Sen. Barack Obama gave dozens of eighth-grade girls a graduation to remember Wednesday when he unexpectedly walked onstage in the middle of their ceremony.
The crowd of students, family and friends erupted in squeals of disbelief in seeing the Democratic presidential candidate, who had just finished a hastily arranged economics forum across the hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Screams and cheers nearly drowned out his brief remarks to graduates of the Young Women's Leadership Charter School of Chicago, most of whom were black.
"I'm proud that you graduated from the eighth grade, but it's just the eighth grade," Obama said. He urged the students, all girls, to read, turn off the TV and decide "how can I make myself the best young woman I can possibly be."
Obama shook a few hands and walked off as those in the auditorium, still pinching themselves, chanted "Change, change."
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Compiled by Charles Babington
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