David Muir named 2022 Syracuse Commencement Speaker

[JDubbin]

Jane Goodall for us 2005 squad... meh

 

[SUFan44]

Bill Clinton!

Ditto.

One of the best public speakers of any generation and damned if I remember anything but him wearing the national championship hat upon entrance.

 

[007]

Ben Franklin. His speech was...electric.

 

[orangemass]

Stormy Daniels for me. Bazummba

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Like Mr. Muir, I am a Bomber. You know you’re getting old when your classmates are coming back to give commencement addresses like one of mine did in 2014.

 

[texascpa]

Ah, my annual reminder that my speaker was Robert freaking Coles, a Harvard professor.

My brother had Arthur Ashe as his so that one has had to suffice for both of us.

Mine was Jesse Jackson...at a small business school in Northwest Ohio of all places.

 

[TexanMark]

Stormy Daniels for me. Bazummba

In your dreams...lol

Actually she does need to pay off some debts...so maybe you can hire her.

 

[OrangeAl]

1977, as I remember, was supposed to be Kurt Waldheim, but he was forced to cancel over some bad history coming to light. So, Gov. Hugh Carey stepped in. He wasn't memorable, but we did get a dome built a couple of years later.

 

[Stevenson]

We had Malcolm Forbes, and he was awesome!!

"Do what turns you on!"

Class of 88 in da house!

 

[IthacaMatt]

Ah, my annual reminder that my speaker was Robert freaking Coles, a Harvard professor.

My brother had Arthur Ashe as his so that one has had to suffice for both of us.

Mine was William . Buckley.

 

[Fat tire 13]

Tom Brokaw here.

I've seen about 5-10 of the commencement speakers, and his was my favorite speech. It was a very interesting talk about America's place in the world and compared to past empires in history

Even better than Bill Clinton's. My own was Rudy Giuliani in 2002 (only a short time after 9-11) and it was quite a scene. Some people loved it, and some even protested.

 

[Fat tire 13]

Jane Goodall for us 2005 squad... meh

All I remember from that one is she made gorilla noises, and I was like What... so yes agree it was meh

 

[Roger N]

Ah, my annual reminder that my speaker was Robert freaking Coles, a Harvard professor.

My brother had Arthur Ashe as his so that one has had to suffice for both of us.

Mine was a farmer, James Farmer

 

[Roger N]

1977, as I remember, was supposed to be Kurt Waldheim, but he was forced to cancel over some bad history coming to light. So, Gov. Hugh Carey stepped in. He wasn't memorable, but we did get a dome built a couple of years later.

Wasn't Hugh Carey known as the 5th mate on a Greek Tramp

 

[SWC75]

When I was growing up, Walter Cronkite defined the term 'anchorman'. He'd started his career in journalism during the depression, made a name for himself covering World War II and spent a dozen years at CBS covering every conceivable story before being named the anchor of the CBS Evening News at age 45 in 1962, a job he held for the next 19 years.

I was impressed when two men with local roots: David Muir and Jeff Glor became anchors, respectively of the ABC World News in 2014 and the CBS Evening News in 2017. But they seemed a little "wet behind the ears" to me for those very weighty jobs. As recently as 2000 I could watch David do the weekend local news for Channel 5 in Syracuse, (the CBS affiliate), and watch Jeff co-host Channell 3's, (the NBC affiliate), morning program. Now they were Walter Cronkite?

But in 2017 David was 44, having covered Hurricane Katrina, the Israeli-Hezbollah War, Chernobyl, the BP Oil spill, the Haiti hurricane and earthquake, Fukushima, Somolia, the Arab Spring and the 2012 presidential campaign. And Jeff was 42 and had covered the 2008 presidential campaign, the Iraq War, events in China, the Paris Accords, and had been CBS's national correspondent.

In other words, they had become what Walter Cronkite was in 1962. They were not what was different. I was. I was no longer a teenager, watching a middle-aged man deliver the news. I was watching two men a generation younger than me deliver the news.

 

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[Forza Azzurri]

Nice speech.

Amazing how many individuals who reach the pinnacles of their chosen professions have such a singular focus from such a young age.

 

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[OrangeXtreme]

 

[Symphony Steve]

U Thant. Yes, he really existed.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

‘You kept going’: David Muir praises 6,000 new Syracuse University graduates (photos)

Journalist David Muir delivered the commencement address.

www.syracuse.com

 

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[kirbivore]

Bill Clinton!

My brother was a Stumpy so I was at that one (2003 I believe)