Who's speaking at your commencement?

<p>Yup, it's that time of year again. I suppose I should start things off:</p>

<p>USC - alumnus Neil Armstrong</p>

<p>im not graduating but Vanderbilt is having Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Prize Winner)</p>

<p>Elizabethtown College is having Anne Beiler - "Auntie Anne" of soft pretzel fame....whoop.</p>

<p>Lehigh is having Maya Angelou</p>

<p>i believe northwestern is having john mccain</p>

<p>i wonder when schools decide who their commencement speaker is.</p>

<p>BU(I'm actually just entering) is having Hamid Karzai(The President of Afghanistan)</p>

<p>Harvard is having John Lithgow.</p>

<p>Stanford - Steve Jobs (co-founder and CEO of Apple and Pixar Studios)
MIT - Irwin Jacobs (co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Qualcomm)
Princeton - Toni Morrison (author and Princeton professor)</p>

<p>Agnes Scott = Hilary Clinton</p>

<p>W&M is having the President of the college speak, he's retiring after the year.</p>

<p>Big names aren't always the best though, really. Many of them are quite boring.</p>

<p>US Merchant Marine Academy- President Bush</p>

<p>Alabama is having Sela Ward (alumna and actress). ok</p>

<p>Penn is having Kofi Annan(sp?), Secretary-General of the UN</p>

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<p>Cornell is having Gen. Wesley Clark.</p>

<p>I think we're getting punished and not having anyone</p>

<p>Bob Jones - Senator Ed Kennedy</p>

<p>Ursinus is having the jazz great Ellis Marsalis.</p>

<p>UC Berkeley- Benjamin Barber.</p>