- Jon Stewart: College of William and Mary
Speech given at the 2004 graduation at the College of William and Mary.
web.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3650
- George W. Bush: West Point
Remarks by the President at the June 2002 graduation exercise of the United States Military Academy. Includes video and audio streams.
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020601-3.html
- Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science - California Institute of Technology
Adapted from a Caltech commencement address given in 1974; HTML'ed from the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!.
wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Dartmouth College
1998 commencement speech.
www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/1998/june98/dkg.html
- Will Ferrell: Harvard University
Will Ferrell's Class Day speech given in 2003.
www.commencement.harvard.edu/2003/ferrell.html
- Anna Quindlen: Mount Holyoke
Text of Quindlen's May 1999 graduation speech, delivered at Mount Holyoke College
www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/Quindlen.shtml
- flylittlebird.org
Online experiment in building collective wisdom from hundreds of undergraduate commencement addresses. Features an extensive archive of graduation speeches by world leaders, celebrities, and educators, as well as notes on the major themes from the speeches.
www.flylittlebird.org
- Lyndon B. Johnson: To Fulfill These Rights - Howard University
Text of Johnson's June 1965 commencement speech.
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650604.asp
- Oprah Winfrey: Wellesley College
May 1997 commencement address.
www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/PAhomepage/winfrey.html
- Wisdom Engine
Motivational advice from commencement speeches and visual self-help affirmations.
www.graduationwisdom.com
- Salman Rushdie: Bard College
Salman Rushdie's 1996 graduation speech.
www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/rushdi01.html
- Suzan-Lori Parks: Mount Holyoke College
Text of a May 2001 address by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College.
www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/oped/loriparks.shtml
- Nora Ephron: Wellesley College
Text of Ephron's 1996 speech.
www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1996/speechesnephron.html
- Bob Newhart: Catholic University of America
May 1997 commencement address.
publicaffairs.cua.edu/speeches/newhart97.htm
- Oliver Stone: University of California, Berkeley
Text of Stone's May 1994 commencement address.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Stone/stone-grad1.html
- Callie Khouri: Sweet Briar College
Text of Callie Khouri's 1994 commencement address.
gos.sbc.edu/k/khouri.html
- Hillary Rodham Clinton: Harvard Medical School
Text of the First Lady's 1998 commencement speech.
www.med.harvard.edu/grad98/speech.html
- Ursula K. Le Guin: A Left-Handed Commencement Address - Mills College
Le Guin's 1983 graduation speech.
www.pacifict.com/ron/Mills.html
- Barbara Bush: Wellesley College
Includes text and audio files from the June, 1990 commencement address.
www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1990/bush.html
- Humanity.org: Commencement Addresses
Archive of notable graduation speeches, including pieces by Elie Wiesel, Cornel West, Gloria Steinem, Steve Jobs, Bono, and Desmond Tutu.
www.humanity.org/voices/commencements
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