Bill Gates, Harvard's most famous dropout, to speak at this years commencement
Cambridge (MA) - 37 years after he dropped out of Harvard, Microsoft’s Bill Gates is to speak at the 356th Commencement of the university, which can consider him to be one of its most successful students ever, despite having left during his junior year.
"I am very pleased that the Harvard community will have the opportunity to hear from Bill Gates on June 7," said Paul Finnegan, president of the Harvard Alumni Association. "His contributions to the world of business and technology, and the great example he has set through his far-reaching philanthropy, will rightfully put him on center stage in Harvard Yard. I look forward to greeting him in June."
Though Gates left in 1975, the university considers him to be a part of the Harvard College Class of 1977, which celebrates its 30-year reunion this year.
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