Speakers and Celebrities
Many famous people including Vice-President Joseph Biden, Martin Luther King, Jr. Chuck D, Desmond Tutu, Michael Nutter, Chris Matthews, James Cone, Chelsea Clinton, Caroline Kennedy, Tim Russert, Jonathan Weiner, Pat Croce, Tim Wise, Ed Rendell, Dan Marino, Soledad O'Brien, and Rick Santorum have spoken various locations around campus, including the Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse.
The song American Pie (song) made its debut at Saint Joseph's University when Don McClean was opening for Laura Nyro on March 12, 1971 at the Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse on campus.
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Famous quotes containing the words speakers and/or celebrities:
“What’s this, Aurora Leigh,
You write so of the poets and not laugh?
Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark,
Exaggerators of the sun and moon,
And soothsayers in a tea-cup? I write so
Of the only truth-tellers, now left to God,—
The only speakers of essential truth,
Opposed to relative, comparative,
And temporal truths;...
The only teachers who instruct mankind,
From just a shadow on a charnel-wall.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“Passengers in 1937 totaled 270,000; so many of these were celebrities that two Newark newspapers ran special airport columns.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)