ROCK ME
2000 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS
PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES
POETS & POETRY
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
200
'Michelangelo made "David", seen here, from this rock'
Marble
200
'This Jello pudding pitchman said the darnedest things to kids at Xavier University's commencement'
Bill Cosby
200
'His hunting rifle accessory made him "Telescope Teddy"'
Teddy Roosevelt
200
'Most of this "Color Purple" author's first volume of poetry, "Once", was written in one week in 1964'
Alice Walker
200
'Term for a player who isn't recruited, but just "ambles" onto the field to try out'
Walk-on
400
'It's molten rock below ground'
Magma
400
'Graduates of Middlebury College in Vermont listened to this former president -- of Poland'
Lech Walesa
400
'He was "Haberdasher Harry"'
Harry S. Truman
400
'"Howl", his first book of poetry, was published by City Lights, a bookstore owned by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti'
Allen Ginsberg
400
'Mississippi State is represented by this persistent creature seen here'
Bulldog
600
'A basic copper aluminum phosphate, it's the type of stone used here in an ancient Aztec ornament'
Turquoise
600
'This author took "The Firm" stance of telling Arkansas State grads to "leave the country"'
John Grisham
600
'The "Father of the Declaration of Independence"'
Thomas Jefferson
600
'In "Endymion" he wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"'
John Keats
600
'The university of this state was the fitting 1999-2000 champion of the Big Sky Conference'
Montana
800
'Stalactites & stalagmites are formed primarily in caves of this "stone"'
Limestone
800
'Take a memo:
Stanford got a secretary to speak -- this Secretary-General'
Kofi Annan
800
'"The Hero of Fort Donelson" as well as "The Hero of Appomattox"'
Ulysses S. Grant
800
'In 1945 this South American country's Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for Literature'
Chile
800
'This school's 1999 win over its archrival was overshadowed by the fatal collapse of a bonfire tower'
Texas A&M
1000
'It's the earthy term for crystal lime nodules like the one seen here'
Geode
1000
'In May 2000 Princeton got a queen, this Mideastern one, who's a Princeton alumna'
Queen Noor of Jordan (Lisa Halaby)
1000
'The "Land Hero of 1812"'
Andrew Jackson
1000
'A poem by Poe purports to be the confession of this lame Asiatic conqueror, also a Christopher Marlowe subject'
Tamerlane
1000
'The Outland Trophy goes to the nation's outstanding interior one of these -- no, not decorator'
Lineman
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