Did anyone actually have a decent speaker for graduation at NCSU? We seem to have quite the list of undistinguished figures/orators. List your year and review of the speaker.

I was 2004, graduation speaker was a General, one of Tom Stafford's college buddies IIRC. Aside from accoustical problems on the floor, the speech itself was not particularly good and fairly cliche-filled and impersonal. Graduation ran long anyway, with 95% of the time being spent honoring MA Fox instead of the graduates (she had accepted the position in California), so I was eager to get out of there anyway.

At least we didn't have lazy-eye...BooYeah!

7/16/2007 3:52:51 PM

last year was some scientist that I couldn't understand a single word while on the floor

I just kept thinking to myself the whole time I should have stayed in bed

7/16/2007 4:54:41 PM

Due to the acoustics in the ESA/RBC Center, I couldn't hear a damned thing anyone said (spring 2004). It was impossible to make out what any of the speakers were saying.

7/16/2007 4:55:34 PM

I had Bill Cosby

7/16/2007 5:02:29 PM

They had Donahue one year


We had the fucking Wake county school board commisioner

7/16/2007 5:10:40 PM

I had the same experience. I couldn't hear my grad speaker, and for the life of me, I can't remember who he was.

Is it true that Donahue went on and on during his speech about his show getting canceled?

7/16/2007 5:38:04 PM

2004 also had steve wozniak. i'm not a huge apple fan, but he was still cooler than the lt. general. missed the beginning of my major's graduation ceremony cause that thing went on too long though.

7/16/2007 6:57:02 PM

Yeah, Phil Donahue was my year, 2003. What a disaster that was. Reds were booing him from the crowd, others were yelling insults at him....it was a banner day for NCSU.

7/16/2007 8:02:48 PM

i didnt go to the big ceremony and from what my friends said that did, i didnt miss anything

7/16/2007 8:05:22 PM

Whats wrong with Mr. Rogers???

7/17/2007 3:46:32 PM

^^^
and at one point during his speech people started chanting "george w. bush."

i love nc state and all, but that day--my graduation day--i had to hang my head.

7/17/2007 4:09:47 PM

I had the Secretary of Defense...the prior 3 classes had the President, Vice President, and Secretary of the Navy.

7/17/2007 4:39:29 PM

'02 - Jerry Seinfeld

FTW

7/17/2007 8:36:40 PM

i only wish.

i don't know who we had, i did not go to the big graduation, so whoever spoke was some lame nobody, like the mayor of Cary or some shit.

7/17/2007 8:37:37 PM

2003

Phil Donahue ... it was awesome.

my wife had Bill Cosby that year (UNC).

it was a fun spring.

7/17/2007 8:58:01 PM

We had John Edwards for mine... not sure why

7/17/2007 10:54:01 PM

^^^'02 was writer William Raspberry. It was hard to hear with the acoustics that year too.

7/17/2007 11:19:34 PM

^^He was on his way to chase an ambulance buy decided to give a commencement address on the way

7/18/2007 12:21:40 AM