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unusual facts about commencement address



Joseph Costello

In 2001, Joseph gave the commencement address at Harvey Mudd, two days after the sudden death of Douglas Adams, who had been scheduled to speak.


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Article based on his 1974 Caltech Commencement address, with pictures, as originally published in Engineering and Science, Volume 37:7, June 1974.

Froid, Montana

The town made headlines in 2007 when Governor Brian Schweitzer gave the commencement address to the high school graduating class which consisted entirely of one student, Roxie Britton.

New York Hospital

The origin of the New York Hospital can be traced to the commencement address of Dr. Samuel Bard, Professor of the “Practice of Medicine”, delivered to the first two medical doctors to graduate from King’s College (Now Columbia College, Columbia University) in 1769 titled “A discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital.”

Stanton, Minnesota

Despite its small size, the airport was used by U.S. president Bill Clinton, who arrived there by helicopter for a commencement address at Carleton College in 2000.

Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

In 1914, Alexander Graham Bell delivered Austine School’s first commencement address.