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www.judson.edu
Marion, AL
June 23, 2007 |
N. Jan Davis, former space shuttle astronaut: |
"My first goal was to work in the space program and my second was to become an astronaut. I was turned down twice, but accepted on my third application. Life goals must be hard to attain in order to be worthwhile, but the benefits are out of this world! We will stumble and fall along the way, but we get back up with the help of family, friends and faith. Be the best you can be, set goals and pray for God's wisdom. The future is before you. Enter it with enthusiasm, determination, selflessness and optimism."
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www.mbc.edu
Staunton, VA
May 20, 2007 |
Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History, University of Nebraska, and Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC: |
"What a woman wants most is autonomy, the right to make decisions about her life. And I think that is what we all — women and men — want — the right to make decisions about our lives and the ability to carry them out. So I wish for all of you satisfying love and work, and the ability to mold your lives as you want them. |
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I want to end by quoting Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the movement for women's right to vote. She claimed that: ‘Failure is impossible.’
For all of you, my congratulations on your graduating, and remember, failure is impossible." |
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www.meredith.edu
Raleigh, NC
May 14, 2007 |
Elizabeth Edwards, author and attorney, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards: |
"I ask you to live deliberately…What we do and how we do it does define us.
Each of us just needs a story—a story worth telling, a story worth living. A story of a life that in some small measure matters…With each thing you do—and each thing you decide not to do— you write that story. |
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| You don’t have to lead a great movement to make an impact. In fact, most of us won’t…In small ways every day you can make a difference [by taking time] to shower the people around you—friends and strangers—with kindness." |
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www.midway.edu
Midway, KY
May 14, 2007 |
The Honorable Brereton C. Jones, former Governor of Kentucky (1991-1995): |
"It is important to surround yourself with good people; bad people corrupt good character. As you work to maintain a positive attitude, work just as hard to maintain your enthusiasm and surround yourself with good people.
It won’t be easy, just as life won’t always be easy. You will experience hard times; days when you feel you just can’t take any more. You’ll feel your positive attitude slipping away. There may even come a time when you want to give up.
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That time is when your faith and your determination will have to keep you going. Show your toughness every day by being determined to succeed. This determination will pull you out of bad times and away from failure and will lead you to success. The difference between the impossible and the possible often lies in a person’s determination." |
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www.mills.edu
Oakland, CA
May 12, 2007 |
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid ’66, Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations: |
"I encourage you not to lose sight of the work that lies on your own way towards making human rights and human worth tangible realities. In the many years ahead, wherever life takes you, use your talent and energy to make the world a better place for all.
Be sure that you are always facilitators for change, so that the poor, the marginalized and the vulnerable can be empowered to bring change through their own actions and within their own context. Create safe space for the voices and actions of the poor, women and young people wherever they are."
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www.mtholyoke.edu
South Hadley, MA
May 27, 2007 |
Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach for America: |
"The world needs you before you accept the status quo, before you are plagued by the knowledge of what is impossible. I hope you will put your inexperience to good use. Ask your naive questions. Set your audacious goals." |
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www.mtmary.edu
Milwaukee, WI
May 19, 2007 |
Karen Ristau, president, National Catholic Educational Association: |
"You are receiving a degree from a Catholic college – and that in itself should say something distinctive and exceptional about your education; what you have come to see; and how you will consider living your life. The mission of Mount Mary College includes the noble aim that you, its graduates, will, among other ideals, develop a deep sense of social justice. |
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That sense of social justice comes from the social mission of our church – based in the belief of the essential dignity of every human person – growing out of the belief that we are all loved, that we are all worthy – and therefore every believer is called to serve ‘the least of these’ to hunger and thirst for justice, to be a ‘peacemaker.’" |
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www.msmc.la.edu
Los Angeles, CA
May 14, 2007 |
Father Greg Boyle, SJ, founder and executive director of Jobs for A Future/Homeboy Industries: |
"Imagine a circle of compassion and imagine nobody standing outside that circle, and to that end your task as you go forth is to stand with those on the margins and to stand with those whose dignity has been denied. Insist that nobody stands outside the circle of compassion. … You stand with the disposable because you long for the moment we stop throwing people away. In fact, as you go from the Mount, you stand at the very margins because you hope that the margins themselves will disappear because you’ve chosen to stand there." |
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www.peace.edu
Raleigh, NC
May 12, 2007 |
Laura Carpenter Bingham ‘77 , President, Peace College: |
"If I dare a bit of advice this morning, here it is: Forget the plan and focus instead on leading a purposeful and joyful journey, to being in constant preparation for what life intends for you and for what you make of it. Now, I’m not saying don’t plan. |
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I’m simply saying be prepared for wherever life’s options may lead you. I will tell you that most of the best things that have happened in my life happened when I least expected them. I planned to be ready for them, but not necessarily how to get there or to overly navigate my way." |
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| L to R: Honorary Degree Recipients Anne Noland Edwards ’70, P'00, Yvonne Gomez-Carrion, Victoria Rowell, Philip Geier and Swanee Hunt |
www.pmc.edu
Chestnut Hill, MA
May 6, 2007 |
Anne Noland Edwards ’70, retiring Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Pine Manor College: |
"Only with time will the lives that you were meant to live unfold, only with time will you realize and appreciate the underpinning and support that you received at Pine Manor College to live those lives, and only with time will you appreciate the need to give back to the College and to the community that embraces you." |
| Yvonne Gomez-Carrion, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: |
"You are empowered and internally motivated young women who now have to live your own dreams. The only limits are the ones that you impose upon yourselves." |
| Victoria Rowell, actress, author founder and chair of the Rowell Foster Children’s Positive Plan: |
"Always help those less fortunate than you are, and keep in mind that you have a reciprocal obligation to share the riches that you have received…get involved and stay active." |
| Philip O. Geier, Retiring Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Pine Manor College, and Executive Director of the Davis United World College Scholars Program: |
"Think of yourselves as Commencers and apply the skills learned in the past four years to the lifelong path that lies ahead." |
| The Honorable Swanee Hunt, former United States Ambassador to Austria, and founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University: |
"Have faith in yourselves, assume the responsibility of becoming leaders, and don’t panic if you are quite yet sure what you want to do, what you want to become." |
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