Who was your Commencement Speaker?

it was really hard for me to give a shit.

the only thing i remember from the whole ceremony was that the student speaker was wearing some sort of plant vine instead of a hood or tassels which prompted several "legalize weed!" shouts from the crowd.

I liked her opening about how the big house being under construction reminded her of her surroundings growing up. Excellent tactic when beginning a public speech.

Mine too. In case you didn't know, we graduated with Dick Enberg's daughter. I saw him walking to the commencement (he passed by the house we were at on State and Hoover) and he asked him if he wanted to share our keg with us. He said no, that his daughter who was graduating would get mad.

with Woodruff as our speaker. Not only is he a Michigan man, but I thought he was pretty inspiring to listen to. The guy's been through a lot.

spell check dude? not so much.

I agree. She wasn't mine, but I was there for my wife. We still talk about how Granholm said something like "some of you will fail." Not really what you should be telling people at commencement.

Mine was David E. Davis, Jr. the next year. No one knew who he was (he was a racecar driver and founded one of the auto magazines) and a lot of people were pissed. But he gave a great speech and was pretty damn funny. I still remember some of the advice he gave.

Totally agree. She talked about how some of us would fail and to not be that person. I just remember it as the last time grass was in the Big House.

That must have got some nervous laughter. Uhhh...yeah...

Neg for mixing his name up.
Pos for complimenting a University of Detroit Jesuit High grad.
Second Pos for referencing "Out of Sight," a movie filmed all over Detroit/Bloomfield Hills, enabling ThWard to see Clooney and J-Lo in person.

Net? Plus 1!

I thought it was boring...I had high expectations for him because of his books, but thought it was dull. Glad you enjoyed it.

When my brother graduated it was Cathy - discussed above...I thought she was kind of interesting.

The U President thing is always a bit lame, because you already have had them around. Probably heard them in some form before. But you didn't even get one of the good Presidents.

And is there some connection...the worse the speaker, the worse the weather? I'm betting those that get Obama are going to get a tan. (Again, no political commentary....just believe any President of the USA, sitting or not, is a pretty good catch).

Class of '94. Also in the pouring/freezing rain.

She writes the Cathy comic strip. As underwhelming as you could imagine. The previous two years were H. Clinton and Bush and I remember us all thinking - seriously??