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Graduation Season Has Arrived
Graduation season has arrived—and a flood of commencement addresses are coming with it. Not every speech delivered this year will be memorable, but a handful will likely be transformative—especially for those that find their way beyond campus boundaries, like the one delivered at Syracuse University on May 13 by women’s running pioneer Kathrine Switzer. Switzer, who…Read More
Switzer Gives Syracuse Commencement and Receives Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters
If Kathrine Switzer’s Syracuse University commencement speech didn’t inspire every graduate to lace up and run, we don’t know what will. Switzer, who in 1967 became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with an official race bib, addressed her alma mater 50 years after she graduated with a degree from the S.I. Newhouse…Read More