2008 Commencement speakers: how cool is Harvard!

<p>Mathmom, </p>

<p>We were in the same class! I had Solzhenitsyn too. We skipped the afternoon exercises, went out for lunch with families, and then just hung out all afternoon. Twenty years later, I thought “I had a chance to hear Solzhenitsyn speak, and I blew it off??” My husband’s class ('79) had Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor of West Germany. I remember seeing sharpshooters on the roof of Widener Library (or at least, that’s what we thought they were).</p>