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The University of Maryland announced that beloved Muppet ‘Kermit the Frog’ will deliver the university’s 2025 commencement ...
The lovable puppet’s appearance “honors the long ... graduating students will be visited by none other than Kermit the Frog, who will deliver their commencement speech on Wednesday, May ...
The most beloved Muppet, Kermit the Frog, will deliver the commencement ... which includes an ensemble of puppet characters like Kermit and Miss Piggy, in 1955. “I just know the class of 2025 ...
Students graduating from the University of Maryland in May will be sent off into the world with a croaky message from a green, lanky puppet. Kermit the Frog is this year’s commencement speaker ...
Henson, a home economics major, invented Kermit by building the original frog puppet out of one of his mother's coats and a ping-pong ball cut in half, UMD said. Henson, who went on to create the ...
Henson invented Kermit by building the original frog puppet from one of his mother's coats and a ping pong ball that was cut in half. “I am thrilled that our graduates and their families will ...
The Kermit the Frog puppet was created by Jim Henson in 1955 for Sam and Friends. It is the first Kermit puppet.
Amazingly, come commencement time in May, the University of Maryland's graduating class of 2025 will be getting precisely just that in Kermit the Frog ... the legendary puppet's speaking ...
Hi-ho, Kermit ... the Frog to our campus, 65 years after Mr. Henson graduated from the University of Maryland." UMD is not the only place that has a special connection to the famous puppet.
SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Kermit The Frog in Spicewood, Texas on March 14, 2024. The university noted that the lovable puppet’s appearance “honors the long history between UMD and Muppets creator ...