From the December 2, 1971 edition of The Wayne Herald:
Commencement Speaker Chosen
Dr. Kenneth McFarland, nationally-noted speaker and educator, will make a return trip to Wayne State College for his second commencement address Sunday, Dec. 12. He spoke to another Wayne graduating class about 10 years ago.
The winter graduation ceremony, with 135 candidates for degrees, is scheduled for 3 p.m. in Rice Auditorium.
Dr. McFarland, former superintendent of schools in Kansas, most recently in Topeka, where he still lives, travels constantly on nationwide speaking engagements - travels so much, in fact, that one airline gave him a citation as the nation's No. 1 air traveler.
As a guest lecturer for General Motors and an educational consultant for American Trucking Industries, he has received numerous awards, among them the Freedom Leadership Award from Freedoms Foundatoins and another from the American Academy of Achievement for being "America's No. 1 Public Speaker."
He is the author of the book, "Eloquence in Public Speaking," now in its 12th printing.
