{"id":37890,"date":"2025-05-01T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=37890"},"modified":"2025-05-01T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:50:18","slug":"new-york-times-spotlights-notable-commencement-speakers-including-furmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/new-york-times-spotlights-notable-commencement-speakers-including-furmans\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times spotlights notable commencement speakers, including Furman&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/26\/us\/college-commencement-graduation-speakers.html\">The New York Times<\/a>, correspondent Mitch Smith rounds up notable commencement speakers across the nation including entertainers, politicians, athletes, executives and more. Furman University alumna and Apple Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/kristin-huguet-quayle-apple-vp-and-furman-alumna-chosen-as-commencement-speaker\/\">Kristin Huguet Quayle<\/a> &#8217;99 will headline Furman&#8217;s graduation ceremony May 10 in Paladin Stadium. Quayle, Apple&#8217;s chief global communications officer, joins the likes of other high-profile speakers such as President Donald Trump, Al Roker of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today,&#8221; Google VP and Chief Diversity Officer Melonie Parker, former Yankee Derek Jeter, Snoop Dogg and Kermit the Frog.<\/p>\n<p>A free subscription may be required to view the content. Furman ID holders may access the article through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times canvasses an eclectic list of commencement speakers from entertainers to executives. Furman alumna and Apple executive Kristin Huguet Quayle &#8217;99 is mentioned in the roundup along with Donald Trump, Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm, a famous Muppet and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,6,32,134],"tags":[1276,3391,3392],"class_list":["post-37890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-the-new-york-times","tag-apple","tag-commencement-address","tag-kristin-huguet-quayle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37890"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37900,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37890\/revisions\/37900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}