Thursday, August 21, 2008 East Central Illinois

Speakers to new grads: Make Mom proud

By Greg Kline
Monday, May 12, 2008 7:23 AM CDT

The milling around, primping, pictures with family and friends, greeting classmates; the hey-we-made-its; the sighs, smiles and tears – joyful tears – were moved inside to the hallways of the Assembly Hall by a bout of weather more reminiscent of early April than mid-May.

But rain and wind couldn't upstage a graduation day at the University of Illinois on Sunday that also happened to coincide with Mother's Day.

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