As a rule, commencement speeches are either predictably packed with fake truisms and moldering quotes from the likes of Socrates and Oliver Wendell Holmes, or they’re deadly boring pep rallies for Mom and Dad. Occasionally, a speech will break the mold and will be memorable enough to last a graduate’s lifetime. Here are excerpts and ...
If there are modern-day saints in the most formal and ecclesiastically legal sense of the word, author Amy Hollingsworth has allowed us to share a wonderful visit with perhaps the best known and beloved of those saints. For 30 years, Fred Rogers was not only a children’s show host on PBS, but he was probably ...
If you’re someone who has music as a major part of your life (or career), you’ve undoubtedly at least heard of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity (or “The Sinfonia”). And if you haven’t, then you undoubtedly wouldn’t have guessed that musicians would have a secret society complete with all the usual rituals and initiation ...
