![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t even remember the weather, although you probably won’t forget yours. It’s almost the only thing I remember from my own commencement, even though the legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead was the commencement speaker. Everyone is here for the sake of just a few words the name of someone they love, or their own name. Thank you, Chancellor Wrighton, and thank you so much for the profound honor of addressing the Washington University community on this very special day.Ĭommencement speeches are very difficult to craft, even in a year when the country doesn’t seem to be going through a nervous breakdown. (Photo: Joe Angeles/ Washington University) Louis Friday, May 19, in Brookings Quadrangle. Anna Quindlen, best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, delivering the 2017 Commencement address at Washington University in St. ![]()
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