After some digging, we found the long lost cassette tape my grandfather made with a hand held recorder of part of the graduation ceremony from 1974 in Great Bend, Kansas.
As technology has improved and put more and more sophisticated tools into the hands of dangerous neophytes like myself, it is possible to get a modestly decent sound from a really nasty recording.
If you are interested you can listen to the 12 minute mp3 recording by clicking the green play button below. The recording includes the introduction of Stephanie Goodwin and myself as well as our speeches. You can also download the file to your computer if you wish by right clicking the download link below and selecting "Save Link As".