UHS Alum Dan Whaley Gives Commencement Speech
Graduation means that many Urbana High School seniors are preparing to leave Urbana, but one UHS alum is coming back to the community. Urbana High School alum Dan Whaley came to the Assembly Hall for the graduation ceremony. Whaley will be giving this year’s commencement address.
“Dr. Taylor suggested him. We were looking for someone who had achieved something in the business world. Someone who was not an athlete because we have had those in the past,” said Senior Class Sponsor Erin Ludwick.
Whaley is an extremely successful businessman who graduated from UHS and received
bachelor degree in English Rhetoric from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1990. Asking him how UHS impacted his life Whaley said, “It enabled everything I did. What can be bigger than that!”
In 1995 Whaley founded the first company that allows people to book your travel over the web on GetThere.com. He is currently working on another project.
In Whaley’s commencement address he talked about the amazing time we live in, and the opportunities that young people today have to partake in humanity’s next renaissance.
“I can’t imagine a greater honor. It is my privilege!” said Whaley on giving the commencement address.
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