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...Singer, PEPPER PIKE, OHIO...
Mother Teresa spoke in 1982, and U2 lead singer and activist Bono addressed seniors in 2001. Bono’s speech was the last Class Day address to be ticketed; Clinton’s speech tomorrow will be ticketed as well...
Martin Luther King was the first non-faculty individual to be invited to address seniors on Class Day. He accepted the invitation prior to his assassination in April 1968, and his wife Coretta Scott King spoke in his place. Mother Teresa spoke in 1982, and U2 lead singer and activist Bono addressed seniors...
...late '60s, Broadway-musical actress-dancer-singer Gretchen Wyler visited her local dog pound in Warwick, N.Y. Wyler (whose shows included the original Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie and Damn Yankees) immediately redirected her energies to animal-rights activism. She launched the Genesis Awards, which since 1986 have annually honored such media and entertainment figures as Paul McCartney for tackling animal-protection issues, and in the '90s merged her action group, Ark Trust, with the U.S. Humane Society...
...West African (Ewe and Fon). Styles range from Beninese to Brazilian to Bowie - a touch added courtesy of legendary producer Tony Visconti. And the album features a dazzlingly diverse set of collaborators - among them Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Peter Gabriel, Mali's Amadou and Mariam, Ziggy Marley, German singer Joy Denalane and Italian Carmen Consoli. Some tracks almost seem designed to explain why they call it world music. Pearls, for example, is a Beninese cover of a Sade original that opens with the guitar and maracas of Carlos Santana, who is then joined by the American balladeer Josh Groban...