Pinning Ceremony Keynote Speaker

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I am on the pinning committee for my class, and we need a keynote speaker. Any ideas?

So far, we've come up with one, but he's terribly cost prohibitive. Just wondering what other schools do for speakers. We're having to pay for the entire ceremony ourselves--even the pins--so cost is an issue. (Strangely, the university doesn't pay for anything, but they mandate that we have one.) We would like someone who is relevant to our new careers, but we can't pay an arm and leg!

Oh, how I wish we had "limitations." Classes at our school usually raise and spend around $10k on their pinning ceremonies. AS IF we have so much extra time to plan and carry out fundraisers.

Just a little gripe...I'm done now and on to being more positive!

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Oh, how I wish we had "limitations." Classes at our school usually raise and spend around $10k on their pinning ceremonies. AS IF we have so much extra time to plan and carry out fundraisers.

Just a little gripe...I'm done now and on to being more positive!

You know, there will never be a better time to get things back to a more manageable level! $10K for a ceremony of that sort sounds pretty wild to me. So why not make the economy the bad guy and cut back accordingly? That way you all won't look cheap for trying to cut back on things, as you would during more affluent years.

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