Michelle Obama Gives Rousing Speech at George Washington University

From the White House blog:

In the fall, First Lady Michelle Obama issued a challenge to George Washington University students, faculty, staff and trustees to perform 100,000 hours of community service, promising she’d speak at their graduation if they rose to it. They did and, as a woman of her word, Mrs. Obama delivered the commencement address to the Class of 2010 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

From digging neighbors out after “Snowmageddon” to restoring a local high school to running a clinic for those in need of medical aid to a host of global service projects, Obama was impressed by what the George Washington University community did, but more, so how they did it. She asked that the graduates take on one more challenge:
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