Sentence examples for to be commencement from inspiring English sources

Consider what happened two years ago at Rutgers University when Condoleezza Rice was invited to be commencement speaker.

Students at Smith College, likewise, made it clear they did not want Christine Lagarde, the first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund, to be commencement speaker, starting an online petition that eventually led Lagarde to step down as speaker.

In my last column I commented on the protest by Muslim students against the invitation extended to (and accepted by) Salman Rushdie to be the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony of Nova Southeastern University's Farquahar College of Arts and Sciences, in Davie, Fla.

I was honored to accept your invitation to be your commencement speaker as the first woman Speaker of the House.

He was selected to be the commencement speaker at his graduation in 1913 and his address was entitled, "The Call to Teach".

The truth is that the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan would never be invited to be a commencement speaker in the first place.

A call for Chuck Berry to be a commencement speaker.

In addition, the University of Delaware has withdrawn an invitation to Ms. Goodwin to be the commencement speaker this year.

She had agreed to be the commencement speaker, following Hillary Clinton in 2009, and Meryl Streep in 2010.

Friends, family, and members of the graduating class of the Excelsior Preschool for the Gifted and Talented, I'm honored to be your commencement speaker today.

Howard University invited Diddy to be its commencement speaker.