<p>Mr Rogers was an alum at my LAC, but sad to say he didn’t speak at our graduation. At least I don’t think so. I remember being called up on stage for an award at graduation and was too stunned to remember much after that. I had gone to college after my Junior year of high school, forgoing my high school graduation and any honors or val/sal speeches. It was so worth it, and graduation simply was the icing on the cake. I honestly can’t remember for either college or med school.</p>
<p>William F. Buckley - W&M</p>
<p>Wish it could have been Jon Stewart who graduated three years later and spoke in '06, but back then he was just an unknown freshman.</p>
<p>Bill Cosby spoke at Farmington (school) in '73 at their commencement and the kids said that he wasn’t very friendly, surprisingly. We had Victor Borge for high school (his daughter was in our class) and he was hilarious.</p>
<p>Art Buchwald was my college graduation speaker. He was really funny, and I found his exact speech as a column in the NYT a few weeks after graduation. I may still have it around somewhere. Didn’t go to my MA ceremony, and don’t remember who was at my Ph.D. ceremony, except that Chris Collinsworth was graduating from undergrad when I was getting my advanced degree and he was an early round draft pick into the NFL (Cincinnati Bengals) after being named to the All American Football team, so I seem to recall some attention being paid to him at graduation.</p>