Speakers to new grads: Make Mom proud
By Greg Kline
Monday May 12, 2008
Heather Coit
Former Illini basketball great Mannie Jackson, who received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, delivers the keynote address Sunday during the 137th commencement ceremony.
The milling around, primping, pictures with family and friends, greeting classmates; the hey-we-made-its; the sighs, smiles and tears – joyful tears – were moved inside to the hallways of the Assembly Hall by a bout of weather more reminiscent of early April than mid-May.
But rain and wind couldn't upstage a graduation day at the University of Illinois on Sunday that also happened to coincide with Mother's Day.
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