Mike Rawlings, Dallas mayor, will be the keynote speaker at Woodrow's Class of 2012 baccalaureate.
I have it on good authority, since my wife is one of the sponsors of Woodrow Wilson High School’s Class of 2012, that Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings will be the keynote speaker at this year’s baccalaureate program. Rawlings’ wife, Micki, is a Woodrow graduate, and she is expected to attend the event, too. Full disclosure: Our youngest is a Woodrow senior this year.
In an interesting coincidence, the keynote speaker for our older son’s Woodrow class also was Dallas mayor at the time — Tom Leppert. Our son was tapped to introduce Leppert, who showed some class in not boxing his ears for all of the anti-Trinity and anti-city-owned convention center hotel posts I’d written here on the blog during Leppert’s term.
No such worries for Rawlings, who is getting around the city consistently and seems to be a reasoned cheerleader for Dallas neighborhoods. In fact, I have yet to hear him use the dreaded Leppert-ized term “world-class city”; see, there I go again…
