Category Archives: Commencement Addresses

Graduates Special? We Never Were.

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Karl Garson

Published in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Friday, July 27, 2012 http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/graduates-special-we-never-were-7468g3f-163923646.html One summer afternoon in the ‘80’s my friend Jim said, “Our high school years were the last good years of our lives.” Jim and I were fending off desert … Continue reading →

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Four Addresses for Our Future

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Karl Garson

By now the commencement speakers have delivered their varying degrees of wisdom to America’s eager classes of 2011. With those words to guide them, the new crop of college and university graduates who weren’t plugged into iTunes or engaged in … Continue reading →

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