| Good afternoon. |
| Provost Houlihan, thank you for that warm introduction.
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| Chairman Tully, members of the Board of Trustees, President Dugan,
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| distinguished guests, members of the administration, faculty and staff,
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| and fellow graduates. |
| I’m honored to be here today to represent the winter
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| class of 2016
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| So first off, congratulations!
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| Today, we flip the page and mark an end to another chapter of
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| Our story. |
| As I look out into the crowd before me, I sense a wave of emotions
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| from everyone present. |
| For family and friends, the sense of pride you have in
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| your graduate’s accomplishments is unmeasurable. |
| For faculty, another class you
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| have successfully educated and mentored throughout our time
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| Yet nothing — nothing — can top the feelings that we graduates have right now
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| at this moment. |
| We made it here in one piece. |
| We survived all those exams,
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| lectures and research papers that we once thought would never finish
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| It all started a couple years back when we opened our acceptance letters and
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| decided to attend St. Francis College. |
| The small college of big dreams.
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| The college that has granted all of us amazing opportunities and opened doors
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| for us in numerous ways
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| St. Francis, a liberal arts college, has given us the tools we need to go
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| forward and succeed. |
| St. Francis not only prepared all of us students to pass
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| our GMATS, GREs, CPAs, or any other obstacle we will face after this day,
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| but gave us confidence to touch the lives of others and help those when needed
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| The qualities we have gained throughout our years here have given us an
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| advantage after we leave this campus. |
| We are part of a very small percentage of
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| college graduates who have been exposed to more than just our textbooks.
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| Molded into well-rounded and confident individuals we are ready to start the
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| next page of the new chapter of our story
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| I’ve been working on two films simultaneously, and… so… uh…
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| The Ultimation is giving me a lot of… breathing room from… A Midsummer
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| Night’s, going from, uh, black and white to color film. |
| And, um…
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| y-y'know, a couple of the page reads, we read back and forth, and that-that's
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| healthy. |
| Um, keep a certain freshness… So…
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| will return!
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| and, y’know, the legend has it that those… young filmmakers who grew up in
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| the age of television have been trapped into… these technological advances —
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| uh, it’s not something that interests me, personally, I think it’s wonderful — |