WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:32.000 PLAYING POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.000 ALL ON THIS BEAUTIFUL MORNING 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:24.000 AND A FITTING TRIBUTE FOR 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000 TODAY'S COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY. 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.000 MOST LIKELY YOU'RE ALREADY 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:28.000 SHARING PHOTOS AND STATUS 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:31.000 UPDATES ON THIS SPECIAL DAY ON 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:32.000 SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS. 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:35.000 SO WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, AT 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:42.000 BY TAKING A PHOTO OF ALL OF YOU, 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:43.000 WHICH WILL BE POSTED TO WESTERNS 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:44.000 INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK AND 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.000 TWITTER ACCOUNTS. 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:51.000 SO LET ME GET A PHOTO. 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.000 YOU'RE GORGEOUS! 00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:62.000 GRADUATING SENIORS, FAMILY, AND 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.000 FRIENDS, AND HONORED GUESTS, 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:05.000 FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERS, 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.000 WELCOME TO THE 162ND 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:09.000 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY AT WESTERN 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:11.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY. 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:14.000 APPLAUSE 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:17.000 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THOSE WHO 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:19.000 ARE PERFORMING THE FINE MUSICAL 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.000 SELECTIONS FOR TODAY'S 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:22.000 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISE, MEMBERS 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.000 OF THE WESTERN MUSIC DEPARTMENT 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.000 GATORQUEST, BOTH DIRECTED BY 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:29.000 DIRK FREYMUTH. 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.000 NOW PLEASE STAND FOR THE 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:32.000 PRESENTATION OF COLORS AND THE 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:45.000 NATIONAL ANTHEM. 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:50.000 OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:56.000 BY THE DAWNS EARLY LIGHT 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:61.000 WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:07.000 AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.000 WHOSE BROAD STRIPES AND 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:10.000 BRIGHT STARS 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:15.000 THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.000 O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHED 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:25.000 WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:31.000 AND THE ROCKETS' RED GLARE 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:36.000 THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:42.000 GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.000 THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:52.000 O SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:59.000 BANNER YET WAVE 00:36:59.000 --> 00:36:68.000 O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:16.000 AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:32.000 YOU MAY BE SEATED. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:35.000 WE APPRECIATE DISTINGUISHED 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.000 STUDENT LEADERS, TRISTAN ALDOUS, 00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.000 MATTHEW CIRAULO FOR POSTING THE 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:41.000 COLORS TODAY. 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:43.000 AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WAS 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:44.000 PROVIDED BY 2019 GRADUATE OF 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:47.000 STUDENT OF MUSIC, SCOTTI MATNEY 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:49.000 AND WAS INTERPRETED BY THE 2019 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.000 GRADUATING INTERPRETER JENNIFER 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:54.000 SAGASTUME. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.000 IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.000 THANK YOU. 00:37:59.000 --> 00:37:61.000 FOR MOST OF YOU, TODAY'S 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:02.000 CEREMONY REPRESENTS THE 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:03.000 REALIZATION OF A DREAM. 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:05.000 THE ATTAINMENT OF A GOAL TO EARN A COLLEGE DEGREE 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.000 COLLEGE DEGREE, WHICH TOOK SHAPE 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.000 YEARS AGO. 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:11.000 WE ADMIRE THE HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:12.000 WHICH HAVE BROUGHT 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:13.000 YOU THIS SUCCESS. 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:16.000 I AM PROUD TO BE PART OF A 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:17.000 UNIVERSITY WHERE SO MANY OF YOU 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:18.000 HAVE DISCOVERED YOURSELVES, 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.000 APPRECIATED THE WESTERN FAMILY 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.000 OF FACULTY AND FRIENDS AND 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.000 ABOUT YOUR TRANSFORMATIVE YEARS 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:25.000 HERE. 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.000 THAT LEARNING EXPERIENCE WILL 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:29.000 SEVEN YOU WELL FOR A LIFETIME. 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.000 THOUGH THESE COMMENCEMENT 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.000 EXERCISES MARK THE COMPLETION OF 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:34.000 A MAJOR CHAPTER OF YOUR LIVES 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.000 AND THE CULMINATION OF YEARS 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.000 OF EFFORT, WE BELIEVE EVEN MORE 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.000 CHALLENGING AND REWARDING 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:41.000 CHAPTERS LIE AHEAD FOR YOU. 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:42.000 WE TRUST THAT THE HIGHER 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:44.000 LEARNING YOU'VE GAINED ON THIS 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:45.000 CAMPUS WILL LEAD YOU TO GREAT 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:46.000 NEW BEGINNINGS. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:49.000 I WOULD NOW LIKE TO INTRODUCE 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:50.000 UNIVERSITY MEMBERS. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:51.000 AND FIRST I WILL PRESENT THE 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:53.000 PLATFORM PARTY, AND I REQUEST 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:55.000 THAT YOU HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:56.000 UNTIL ALL ARE INTRODUCED. 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:61.000 DR. KATHLEEN CASSITY, DEAN OF 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.000 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:05.000 MR. TONY CRAWFORD, ALUMNI BOARD 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:06.000 PRESIDENT. 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.000 DR. ANGIE DOCHERTY, CAMPUS 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:10.000 ASSOCIATE DEAN, OREGON HEALTH 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:12.000 SCIENCE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:13.000 NURSING IN MONMOUTH. 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.000 DR. GARY DUKES, VICE-PRESIDENT 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.000 FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS. 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:19.000 DR. MARK GIROD, COLLEGE OF 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:21.000 EDUCATION. 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.000 MR. RYAN HAGEMANN, 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.000 VICE-PRESIDENT AND GENERAL 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:25.000 COUNSEL. 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:27.000 DR. DAVID JANOWIAK, PROFESSOR OF 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:28.000 THEATER AND DANCE. 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:31.000 MS. ERIN McDONOUGH, EXECUTIVE 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:33.000 DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT AND THE 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:34.000 FOUNDATION. 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:36.000 DR. JER PRATTON, THIS YEAR'S 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:37.000 ALUMNI AWARD OF EXCELLENCE 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:38.000 WINNER. 00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:40.000 MS. ROSA LEE TIMM, WOU ALUM AND 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.000 TODAY'S COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER. 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.000 DR. ROB WINNINGHAM, PROVOST AND 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:47.000 VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.000 AFFAIRS. 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:50.000 AND REPRESENTING WESTERN'S BOARD 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:53.000 OF TRUSTEES, THE BOARD CHAIR, 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:54.000 THE HONORABLE BETTY KOMP, 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.000 VICE-CHAIR CECELIA KOONTZ, 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:60.000 DR. GAVIN KUELKS, AND MR. LANE 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.000 SHETTERLY. 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:02.000 PLEASE JOIN ME IN A ROUND OF 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:03.000 APPLAUSE. 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:13.000 IN ADDITION TO THOSE ON THE 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:16.000 PLATFORM, WELCOME TRUSTEES JAIME 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:17.000 ARREDONDO AND MALISSA LARSON, 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:18.000 WHO ARE CELEBRATING WITH US 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:19.000 TODAY. 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:20.000 THEY'RE WORKING IN THE AUDIENCE. 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:21.000 THANK YOU. 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:27.000 WE ALSO HAVE MANY WESTERN OREGON 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.000 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS ATTENDING 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.000 BOARD MEMBERS ATTENDING TODAY. 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.000 PLEASE HOLD YOUR GRATITUDE UNTIL 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:32.000 I INTRODUCE THEM ALL. 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.000 AGAIN, MR. TONY CRAWFORD, ALUMNI 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:35.000 BOARD PRESIDENT. 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.000 CHAIR CORI FRAUENDIENER, AND 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:40.000 SECRETARY PAT STENEFF. 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.000 THEY'RE IN THE AUDIENCE WITH YOU AS 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.000 WELL. 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.000 THANK YOU. 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:48.000 ONE OF THE TRADITIONS AT WESTERN 00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:52.000 IS TO RECOGNIZE CLASSES 50 YEARS 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:53.000 OUT. 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:55.000 THIS YEAR REPRESENTING THE CLASS 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:58.000 OF 1969 IS THE GOLDEN WOLF, AND 00:40:58.000 --> 00:40:60.000 THEY SYMBOLIZE THE RICH 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.000 TRADITION THIS UNIVERSITY HAS. 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:03.000 JOIN ME IN JOIN ME IN HONORING 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:07.000 BRYAN DARR AND LAVERNE DAVIS AND 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.000 THE REST OF THE CLASS OF 1969 AS 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:11.000 NEWLY INDUCTED GOLDEN WOLVES. 00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:13.000 AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE ALUMNI 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:14.000 FOR THEIR CONTINUOUS SUPPORT OF 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.000 THIS UNIVERSITY 50 YEARS STRONG. 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:27.000 WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE WESTERN 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:28.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY'S BOARD OF 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:29.000 TRUSTEES CHAIR, HONORABLE BETTY 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:30.000 KOMP, JOINING US TODAY. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.000 AT THIS TIME SHE WOULD LIKE TO 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:34.000 GIVE YOU A FEW WORDS OF WELCOME. 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.000 GOOD MORNING, ON BEHALF OF 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:43.000 THE WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.000 BOARD OF TRUSTEES, I BRING YOU 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:48.000 OUR HEARTFELT CONGRATULATIONS. 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:50.000 YOUR ACHIEVEMENT TODAY IS THE 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.000 RESULT OF YOUR HARD WORK AND 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.000 DEDICATION TO LIFELONG LEARNING. 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:58.000 I KNOW YOU ARE SUPPORTED BY THE 00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:60.000 WOU FACULTY AND STAFF, AND THE 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.000 BOARD IS HOSPITAL ORED TO SHARE 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.000 THIS DAY OF CELEBRATION WITH 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:05.000 YOU. 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:06.000 GRADUATES, I KNOW YOU WERE ALSO 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.000 SUPPORTED IN YOUR JOURNEY BY 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.000 FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AND MANY ARE 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.000 PLEASE TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.000 JOIN ME IN THANKING THEM FOR 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.000 THEIR SUPPORT. 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:26.000 AGAIN, THANK YOU AND 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:28.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:34.000 APPLAUSE 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.000 I WOULD LIKE TO ECHO THAT AND 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.000 ASK OUR GRADUATES, MAYBE STAND 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.000 AND TURN AROUND AND LOOK AT YOUR 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:41.000 FAMILIES AND SAY THANK YOU. 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:51.000 CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:52.000 THANK YOU. 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:56.000 THANK YOU CHAIR KOMP. 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.000 THIS SPRING A STAFF MEMBER AND 00:42:58.000 --> 00:42:61.000 TWO MEMBERS OF OUR FACULTY HAVE 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:02.000 BEEN NAMED RECIPIENTS OF THE 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.000 FOR EXCELLENCE. 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.000 I'M PLEASED TO INTRODUCE 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:10.000 DR. RACHEL HARRINGTON WHO HAS 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:14.000 BEEN AWARDED THE MARIO 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.000 PASTEGA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:17.000 TEACHING, AS WELL AS DR. SCOTT 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:18.000 BEAVER, WHO HAS BEEN AWARDED THE 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.000 MARIO AND ALMA PASTEGA AWARD FOR 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:21.000 EXCELLENCE IN SCHOLARSHIP. 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:22.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:30.000 THE STAFF AWARD WENT TO MS. ANA 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.000 HERNANDEZ-HUNTER AND SHE HAS BEEN 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:33.000 AWARDED THE STAFF EXCELLENCE 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:37.000 AWARD FOR MARIO AND ALMA 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:38.000 PASTEGA. 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:44.000 THANK YOU. 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.000 IS AT THIS TIME WOULD LIKE ALL 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:47.000 OF OUR FACULTY TO STAND AND BE 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.000 RECOGNIZED BY OUR STUDENTS AND 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.000 GRADUATES. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:51.000 FACULTY, PLEASE STAND. 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.000 STUDENTS, PLEASE GIVE THEM A 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000 ROUND OF APPLAUSE. 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:62.000 APPLAUSE 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.000 THANK YOU. 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.000 THE OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:07.000 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:08.000 INITIATED A MONMOUTH CAMPUS HERE 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:11.000 AT WESTERN IN 2008. 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:12.000 ITS FIRST COHORT GRADUATED IN 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:16.000 SCIENCE IN NURSING. 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.000 INNOVATION, EXCELLENCE, 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:19.000 DIVERSITY, AND COLLABORATION 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:21.000 WERE READILY ADOPTED AS DEFINING 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:22.000 CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS PROGRAM. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.000 WE ARE HONORED TO INCLUDE OHSU'S 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.000 MONMOUTH CAMPUS SCHOOL OF 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.000 NURSING GRADUATES AS PART OF OUR 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.000 CEREMONY TODAY. 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:32.000 EACH YEAR, WESTERN OREGON 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:33.000 UNIVERSITY SELECTS OUTSTANDING 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:35.000 UNDERGRADUATES IN THE GRADUATING 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.000 CLASS TO RECEIVE THE DELMER 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:39.000 DEWEY AND JULIA McCULLOCH 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:41.000 IN ADDITION, A GRADUATE STUDENT 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:43.000 OUTSTANDING EFFORTS. 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.000 TODAY WE RECOGNIZE THE 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.000 DISTINGUISHED RECIPIENTS OF THIS 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:48.000 PRESTIGIOUS HONOR AND WE'LL HEAR 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:49.000 THEIR THOUGHTS. 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:51.000 YOUR PROGRAM INCLUDES ADDITIONAL 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.000 INFORMATION ON THESE HONOREES 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.000 AND THE RECOGNITION THEY'RE 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:55.000 RECEIVING. 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:58.000 I NOW PRESENT JANIE RAMIREZ 00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:60.000 MANSO, RECIPIENT OF THE KLUSH 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.000 TUM TUM AWARD, WHO WILL 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:03.000 INTRODUCE THESE EXCEPTIONAL 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:04.000 STUDENTS. 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:18.000 CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:21.000 BUENOS DIAS, QUIERO DARLES 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.000 LAS GRACIAS A TODOS LOS QUE 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.000 ESTAN AQUI HOY, SIGNIFICA MUCHO 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:25.000 PARA TODOS NOSOTROS QUE NOS 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:26.000 ESTAMOS RECIVIENDO. 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:29.000 GREETINGS, THANK YOU ALL FOR 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:31.000 BEING HERE TODAY. 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:34.000 IT MEANS A LOT TO US GRADUATING. 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:36.000 IT IS MY HONOR TO INTRODUCE OUR 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:38.000 SPEAKERS. 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.000 THE DELMER DEWEY AND JULIA 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:42.000 McCULLOCH SMITH AWARD AND THE 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:46.000 STUDENT AWARD ARE GIVEN TO 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.000 EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS WITHIN OUR 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.000 THEY EXEMPLIFY DETERMINATION, 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:53.000 STRONG ACEDEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:54.000 SHOW OUTSTANDING CAMPUS 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:55.000 LEADERSHIP. 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.000 THE AWARD WINNERS HAVE BEEN 00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:59.000 CAREFULLY SELECTED BY A 00:45:59.000 --> 00:45:60.000 COMMITTEE OF FACULTY AND STAFF 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:01.000 IN RECOGNITIONS OF WHAT THEY 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.000 HAVE ACHIEVED AND CONTRIBUTE TO 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:06.000 OUR CAMPUS COMMUNITY. 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.000 IT IS A GREAT PRIVILEGE TO 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:09.000 INTRODUCE TO YOU THE DELMER 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:10.000 DEWEY AND JULIA McCULLOCH 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:12.000 SMITH AWARD RECIPIENTS, BILLYANN 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:19.000 JUAN CARLOS CHAIREZ CASAS, AND 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:24.000 THE OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:26.000 AWARD RECIPIENT, JONATHAN 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:27.000 BRELAND. 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:37.000 HELLO, EVERYBODY, WELCOME. 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.000 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY. 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:41.000 IT'S NO SECRET THAT IN ORDER TO 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:42.000 GET TO THIS POINT IN OUR 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:45.000 EDUCATIONAL CAREERS, WE HAVE 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.000 IT'S ALSO CLEAR THAT FOLLOWING 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.000 TODAY, WE ARE ALL DESTINED TO 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.000 MAKE MANY MORE MISTAKES IN OUR 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.000 LIVES. 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000 IT IS INEVITABLE. 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.000 I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A BRIEF 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:57.000 STORY WITH YOU TODAY. 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.000 IN 1928, ALEXANDER FLEMING MADE 00:46:59.000 --> 00:46:61.000 A MISTAKE THAT WOULD CHANGE THE 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:03.000 OUTCOMES OF MILLIONS OF LIVES. 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:05.000 A RESEARCHER AT ST. MARY'S 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:06.000 MEDICAL SCHOOL IN LONDON, 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.000 FLEMING WAS PREPARING TO LEAVE 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:10.000 HIS LABORATORY FOR A TWO-WEEK 00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:11.000 VACATION. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.000 IN A HAYES, HE LEFT A PETRI DISH 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:15.000 WITH A TYPE OF STAPH BACTERIA IN 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:17.000 THE OPEN, RATHER THAN PLACING IT 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:18.000 IN THE INCUBATOR. 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:20.000 TO HIS SURPRISE, THIS OVERSIGHT 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:21.000 LED TO A MONUMENTAL DISCOVERY. 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:23.000 A TYPE OF MOLD IN THE 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000 PENICILLIUM GENUS HAD MADE ITS 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:27.000 WAY INTO THE PETRI DISH AND ITS 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.000 SECRETIONS INHIBITED THE 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:31.000 GROWTH OF THE BACTERIA. 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:32.000 FLEMING HAD DISCOVERED THE 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:33.000 ANTIBIOTIC, PENICILLIN. 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:35.000 THIS ANTIBIOTIC HAS SAVED 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:36.000 MILLIONS OF LIVES FROM 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.000 PREVIOUSLY UNTREATABLE 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.000 INFECTIONS AND DISEASES. 00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:42.000 IT WAS DISCOVERED BECAUSE OF A 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:43.000 MISTAKE. 00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:45.000 ALL HUMANS, REGARDLESS OF 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:47.000 BACKGROUND, ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO 00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:50.000 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.000 WHERE YOU COME FROM, EACH OF US 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.000 IS CONNECTED TO ALL OTHER HUMANS 00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:55.000 THROUGH OUR FLAWS, OUR MISSTEPS, 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.000 OUR OVERSIGHTS. 00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:59.000 IT IS IN THESE VERY MOMENTS WHEN 00:47:59.000 --> 00:47:61.000 WE OPEN OUR EYES AND REALIZE 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:02.000 THAT SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT, 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:03.000 THAT WE MUST CAPITALIZE ON THE 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:05.000 OPPORTUNITY AT HAND. 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.000 THAT OPPORTUNITY IS GROWTH. 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.000 WE ARE SO LUCKY TO KNOW, RIGHT 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:11.000 NOW, THAT OUR LEARNING DOES NOT 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:12.000 END WHEN WE WALK ACROSS THIS 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:13.000 STAGE. 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.000 WE GET TO LEAVE HERE TODAY AND 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:16.000 CONTINUE OUR JOURNEY THROUGH 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:18.000 LIFE TRYING, FAILING, LEARNING, 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.000 AND GROWING INTO WHOM EVER WE 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:21.000 WANT TO BE. 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.000 SOME SAY OUR FAILURES DO NOT 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:25.000 DEFINE WHO WE ARE. 00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:27.000 I HAVE TO DISAGREE. 00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.000 HOW WE REACT TO OUR FAILURES, 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:32.000 LEARN FROM THEM, GROW BECAUSE OF 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:34.000 THEM, AND KEEP TRYING DESPITE 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.000 KNOWING THAT WE MIGHT FAIL 00:48:35.000 --> 00:48:36.000 AGAIN, SHOWS WHO WE ARE. 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.000 AFTER WE LEAVE HERE TODAY, WE 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:40.000 WILL ALL HAVE TWO THINGS IN 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:41.000 COMMON. 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:43.000 WE'RE ALL GRADUATES OF WESTERN 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:44.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY. 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:47.000 AND WE WILL ALL MAKE MISTAKES. 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:49.000 MY HOPE FOR US IS THAT EACH OF 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:50.000 US ARE BRAVE ENOUGH AND 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.000 COURAGEOUS ENOUGH TO TRY. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:54.000 MARY TY LETTER MOORE ONCE SAID, 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:56.000 MAKE MISTAKES. 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:58.000 THAT'S HOW YOU GROW. 00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:60.000 YOU HAVE TO FAIL IN ORDER TO 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.000 PRACTICE BEING BRAVE." 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:03.000 SO MY CHALLENGE FOR US IS 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:05.000 THIS -- BE BRAVE, FAIL EPICALLY, 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.000 AND NEVER STOP LEARNING. 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:13.000 THANK YOU. 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:19.000 APPLAUSE 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:20.000 BIG CROWD. 00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:24.000 LOVE YOU TOO! 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.000 ES UN HONOR ESTAR AQUI 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:29.000 PRESENTANDO ESTE DISCURSO 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:30.000 FORMAL. 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:32.000 COMO UN HOMBRE DE PRIMERA 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:33.000 GENERACION DE UNA FAMILIA 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:34.000 MEXICANA DE BAJOS INGRESOS, MIS 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.000 PADRES EMIGRARON A HOOD RIVER, 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:38.000 OREGON DESDE COLOTLAN, JALISCO, 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:41.000 MEXICO PARA UNA VIDA MEJOR, Y ME 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:43.000 INCULCARON UNA RICA CULTURA 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.000 ETNICA, CON VALORES LATINOS DE 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:47.000 TRADICION SERVICIO, FAMILIA, 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.000 MACHISMO Y ETICA DE TRABAJO DE 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.000 CALIDAD - Y AL MISMO TIEMPO - 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:53.000 COMPARTIERON LA PERSPECTIVA Y 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:57.000 SOCIOCULTURALES Y ECONOMICAS QUE 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.000 POCO A POCO COMPRENDI. 00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:60.000 ESTO ME PERMITIO TRANSFORMAR MIS 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.000 DIFICULTADES EN MOTIVACION Y A 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:05.000 CELEBRAR A LA DIVERSIDAD AUN MAS 00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:08.000 Y HACERME LA PREGUNTA "POR QUE 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.000 NO YO?" CUANDO SE TRATABA DE 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:11.000 ENTRAR UNA UNIVERSIDAD. 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:14.000 FINALMENTE, WOU ME DIO LA 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:17.000 BIENVENIDA CON UNA BECA QUE ME 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:18.000 AYUDO A PAGAR MIS ESTUDIOS Y 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.000 HACER MIS SUE''OS REALIDAD. 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.000 DURANTE MIS ESTUDIOS EN LA 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.000 UNIVERSIDAD DE WOU, ME TROPECE 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.000 CON UN OBSTACULO QUE DESAFIO MIS 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:26.000 CREENCIAS Y VALORES Y ME 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:27.000 FINALMENTE ME LLEVOA CAER EN UN 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:28.000 PROFUNDO CAPITULO DE DEPRESION Y 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.000 DE TENDENCIAS SUICIDAS. 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:33.000 TUVE QUE ESCONDER MI ORIENTACION 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:36.000 SEXUAL COMO PARTE DE LA 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:39.000 COMUNIDAD HOMOSEXUAL - PORQUE NO 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:40.000 QUERI SENTIRME MARGINADO, 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:42.000 JUZGADO Y RECHAZADO. 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:45.000 ESTA FUE LA BATALLA MA S BRUTAL 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:48.000 Y DOLOROSA QUE TUVE QUE SOPORTAR 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.000 NO DIGO ESTO PARA RECIBIR 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:56.000 EMPATA A, LO DIGO PARA CREAR 00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.000 CONCIENCIA SOBRE ESTAS 00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:58.000 DIFICULTADES Y AYUDAR A 00:50:58.000 --> 00:50:59.000 ERRADICAR PREJUICIOS CON LA 00:50:59.000 --> 00:50:60.000 HOMOSEXUAL COMUNIDAD, Y AYUDAR A 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:01.000 HOMOSEXUAL EXISTE EN TODAS LAS 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:08.000 CULTURAS, Y ES NORMAL. 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.000 DEBER DE EDUCARNOS DE ESTA 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:10.000 LOS QUE SE IDENTIFICAN COMO 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:13.000 PARTE DE LA COMUNIDAD 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:16.000 Y FINALMENTE, ME ARREPIENTO QUE 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:21.000 DEJE ESTA BATALLA CONSUMIRME Y 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.000 CASI TERMINO MI VIDA, EN VEZ DE 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:23.000 PARA SEGUIR ADELANTE PARA 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:26.000 ALCANZAR MIS SUE''OS. 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:27.000 SE QUE MUCHOS DE NOSOTROS, 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.000 GRADUANDOSE HOY, SEGUIMOS 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.000 SOY O QUI QUIERO HACER DESPUES 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:33.000 DE GRADUAR", INCLUYENDOME A MI 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:34.000 MISMO. 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:35.000 TE DESAFIO A QUE TE SIENTAS 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:37.000 COMODO CON QUIEN ERES, TEN UNA 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:39.000 MENTE ABIERTA Y ENCUENTRA TUS 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:42.000 PASIONES AUTENTICAS. 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:44.000 Y SI NO ESTAS SEGURO, HAZ 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:45.000 PREGUNTAS Y HAZ COSAS QUE 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:46.000 SIEMPRE HAS QUERIDO INTENTAR. 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:47.000 ENCUENTRA LO QUE TE MOTIVA Y 00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:50.000 CELEBRA Y UTILIZARLO COMO UN 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.000 CODIGO PERSONAL Y UNA POLITICA 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:53.000 DE GUIA. 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:56.000 TODOS HEMOS HECHO UN IMPACTO EN 00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:59.000 WOU Y HAREMOS LO MISMO A DONDE 00:51:59.000 --> 00:51:61.000 VAYAMOS CON NUESTRO ESFUERZO. 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:03.000 LOS FRACASOS SON INEVITABLES EN 00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.000 LA VIDA, PERO LA MANERA EN LA 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.000 QUE NOS RECUPERAMOS ES LO QUE 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:08.000 CUENTA Y DETERMINA NUESTRO 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:10.000 CAMINO. 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:11.000 Y SE QUE TODOS HEMOS TENIDO UNA 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:13.000 BUENA CANTIDAD DE OBSTACULOS Y 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:14.000 ERRORES EN EL CAMINO, PERO 00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.000 APRENDIMOS DE ELLOS Y AHORA NOS 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:17.000 GRADUAMOS CON UN TITULO. 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:20.000 GRADUADOS, CUANDO CELEBRAS HOY, 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:22.000 RECUERDA SIEMPRE A APOYAR Y 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:24.000 AGRADECER A AQUELLOS QUE LO 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:26.000 AYUDARON A LLEGAR A ESTA ETAPA, 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:29.000 Y RECUERDE QUE TENEMOS EL PODER 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.000 DE CREAR UN CAMBIO. 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:33.000 PREPARANSE CLASE, TENEMOS 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:35.000 TRABAJO QUE HACER PARA CREAR UN 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:40.000 MUNDO MEJOR QUE SEA MAS 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.000 CONSCIENTE. 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.000 GRADUADA DE 2019, LO LOGRAMOS! 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:51.000 I HAVE TWO VERSIONS, SO A LITTLE 00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:52.000 WATER REAL QUICK. 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.000 I'M HONORED TO BE A WOU 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:56.000 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER FOR THE 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.000 GRADUATING CLASS OF 2019. 00:52:58.000 --> 00:52:59.000 I HOPE TO FIND A MESSAGE THAT 00:52:59.000 --> 00:52:60.000 RESONATES WITH EVERYONE. 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.000 PHRASES LIKE CRAP, THAT WAS DUE 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:03.000 TOMORROW. 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:05.000 WHEN WE USED TO YOLO IN 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.000 TO, UNIFYING THEMES AND PHRASES 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:09.000 LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE AND REAL. 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.000 TRANS RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS 00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:13.000 ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:14.000 THE PAY GAP EXISTS. 00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:17.000 LESS DISCRIMINATION, MORE 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:20.000 ACCEPTANCE, AND OF COURSE BY MY 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:23.000 GIRL ARIANNA GRANDE, THANK YOU, 00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:24.000 NEXT! 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:25.000 WE'RE ALL CANDIDATES. 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:28.000 ULTIMATELY, I REALIZED THERE'S 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:30.000 NO WAY I CAN THINK OF A THEME 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.000 THAT RESONATES WITH ALL OF YOU. 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:33.000 WHICH IS WHAT MAKES IT SO 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:34.000 BEAUTIFUL. 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.000 WE ARE SO DIVERSE WITH OUR OWN 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:37.000 EXPERIENCES AND BACKGROUNDS, 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.000 THAT ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL. 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:41.000 FINALLY I REALIZED THAT THE 00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:43.000 THEME WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. 00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:44.000 AUTHENTICITY. 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:45.000 DIVERSITY. 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.000 JOURNEY FOR SELF-IDENTITY. 00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:48.000 ONCE YOU KNOW YOURSELF AND 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:50.000 ESTABLISH A PERSONAL CODE, NOBODY 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.000 CAN TAKE THAT AWAY. 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.000 JUST LIKE THE DEGREES WE ARE 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:55.000 RECEIVING TODAY. 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.000 NOT ONLY DID WOU GIVE ME THE 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.000 OPPORTUNITY TO CHALLENGE MYSELF 00:53:59.000 --> 00:53:61.000 ACADEMICALLY, BUT ALLOWED ME TO 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:03.000 QUESTION MY BELIEFS, VALUES, THE 00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:05.000 STATUS QUO, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:08.000 AND ANYTHING OR ANYONE. 00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:11.000 AS A FIRST GENERATION CIS MALE 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.000 FROM A LOW-INCOME MEXICAN FAMILY 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:15.000 WHOSE PARENTS MIGRATED TO HOOD 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:16.000 RIVER, OREGON, FROM COLOTLAN, 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:17.000 JALISCO, MEXICO, FOR A BETTER 00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:20.000 LIFE, I WAS INSTILLED WITH RICH 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:21.000 ETHNIC CULTURE MY PARENTS SHARED 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:24.000 WITH ME, WITH TRADITIONAL LATINO 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:26.000 VALUES AND NORMS OF TRADITION, 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:27.000 SERVICE, FAMILY, AND QUALITY OF 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:29.000 WORK ETHIC, AND IN THE SAME 00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:31.000 TIME, SHARED OVERSIGHT ON 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:33.000 SOCIOCULTURAL AND ECONOMIC CALL 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:35.000 GAPS AND DEFICIENCIES. 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:36.000 AS MY TWO WORLDS COLLIDED I 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:40.000 REALIZED MYSELF-IDENTIFY WAS 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:42.000 PREORDAINED BUT THIS ALLOWED ME 00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:44.000 TO TRANSFORM MY HARDSHIPS INTO 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:47.000 DRIVE, MOTIVATION, AND EMBRACE 00:54:47.000 --> 00:54:50.000 DIVERSITY EVEN MORE, AND ASK 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.000 MYSELF, WHY NOT ME, WHEN IT 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.000 COMES TO ATTENDING A FOUR-YEAR 00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:58.000 EVENTUALLY, WOU WELCOMED ME WITH 00:54:58.000 --> 00:54:59.000 THE DIVERSITY COMMITMENT 00:54:59.000 --> 00:54:60.000 I WAS MOMENTARILY DERAILED BY AN 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000 OBSTACLE THAT CHALLENGED MY 00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:05.000 BELIEFS AND VALUES AND EMERGED A 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:07.000 THIRD WORLD THAT ULTIMATELY 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.000 TUMBLED ME INTO SELF-ALIENATION, 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:11.000 DEPRESSION, AND SUICIDAL 00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:12.000 TENDENCIES. 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:15.000 HI TO HIDE MY SEXUAL ORIENTATION 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:16.000 DUE TO NOT WANTING TO FEEL 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:17.000 OUTCASTED, UPPED, AND REJECTED. 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:19.000 THIS WAS THE MOST BRUTAL 00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:21.000 SELF--TO-SELF BATTLE I ENDURED 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.000 AND I DON'T SAY THIS FOR 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:26.000 EMPATHY, I SAY -- TO CREATE 00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:28.000 AWARENESS ABOUT THESE HARDSHIPS 00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:31.000 AND HELP ERADICATE PREJUDICE 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:33.000 ABOUT THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:35.000 THAT EXISTS IN ALL CULTURES. 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.000 AND I AM MAD AT MYSELF FOR 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:41.000 LETTING A BIGOTED, SMALL 00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:42.000 MIND-SET POTENTIALLY DERAIL MY 00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:43.000 PATH. 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:45.000 AND I STAND HERE WITH PRIDE 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:46.000 REPRESENTING THE LGBTQ PLUS 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:47.000 COMMUNITY. 00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:53.000 WHICH LEADS ME BACK TO WHAT 00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:56.000 HELPED ME GET TO THIS SPOT -- 00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:57.000 AUTHENTICITY. 00:55:57.000 --> 00:55:58.000 DIVERSITY. 00:55:58.000 --> 00:55:59.000 JOURNEY FOR SELF-IDENTITY. 00:55:59.000 --> 00:55:60.000 MANY OF US ARE STILL LIKE, I 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.000 DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK I AM OR 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.000 WHAT I WANT TO DO AFTER 00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:05.000 GRADUATION. 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:06.000 I CHALLENGE YOU TO BE 00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:08.000 COMFORTABLE WITH WHO YOU ARE, BE 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:09.000 OPEN MINDED, PURSUE YOUR CAN 00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:10.000 AUTHENTIC PASSIONS, CONTINUE TO 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:13.000 ASK QUESTIONS AND DO THINGS 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:15.000 YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY. 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:17.000 FIND WHAT MOTIVATES YOU, 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:20.000 CELEBRATE IT, AND USE IT AS A 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:21.000 PERSONAL CODE. 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:24.000 WE HAVE ALL MADE AN IMPACT ON 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:25.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY, AND 00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:27.000 WE WILL DOT SAME ON WHATEVER 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:28.000 ENDEAVOR WE EMBARK ON. 00:56:28.000 --> 00:56:30.000 FAILURES ARE UNAVOIDABLE IN 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:31.000 LIFE, BUT HOW WE BOUNCE BACK IS 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:32.000 WHAT DETERMINES OUR PATH WITH 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:33.000 RESILIENCE. 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:35.000 WE'VE ALL MADE OUR FAIR SHARE OF 00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:37.000 OBSTACLES AND MISTAKES ALONG THE 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:38.000 WADE THROUGHOUT THE FOUR YEARS, 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:40.000 YET WE LEARNED FROM THEM AND NOW 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.000 GRADUATING WITH A DEGREE. 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.000 OH, YEAH! 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:48.000 AND REMEMBER, WE HAVE THE POWER 00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:50.000 TO CREATE CHANGE, AND SHAPE A 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:53.000 LIFE AND DEMOCRACY THAT WE'RE 00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:55.000 PROUD OF AND REPRESENTS US. 00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:57.000 GET READY, CLASS, WE HAVE WORK 00:56:57.000 --> 00:56:59.000 TO DO OUT THERE. 00:56:59.000 --> 00:56:60.000 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:01.000 GRADUATING CLASS OF 2019. 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:02.000 WE MADE IT. 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:18.000 YEAH! 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:22.000 SO I FEEL LIKE I'M AMONGST 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.000 FAMILY, SO I'M GOING TO TALK 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:25.000 LIKE I'M AMONGST FAMILY. 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:28.000 AS I GREW UP, I GREW UP IN THE 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:30.000 CHURCH AND WHEN YOU HEAR 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:32.000 SOMETHING THAT YOU AGREE WITH OR 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:33.000 YOU LIKE, YOU SAY "AMEN" 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:35.000 SO IF YOU HEAR ANYTHING THAT 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:38.000 RESONATES WITH YOU, FEEL FREE TO 00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:40.000 SAY AMEN! 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:42.000 AMEN! 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:43.000 THERE YOU GO. 00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:45.000 I FIRST WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:46.000 YOU TO THE OUTSTANDING GRADUATE 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.000 SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR AWARDING ME 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:50.000 WITH THIS GREAT HONOR, AND ALSO 00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:51.000 TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE FACULTY 00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:55.000 AND STAFF WHO HAVE NOMINATED ME. 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:57.000 I AM GRADEFUL AND THANKFUL TO 00:57:57.000 --> 00:57:60.000 SPEAK IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY. 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:02.000 TODAY IS A GREAT DAY. 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:05.000 AND WILL BE ONE OF THE HAPPIEST 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:06.000 MOMENTS OF OUR LIVES. 00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:08.000 AS WE SOAK IN THIS MOMENT, AND 00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:09.000 RAVISH IN OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:11.000 OVER THE PAST YEARS HERE AT WOU, 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:13.000 I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND US OF THE 00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:15.000 SUPPORTS THAT HAVE IMPACTED US 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:17.000 ALONG THE WAY. 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:19.000 WHETHER THAT SUPPORT HAS BEEN 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:21.000 SEEN THROUGH GOD, FAMILY, 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:24.000 FRIENDS, STAFF, OR FACULTY 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:26.000 MEMBERS, SIGNIFICANT OTHERS, 00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:29.000 COACHES, SOMEONE IN THE 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:32.000 COMMUNITY, AN ADVISOR, OR EVEN 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:34.000 THOSE THAT HAVE DOUBTED US, I 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:36.000 WOULD LIKE FOR US TO REMAIN 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:38.000 THANKFUL IN THIS MOMENT. 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:39.000 AMEN. 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.000 YOU GUYS GOT IT. 00:58:41.000 --> 00:58:42.000 TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2019, 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:44.000 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.000 CONGRATULATIONS ON OUR GREAT 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:48.000 ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR GRADUATING. 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:53.000 OUR PERSEVERANCE, TENACITY, 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:55.000 DETERMINATION, ALONG WITH 00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:58.000 QUIZLET, SPARK NOTES, RED 00:58:58.000 --> 00:58:60.000 BULLS -- YEAH! 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:09.000 QUIZLET! 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:12.000 COUNTLESS ALL-NIGHTERS, HAVE 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:13.000 BEEN IMPORTANT COMPONENTS THAT 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.000 HAVE HELPED US TO THIS 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:18.000 SUCCESSFUL MOMENT AND IS A 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:19.000 NOTEWORTHY MILESTONE IN OUR 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:20.000 LIVES. 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:21.000 BEFORE WE GET INTO THE OTHER 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.000 FESTIVITIES OF THE GRADUATION 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:25.000 CEREMONY, THERE ARE FOUR QUICK 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:26.000 POINTS I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:28.000 IN HOPES THAT THESE WORDS 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:30.000 INSPIRE YOU AS YOU GO ON TO 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.000 CHANGE THE WORLD AND IMPACT THE 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:34.000 LIVES OF MANY, AND MAKE WESTERN 00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:36.000 PROUD. 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:40.000 IF I WERE TO TITLE THIS SPEECH, 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:43.000 I WOULD ENTITLE IT AS "ANSWER 00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:45.000 THE CALL." 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:46.000 ANSWER THE CALL. 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:48.000 NOW, SOME OF YOU MAY WONDER, 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:51.000 WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY "THE CALL"? 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:54.000 I DEFINE THE CALL AS THE CALL 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:55.000 FOR YOUR LIFE. 00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:58.000 DOING WHAT YOU WERE MEANT TO DO 00:59:58.000 --> 00:59:59.000 TO EFFECT CHANGE IN THIS WORLD 00:59:59.000 --> 00:59:62.000 AND TO POSITIVELY IMPACT OTHERS. 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:04.000 UNDERSTAND THAT THE CALL FOR OUR 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.000 LIVES IS INDIVIDUALIZED AND 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:07.000 PERSONALIZED FOR EACH AND EVERY 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:09.000 ONE OF US. 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:11.000 MY CALL IN FACT MIGHT BE 01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:12.000 DIFFERENT FROM YOURS, AND THAT'S 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:13.000 OKAY. 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:15.000 THE IMPORTANT PART IS THAT WE 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:17.000 ARE ALL DOING OUR PART, PLAYING 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:20.000 OUR ROLE, AND HELPING OTHERS. 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:24.000 AMEN. 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:26.000 NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.000 YOU TO BE FEARLESS WHEN YOU 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.000 RECEIVE THE CALL. 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:31.000 DO NOT BE NERVOUS. 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:32.000 DO NOT BE AFRAID. 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:35.000 BUT REMEMBER THE EXPERIENCES 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:36.000 THAT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH AND 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:38.000 TRIUMPHED OVER AND USE THEM AS 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:39.000 GUIDING LIGHTS TO LEAD YOU. 01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:41.000 AND ALWAYS REMEMBER, GREATNESS 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:42.000 IS IN YOU. 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:46.000 BECAUSE GREATNESS MADE YOU. 01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:48.000 AND IF FOR WHATEVER REASON YOU 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:52.000 MISS THE CALL, LET IT BE BECAUSE 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.000 YOU WERE DISTRACTED, BECAUSE YOU 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:56.000 HESITATED, OR PAUSE YOU WERE 01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:57.000 UNSURE. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:00:60.000 PICK UP THE PHONE AND DIAL STAR 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:03.000 RIGHTFULLY YOURS. 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:06.000 IN CLOSING, I WOULD LIKE TO 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:09.000 STATE ONE MORE FACT. 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:11.000 AND IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:12.000 ANYTHING ELSE THAT I HAVE SAID 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.000 TODAY, I HOPE THAT YOU CAN HOLD 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:17.000 ON TO THIS, AND REMEMBER IT 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:19.000 THOUGH ANSWERING THE CALL IS 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:22.000 IMPORTANT, THE ULTIMATE POINT 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:23.000 THAT WE SHOULD BE STRIVING TO 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:25.000 ATTAIN IS UNDERSTANDING HOW WE 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:27.000 CAN POSITIVELY IMPACT THE LIVES 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:30.000 OF OTHERS. 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.000 AS STATED BY DR. REVEREND -- AS 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:34.000 STATED BY REVEREND DR. MARTIN 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:37.000 LUTHER KING JR., LIFE'S MOST 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:39.000 PERSISTENT AND URGENT QUESTION 01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:41.000 IS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR 01:01:41.000 --> 01:01:43.000 OTHERS? 01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:44.000 WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS? 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:46.000 WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE 01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:48.000 MARGINALIZED? 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:50.000 WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:52.000 WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THOSE WHO 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.000 CANNOT DO OR SPEAK FOR 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:55.000 THEMSELVES? 01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:57.000 WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THOSE WHO 01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:59.000 MAY HAVE LOST THEIR WAY? 01:01:59.000 --> 01:01:62.000 AS WE RECEIVE OUR DEGREES, AND 01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:04.000 OUR EXPERIENCES, THE TOOLS THAT 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:05.000 WE HAVE LEARNED HERE, THE 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:07.000 RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE'VE BUILT, 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:09.000 AND THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:10.000 ACQUIRED, I CHALLENGE US ALL TO 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:12.000 THINK ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAKE -- 01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:14.000 HOW WE CAN DO MORE FOR OTHERS. 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.000 HOW WE CAN BE OF SERVICE TO 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:18.000 SOMEONE ELSE, AND USE THE SKILLS 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:21.000 THAT WE'VE LEARNED HERE TO 01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:23.000 FOSTER UNITY WITH EVERYONE WE 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:25.000 COME IN CONTACT WITH. 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:27.000 THANK YOU. 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:43.000 OHSU ASSOCIATE CAMPUS DEAN, 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:46.000 DR. ANGIE DOCHERTY WILL NOW 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:48.000 INTRODUCE ONE OF THEIR 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:49.000 OUTSTANDING NURSING STUDENTS WHO 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:50.000 WILL SHARE SOME THOUGHTS WITH US 01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:52.000 AS WELL. 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:61.000 THIS GOLDEN LAMP AWARD IS 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:03.000 BASED ON THE AMERICAN NURSES 01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:05.000 ASSOCIATION CODE FOR 01:03:05.000 --> 01:03:07.000 PROFESSIONAL NURSES AND THE 01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:09.000 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PLEDGE, AND 01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:11.000 IS GIVEN IN RECOGNITION OF 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:13.000 EXEMPLARY DEMONSTRATION OF 01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.000 SCHOLARSHIP, LEADERSHIP, 01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:17.000 PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT, 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.000 INNOVATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS, AND 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:22.000 HUMANITARIAN IDEALS. 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:26.000 I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE 01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:27.000 MONMOUTH CAMPUS RECIPIENT FOR 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:42.000 THANK YOU FOR THIS AMAZING 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.000 I TRULY FEEL HONORED AND 01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:46.000 BLESSED TO BE HERE TALKING WITH 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:47.000 YOU ALL ON THIS BIG DAY. 01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:48.000 I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:51.000 CONGRATULATE ALL OF YOU ON YOUR 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:52.000 ACHIEVEMENTS AND THIS TREMENDOUS 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:53.000 MILESTONE. 01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:54.000 I KNOW THIS WAS NOT AN EASY FEAT 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:55.000 FOR ANY OF YOU. 01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:56.000 SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:58.000 WELL WE BALANCE LIFE, OR HOW 01:03:58.000 --> 01:03:59.000 HARD WE WORK, LIFE HAS A 01:03:59.000 --> 01:03:61.000 TENDENCY TO THROW A CURVEBALL AT 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:03.000 THE LEAST OPPORTUNE MOMENT. 01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.000 IT CERTAINLY DID FOR ME. 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:08.000 THERE WERE MOUNTAINS TO CLIMB, 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:10.000 AND WHAT SEEMED AS A CONSTANT 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:11.000 STRING OF OBSTACLES IN MY WAY, 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:12.000 BUT LOOKING BACK, I AM THANKFUL 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:14.000 FOR THE STRENGTH AND KNOWLEDGE I 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:15.000 GAPED THROUGH THOSE LIFE 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:16.000 LESSONS, AS WELL AS CONTINUOUS 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:18.000 SUPPORT AND SMALL VICTORIES I 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.000 EXPERIENCED ALONG THE WAY. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.000 NURSING SCHOOL HAS TAUGHT ME SO 01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:24.000 MANY VALUABLE LESSONS. 01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:26.000 AMONG THOSE I'VE LEARNED, HOW TO 01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:27.000 BECOME COMFORTABLE WITH 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.000 DISCOMFORT. 01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.000 HOW TO EMBRACE VULNERABILITY, 01:04:31.000 --> 01:04:33.000 AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:35.000 PRACTICE ACTS OF SELF-CARE AND 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:36.000 SELF-LOVE. 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:38.000 THINKING BACK, EVERY SINGLE ONE 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:40.000 OF US GOT TO THIS MOMENT THROUGH 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:42.000 HARDSHIPS, MOMENTS OF 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.000 VULNERABILITY, AND COURAGEOUS 01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.000 ACTS OF PUSHING FORWARD. 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:48.000 WHILE REFLECTING ON THE PAST 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:49.000 THREE YEARS OF HARD WORK AND 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:51.000 HAIR PULLING, I REALIZED THIS -- 01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:53.000 WE CANNOT BECOME STRONG LEADERS 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:54.000 IN ANY CAREER WITHOUT 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:55.000 EXPERIENCING THESE CHALLENGING 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:56.000 EMOTIONS. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:58.000 THE RECIPE FOR LEADERSHIP 01:04:58.000 --> 01:04:60.000 INCLUDES VULNERABILITY, COURAGE, 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:02.000 AND EMPATHY. 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:05.000 BRENE BROWN, A UNIVERSITY 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:07.000 PROFESSOR AND RESEARCHER OF 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:10.000 VULNERABILITY AND SHAME, 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:12.000 DESCRIBES TRUE COURAGE IS ONLY 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:14.000 ATTAINABLE THROUGH MOMENTS OF 01:05:14.000 --> 01:05:16.000 RISK AND EMOTIONAL EXPOSURE. 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:18.000 THIS MEANS THAT ONLY DURING 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:19.000 TIMES THAT WE EXPERIENCE 01:05:19.000 --> 01:05:21.000 VULNERABILITY, ARE WE ALSO TRULY 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:22.000 COURAGEOUS. 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:24.000 SO WHAT IS VULNERABILITY? 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:25.000 IT IS HOLDING HANDS WITH A 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:27.000 PATIENT YOU'VE CARED FOR OVER 01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:28.000 SEVERAL YEARS, AS THEY'RE 01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:29.000 ACTIVELY DYING. 01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:31.000 YOUR HEARTBREAKS WHILE THEIRS 01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:33.000 STOPS BEATING. 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:34.000 WHAT IS COURAGE? 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:37.000 ADVOCATING FOR YOUR PATIENT TO A 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:38.000 PHYSICIAN WHO DOES NOT AGREE 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:39.000 WITH YOU, BUT STANDING YOUR 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:41.000 GROUND BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT IS 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:42.000 RIGHT FOR YOUR PATIENT. 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:43.000 WHAT IS EMPATHY? 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:45.000 SITTING WITH A FAMILY AS THEY 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:46.000 STRUGGLE WITH THEIR FAMILY 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:47.000 MEMBER'S DEMENTIAS 01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:48.000 SYMPTOMS, AS THEY REALIZE THEIR 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:49.000 LOVED ONE IS NOT GOING TO 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:50.000 RECOVER. 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:51.000 IT SIMPLY SAYING, I AM HERE WITH 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:52.000 YOU. 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:55.000 THIS IS A DIFFICULT SITUATION. 01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:57.000 BUT I AM HERE TO HELP AND BE 01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:58.000 WITH YOU THROUGH IT. 01:05:58.000 --> 01:05:60.000 EVEN THOUGH THESE ARE EXAMPLES 01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:03.000 SPECIFIC TO NURSING, WE CAN ALL 01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:05.000 EXEMPLIFY STRONG LEADERSHIP IN 01:06:05.000 --> 01:06:07.000 OUR CAREERS THROUGH 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:09.000 WE CAN ALL TAKE OUR DIFFICULT 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:11.000 EXPERIENCES, OUR MOMENTS OF 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:13.000 HARDSHIPS, AND THE LESSONS WE 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.000 LEARNED TO HELP AND STAND WITH 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.000 ONE ANOTHER. 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:17.000 AS YOU OPEN A NEW CHAPTER, I 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:19.000 ENCOURAGE YOU TO EXEMPLIFY 01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:20.000 LEADERSHIP BY CHANNELING THOSE 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:23.000 HARD MOMENTS AND DIFFICULT 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:24.000 SITUATIONS YOU HAVE FACED. 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:26.000 IT IS AMAZING HOW WE CAN TURN 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:28.000 OUR PAIN AND DISCOMFORT AROUND 01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:30.000 TO PROVIDE SOMEONE ELSE WITH A 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:31.000 VOICE, COMPASSION, AND KINDNESS. 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:34.000 I WILL END WITH A QUOTE FROM 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:36.000 BRENE -- VULNERABILITY IS NOT 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:39.000 WINNING OR LOSING. 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:40.000 IT'S HAVING THE COURAGE TO SHOW 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:42.000 UP AND BE SEEN WHEN WE HAVE NO 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:43.000 CONTROL OVER THE OUTCOME. 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:46.000 VULNERABILITY IS NOT WEAKNESS. 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:47.000 IT IS OUR GREATEST MEASURE OF 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:49.000 COURAGE. 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:50.000 THANK YOU. 01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:57.000 THANK YOU. 01:06:57.000 --> 01:06:59.000 PLEASE JOIN ME WITH A FINAL 01:06:59.000 --> 01:06:60.000 ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ALL OF OUR 01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:01.000 STUDENT SPEAKERS. 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:18.000 AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:19.000 ASK ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT 01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:21.000 MR. TONY CRAWFORD TO COME TO THE 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:22.000 PODIUM AND ANNOUNCE THE ALUMNI 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:23.000 OF EXCELLENCE AWARD. 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:34.000 THANK YOU. 01:07:34.000 --> 01:07:36.000 GOOD MORNING GRADUATES, 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:40.000 FAMILIES, FACULTY, STAFF, AND 01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:43.000 MY NAME IS TONY CRAWFORD. 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:45.000 ON BEHALF OF THE WESTERN OREGON 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:47.000 UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION I 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:49.000 CONGRATULATE YOU, THE CLASS OF 01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:54.000 AS A GRADUATE OF WESTERN OREGON, 01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:56.000 YOU ARE NOW A MEMBER OF WHAT I 01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:59.000 LIKE TO CALL THE GREATEST 01:07:59.000 --> 01:07:61.000 ORGANIZATION ON EARTH. 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:03.000 THE WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:04.000 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:07.000 LET ME BE THE FIRST TO WELCOME 01:08:07.000 --> 01:08:09.000 YOU TO THE PROUD FAMILY OF WOU 01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:10.000 ALUMNI. 01:08:10.000 --> 01:08:13.000 TAKE A MOMENT AND LET THIS SINK 01:08:13.000 --> 01:08:14.000 IN. 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:17.000 BEING ALUMNI OF WESTERN OREGON 01:08:17.000 --> 01:08:19.000 UNIVERSITY IS A TITLE THAT YOU 01:08:19.000 --> 01:08:21.000 WILL CARRY WITH YOU FOR THE REST 01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:22.000 OF YOUR LIFE. 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:24.000 AND LET'S NEVER FORGET -- WE ARE 01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:25.000 WOLVES! 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:34.000 HOWLING 01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:35.000 THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IS PROUD 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:37.000 OF YOU. 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:38.000 YOU HAVE ALREADY FOUND YOUR 01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:40.000 FIRST ALUMNI GIFT WAITING FOR 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:41.000 YOU IN YOUR SEAT TODAY. 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:44.000 BE SURE TO LOOK INSIDE THE BAG 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:46.000 COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM, YOUR 01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:49.000 ALUMNI MEMBERSHIP CARD, GOOD FOR 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:51.000 DISCOUNTS AT THE BOOKSTORE AFTER 01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:52.000 COMMENCEMENT, AND OTHER 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:54.000 IMPORTANT ITEMS. 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:56.000 AND THEN ALSO, AFTER 01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:58.000 COMMENCEMENT, BE SURE TO STOP BY 01:08:58.000 --> 01:08:60.000 THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TENT 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:02.000 LOCATED IN THE GROVE TO MEET 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:03.000 MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:05.000 ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:07.000 WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU 01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:10.000 AND TO WELCOME YOU TO THE ALUMNI 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:11.000 ASSOCIATION. 01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:13.000 ALSO, WE HAVE A LOT OF FREE COOL 01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:16.000 SWAG TO HAND OUT TO YOU. 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:19.000 EACH YEAR AT COMMENCEMENT, THE 01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:21.000 WESTERN OREGON ALUMNI 01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:24.000 ASSOCIATION PRESENTS OUR MOST 01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:26.000 PRESTIGIOUS AWARD -- THE ALUMNI 01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:28.000 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE. 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:30.000 THIS AWARD IS PRESENTED TO AN 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.000 ALUMNUS WHO HAS ACHIEVED 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:34.000 PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTION, WHO 01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:36.000 HAS ENGAGED IN COMMUNITY 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:39.000 OUTREACH, AND WHOSE INTEGRITY 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.000 AND STATURE ARE SUCH THAT 01:09:41.000 --> 01:09:43.000 FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENTS, AND 01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:45.000 ALUMNI OF WESTERN OREGON 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.000 UNIVERSITY CAN ALL RIGHTFULLY 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:49.000 TAKE PRIDE. 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:51.000 THE WINNER OF THIS YEAR'S ALUMNI 01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:54.000 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE IS DR. JER 01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:55.000 PRATTON. 01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:58.000 JER PRATTON IS A MEMBER OF THE 01:09:58.000 --> 01:09:61.000 OCE CLASS OF 1968. 01:10:01.000 --> 01:10:03.000 PRATTON'S CAREER AS A TEACHER 01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:06.000 AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR IS 01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:09.000 DESCRIBED AS LEGENDARY. 01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:12.000 JER PRATTON IS CURRENTLY RETIRED 01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:13.000 FROM HIS POSITION AS 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:15.000 SUPERINTENDENT OF THE HERMISTON 01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:16.000 SCHOOL DISTRICT. 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:17.000 HOWEVER, HE CONTINUES HIS 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:19.000 DEDICATION TO THE FIELD OF 01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:21.000 EDUCATION AS A MEMBER OF THE 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.000 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF EASTERN 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:24.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY. 01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:26.000 JER PRATTON'S INFLUENCE IS IN 01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:28.000 EDUCATION IS NOT LIMITED, 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.000 HOWEVER, TO THE STATE OF OREGON. 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:33.000 FOR EXAMPLE, IN 2003, PRATTON 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:36.000 WAS HIRED AS THE LEAD CONSULTANT 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:39.000 FOR THE PLANNING OF A NEW K-12 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:41.000 CAMPUS FOR THE LINCOLN AMERICAN 01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:43.000 SCHOOL IN SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA. 01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:47.000 IN 2007, THE SCHOOL OPENED ITS 01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:50.000 DOORS, AND TODAY SERVES AS THE 01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:53.000 MODEL FOR AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:55.000 SCHOOLS IN ALL OF THE LATIN 01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:56.000 AMERICAN REGION. 01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:58.000 JER PRATTON IS RECOGNIZED FOR 01:10:58.000 --> 01:10:61.000 HIS LIFELONG CONTRIBUTIONS TO 01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:02.000 MANY AND VARIED ACADEMIC 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.000 COMMUNITIES OVER MANY YEARS. 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:07.000 JER PRATTON'S PASSION FOR 01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:10.000 EDUCATION AND HIS SELFLESS 01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:12.000 SERVICE TO OTHERS PROVIDES A 01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:13.000 POSITIVE ROLE MODEL FOR ALL 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:14.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:17.000 ALUMNI, AND EARNS HIM THIS 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:19.000 PRESTIGIOUS AWARD. 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:21.000 ALSO, DID I MENTION HIS FIERCE 01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:24.000 LOYALTY TO WESTERN OREGON 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:25.000 WOLVES? 01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:28.000 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT IS MY 01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:30.000 HONOR TO PRESENT THE 2019 ALUMNI 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:33.000 AWARD OF EXCELLENCE TO DR. JER 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:34.000 PRATTON. 01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:53.000 GO WOLVES! 01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:57.000 NOW I'D LIKE TO WELCOME TO 01:11:57.000 --> 01:11:59.000 THE PODIUM A DISTINGUISHED 01:11:59.000 --> 01:11:60.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:02.000 ALUMNA, AN ARTIST WHO HAS BLAZED 01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:04.000 A TRAIL IN THE WORLD OF THEATER 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:06.000 AND PERFORMANCE BY ENCOURAGING 01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:07.000 AUDIENCES TO VIEW THE WORLD FROM 01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:10.000 HER UNIQUE VANTAGE POINT. 01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:12.000 ROSA LEE TIMM IS AN ARTIST AND 01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:14.000 ACCESSIBILITY TESS WHO EARNED A 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:15.000 MASTER'S DEGREE IN 01:12:15.000 --> 01:12:16.000 REHABILITATION COUNSELING FROM 01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:19.000 DURING HER TIME HERE AS A GRAD 01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:21.000 STUDENT, SHE CRAFTED A ONE-WOMAN 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:23.000 SHOW SHE HAS TAKEN TO CORNERS OF 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:25.000 THE WORLD AND THE COUNTRY FOR 01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:26.000 THE PAST 15 YEARS. 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:28.000 JUST THIS PAST THURSDAY, TO OUR 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:31.000 OWN STUDENTS IN RICE AUDITORIUM. 01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:33.000 ROSA LEE IS WELL KNOWN ON 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:34.000 YOUTUBE FOR HER AMERICAN SIGN 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:36.000 LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF POPULAR 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:37.000 SONGS AND FOR HER LEAD ROLE IN 01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:42.000 THE ASL FILMS "VERSA EFFECT." 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:45.000 PLEASE HELP ME WELCOME ALUMNA 01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:46.000 ROSA LEE TIMM. 01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:57.000 GOOD MORNING, CLASS OF 2019. 01:12:57.000 --> 01:12:60.000 FAMILY, FRIENDS, FACULTY, AND 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:02.000 DISTINGUISHED GUESTS. 01:13:02.000 --> 01:13:05.000 I AM HONORED TO BE HERE WITH YOU 01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:07.000 TODAY ON THIS STAGE. 01:13:07.000 --> 01:13:09.000 I REMEMBER SITTING RIGHT WHERE 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:11.000 YOU ARE ABOUT THERE, SITTING IN 01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:13.000 THE HEAT, THE SUN. 01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:14.000 ARE YOU HOT RIGHT NOW? 01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:17.000 JUST WAITING FOR THE CEREMONY TO 01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:18.000 BE OVER. 01:13:18.000 --> 01:13:21.000 AND GET MY GRADUATE DEGREE IN 01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:22.000 REHABILITATION COUNSELING. 01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:31.000 PRETTY IMPRESSIVE, ISN'T IT? 01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:38.000 I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT WHAT I 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:39.000 COULD BRING YOU TODAY. 01:13:39.000 --> 01:13:41.000 WHAT WISDOM I'VE EARNED TO 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:47.000 I'M SURE YOU'VE BEEN REFLECTING 01:13:47.000 --> 01:13:49.000 ON WHAT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH AND 01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:52.000 WHERE YOU'RE HEADED. 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:54.000 YOU'RE FINISHED SCHOOL AND 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:55.000 HEADING INTO CAREERS, MAYBE 01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:57.000 YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT DREAM 01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:58.000 JOHNS, MARRIAGE, AND CHILDREN. 01:13:58.000 --> 01:13:61.000 YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THE LIFE 01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:02.000 AHEAD OF YOU AND THE 01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:05.000 EXPECTATIONS FROM YOUR FAMILY, 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:11.000 FROM FRIENDS, AND FROM YOURSELF. 01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:12.000 YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT 01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:14.000 SUCCESSFUL LIFE WILL BE. 01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:23.000 AS I LOOK OVER MY 16 YEARS, I 01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:25.000 THINK ABOUT WHAT I HAVE LOOKED 01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:27.000 FOR, WHAT THE BOXES I WAS 01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:29.000 LOOKING TO CHECK OFF, A 01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:32.000 PRESTIGIOUS JOB, FAME, ANYTHING 01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:34.000 THAT YOU MIGHT EARN IN THIS 01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:36.000 LIFE, YOU CAN CHECK ALL THOSE 01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:39.000 BOXES OF YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:42.000 STILL FEEL UNSATISFIED AND 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:46.000 SO LET'S COME BACK TO THE IDEA 01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:47.000 OF SUCCESS. 01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:53.000 SUCCESS MEANS KNOWING YOUR OWN 01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:56.000 SELF WORTH. 01:14:56.000 --> 01:14:58.000 KNOWING WHO YOU ARE. 01:14:58.000 --> 01:14:62.000 WHEN I THINK OVER MY OWN JOURNEY 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:04.000 TO LEARNING MYSELF-WORTH AND 01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:06.000 KNOWING WHO I AM, IT RELATES TO 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:07.000 WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM MANY 01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:09.000 SPEECHES TODAY, IT'S ABOUT 01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:11.000 EMBRACING THE GOOD AND BAD IN 01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:12.000 LIFE. 01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:15.000 IT'S ABOUT EMBRACING FAILURE. 01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:20.000 THROUGH FAILURES, STRUGGLES, 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:23.000 HARDSHIP, THAT'S HOW YOU FIND 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:24.000 WHO YOU ARE. 01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:27.000 THAT'S WHAT WE REALIZE WHAT WE 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:28.000 CAN DO. 01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:31.000 THAT'S WHERE WE FIND OUR TRUE 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:32.000 DREAMS. 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:37.000 SO THEN I THOUGHT BACK ON MY OWN 01:15:37.000 --> 01:15:39.000 FAILURES, AND THERE ARE PLENTY 01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:42.000 TO CHOOSE FROM IN MY LIFE, I'LL 01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:44.000 THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. 01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:47.000 I WANTED TO SHARE JUST A FEW 01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:48.000 WITH YOU. 01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:52.000 THIS IS MY FAVORITE FAILURE OF 01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:53.000 MY LIFE TO DATE. 01:15:53.000 --> 01:15:54.000 IT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS 14 YEARS 01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:56.000 OLD. 01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:58.000 I WAS AN INCREDIBLY SHY YOUNG 01:15:58.000 --> 01:15:65.000 GIRL, I WAS QUITE INTROVERTED. 01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:07.000 AND MY PARENTS SENT ME AWAY TO A 01:16:07.000 --> 01:16:09.000 SUMMER CAMP, IT WAS THE YOUTH 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:11.000 LEADERSHIP CAMP OUT IN STAYTON, 01:16:11.000 --> 01:16:14.000 NEAR HERE IN STAYTON, OREGON. 01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:16.000 NOT FAR FROM WESTERN. 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:20.000 IT WAS A MONTH-LONG CAMP WHERE 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:21.000 YOUTH COULD LEARN LEADERSHIP 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:26.000 SKILLS. 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:28.000 OVER THAT MONTH, WE LEARNED A 01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:29.000 LOT OF DIFFERENT LESSONS, AND 01:16:29.000 --> 01:16:30.000 THERE WAS ALSO A CLASS FOR 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:34.000 DRAMA. 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:36.000 THAT PLANTED A SEED IN ME ABOUT 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:39.000 MAYBE BEING ON STAGE SOME DAY. 01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:40.000 BUT REMEMBER, I WAS THIS VERY 01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:44.000 SHY INTROVERTED LITTLE GIRL. 01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:46.000 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN A SEED WAS 01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:48.000 PLANTED OF SOMEDAY BEING ON 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:49.000 STAGE. 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:51.000 I WAS GOING TO THE INDIANA 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:53.000 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, AND EVERY 01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:54.000 YEAR THEY HOSTED A VARIETY SHOW 01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:56.000 AT THE END OF THE YEAR. 01:16:56.000 --> 01:16:59.000 I DECIDED I WOULD AUDITION. 01:16:59.000 --> 01:16:61.000 I DECIDED THAT I WOULD LIKE TO 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:05.000 PERFORM ON STAGE ALONE. 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:07.000 THE HOURS I SPENT REHEARSING FOR 01:17:07.000 --> 01:17:09.000 THAT, GETTING READY TO BE A 01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:11.000 PERFORMER ON STAGE, I REMEMBER 01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:13.000 STANDING IN THE WINGS SHAKING. 01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:15.000 I COULD FEEL MY WHOLE BODY 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:16.000 SHAKING. 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:21.000 AND I CAME OUT ON STAGE, AND THE 01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:23.000 LIGHTS DIMMED, AND THE SPOTLIGHT 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:26.000 CAME UP ON ME, AND ALL OF A 01:17:26.000 --> 01:17:28.000 SUDDEN I REALIZED MY FATHER WAS 01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:29.000 THE ONE CONTROLLING THE 01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:30.000 SPOTLIGHT. 01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:32.000 AND HE WAVED, AND ALL OF A 01:17:32.000 --> 01:17:34.000 SUDDEN I KNEW HIS SUPPORT, AND A 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:37.000 WAVE OF RELIEF CAME OVER ME. 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:39.000 I BEGAN MY STORY. 01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:42.000 AND I FELT MY CONFIDENCE GROW. 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:44.000 AND I REALIZED IT WAS GOING 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:47.000 WELL, AND I GOT ABOUT 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:48.000 THREE-QUARTERS OF THE WAY 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:50.000 THROUGH MY STORY, AND HAD A 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:52.000 PREGNANT PAUSE FOR EFFECT, AND 01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:53.000 MY FATHER TURNED OFF THE 01:17:53.000 --> 01:17:55.000 SPOTLIGHT. 01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:57.000 I WASN'T DONE WITH MY STORY, BUT 01:17:57.000 --> 01:17:59.000 HE THOUGHT I WAS DONE! 01:17:59.000 --> 01:17:61.000 MY WHOLE MOMENT THAT HAD BEEN 01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:03.000 LEADING UP TO FOR ALL THIS TIME 01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:05.000 WAS RUINED. 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:07.000 MY FATHER RUINED IT! 01:18:07.000 --> 01:18:10.000 I RAN OFF STAGE IN TEARS. 01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:12.000 I FELT MY LIFE, MY DREAMS OF 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:15.000 PERFORMING ON STAGE WERE OVER. 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:18.000 I FELT READY TO DISOWN MY DAD. 01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:21.000 JUST PACING BACKSTAGE IN TEARS. 01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:25.000 AFTER THE VARIETY SHOW WAS OVER, 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:27.000 I WAS FLOODED BY PEOPLE COMING 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:29.000 UP TO ME TELLING ME HOW POWERFUL 01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:30.000 MY PERFORMANCE WAS. 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:32.000 HOW ENTRENCHED THEY HAD BEEN, 01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:33.000 AND HOW THE ENDING WAS 01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:35.000 INCREDIBLY POWERFUL. 01:18:36.000 --> 01:18:41.000 WHAT COULD I SAY? 01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:45.000 THAT HADN'T BEEN MY PLAN. 01:18:45.000 --> 01:18:49.000 BUT MY LIFE WAS CHANGED THAT 01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:51.000 NIGHT FROM THAT APPARENT 01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:52.000 FAILURE. 01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:54.000 I LEARNED IT'S OKAY TO TAKE 01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:56.000 RISKS. 01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:59.000 IT'S OKAY TO STEP OUT THERE, AND 01:18:59.000 --> 01:18:61.000 SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST FAILURES 01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:03.000 WE EXPERIENCE ARE THE BEST 01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:04.000 SUCCESSES. 01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:09.000 MY LIFE WAS CHANGED BY THAT 01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:11.000 ABRUPT DARKNESS ON THE STAGE. 01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:13.000 AND I HAVE BEEN ON STAGE FOR THE 01:19:13.000 --> 01:19:15.000 LAST 29 YEARS, ALL THANKS TO MY 01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:16.000 FATHER. 01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:19.000 THANK YOU. 01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:26.000 I WENT TO COLLEGE AT THE 01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:27.000 ROCHESTER INSTITUTE FOR THE 01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:29.000 ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:36.000 TECHNOLOGY STUDYING SOCIAL WORK. 01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:37.000 AND THEY HAVE A VERY 01:19:37.000 --> 01:19:38.000 PROFESSIONAL THEATER PROGRAM 01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:40.000 THERE, AND I THOUGHT I'D GIVE IT 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:41.000 A TRY. 01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:44.000 I WENT TO AN AUDITION FOR THE 01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:47.000 LEAD ROLE. 01:19:47.000 --> 01:19:51.000 NOW, THE DIRECTOR FOR THAT PLAY 01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:53.000 WAS A VERY FAMOUS DIRECTOR, 01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:56.000 WORLD FAMOUS, HE HAD FLOWN IN 01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:57.000 FOR THIS PRODUCTION. 01:19:57.000 --> 01:19:59.000 AND I THOUGHT, IF I CAN MAKE IT 01:19:59.000 --> 01:19:62.000 HERE, I CAN MAKE IT ANYWHERE. 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:04.000 THE DOORS THAT WILL OPEN! 01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:07.000 SO I COULD NOT WAIT. 01:20:07.000 --> 01:20:09.000 I HAD EXPECTATIONS FOR MYSELF 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:10.000 ABOUT WHAT SUCCESS WOULD LOOK 01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:11.000 LIKE. 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:15.000 I DID MY BEST AT THE AUDITION. 01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:16.000 AND AFTERWARDS THE DIRECTOR 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:18.000 ASKED IF HE COULD SPEAK TO ME. 01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:19.000 HE PULLED ME ASIDE AND SAID, "DO 01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:21.000 YOU MIND IF I GIVE YOU SOME 01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:26.000 DIRECT FEEDBACK? 01:20:26.000 --> 01:20:27.000 ACTING IS NOT FOR YOU. 01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:34.000 ABOUT WHAT HE MIGHT MEAN BY 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:37.000 HE SAID, "YOU'RE NOT AN ACTOR. 01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:42.000 YOU ARE A PERFORMER." 01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:46.000 HE SAID, "YOU HAVE A GIFT TO 01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:48.000 PERFORM AND INTERACT WITH THE 01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:50.000 AUDIENCE. 01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:51.000 THAT'S WHERE YOUR CAN TALENT 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:52.000 LIES." 01:20:52.000 --> 01:20:54.000 SO IN THAT MOMENT I EXPERIENCED 01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:57.000 SOME SEVERE REJECTION, AND A 01:20:57.000 --> 01:20:58.000 PRECIOUS GIFT. 01:20:58.000 --> 01:20:61.000 HE OPENED THE DOOR TO ME OF A 01:21:01.000 --> 01:21:02.000 LIFE ON STAGE IN PERFORMANCE 01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:05.000 ART, RATHER THAN ACTING. 01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:06.000 AND I HAVE BEEN PERFORMING EVER 01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:09.000 SINCE, OVER 25 YEARS. 01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:23.000 KNOWING YOUR WORTH REQUIRES 01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:24.000 COURAGE. 01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:30.000 IN ORDER TO TAKE RISKS, KNOWING 01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:33.000 YOUR WORTH REQUIRES YOU TO LET 01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:35.000 GO OF THINGS AND PEOPLE THAT NO 01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:38.000 LONGER SERVE YOU. 01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:41.000 KNOWING YOUR WORTH TAKES 01:21:41.000 --> 01:21:43.000 FORGIVENESS. 01:21:43.000 --> 01:21:44.000 FORGIVING OTHERS AND FORGIVING 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:46.000 SELF. 01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:50.000 LEARNING THE LESSON OF 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:53.000 SELF-FORGIVENESS WAS CRITICAL IN 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:55.000 MY JOURNEY. 01:21:55.000 --> 01:21:56.000 MY FATHER PASSED AWAY FIVE YEARS 01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:57.000 AGO. 01:21:57.000 --> 01:21:61.000 HE HAD HEART DISEASE. 01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:04.000 AND SO IT WAS A LONG JOURNEY, 01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:06.000 BUT JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE HE 01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:08.000 PASSED AWAY, WE WERE EMAILING, 01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:09.000 AND WE WERE IN AN EMAIL 01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:10.000 ARGUMENT. 01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:11.000 WE WERE ARGUING OVER CHRISTMAS 01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:13.000 GIFTS. 01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:14.000 MY FATHER HAD TOLD US HE DIDN'T 01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:16.000 WANT US TO SEND ANY MORE 01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:17.000 CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO HIM. 01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:19.000 HE SAID "I'M OLD, I'VE HAD MY 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:22.000 LIFE, SAVE YOUR MONEY, USE YOUR 01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:23.000 MONEY TO GIVE GIFTS TO YOUR OWN 01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:26.000 CHILDREN." 01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:28.000 BUT I WASN'T READY TO RECEIVE 01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:29.000 THAT. 01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:31.000 I KNEW I WAS A GOOD DAUGHTER, I 01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:32.000 HAD A GOOD CAREER. 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:34.000 I HAD A GOOD -- I WAS A GOOD 01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:36.000 MOTHER, AND I HAD MY OWN GOOD 01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:37.000 MOTHER. 01:22:37.000 --> 01:22:39.000 AND WHEN HE REJECTED THOSE 01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:42.000 GIFTS, IT HURT MYSELF WORTH. 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:43.000 AND SO WE WERE ARGUING ABOUT 01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:45.000 THAT IT WAS MY DECISION TO SEND 01:22:45.000 --> 01:22:47.000 A GIFT OR NOT, NOT HIS, IT'S 01:22:47.000 --> 01:22:49.000 REALLY MINIMAL ARGUMENT, BUT IT 01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:52.000 BECAME A BIG THING. 01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:54.000 HIS LAST EMAIL TO ME SAID, 01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:58.000 ALL." 01:22:58.000 --> 01:22:62.000 WHEN I READ IT, I FELT LIKE IT 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:04.000 WAS HIS WAY OF SAYING, PLEASE 01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:05.000 RESPECT MY WISHES. 01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:06.000 BUT I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT 01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:07.000 MESSAGE. 01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:10.000 MY LAST WORDS TO HIM WERE "FINE. 01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:12.000 I GIVE UP." 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:15.000 AND THEN HE PASSED AWAY. 01:23:15.000 --> 01:23:20.000 MY LAST WORDS TO MY FATHER WERE 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:22.000 THAT I GIVE UP ON HIM. 01:23:22.000 --> 01:23:26.000 OF ALL THAT WE HAD BEEN THROUGH. 01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:29.000 IT WAS SUCH AN ARGUMENT THAT WAS 01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:32.000 UNNECESSARY, AND IT GAVE -- IT 01:23:32.000 --> 01:23:34.000 TOOK A LONG TIME FOR ME TO 01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:36.000 FORGIVE MYSELF. 01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:41.000 I HAD SOUGHT HIS VALIDATION, I 01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:44.000 HAD SOUGHT SELF-WORTH FROM HIM, 01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:49.000 AS HIS DAUGHTER. 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:51.000 AND I HADN'T REALLY TAKEN A LOOK 01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:53.000 AT MYSELF-WORTH FOR ME AT THAT 01:23:53.000 --> 01:23:54.000 TIME. 01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:55.000 I HAD HIS LOVE. 01:23:55.000 --> 01:23:56.000 I WAS A GOOD DAUGHTER. 01:23:56.000 --> 01:23:59.000 I WISH I WOULD HAVE SAID "I LOVE 01:23:59.000 --> 01:23:61.000 YOU" BACK. 01:24:02.000 --> 01:24:13.000 KNOW YOUR SELF-WORTH. 01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:15.000 THAT IS TRUE SUCCESS. 01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:16.000 ON THIS JOURNEY, YOU WILL GO 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:18.000 THROUGH SO MUCH, BUT WHEN YOU 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:21.000 CAN CONNECT WITH YOUR 01:24:21.000 --> 01:24:22.000 SELF-WORTH, IT DOESN'T MATTER 01:24:22.000 --> 01:24:25.000 WHAT HAPPENS IN CAREER, IN 01:24:25.000 --> 01:24:27.000 FAMILY, KNOWING THAT YOU ARE 01:24:27.000 --> 01:24:31.000 WORTHY, AS YOU ARE, YOU ARE A 01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:32.000 WORTHY BEING. 01:24:32.000 --> 01:24:37.000 CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2019. 01:24:37.000 --> 01:24:39.000 I WISH YOU LOVE, 01:24:39.000 --> 01:24:40.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:50.000 APPLAUSE 01:24:50.000 --> 01:24:51.000 THANK YOU, ROSA LEE, FOR YOUR 01:24:51.000 --> 01:24:53.000 STORY OF COURAGE AND YOUR WORK 01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:54.000 AS A PERFORMER. 01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:56.000 IT'S A GIFT FOR US TO HAVE YOU 01:24:56.000 --> 01:24:57.000 HERE TODAY. 01:24:57.000 --> 01:24:61.000 I WANT TO GIVE YOU A FEW OF THE 01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:02.000 DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE CLASS OF 01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:06.000 THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2019 01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:09.000 TOTALS 1828 INDIVIDUALS THAT 01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:11.000 HAVE EARNED A TOTAL OF 1840 01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:12.000 DEGREES. 01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:13.000 CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:18.000 OVER 1,000 OF THESE STUDENTS ARE 01:25:18.000 --> 01:25:20.000 HERE TODAY. 01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:24.000 RECEIVING A BACHELOR'S DEGREE, 01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:25.000 AND 13% ARE RECEIVING A MASTER'S 01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:26.000 DEGREE. 01:25:26.000 --> 01:25:32.000 OUR YOUNGEST STUDENT RECEIVING A 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:33.000 BACHELOR'S DEGREE IS 19 YEARS 01:25:33.000 --> 01:25:37.000 OUR YOUNGEST STUDENT RECEIVING A 01:25:37.000 --> 01:25:38.000 MASTER'S DEGREE IS 22. 01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:43.000 THE MOST EXPERIENCED GRADUATE 01:25:43.000 --> 01:25:45.000 RECEIVING A MASTER'S DEGREE IS 01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:52.000 EXPERIENCED GRADUATES RECEIVING 01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:54.000 THEIR MASTER'S DEGREES ARE 57 01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:56.000 YEARS YOUNG. 01:25:56.000 --> 01:25:61.000 TODAY'S GRADUATES REPRESENT 33 01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:03.000 OF 36 COUNTIES IN OREGON. 01:26:03.000 --> 01:26:05.000 THE STATES OF ALASKA, ARIZONA, 01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:07.000 CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, FLORIDA, 01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:11.000 GEORGIA, HAWAII, IDAHO, INDIANA, 01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:13.000 IOWA, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, 01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:16.000 MONTANA, NORTHERN MARIANA EYE 01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:18.000 LANDS, NEVADA, NORTH CAROLINA, 01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:20.000 TENNESSEE, TEXAS, UTAH, AND 01:26:20.000 --> 01:26:22.000 WASHINGTON. 01:26:22.000 --> 01:26:26.000 WE HAVE GRADUATES REPRESENTING 01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:31.000 CHINA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 01:26:31.000 --> 01:26:34.000 THE CONGO, INDIA, JAPAN, LIBYA, 01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:38.000 MEXICO, NEPAL, NIGERIA, PERU, 01:26:38.000 --> 01:26:42.000 RWANDA, SAMOA, SAUDI ARABIA, 01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:45.000 SINGAPORE, SOUTH KOREA, AND 01:26:45.000 --> 01:26:46.000 TAIWAN. 01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:47.000 CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:53.000 FINALLY, 10 STUDENTS HAVE 01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:55.000 COMPLETED TWO BACHELOR'S DEGREES 01:26:55.000 --> 01:26:57.000 AND ONE STUDENT HAS COMPLETED 01:26:57.000 --> 01:26:58.000 THREE DEGREES. 01:26:59.000 --> 01:26:62.000 BACHELOR'S DEGREE HAVE A 4.00 01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:03.000 CUMULATIVE GPA. 01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:06.000 AND 51 STUDENTS RECEIVING A 01:27:06.000 --> 01:27:09.000 MASTER'S DEGREE HAVE A 4.00 01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:10.000 DEGREE AS WELL. 01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:13.000 WHEN ADMITTED TO WESTERN OREGON 01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:14.000 UNIVERSITY, SELECT STUDENTS ARE 01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:15.000 INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:17.000 CHALLENGING HONORS PROGRAM THAT 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:19.000 INCLUDES AN INTERDISCIPLINARY 01:27:19.000 --> 01:27:21.000 CURRICULUM AND ADDITIONAL 01:27:21.000 --> 01:27:23.000 ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS, AS WELL 01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:25.000 AS SENIOR HONORS THESIS. 01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:26.000 I NEED SOME WATER. 01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:28.000 WE COMMEND THESE STUDENTS WHO 01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:29.000 HAVE PERSISTED IN MEETING THESE 01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:31.000 EXTRA DEMANDS OF OUR HONORS 01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:32.000 PROGRAM. 01:27:32.000 --> 01:27:34.000 WOULD THE HONOR STUDENTS PLEASE 01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:37.000 THANK YOU. 01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:42.000 THE TIME HAS COME TO RECOGNIZE 01:27:42.000 --> 01:27:44.000 UNDERGRADUATES WHO ARE 01:27:44.000 --> 01:27:46.000 GRADUATING WITH ACADEMIC HONORS 01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:47.000 AND PRESENT CANDIDATES FOR THE 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:49.000 CONFERAL OF THEIR DEGREES. 01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:50.000 I'LL NOW ASK PROVOST WINNINGHAM 01:27:50.000 --> 01:27:51.000 TO DESCRIBE THE ATTAINMENT OF 01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:53.000 THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE 01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:55.000 GRADUATING WITH HONORS AND TO 01:27:55.000 --> 01:27:59.000 PRESENT THE CANDIDATES. 01:27:59.000 --> 01:27:61.000 THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FULLER. 01:28:01.000 --> 01:28:03.000 STUDENTS WHO ACHIEVE A 01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:05.000 GRADE.AVENUAGE MUCH 3.5 OR 01:28:05.000 --> 01:28:08.000 BETTER GRADUATE WITH HONORS. 01:28:08.000 --> 01:28:10.000 AS NOTED IN YOUR PROGRAMS, 01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:12.000 STUDENTS WITH A GRADE POINT 01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:16.000 AVERAGE OF 3.5-3.64 GRADUATE 01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:17.000 CUM LAUDE. 01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:20.000 TODAY, 132 STUDENTS ARE 01:28:20.000 --> 01:28:22.000 GRADUATING WITH CUM LAUDE 01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:24.000 HONORS. 01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:25.000 THOSE WITH AVERAGES FROM 01:28:29.000 --> 01:28:30.000 LAUDE. 01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:35.000 AND 151 STUDENTS ARE GRADUATING 01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:36.000 WITH THIS HONOR TODAY. 01:28:36.000 --> 01:28:40.000 AND FINALLY, THOSE WITH A GRADE 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:43.000 POINT AVERAGE OF 3.8-4.0 01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:47.000 GRADUATE SUMA CUM LAUDE. 01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:48.000 CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 01:28:48.000 --> 01:28:52.000 WE ARE PLEASED TO RECOGNIZE 235 01:28:52.000 --> 01:28:55.000 STUDENTS GRADUATING WITH SUMA 01:28:55.000 --> 01:28:57.000 CUM LAUDE TODAY. 01:28:57.000 --> 01:28:66.000 THOSE DESIGNATIONS REPRESENT 01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:08.000 IMPRESSIVE ACADEMIC 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:11.000 I WOULD LIKE TO NOW ASK ALL THE 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:13.000 GRADUATES WHO ARE GRADUATING 01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:15.000 WITH THESE ACADEMIC HONORS TO 01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:21.000 PLEASE STAND. 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:30.000 CUM LAUDE GRADUATES ONLY, 01:29:30.000 --> 01:29:31.000 PLEASE BE SEATED. 01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:38.000 MAGNA CUM LAUDE GRADUATES, ONLY, 01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:39.000 PLEASE BE SEATED. 01:29:39.000 --> 01:29:43.000 THOSE GRADUATES STANDING ARE 01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:47.000 WESTERN'S 2019 SUMA CUM LAUDE 01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:49.000 GRADUATES, OR THOSE WITH A GRADE 01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:51.000 POINT AVERAGE OF AT LEAST 3.8. 01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:52.000 CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 01:29:52.000 --> 01:29:61.000 YOU MAY BE SEATED. 01:30:01.000 --> 01:30:03.000 AND NOW, WILL CANDIDATES FOR THE 01:30:03.000 --> 01:30:05.000 MASTER'S DEGREE PLEASE STAND. 01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:13.000 BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY 01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:14.000 VESTED IN ME BY THE WESTERN 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:15.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY BOARD OF 01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:17.000 TRUSTEES, AND UPON THE 01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:18.000 RECOMMENDATION OF THE FACULTY OF 01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:20.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY, I 01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:22.000 HEREBY CONFER UPON EACH OF YOU 01:30:22.000 --> 01:30:24.000 THE MASTER'S DEGREE TO WHICH YOU 01:30:24.000 --> 01:30:25.000 ARE ENTITLED, WITH ALL THE 01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:27.000 RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, AND 01:30:27.000 --> 01:30:28.000 RESPONSIBILITIES PERTAINING 01:30:28.000 --> 01:30:29.000 THERETO. 01:30:29.000 --> 01:30:31.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:32.000 YOU MAY BE SEATED. 01:30:32.000 --> 01:30:40.000 CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:42.000 WILL THE CANDIDATES FOR 01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:44.000 BACHELOR'S DEGREES PLEASE STAND? 01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:55.000 BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY 01:30:55.000 --> 01:30:56.000 VESTED IN ME BY THE WESTERN 01:30:56.000 --> 01:30:57.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY BOARD OF 01:30:57.000 --> 01:30:58.000 TRUSTEES AND UPON THE 01:30:58.000 --> 01:30:59.000 RECOMMENDATION OF THE FACULTY OF 01:30:59.000 --> 01:30:60.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY, AND 01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:02.000 ON BEHALF OF PRESIDENT JACOBS OF 01:31:02.000 --> 01:31:04.000 THE OREGON HEALTH SCIENCE 01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:05.000 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING AT 01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:08.000 MONMOUTH, I HEREBY CONFER UPON 01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:09.000 EACH OF YOU THE BACHELOR'S 01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:10.000 DEGREE TO WHICH YOU ARE 01:31:10.000 --> 01:31:11.000 ENTITLED, WITH ALL THE RIGHTS, 01:31:11.000 --> 01:31:13.000 PRIVILEGES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES 01:31:13.000 --> 01:31:15.000 PERTAINING THERETO. 01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:16.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:27.000 WILL ALL BUT THE FIRST ROW BE 01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:28.000 SEATED. 01:31:28.000 --> 01:31:31.000 I NOW INVITE THE FIRST ROW TO 01:31:31.000 --> 01:31:41.000 COME FORWARD. 01:31:41.000 --> 01:31:90.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER'S OF 01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:31.000 SCIENCE IN REHABILITATION 01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:35.000 COUNSELING. 01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:40.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF ARTS IN 01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:45.000 CRIMINAL JUSTICE. 01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:52.000 RECEIVING THE MASTERS OF ARTS IN 01:32:52.000 --> 01:32:79.000 INTERPRETING STUDIES. 01:33:19.000 --> 01:33:21.000 RECEIVING THE MASTERS OF ARTS IN 01:33:21.000 --> 01:34:59.000 TEACHING -- 01:34:59.000 --> 01:34:64.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF MUSIC 01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:15.000 IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC -- 01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:21.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF 01:35:21.000 --> 01:37:66.000 SCIENCE IN EDUCATION 01:38:06.000 --> 01:38:27.000 RECEIVING THE MASTERS IN MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 01:38:27.000 --> 01:38:28.000 THE MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN 01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:60.000 REHABILITATION COUNSELING -- 01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:03.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:39:03.000 --> 01:39:04.000 SCIENCE WITH AN EMPHASIS IN 01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:06.000 NURSING FROM THE OREGON HEALTH 01:39:06.000 --> 01:39:07.000 SCIENCES UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF 01:39:07.000 --> 01:39:41.000 NURSING, MONMOUTH CAMPUS 01:39:41.000 --> 01:39:45.000 THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:52.000 EDUCATION RECEIVING THE 01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:53.000 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN AMERICAN 01:39:53.000 --> 01:39:99.000 SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES -- 01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:43.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:46.000 ARTS IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:98.000 ENGLISH INTERPRETING -- 01:41:38.000 --> 01:41:39.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:57.000 HEALTH INDICATION -- 01:41:57.000 --> 01:41:60.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:42:00.000 --> 01:42:01.000 SCIENCE IN COMMUNITY HEALTH 01:42:01.000 --> 01:46:27.000 EDUCATION -- 01:46:27.000 --> 01:46:30.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:46:30.000 --> 01:47:68.000 ARTS IN EDUCATION -- 01:48:08.000 --> 01:48:11.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:48:11.000 --> 01:52:55.000 SCIENCE IN EDUCATION 01:52:55.000 --> 01:52:58.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:52:58.000 --> 01:52:63.000 ARTS IN EDUCATION STUDIES -- 01:53:04.000 --> 01:53:37.000 SCIENCE IN EDUCATION STUDIES -- 01:53:37.000 --> 01:53:40.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:53:40.000 --> 01:56:47.000 ARTS IN EXERCISE SCIENCE -- 01:56:47.000 --> 01:56:50.000 RECIEVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:57.000 SCIENCE IN BUSINESS -- RECEIVING 01:56:57.000 --> 01:56:59.000 THE BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CRIMINAL 01:56:59.000 --> 01:56:68.000 JUSTICE 01:57:08.000 --> 01:57:09.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:57:09.000 --> 01:57:18.000 SCIENCE IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- 01:57:18.000 --> 01:57:19.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:57:19.000 --> 01:57:26.000 ARTS IN ART -- 01:57:26.000 --> 01:57:27.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:57:27.000 --> 01:57:34.000 FINE ARTS IN ART -- 01:57:34.000 --> 01:57:35.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:57:35.000 --> 01:57:46.000 SCIENCE IN ART -- 01:57:46.000 --> 01:57:47.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ART 01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:62.000 IN ART AND DESIGN -- 01:58:02.000 --> 01:58:03.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:58:03.000 --> 01:58:14.000 FINE ARTS IN ART AND DESIGN -- 01:58:14.000 --> 01:58:15.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:58:15.000 --> 01:58:34.000 SCIENCE IN ART AND DESIGN -- 01:58:34.000 --> 01:58:36.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:58:36.000 --> 01:58:38.000 ARTS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY 01:58:38.000 --> 01:58:43.000 STUDIES -- 01:58:43.000 --> 01:58:44.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:58:44.000 --> 01:58:49.000 ARTS IN BIOLOGY -- 01:58:49.000 --> 01:58:50.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:58:50.000 --> 01:59:52.000 SCIENCE IN BIOLOGY -- 01:59:52.000 --> 01:59:55.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:59:55.000 --> 01:59:83.000 ARTS IN BUSINESS -- 02:00:23.000 --> 02:00:26.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:00:26.000 --> 02:05:40.000 SCIENCE IN BUSINESS -- 02:05:40.000 --> 02:05:43.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:05:43.000 --> 02:05:62.000 SCIENCE IN CHEMISTRY -- 02:06:02.000 --> 02:06:05.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:06:05.000 --> 02:06:21.000 ARTS IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES -- 02:06:21.000 --> 02:06:24.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:06:24.000 --> 02:06:25.000 SCIENCE IN COMMUNICATION 02:06:25.000 --> 02:07:77.000 STUDIES -- 02:08:17.000 --> 02:08:20.000 RECEIVING THE APPLIED 02:08:20.000 --> 02:08:21.000 BACCALAUREATE IN COMPUTER 02:08:21.000 --> 02:08:32.000 SCIENCE -- 02:08:32.000 --> 02:08:35.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:08:35.000 --> 02:08:40.000 ARTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 02:08:40.000 --> 02:08:41.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:08:41.000 --> 02:09:41.000 SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 02:09:41.000 --> 02:09:43.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:09:43.000 --> 02:09:45.000 SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND 02:09:45.000 --> 02:09:87.000 MATHEMATICS -- 02:10:27.000 --> 02:10:30.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:10:30.000 --> 02:10:36.000 ARTS IN MUSIC -- 02:10:36.000 --> 02:10:37.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:10:37.000 --> 02:10:94.000 ARTS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 02:11:34.000 --> 02:11:37.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:11:37.000 --> 02:14:57.000 SCIENCE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 02:14:57.000 --> 02:14:60.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:15:00.000 --> 02:15:02.000 ARTS IN DANCE -- 02:15:02.000 --> 02:15:04.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:15:04.000 --> 02:15:23.000 SCIENCE IN EARTH SCIENCE -- 02:15:23.000 --> 02:15:26.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:15:26.000 --> 02:15:37.000 SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS -- 02:15:37.000 --> 02:15:39.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ART 02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:72.000 IN ENGLISH -- 02:16:12.000 --> 02:16:15.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:22.000 SCIENCE IN GEOGRAPHY -- 02:16:22.000 --> 02:16:25.000 RECEIVING THE APPLIED 02:16:25.000 --> 02:16:28.000 BACCALAUREATE IN GERENTOLOGY -- 02:16:28.000 --> 02:16:32.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:16:32.000 --> 02:16:36.000 ARTS IN GERENTOLOGY -- 02:16:36.000 --> 02:16:37.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:16:37.000 --> 02:16:63.000 SCIENCE IN GERENTOLOGY -- 02:17:03.000 --> 02:17:06.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:17:06.000 --> 02:17:13.000 ARTS IN HISTORY -- 02:17:13.000 --> 02:17:16.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:17:16.000 --> 02:17:30.000 SCIENCE IN HISTORY -- 02:17:30.000 --> 02:17:32.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:17:32.000 --> 02:17:39.000 ARTS IN HUMANITIES -- 02:17:39.000 --> 02:17:40.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:17:40.000 --> 02:17:51.000 SCIENCE IN THE HUMANITIES -- 02:17:51.000 --> 02:17:53.000 RECEIVING THE APPLIED 02:17:53.000 --> 02:17:55.000 BACCALAUREATE IN INFORMATION 02:17:55.000 --> 02:17:77.000 SYSTEMS -- 02:18:17.000 --> 02:18:18.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:18:18.000 --> 02:18:54.000 SCIENCE IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS 02:18:54.000 --> 02:18:57.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:18:57.000 --> 02:18:59.000 SCIENCE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY 02:18:59.000 --> 02:21:65.000 STUDIES -- 02:22:05.000 --> 02:22:07.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:18.000 ARTS IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES -- 02:22:18.000 --> 02:22:20.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:22:20.000 --> 02:22:47.000 SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS -- 02:22:47.000 --> 02:22:49.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:22:49.000 --> 02:22:58.000 ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY -- 02:22:58.000 --> 02:22:59.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:22:59.000 --> 02:22:60.000 SCIENCE 02:23:00.000 --> 02:23:04.000 PHILOSOPHY -- 02:23:04.000 --> 02:23:05.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:23:05.000 --> 02:23:13.000 ARTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 02:23:13.000 --> 02:23:14.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:23:14.000 --> 02:23:37.000 SCIENCE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 02:23:37.000 --> 02:23:38.000 RECEIVING THE APPLIED 02:23:38.000 --> 02:23:48.000 BACCALAUREATE IN PSYCHOLOGY -- 02:23:48.000 --> 02:23:50.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:23:50.000 --> 02:23:###.000 ARTS IN PSYCHOLOGY -- 02:24:46.000 --> 02:24:47.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:24:47.000 --> 02:27:###.000 SCIENCE IN PSYCHOLOGY -- 02:28:43.000 --> 02:28:45.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:28:45.000 --> 02:28:46.000 ARTS IN PUBLIC POLICY AND 02:28:46.000 --> 02:28:51.000 ADMINISTRATION -- 02:28:51.000 --> 02:28:54.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:28:54.000 --> 02:28:55.000 SCIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY AND 02:28:55.000 --> 02:28:69.000 ADMINISTRATION -- 02:29:09.000 --> 02:29:10.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:29:10.000 --> 02:29:35.000 ARTS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- 02:29:35.000 --> 02:29:36.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:29:36.000 --> 02:29:79.000 SCIENCE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- 02:30:19.000 --> 02:30:20.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:30:20.000 --> 02:30:27.000 ARTS IN SOCIOLOGY -- 02:30:27.000 --> 02:30:28.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:30:28.000 --> 02:30:65.000 SCIENCE IN SOCIOLOGY -- 02:31:05.000 --> 02:31:07.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:07.000 --> 02:31:37.000 ARTS IN SPANISH -- 02:31:37.000 --> 02:31:38.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:38.000 --> 02:31:43.000 SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABILITY -- 02:31:43.000 --> 02:31:44.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:44.000 --> 02:31:52.000 ARTS IN THEATER -- 02:31:52.000 --> 02:31:53.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:53.000 --> 02:31:68.000 ARTS IN THEATER ARTS -- 02:32:08.000 --> 02:32:10.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:10.000 --> 02:32:41.000 FINE ARTS IN THEATER ARTS -- 02:32:41.000 --> 02:32:42.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:42.000 --> 02:32:43.000 ARTS IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION 02:32:43.000 --> 02:33:53.000 DESIGN -- 02:33:54.000 --> 02:33:56.000 COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 02:33:56.000 --> 02:33:57.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:33:57.000 --> 02:33:61.000 COMMUNICATION -- 02:34:01.000 --> 02:34:02.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:34:02.000 --> 02:34:06.000 INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES -- 02:34:06.000 --> 02:34:07.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:34:07.000 --> 02:34:12.000 INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES -- 02:34:12.000 --> 02:34:13.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:34:13.000 --> 02:34:15.000 INTERDISIPLINARY STUDIES 02:34:15.000 --> 02:34:19.000 STUDIES -- 02:34:19.000 --> 02:34:20.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:34:20.000 --> 02:34:24.000 INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES -- 02:34:24.000 --> 02:34:25.000 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN 02:34:25.000 --> 02:34:28.000 BUSINESS -- 02:34:28.000 --> 02:34:29.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:34:29.000 --> 02:34:60.000 BUSINESS -- 02:35:00.000 --> 02:35:06.000 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I 02:35:06.000 --> 02:35:09.000 PRESENT THE 2019 GRADUATES OF 02:35:09.000 --> 02:35:10.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY AND 02:35:10.000 --> 02:35:11.000 THE GRADUATES OF OREGON HEALTH 02:35:11.000 --> 02:35:13.000 SCIENCE UNIVERSITY. 02:35:13.000 --> 02:35:14.000 PLEASE GIVE THEM A ROUND OF 02:35:15.000 --> 02:35:26.000 GRADUATES, CONGRATULATIONS. 02:35:26.000 --> 02:35:27.000 WE WILL FOLLOW YOU WITH PRIDE. 02:35:27.000 --> 02:35:28.000 YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED YOU HAVE 02:35:28.000 --> 02:35:29.000 EXCEPTIONAL QUALITIES AND 02:35:29.000 --> 02:35:31.000 ABILITIES. 02:35:31.000 --> 02:35:32.000 GREAT THINGS ARE IN STORE FOR 02:35:32.000 --> 02:35:33.000 YOU. 02:35:33.000 --> 02:35:34.000 AND WE AT WESTERN OREGON 02:35:34.000 --> 02:35:35.000 UNIVERSITY ARE PLEASED TO BE 02:35:35.000 --> 02:35:36.000 YOUR PARTNERS. 02:35:36.000 --> 02:35:37.000 ALTHOUGH YOU MAY BE LEAVING US 02:35:37.000 --> 02:35:39.000 AS STUDENTS, WE WELCOME YOU AS 02:35:39.000 --> 02:35:41.000 ALUM AND PERMANENT MEMBERS OF 02:35:41.000 --> 02:35:43.000 OUR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 02:35:43.000 --> 02:35:45.000 PLEASE KEEP IN CONTACT WITH US, 02:35:45.000 --> 02:35:47.000 SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE 02:35:47.000 --> 02:35:48.000 TO GROW. 02:35:48.000 --> 02:35:51.000 AS OUR COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY 02:35:51.000 --> 02:35:52.000 COMES TO A CLOSE, I WOULD LIKE 02:35:52.000 --> 02:35:53.000 TO THANK THE COMMITTEE AND THE 02:35:53.000 --> 02:35:55.000 FACULTY AND STAFF AND MARSHALS 02:35:55.000 --> 02:35:59.000 FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE, AND OUR 02:35:59.000 --> 02:35:61.000 MEMBERS OF THE REG STARS OFFICE, 02:36:01.000 --> 02:36:02.000 FACILITY SERVICES AND PUBLIC 02:36:02.000 --> 02:36:05.000 SAFETY. 02:36:05.000 --> 02:36:07.000 AS WELL AS OTHER OFFICES 02:36:07.000 --> 02:36:08.000 INVOLVED IN COORDINATING THE 02:36:08.000 --> 02:36:09.000 EVENTS. 02:36:09.000 --> 02:36:11.000 SPECIAL THANKS GO TO CHRISTYN 02:36:11.000 --> 02:36:12.000 BURCHAM, BEN CAVALETTO, PETER 02:36:12.000 --> 02:36:15.000 FLORA, MERRYN GIVENS, CHRISTINA 02:36:15.000 --> 02:36:18.000 HEALY, ALYSSA HOOVER, AUDREY 02:36:18.000 --> 02:36:21.000 LOUDENBACK, STACEY RAINEY, 02:36:21.000 --> 02:36:22.000 MICHAEL ROSE, AND STACEY 02:36:22.000 --> 02:36:23.000 STEVENS. 02:36:23.000 --> 02:36:25.000 AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT 02:36:25.000 --> 02:36:28.000 GRADUATES, FOLLOWING TODAY'S 02:36:28.000 --> 02:36:30.000 CEREMONY WE GATHER IN THE GROVE 02:36:30.000 --> 02:36:32.000 FOR A SPECIAL RECEPTION IN YOUR 02:36:32.000 --> 02:36:33.000 HONOR TO GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY 02:36:33.000 --> 02:36:35.000 TO CONGRATULATE YOU. 02:36:35.000 --> 02:36:36.000 WE ASK THAT YOU REMAIN SEATED 02:36:36.000 --> 02:36:37.000 UNTIL THE PLATFORM PARTY AND 02:36:37.000 --> 02:36:39.000 FACULTY HAVE EXITED THE AREA. 02:36:39.000 --> 02:36:40.000 WE LACK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN 02:36:40.000 --> 02:36:41.000 THE GROVE. 02:36:41.000 --> 02:36:43.000 AND AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS CLASS 02:36:43.000 --> 02:36:45.000 OF 2019.