When did the First Lady give the commencement speech for Merced UC in CA?
They loved her, she loved them, and in the admiration-fest between Michelle Obama and the graduating class of UC Merced, the first lady of the United States exhorted them to go out and use their newfound skills to help those most in need. “Remember that you are blessed,” Obama told the crowd seated before her on the only big field the fledgling campus can muster, a grassy plain set beneath a scorching midday sun. “You must bend down and let someone stand on your shoulders so they can see a better future.” Obama reminded them that, like half of the student body at this 4-year-old campus, she was the first in her family to attend college. And she urged the 500 graduates, who constitute the first class to go from freshman to senior year at UC Merced, to seek jobs where they help disadvantaged children in particular. Help those, she said, “who never go to college … who can’t get a break … who have lost the ability to dream.” And if not that, she said, find work innovating green technol
First Lady Michelle Obama gave the commencement speech at the University of California Merced on Saturday, May 16, 2009. She urged the school’s first full graduating class of 493 to give back to their communities. A crowd of 12,000 attended the speech. Merced is the smallest and youngest of the University of California campuses. Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/16/michelle-obama-commenceme_n_204302.
Michelle Obama gave the commencement speech on Saturday, May 16 at Merced UC, which according to the website of ABC7 of San Francisco is California’s smallest and youngest university. Sources: ABC7.
