Graduating class of 2009 - Commencement treat - Dick Enberg

[ChicosBailBonds]

Pretty cool.  I had Barbara Bush for mine.  Dick Enberg for the class of 2009.


http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/03/16/daily9.html?ana=from_rss

[ZMovieman]

He was supposed to do mine last year, but had to back out of his commitment when he realized his daughter/granddaughter was graduating the same day. Understandable, but I got stuck with boring UN/Darfur guy Andrew Natsios as my last second fill-in.

[radome]

Enberg, not bad.  I had Captain Kangaroo.

[Rollout-the-Barrel]

Mr. Rogers was number one in my book.

[MUeng]

thats pretty cool, at least a famous person is doing it.  glad im graduating this year.

[The Man in Gold]

Class of 2006: The secretary of Labor...woo hoo!  That was an exciting send off to go get a job.

/too hungover to remember it anyways

[BrewCity83]

I had the Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop.  Seeing that it was the Spring of '83 and the Brewers were fresh off of their first (and still only) World Series appearance, it was kinda fun to welcome him with a big "KOOOOOOOOOOP!!!".

[MUfan12]

We had Steve Rushin, who delivered a very nice speech.

[Mayor McCheese]

Could you imagine Gus Johnson giving the commencement... oh man,

"Graduating Class of 2009.... Rise and Fire!"

[gjreda]

He was supposed to do mine last year, but had to back out of his commitment when he realized his daughter/granddaughter was graduating the same day. Understandable, but I got stuck with boring UN/Darfur guy Andrew Natsios as my last second fill-in.

I'll never forget looking over to my dad in the stands and watching him literally fall asleep.  They couldn't have picked a worse person to give our commencement speech.

[🏀]

Class of 2006: The secretary of Labor...woo hoo!  That was an exciting send off to go get a job.

/too hungover to remember it anyways

My 2008 graduation was filled with hangover hot flashes and probably the worst overall feeling I've ever had.

Lakefront's Riverwest was seeping out of my pores.

[Mayor McCheese]

I forgot to mention my commencement speaker...

2008 UW-Platteville Afternoon Commencement Speaker...

Some dentist, whos dad just gave a crap ton of money to build a new engineering building... yup... a dentist.

At least he kept commencement short, all of commencement lasted around 1 hour.  I too, was hungover

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

We had Cokie Roberts in 2005.  Nothing noteworthy, it was just long and rambling except for a couple of digs about the Warriors/Golden Eagles/Gold fiasco (which basically had overwhelmed our last 2.5 weeks on campus).  The student speaker for the College of Business graduation (who was actually the golden eagle mascot for a couple years) was far, far more entertaining and memorable. 

Anyone know if there's going to be a showing of McGuire on campus in conjunction with this?

[Tom Crean's Tanning Bed]

Actually, I just answered my own question (sort of):

Following the retirement of legendary coach Al McGuire after Marquette's win of the 1977 NCAA men's basketball team championship, Enberg and McGuire were paired in the broadcast booth. Enberg later wrote a one-man play, McGuire, about his late colleague and good friend. The play, which debuted at Marquette's Helfaer Theatre in 2005, will be performed on campus again this spring. Enberg will be at the performances on Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16. Tickets are available by calling the box office at 414-288-7504.

[Phi Iota Gamma 84]

Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist

[Hards Alumni]

I had one of the 'higher ups' at Kimberly Clark.

I felt like we got a royal hose job.

the only good part was that he said that he would donate $1 million if the university changed the name back to warriors.

of course, the BC erupted.

but honestly, that was the only memorable part.

[Jay Bee]

Wow.. most of you lucked out.  I had... er, the commencement speech at my graduation was given by Archbishop Weakland.  Several years later, he retired amid rumors he was doing some geigh grad student. 

[Marquette Fan]

1995 we had some guy from Sears - I think he was a member of the Board of Trustees.  The speech was very boring.

[IAmMarquette]

Class of 2006: The secretary of Labor...woo hoo!  That was an exciting send off to go get a job.

/too hungover to remember it anyways

Elaine Chao.

During her speech, I was on the phone with my buddy who was in Iraq at the time. The speech was that good.

[mwbauer7]

Elaine Chao.

During her speech, I was on the phone with my buddy who was in Iraq at the time. The speech was that good.

That speech was the worst graduation speech in the history of speeches.

[MU_Warrior44]

I had one of the 'higher ups' at Kimberly Clark.

I felt like we got a royal hose job.

the only good part was that he said that he would donate $1 million if the university changed the name back to warriors.

of course, the BC erupted.

but honestly, that was the only memorable part.

Yep that was my year as well. I honestly can't think of anything else that was said in that speech other than that million dollar challenge.

[Muhoops85]

We had C Everett Koop who was Surgeon General at the time.  It was in the mid-80's so the students kept yelling "Coooooooooop" like we used to for Cecil Cooper.  I do not believe the Surgeon General was amused.  I do recall the paper quoting him afterwards stating that he was confused why the students were booing him.

[BrewCity83]

deja vu

[MUEng92]

Pretty cool.  I had Barbara Bush for mine.  Dick Enberg for the class of 2009.


http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/03/16/daily9.html?ana=from_rss

I loved her attempt at being local...having a beer at the 'Lanche, but she pronounced it "launch".  That's all I remember about her speech.

[rocky_warrior]

Looks like some of you guys have some WIKI editing to do.  Some years aren't filled out...

http://wiki.muscoop.com/doku.php/commencement/start