Peter was not a notable public speaker, but he wrote clearly, concisely and with elegance, as was evidenced by his one slight book, Persecution 1961, an account of six prisoners, which followed up The Observer article of May 1961.
On June 16 and 17, 1875, the centennial of the battle was celebrated with a military parade and a reception featuring notable speakers, among them General William Tecumseh Sherman and Vice President Henry Wilson.
The school's spring scholarship dinners have featured a number of notable speakers over the past few years, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and FORBES Editor-in-Chief Editor-in-Chief Editor-in-Chief
It seems that David Cameron managed to find time to take a few pointers from notable speakers over in Wales where the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference is hosting its own small gathering of the (largely) male, pale and stale.
Questlove was playing on a stage, interrupted occasionally by notable speakers, including the educator and television personality Bill Nye and Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician who helped alert the country to the water crisis in Flint.
While colleges may be more well-known for attracting famous closing speakers, a few high schools have hosted notable speakers for their graduation ceremonies -- and, lucky for us, recorded the special events.
Here are my scores (on a 10-point scale) for the most notable speakers.
A few years ago, I developed and edited "Creating a Life You'll Love," an award-winning collection of inspiring commencement addresses from such notable speakers as Tom Hanks, Anna Quindlen, Thomas L. Friedman, Anna Deavere Smith, Dana Gioia, Muhammad Yunus and Ken Burns, among others.
He's also in the somewhat unique position of being able to leverage his experience as a fourth generation venture capitalist and entrepreneur to give teams access to an active support network of successful entrepreneurs and executives and bring in notable speakers to offer advice on how to navigate the critical early stages of business development.
Other notable speakers include the perennial red-meat crowd pleasers like Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Grover Norquist, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and unpredictable keynoter Sarah Palin.
