The art of the commencement speech, an archive ...

Commencement Address of Oliver Stone to UC Berkeley Class of 1994 ...

KOFI A. ANNAN COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MASS., JUNE 6, 1997 Thank you, Dr. Gray, for your most gracious welcome. I am honored and pleased to have been asked to speak to you on this grand occasion and in these familiar surroundings. The Boston area boasts of several excellent institutions of higher learning. But there is only one MIT. Mr. President, ...

ANNA QUINDLEN'S COMMENCEMENT SPEECH MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE MAY 23, 1999 I look at all of you today and I cannot help but see myself twenty-five years ago, at my own Barnard commencement. I sometimes seem, in my mind, to have as much in common with that girl as I do with any stranger I might pass in the doorway of a Starbucks or in the aisle of an airplane. I cannot remember what she wore or how ...

Bob Newhart's Commencement Address 17 May 1997 Bob Newhart, actor and comedian at the 108th Commencement of The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. May 17, 1997 hank you very much. Audience: Hi, Bob. Hi, Bob, I know. I'm going to go down in history for that. With all I've accomplished and I'm going to go down in history for Hi, Bob. I'm honored and moved to be asked to be the ...

Nora Ephron Remarks to Wellesley College Class of 1996 President Walsh, trustees, faculty, friends, noble parents...and dear class of 1996, I am so proud of you. Thank you for asking me to speak to you today. I had a wonderful time trying to imagine who had been ahead of me on the list and had said no; I was positive you'd have to have gone to Martha Stewart first. And I meant to call her to see ...

Fiction, essays and poetry at The Richmond Review literary magazine ...

The following is reprinted without permission from Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. Copyright 1989 by Ursula K. Le Guin. A LEFT-HANDED COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS (1983) I want to thank the Mills College Class of '83 for offering me a rare chance: to speak aloud in public in the language of women. I know there are men graduating, and I don't mean to exclude them, far ...

Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address Wellesley College May 30, 1997 My hat's off to you! My hat's off to you! You all have gone girls! I want to say thank you, Dr. Walsh and to the esteemed faculty, to those of you parents--what you have been through, God Bless you--and to the greatest class that has ever graduated from Wellesley. I must say--you are my heart, Dr. Walsh is right. I saw you ...

Harvard Medical School Graduation ...

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Rules To Live By: Dos, Don'ts, And Other Fabulous Tips From Someone Who's Been There And Done That by Callie Khouri Motion Picture Screenwriter Commencement Address - Sweet Briar College, May 22, 1994 I'm so happy to be here today. Now, I don't want you to worry about looking silly in these mortarboards. It's kind of a funny tradition, isn't it Congratulations! You've spent the last four years ...

Note: Unconventional spellings and instances of usage in the commencement address below represent the preferences of the author.) SUZAN-LORI PARKS COMMENCEMENT SPEECH TO THE MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE CLASS OF 2001 HELD ON MAY 27, 2001 THANK YOU, Graduating Class of 2001, Fellow Honorary Degree Recipients, Distinguished Administration and Faculty, Alumnae, Parents, Family and Friends, thank you all ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Lincoln, Massachusetts) For Immediate Release June 5, 1998 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1998 COMMENCEMENT Killian Court Campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 11:55 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Dr. Vest. I think you're the real thing. (Laughter.) Chairman d'Arbeloff, Dr.