Bettis To Speak

Commencement speakers are always a tricky thing. Some can be funny. Some, like Rudy Guiliani at mine at Syracuse in 2002, can be famous and newsworthy and others can be state senators or somebody local.
Others can be a disaster.
This is the world Jerome Bettis is joining this week. The former Notre Dame running back and Pittsburgh Steeler will talk to the Duquense graduating class Friday at the A.J. Palumbo Center.
It should be an interesting speech, as Bettis is beloved in Pittsburgh and he's a pretty good public speaker.
Of course, the most famous commencement speech of all time never actually happened. The "Wear Sunscreen" speech, rumored to be given by late author Kurt Vonnegut to MIT, was actually written in 1997 in the Chicago Tribune by Mary Schmich. It is, by far, one of the better non-speech speeches we've heard/read.
-By Michael Rothstein of the Journal Gazette