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
Barbara Bush: Wellesley College
Includes text and audio files from the June, 1990 commencement address.
www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1990/bush.html
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
Robert Pinsky: Stanford University
Transcript of the speech given by the Poet Laureate in 1999.
news-service.stanford.edu/news/1999/june16/pinsky-616.html