She attended Wellesley College where she was the first student to deliver the graduation address.
But probably the most famous graduation address was not delivered by a president at all.
President Manuel L. Quezon promised a new building for the school through his graduation address in 1940.
Lower courts have split on whether school board members or superintendents may, as part of a graduation address, recite the Lord's Prayer or other prayers.
In her graduation address she had declaimed: "We are the builders of tomorrow.
I suggest that, health permitting, he give the graduation address at a number of elementary, junior high and high schools in minority areas next month.
In his graduation address, proud in a cap and gown and shiny school ring, he thanked her.
In 2011, the school's dean of medicine resigned after plagiarizing much of his graduation address.
Some institutions confer the title on the class member chosen to deliver the final graduation address, regardless of the speaker's academic credentials.
Davis delivered the graduation address he titled, "The Dignity of Labor".