Entries from Westport Public Library MOVIE & MUSIC Blog tagged with 'Commencement'
Grace Notes: Commencement
Traditionally, the months of May and June are chaotic and nerve-racking, exhilarating and hopeful, fueled by feelings of bittersweetness with the closing of the school year and anticipation of exciting, new beginnings. The required rehearsals for commencement exercises are a necessary prelude to the actual event , the long-awaited awarding of degrees or diplomas. Andrew Albanese's Graduation Day: The Best of America's Commencement Speeches is a 1998 publication of a potpourri of luminaries who have addressed our nation's graduates including Bill Clinton, Carl Sagan, ...Tags:
Posted by MargieF on June 8, 2009 6:31 PM
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