<p>I’ve enjoyed this thread in the past. The only one I’ve heard about is President Obama is speaking at Notre Dame’s graduation. Any others?</p>
<p>Hilliary Clinton will be delivering the commencement address at NYU and will be receiving an honorary degree.</p>
<p>Jeffrey Sachs, renowned economist, writer and educator, to deliver 2009 commencement address at Lehigh.</p>
<p>Elizabethtown College will welcome Dr. Michael L. Lomax, president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), as our 2009 Commencement speaker.</p>
<p>Joe Biden will be at Syracuse U.</p>
<p>Wynton Marsalis- Northwestern University</p>
<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governator, at USC (his daughter goes there, but not graduating)</p>
<p>Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt from PBS’ Newshour will be speaking at Gettysburg.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton will also be speaking at Barnard’s commencement. Eric Holder will be speaking at Columbia College’s class day ceremonies.</p>
<p>Duke- Oprah</p>
<p>UNC- Desmond Tutu</p>
<p>Stanford- Justice Anthony Kennedy</p>
<p>Hopkins- Nancy Pelosi</p>
<p>Penn- Eric Schmidt (Google CEO)</p>
<p>MIT- Deval Patrick (MA governor)</p>
<p>Tradition dictates that the Chancellor always delivers the commencement address at Vanderbilt, but they began having a Senior Class Day ceremony in 2004 with a speaker. This year we are hearing Doris Kearns Goodwin.</p>
<p>Tulane-Ellen DeGeneres, who will also be receiving an honorary degree.</p>
<p>I have a kid graduating from NYU and someone already mentioned Hillary Clinton is the graduation speaker (at Yankee Stadium). At NYU, there are different schools and they have additional graduations besides the NYU-wide one. My D attends Tisch School of the Arts and their graduation speaker at Madison Square Garden will be Whoopi Goldberg. We are attending both graduation ceremonies.</p>
<p>Elie Wiesel will be speaking at Bucknell.</p>
<p>Smith has Tammy Baldwin!</p>
<p>[Smith</a> College: Commencement](<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/commencement/speaker.php]Smith”>http://www.smith.edu/commencement/speaker.php)</p>
<p>Anna Quindlen at Wesleyan.</p>
<p>Colby - Greg Mortenson, subject and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace. . . One School at a Time,” will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree.</p>
<p>Son isn’t graduating till next year but I looked it up for 2009 becuase I was curious. UC Berkeley will be Chris Gardner whose autobiography was “The Pursuit of Happyness”.
Michelle Obama will speak at UC Merced!</p>
<p>Thomas Friedman at Grinnell</p>
<p>Tom Brokaw at William and Mary</p>