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Who was the featured speaker at your MSU Commencement Ceremony?

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11 months ago

MSchott said...
I had to look it up as I didn't remember (it was over 32 years ago) but the great Walter Adams was our commencement speaker. If you young un's don't know who he was, look it up. A great, great Spartan.

Indeed he was.
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manofthewild07 said...
I know I'm gonna age myself here, but... Steve Wozniac

The Woz was great, I loved his speech, you can tell he just came and talked to us as people, not trying to give some grand speech, but just have a conversation. The best part was all the girls complaining about it not being someone famous, while on their iPhones.
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Special K.
Spring of '98
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Dick Beals, the voice of Gumby and Speedy Alka Seltzer. Just looked him up and he died last week.

Dick Beals, 85, Who Gave a Voice to Gumby, Dies - NYTimes.com

Mr. Beals, whose youthful voice resulted from a childhood glandular problem, made a long career of playing children and childlike characters on television shows and commercials.
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Katharine Graham publisher of the Washington Post. 1975 right after Watergate.
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Leo Bollinger, the outgoing President of UM - Winter of 2002. Still scratching my head about that one...
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11 months ago

Clinton, hungover as well. I still have the State News and State Journal from the day of and day after with all the coverage of Clinton coming to EL. Really bad with technology or else I'd take a pic and upload (I'd have to find the box that all my old college stuff is in, too).
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James Blanchard, Spring 1983 at Spartan Stadium. There is a thread with all of the commencement speakers from a few months ago.

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http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120410/NEWS01/304100028/MSU-announces-commencement-speakers?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRON
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Find yours here if you don't remember...

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Andy_H said...
Dick Cheney

Mine too. Your probably going to be shocked by this but he was a rather boring public speaker. It was a very forgettable speech.
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Cardinal Fang said...
Mine too. Your probably going to be shocked by this but he was a rather boring public speaker. It was a very forgettable speech.

Oh Christ, now you've gone and done it...
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Theodore Roosevelt. Dude was awesome!
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Big John Studd said...
Oh Christ, now you've gone and done it...

This post was edited by Cardinal Fang on 6/4/2012 at 8:42 PM
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MSchott said...
I had to look it up as I didn't remember (it was over 32 years ago) but the great Walter Adams was our commencement speaker. If you young un's don't know who he was, look it up. A great, great Spartan.

I'll see your great, great Spartan and raise you to one of the all-time greatest Spartans.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
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11 months ago

I dunno, lol.
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Fog Of War said...
The math teacher that inspired "Stand and Deliver". 2007

Well? Did he reach you keeeeeds?
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tGreenWay said...
I'll see your great, great Spartan and raise you to one of the all-time greatest Spartans.

Adams, John Hannah, and who else on the Spartan Mt. Rushmore?
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Gob_Bluth said...
Adams, John Hannah, and who else on the Spartan Mt. Rushmore?

JLS
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Izzo & Mason at mine in 2001
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William G Milliken. I don't remember much other than sitting in Spartan stadium with several thousand of my closest friends.
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92spartan said...
Dick Beals, the voice of Gumby and Speedy Alka Seltzer. Just looked him up and he died last week.

Sad day for the Spartan Community. I spoke to him a few times up in the Spartan Club over the years. Incredibly kind and genuinely glad to be a Spartan.
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spartanjt77 said...
Andrew Young,,,, Spring '77

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stymie2000 said...
Jessie Jackson. Very entertaining and not political as I recall. Very fiery speaker. The stage was so covered in spit I thought I was going to slip and fall. They should have had one of those guys that cleans sweat off the court during basketball games handy.

Are we co-graduates? I had JJ in 1988.
To be fair, I didn't pay attention to much of what he said.
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Binford4State said...
Mine: Maya Angelou, 2005.

John Engler, 1991.
I went to the bar instead.
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11 months ago

Don't remember, way too hung over.
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