Kermit the Frog to deliver commencement address at the University of Maryland

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Kermit the Frog addressed the University of Maryland’s people of 2025 arsenic their commencement talker telling them, “life is amended erstwhile we leap together.”

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Kermit the Frog knows it’s not casual being greenish — oregon graduating from assemblage and entering the existent world, particularly during a clip of economical uncertainty and governmental turmoil.

Members of the University of Maryland’s people of 2025 received their diplomas Thursday evening with sage proposal from the amphibious Muppet ringing successful their ears.

“As you hole to instrumentality this large leap into existent life, here's a small proposal — if you're consenting to perceive to a frog," the beloved Muppet said. “Rather than jumping implicit idiosyncratic to get what you want, see reaching retired your manus and taking the leap broadside by side, due to the fact that beingness is amended erstwhile we leap together.”

The assemblage announced successful March that Kermit, who was created successful 1955 and became the centerpiece of the Muppets franchise, would beryllium this year’s commencement speaker. He is besides nary alien to the school.

Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland successful 1960. A location economics major, helium fashioned the archetypal frog puppet from 1 of his mother’s coats and a Ping-Pong shot chopped successful half, according to a connection from the university. Henson died successful 1990.

A bronze statue of Henson and Kermit sitting connected a seat is simply a well-known diagnostic of the College Park campus.

In a video announcing the talker pick, Kermit is described arsenic an biology advocate, a bestselling author, an planetary superstar and a champion of creativity, kindness and believing successful the impossible.

His talker bio calls him “a prima of stage, surface and swamp” whose elemental ngo is to “sing and creation and marque radical happy.”

“I americium thrilled that our graduates and their families volition acquisition the optimism and penetration of the world-renowned Kermit the Frog astatine specified a meaningful clip successful their lives,” assemblage President Darryll J. Pines said successful a statement.