.</p>
<p>Announced Grad Speakers for Spring 2014</p>
<p>Stanford – Bill and Melinda Gates
Harvard – Michael Bloomberg
Princeton – Al Gore
Duke – Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey
Yale – John Kerry
Rutgers – Condoleeza Rice
Notre Dame – Christopher Patten (Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor at Oxford)
University of Virginia – Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus
USC – Mark Benioff (CEO of Salesforce.com)
University of Pennsylvania – John Legend
Scripps College – Nonie Crème (developer of butter LONDON)
Barnard – Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood Foundation)
MIT – Ellen Kullman (CEO and Chair of the Board of DuPont)
Wesleyan – Theodore M. Shaw (Civil rights proponent)
Loyola University of New Orleans – David Gergen
Tulane University - ???</p>
<p>Wynton Marsalis!</p>
<p>I just saw that too! Very nice !</p>
<p>Who?!!!<br>
I had to google him.
I have to admit to being a little disappointed. </p>
<p>The Marsalis family are Jazz Royalty! ! He has won a Pulitzer Prize, actually the very first Pulitzer Prize for music! He has been awarded many Grammy awards. The Ellis Marsalis Music Center in the Musicians Village (9th Ward in New Orleans) was named after Wynton’s father. The Marsalis family has been key in the recovery of New Orleans and keeping the music alive and passing along traditions to the younger generation. This is a very appropriate and amazing Commencement speaker for Tulane. </p>
<p>echo disappointment.</p>
<p>I think it’s an awesome choice - very appropriate considering it’s NOLA. Dh is begging to go to graduation now even though our D is only a freshman. I’m very happy it’s not a political person. </p>
<p>Pretty cool! <a href=“http://tulane.edu/news/releases/pr_040414.cfm”>http://tulane.edu/news/releases/pr_040414.cfm</a>
Drew Brees and Dr. Michael White to receive President’s Medal at Graduation! </p>
<p>Once he begins speaking, there will be no disappointment. Wynton is a genius, and gifted speaker.</p>
<p>I agree idad, and given your son’s musical talent, he must be extremely pleased.</p>