Welcome Guest!
Create an Account
login email:
password:
site searchwhere to watchcontact usabout usadvertise with ushelp
Message Board

BobcatAttack.com Message Board
General Ohio University Discussion/Alumni Events
Topic:  Who was your commencement speaker?

Topic:  Who was your commencement speaker?
Author
Message
The Optimist
General User



Member Since: 3/16/2007
Location: CLE
Post Count: 5,561

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/23/2021 8:27:57 PM 
I figured this would be a fun/interesting thread for OHIO graduates.

The speaker at my commencement (spring 2012) was Nancy Cartwright. She is best known as the voice of Bart Simpson from the Simpsons TV show, but as she demonstrated during her speech she had voiced a number of recognizable cartoon voices over the years. I thought she did a good job. She is an OHIO graduate.

Sidenote: I believe that Wesley Lowery graduated in my class and he ended up being a commencement speaker himself not too many years later.

Who was your commencement speaker?


I've seen crazier things happen.

Back to Top
  
mf279801
General User

Member Since: 8/6/2010
Location: Newark, DE
Post Count: 2,461

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/23/2021 9:00:57 PM 
The Optimist wrote:
I figured this would be a fun/interesting thread for OHIO graduates.

The speaker at my commencement (spring 2012) was Nancy Cartwright. She is best known as the voice of Bart Simpson from the Simpsons TV show, but as she demonstrated during her speech she had voiced a number of recognizable cartoon voices over the years. I thought she did a good job. She is an OHIO graduate.

Sidenote: I believe that Wesley Lowery graduated in my class and he ended up being a commencement speaker himself not too many years later.

Who was your commencement speaker?


Class of 2005...no idea who our commencement speaker was. I want to say...some sort of poet?
Back to Top
  
SBH
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Post Count: 3,925

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/23/2021 9:30:03 PM 
Fritz the Night Owl. Oops, that was Bobcatsquared's high school graduation speaker.
Back to Top
  
OhioCatFan
General User



Member Since: 12/20/2004
Location: Athens, OH
Post Count: 14,163

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/23/2021 9:55:18 PM 
Neither my wife or I can remember who our graduation speaker was in 1968. But, I do remember who my high school graduation speaker was -- author Jesse Stuart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Stuart


The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA

"It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right."

Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org

Back to Top
  
Kinggeorge4
General User



Member Since: 12/22/2004
Location: Guysville, OH
Post Count: 999

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/24/2021 9:49:38 AM 
1990, think it was a member of the Board of Trustees. Fell asleep as the speech was riveting.


GO BOBCATS
GEORGE

Back to Top
  
shabamon
General User



Member Since: 11/17/2006
Location: Cincinnati
Post Count: 6,432

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/24/2021 10:41:50 AM 
2008 Peter King. He told us he'd personally come to our homes and yell at us if we didn't vote in the upcoming election.
Back to Top
  
Kinggeorge4
General User



Member Since: 12/22/2004
Location: Guysville, OH
Post Count: 999

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/24/2021 11:10:10 AM 
I was on stage for that one. I had lunch with him and criticized him for not mentioning where he went to school more. President McDavis cringed when I brought it up.


GO BOBCATS
GEORGE

Back to Top
  
MedinaCat
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Location: Lakewood, OH
Post Count: 741

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/24/2021 1:31:28 PM 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Forbes
Back to Top
  
ts1227
General User

Member Since: 2/28/2006
Location: Tallmadge, OH
Post Count: 857

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 9/25/2021 1:50:38 PM 
shabamon wrote:
2008 Peter King. He told us he'd personally come to our homes and yell at us if we didn't vote in the upcoming election.


Same here. He posted it on SI shortly afterward and I have had it bookmarked since then. Surprisingly the stooges running whatever is left of SI now haven’t purged it yet.

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2008/06/16/commencement
Back to Top
  
giacomo
General User

Member Since: 11/20/2007
Post Count: 2,688

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 10/7/2021 12:14:33 AM 
Malcolm Forbes 1981
Back to Top
  
IceCat76
General User

Member Since: 12/5/2016
Location: Byfield, MA
Post Count: 252

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 10/7/2021 10:26:23 AM 
Jacqueline Wexler - President Hunter College
I fell asleep. It was typical mid-70s Ohio low self esteem to invite another school's president.
Back to Top
  
The Optimist
General User



Member Since: 3/16/2007
Location: CLE
Post Count: 5,561

Status: Offline

  Message Not Read  RE: Who was your commencement speaker?
   Posted: 10/31/2021 8:49:03 AM 
Kinggeorge4 wrote:
I was on stage for that one. I had lunch with him and criticized him for not mentioning where he went to school more. President McDavis cringed when I brought it up.


Lol. Well done.


I've seen crazier things happen.

Back to Top
  
Showing Replies:  1 - 12  of 12 Posts
Jump to Page:  1
View Other 'General Ohio University Discussion/Alumni Events' Topics
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             







Copyright ©2024 BobcatAttack.com. All rights reserved.  |  Privacy Policy  |  Terms of Use
Partner of USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties