As no doubt many of you were, I was pretty disgusted by the announcement that Nancy Pelosi will be this year’s convocation speaker. (Thank God I’m graduating 2011!) But after a little googling, this is par for the course for Cornell. Here’s the list of convocation speakers since the 2000 ceremony:
2010 | Nancy Pelosi |
2009 | David Plouffe |
2008 | Maya Angelou |
2007 | Soledad O’Brien |
2006 | Martin Luther King III |
2005 | Wesley Clark |
2004 | Bill Clinton |
2003 | James Carville |
2002 | Danny Glover |
2001 | Janet Reno |
2000 | Chuck Schumer |