Guess Who is Coming to Lancaster

Well it is Graduation season and I was wondering who would be speaking @ F&M. I was away on vacation for a week in NOLA so I hadn't heard anything or read anything. The Philadelphia Inquirer always publishes a list of commencement speakers for there numerous colleges during the season, but of course the Lancaster paper doesn't. I am so excited to see who F&M is having..... NPR's David Greene!!! David, who is NPR's White House correspondent, is a Lancaster native whose late mother, Terry R. Greene, was an associate professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College. I realized this when I read her unfortunate obit in the Lancaster paper. I was truly sorry I hadn't met her. Like myself she had MS. Her obit was beautifully written and I believe that her son David may have written it. Now when I listen it NPR every day I enjoy David's reporting even more. I would like to meet him while he is in town but chances of that are slim to none. Here is a little bit more about David Greene.....from the F&M web site:

Greene joined National Public Radio in 2005 as a White House correspondent. Lately, however, his reporting has focused almost exclusively on the presidential campaigns. He frequently travels with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on her campaign plane.

His presidential reporting has taken him to Iraq, South America, Asia and Europe and included the June 2006 trip to the Green Zone of Baghdad, kept secret until President George H. Bush was on the ground.

Greene has traveled with Vice President Dick Cheney to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan and witnessed, with Cheney, the elected Afghan parliament convene for the first time since 1973.
He has also covered First Lady Laura Bush's 2005 trip to Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania and Rwanda. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Greene was aboard Air Force One with President Bush as he flew over the Gulf Coast surveying the storm's destruction.

Greene's coverage of the campaigns, the president, his policies, and people at the White House is heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Day to Day, and Talk of the Nation programs.

A passionate Steelers fan, Greene spent much of his childhood in Pittsburgh. He holds a degree in government from Harvard, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1998. While in college, he began his career in journalism by serving as senior editor for the Harvard Crimson.
After graduation, he joined the Baltimore Sun, first working as a researcher in the Sun's Washington bureau, contributing to coverage of President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. He moved on to cover education from the paper's Carroll County office, and eventually began covering the White House during President George W. Bush's first term, including the president's response to the September 11 attacks and his management of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Greene also covered the president's 2004 re-election campaign.
In his free time, Greene has participated in the Coaching for College program, tutoring inner-city youth. He was named co-volunteer of the year for the program in 2004.