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Kathleen Sebelius
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Georgetown Public Policy Institute Tropaia Ceremony - May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012
Dean Montgomery, members of the faculty, family, friends, and graduates: it’s an honor to be with you this morning. And let me start with some well-earned congratulations. Last weekend, on Mother’s Day, I was at the University of Kansas when my younger son received his Masters degree. So I know the hard work and effort that got you here today. I married a Georgetown law graduate and am a Hoya Mom – the mother of a double Georgetown graduate. So in my family, Hoya Saxa comes second only to Rock […]
Elizabeth Warren
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Rutgers School of Law Commencement Address - May 17, 2011
May 17, 2011
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Graduates of 2011, Dean Farmer, faculty, distinguished guests, family, and friends: It’s a pleasure to be with you. When I started law school here at Rutgers in 1973, I had never met a lawyer. I was as green as they come—really clueless about a world in which smart people changed the world. I didn’t know what to expect. My first class was a small one – about 20 of us sitting around a seminar room table, stone quiet. With no fanfare, Professor John Lowenthal strode […]
Betty McCollum
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Commencement Address at University of Minnesota CFANS - May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013
Remarks as Prepared for Delivery Dr. Levine, Dr. Bell, Regent Devine, President Bruininks, University faculty members, distinguished guests, parents, family members, and friends – I am thrilled to be here honoring the CFANS graduating class of 2013. Graduates – congratulations! You have done it! Tonight is a time for celebration, you’ve all earned it. Graduating from college is a milestone you will always remember. Your parents will always remember this moment as well, likely with a great sense of relief. Tonight your college career ends. Tomorrow, diploma in hand, a […]
Maggie Hassan
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UNH Manchester Commencement Address - May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013
Thank you Dean Rafieymehr, President Huddleston, Chairman Galway and the University System Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, and all members of the University of New Hampshire Manchester community for the opportunity to join you on this beautiful and celebratory evening. And congratulations to UNH Manchester's Class of 2013! [applause] Whether you are receiving your undergraduate degree, attaining your masters, or completing the next stage of your ongoing higher education, I understand how hard all of you have worked to reach this moment. You've invested your time, energy, and money in […]
Jennifer M Granholm
categories: Commencement/Baccalaureate Address, Speeches
Commencement Address at the University of Michigan - April 26, 2003
April 26, 2003
As prepared for delivery Madame President, Regents, distinguished guests, Class of 2003: Congratulations! To you parents: I can only imagine that when your child was crawling and toddling about, this day could only seem like a dream. Wow. To receive a degree from the University of Michigan—one of America's first and finest public universities, cream of the cream, home of the Big House, top ten in just about everything, where President Kennedy spoke, the birthplace of the Peace Corps, incubator of at least a dozen Nobel Prizes. Amazing to think...that […]
Jeanne Shaheen
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Commencement Address at Shippensburg University - May 8, 2010
May 8, 2010
President Ruud, members of the faculty, honored graduates, family and friends. I’m delighted to be here this afternoon to celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2010. This is a day you all worked very hard to reach. You should be proud of what you have accomplished. But no great accomplishment is achieved alone. Here with us this morning are your families, your friends, your professors – the people who supported you when you stumbled and encouraged you to keep going. Today is their accomplishment as well. I find commencement […]
Nancy Pelosi
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Commencement Address at UC Davis School of Law - May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013
As prepared for delivery Good afternoon and congratulations to the class of 2013. Thank you Chancellor, Dean Johnson, and the faculty and staff of UC Davis School of Law. Thank you also for the invitation to be here on this momentous day for these wonderful graduates. To the graduates, I offer you my congratulations for what you have personally achieved by graduating and for the opportunity before you to serve the public with the degree from this magnificent university. To the parents, grandparents, spouses, children and entire families of the […]
Kay Bailey Hutchison
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Commencement Address at Southern Methodist University - May 20, 2000
May 20, 2000
Thank you very much, Dr. Turner. And congratulations to the Class of 2000. Just think how far we have come in the few generations since the Class of 1900 graduates left colleges across Texas and America. One obvious change: This great university—with its 10,000 students, hundreds of staff and faculty—was 600 acres of open prairie in 1900. There was excitement in the air on Sept 22, 1915, when the first one hundred students enrolled at the formal opening of SMU. In fact, the Morning News reported that day that the […]
Marian Wright Edelman
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Commencement Address at Southern Methodist University - May 22, 1993
May 22, 1993
It is a great honor to share this day of accomplishment and celebration and transition with SMU's president and faculty and administration, trustees, the family and friends of the graduates today, with the distinguished honorees. Most importantly, I'm delighted to be here with the best graduating class in the history of SMU. Shortly before he died, my fellow South Carolinian Lee Atwater said the following in a moving essay in Life magazine: "Long before I was struck with cancer, I felt something stirring in American society. It was a sense […]
Gloria Steinem
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Commencement Address at Wellesley College - May 28, 1993
May 28, 1993
I don't know about you, but I am incurably sentimental about commencements. For one thing, they are a time when hopes are set free with so much future before us that hopes can be infinite. For another, all the diverse parts of this community are together -- not just for the last time, but perhaps for the only time. I thank them all for letting me share it: President Nan Keohane, whose leadership will be so missed in the future -- and yet whose impact on her new university, so […]