So what is the deal with all these horrible commencement speeches going on this year? I'm going to be graduating here in 19 days or so (not walking) but I really hope those that attend don't get stuck with some mumbo jumbo speaker that wants to spout off their ideals. I cannot remember what the first commencement speeches I heard about were, but the latest and greatest from Ann Cury (oops Curry, got her Lesley!) wasn't about her ideals, beliefs or some other potentially radical thought brewing, it was a case of mistaken identity of sorts. As she was naming off old Alum from Wheaton College, whom were all relatively well known, she failed to identify which went to the actual Wheaton College she was speaking at as there is another in Illinois which all but one of the named Alum attended. Oops.
None of the official video or transcript content from the commencement can be found on the internet as it has been whipped from the college's website. The college felt they didn't want to air misinformation as the speech as a whole was great aside from the mistake(s). Unofficial on the other hand.... not on the first two pages of Youtube, but I'm sure someone somewhere recorded the event.
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