Chicago Tribune Columnist Mary Schmich wrote a column in 1997 imagining what she would say if she was giving a high school graduation speech. The speech wound up on the internet, attributed to author Kurt Vonnegut. Now the writing has become a song by Australian film director Baz Luhrman. It's played heavily on alternative rock stations. Schmich thinks that the popularity of her "graduation speech" indicates the Millennium Generation is hungry for advice.

If you have a Real Audio player, you can hear the NPR interview with Chicago Tribune Columnist Mary Schmich by cutting & pasting the link below in your broswer:

http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19990322.atc.20.ram


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