WEBVTT 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:47.000 IT IS A BEAUTIFUL MORNING AND A 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.000 FITTING TRIBUTE TO GRADUATION TO 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:51.000 BE HERE. 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:52.000 MOST LIKELY, YOU ARE ALREADY 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:54.000 SHARING PHOTOS AND STATUS 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.000 UPDATES ON THIS SPECIAL DAY, 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.000 WHILE YOU ARE AT IT, ADD 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.000 I'LL START IT OFF BY TAKING A 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:05.000 PHOTO OF ALL OF YOU. 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:06.000 SO NOW IS YOUR TIME. 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:15.000 PLEASE POST THOSE TO FACEBOOK 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:17.000 AND TWITTER ACCOUNTS. 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:19.000 IT IS A WONDERFUL DAY TO HAVE 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:20.000 YOU HERE. 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:21.000 AGAIN, WELCOME. 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:28.000 TO THE 160th COMMENCEMENT 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:32.000 CEREMONY AT WESTERN OREGON 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:33.000 UNIVERSITY. 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:39.000 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THOSE 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:42.000 PERFORMING THE FINAL MUSICAL 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.000 EXERCISE. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:46.000 THE WOU MUSIC DEPARTMENT 2017 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:48.000 GRADUATING CLASS DIRECTED BY DR. 00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:51.000 DIRK FREYMOUTH AND GATORQUEST 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.000 DIRECTED BY DAN GAYNOR. 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:57.000 PLEASE STAND FOR THE 00:33:58.000 --> 00:33:59.000 PRESENTATION OF COLORS AND THE 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:01.000 NATIONAL ANTHEM AND JOIN ME IN 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:06.000 THANKING OUR MUSICIANS. 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:35.000 GLEAMING \M 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:38.000 BRIGHT 00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:42.000 STARS \M 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:56.000 STREAMING \M 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:10.000 NIGHT \M 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:20.000 THERE \M 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.000 BRAVE \M\M 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:17.000 I WANT TO THANK OUR 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:25.000 DISTINGUISHED LEADERS, VOCALS 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:27.000 PROVIDED BY ERIN WESTFALL AND 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:31.000 INTERPRETED BY THE 2017 AMERICAN 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:40.000 MURPHY. 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.000 FOR MOST OF YOU TODAY'S CEREMONY 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:47.000 REPRESENTS A REALIZATION OF A 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:49.000 DREAM, TO EARN A COLLEGE DREAM 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:51.000 WHICH TOOK SHAPE YEARS AGO. 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:53.000 WE ADMIRE THE HARD WORK AND 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:55.000 DETERMINATION WHICH HAVE BROUGHT 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:56.000 YOU TO SUCCESS. 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:58.000 I'M PROUD TO BE PART OF A 00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:60.000 UNIVERSITY WHERE SO MANY OF YOU 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:02.000 DISCOVERED YOURSELF, SPEAK WITH 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:05.000 EMOTION ABOUT YOUR 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:06.000 TRANSFORMATIVE YEARS HERE. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.000 THAT LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.000 WILL SERVE YOU WELL FOR A LIFE 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:12.000 TIME. 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.000 COMPLETION OF A MAJOR CHAPTER IN 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:17.000 YOUR LIVES CULMINATION OF YEARS 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:19.000 OF EFFORT, WE BELIEVE MORE 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:21.000 CHALLENGING CHAPTERS LIE AHEAD. 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:24.000 WE TRUST HIGHER LEARNING YOU 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.000 LEARNED ON THIS CAMPUS WILL LEAD 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:27.000 YOU TO NEW BEGINNINGS. 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:31.000 GRADUATES, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.000 THANK THE FACULTY AND STAFF BY 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:35.000 GIVING THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.000 FOR HELPING YOU WITH THIS 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:38.000 JOURNEY. 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:40.000 THANK YOU. 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:41.000 I WOULD NOW LIKE TO INTRODUCE A 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:43.000 FEW OF OUR HONORED GUESTS. 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:46.000 FIRST THE PLATFORM PARTY, I 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:48.000 REQUEST YOU HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:50.000 UNTIL ALL ARE INTRODUCED. 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:51.000 IF EACH WILL STAND AN REMAIN 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:54.000 STANDING. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:55.000 DR. ANGIE DOCHERTY, ASSOCIATE 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:58.000 CAMPUS DEAN, OREGON HEALTH AND 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:01.000 SCIENCES UNIVERSITY. 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:02.000 DR. MARK GIROD, MARK WINNINGHAM, 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:06.000 DEAN, DR. STEPHEN SCHECK, 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:13.000 PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:14.000 MR. ERIC YAHNKE, VICE PRESIDENT 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:18.000 MR. RYAN HAGEMANN VICE PRESIDENT 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:20.000 AND GENERAL COUNSEL, DR. TOM 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:22.000 BERGERON, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC MR. 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:24.000 MATTHEW UTTERBACK, TODAY'S 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:26.000 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER MR. TONY 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:28.000 CRAWFORD, ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:31.000 AND THE HONORABLE BETTY KOMP, 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:33.000 THIS YEAR'S ALUMNI AWARD OF 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:36.000 EXCELLENCE RECIPIENT IN ON OF 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:38.000 THE WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:41.000 PLEASE GIVE THEM A ROUND OF 00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.000 APPLAUSE. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.000 JOINING THEM ON THE PLATFORM ARE 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:49.000 MEMBERS OF OUR BOARD OF 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:50.000 TRUSTEES, GLORIA INGLE, VICE 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:52.000 CHAIR CECILIA KOONTZ AND WELCOME 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:03.000 MARSHALL GOOUTRY, CORNELIA 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:09.000 PARASKEVAS WHO ARE IN THE 00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:10.000 AUDIENCE. 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:12.000 A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR ALL OF 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:15.000 THEM. 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:16.000 THANK YOU. 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:18.000 I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:20.000 FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBERS THAT 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:21.000 ARE IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY. 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.000 THIS IS A GROUP THAT WORKS SO 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:25.000 DILIGENTLY TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:26.000 AID AND SCHOLARSHIP FOR OUR 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:28.000 PLEASE HOLD YOUR GRATITUDE UNTIL 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.000 I COMPLETED THE INTRODUCTION. 00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:32.000 IN THE AUDIENCE IS LYNDA 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:37.000 BERSANI, GAIL CALDARAZZO-DOTY, 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:43.000 COREY FRAUENDIENER CHAIR OF OUR 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.000 FOUNDATION BOARD. 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.000 PLEASE, A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. 00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:50.000 IN ADDITION WE WOULD LIKE TO 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:53.000 THE CLASS OF 1967 WHO LED 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:55.000 TODAY'S STUDENT PROCESSIONAL IN 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:58.000 THE CELEBRATION OF THE GOLDEN 00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:59.000 ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR GRADUATION. 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.000 AS GOLDEN WOLVES THEY HAVE 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:09.000 AND YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THEM IN 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:10.000 THEIR GOLD REGALIA, CORI 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:15.000 FRAUENDIENER AND ALL THE NEWLY 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:18.000 INDUCTED GOLDEN WOLVES AND THE 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:22.000 CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THIS 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:23.000 UNIVERSITY. 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.000 WE ARE ALSO HONORED TO HAVE 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:32.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY'S 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:33.000 BOARD OF TRUSTEES VICE CHAIR 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:38.000 CECILIA KOONTZ JOINING US TODAY. 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:40.000 AT THIS TIME, SHE WOULD LIKE TO 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.000 SHARE A FEW WORDS WITH YOU. 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.000 ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:47.000 TRUSTEES OF WESTERN OREGON 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:48.000 UNIVERSITY, WE BRING OUR 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:51.000 HEARTFELT CONGRATULATIONS. 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:54.000 YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT TODAY IS THE 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:56.000 RESULT OF HARD WORK AND 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:57.000 DEDICATION TO LIFE-LONG 00:40:58.000 --> 00:40:59.000 LEARNING. 00:40:59.000 --> 00:40:60.000 I KNOW YOU WERE SUPPORTED IN 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.000 THAT WORK BY THE FACULTY AND 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:04.000 STAFF OF WESTERN AND THE BOARD 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.000 IS HONORED TO SHARE IN THIS DAY 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:07.000 OF CELEBRATION WITH ALL OF YOU. 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:11.000 GRADUATES, I KNOW YOU ARE ALSO 00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:12.000 SUPPORTED IN THIS JOURNEY BY 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:14.000 YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, MANY OF 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:16.000 WHOM ARE WITH US TODAY. 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:19.000 PLEASE JOIN ME IN THIS 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.000 OPPORTUNITY TO WELCOME AND THANK 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:23.000 THEM FOR THAT SUPPORT. 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:34.000 AGAIN, FELIZEDADES AND 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:38.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:48.000 THIS SPRING A STAFF MEMBER AND 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:50.000 TWO MEMBERS OF OUR FACULTY ARE 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:56.000 RECIPIENTS OF MARIO & ALMA 00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.000 DR. VIVIAN DJOKOTOE, DR. ELIOT 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.000 DICKINSON HAS BEEN HONORED IN 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:11.000 EXCELLENCE? 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:12.000 SCHOLARSHIP AND MR. BRUCE TOUMA 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.000 AWARDED THE MARIO & ALMA PASTEGA 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:17.000 IN EXCELLENCE FOR STAFF. 00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:19.000 PLEASE JOIN ME IN THANKING THEM. 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.000 AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE OUR 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:34.000 FACULTY TO STAND AND REMAIN 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:36.000 STANDING FOR A MOMENT AND ALL OF 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.000 OUR WESTERN OREGON GRADUATES, 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:39.000 FAMILIES AND FRIENDS TO AGAIN 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:41.000 JOIN ME IN THANKING AND 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:43.000 EXPRESSING YOUR APPRECIATION OF 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.000 THE HELP THE FACULTY GAVE YOU ON 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:48.000 THIS IMPORTANT JOURNEY. 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:49.000 SO, PLEASE, ONE MORE ROUND OF 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:55.000 THANK YOU. 00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:58.000 THE OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCES 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:02.000 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING HAD 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:05.000 A NURSING CAMPUS IN 2008, FIRST 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:12.000 EXCELLENCE AND COLLABORATION 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:13.000 WERE READILY ADAPTED AS DEFINING 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:16.000 CHARACTERISTICS OF MONMOUTH 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:17.000 CAMPUS. 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:18.000 WE ARE HONORED TO INCLUS OHSU 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:22.000 MONMOUTH SCHOOL OF NURSING 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:25.000 GRADUATES AS PART OF OUR 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:27.000 COMMENCEMENT TODAY. 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.000 PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING THEM 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:31.000 NOW. 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:33.000 EACH YEAR WESTERN OREGON 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:34.000 UNIVERSITY SELECTS THE 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.000 UNDERGRADUATE OUTSTANDING MAN 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:36.000 AND OUTSTANDING WOMAN IN THE 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:38.000 GRADUATING CLASS TO RECEIVE THE 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:40.000 DELMER DEWEY AND JULIA McCULLOCH 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:44.000 SMITH AWARDS. 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:45.000 A GRADUATE STUDENT IS SELECTED 00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:46.000 FOR OUTSTANDING EFFORTS. 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.000 TODAY RERECOGNIZE THE 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:49.000 DISTINGUISHED RECIPIENTS OF 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:51.000 THESE PRESTIGIOUS HONORS. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:55.000 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE 00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:58.000 THEY ARE RECEIVING. 00:43:59.000 --> 00:43:60.000 LAURA MIRANDA, RECIPIENT OF THE 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:09.000 KLUSH TUM TUM WHO WILL INTRODUCE 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:16.000 BUENOS DIAS PADRES, AMIGOS Y 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:20.000 GRADUADOS, GOOD MORNING FAMILY, 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:22.000 FRIENDS AND GRADUATES. 00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:24.000 IT IS AMAZING TO SEE THE SUPPORT 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:26.000 WE HAVE HERE TODAY. 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:27.000 I'M HONORED TO HAVE THE 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:28.000 OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE THE 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.000 FOLLOWING STUDENTS SPEAKING TO 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:30.000 YOU ALL. 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:31.000 THE DELMER DEWEY AWARD, THE 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:35.000 JULIA McCULLOCH SMITH AWARD AND 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:37.000 OUTSTANDING GRADUATE ARE GIVEN 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:40.000 TO STUDENTS WHO EXEMPLIFY 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:49.000 OUR CAMPUS. 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:50.000 THE EPITOMY OF A WESTERN OREGON 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.000 WOLF. 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.000 THE AWARD WINNERS HAVE BEEN 00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:58.000 WORTHY THROUGHOUT THEIR YEARS AT 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.000 WOU. 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:02.000 I GIVE YOU THE DELMER DEWEY 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:03.000 RECIPIENT CONNOR THOMPSON, THE 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:05.000 JULIA McCULLOCH SMITH RECIPIENT, 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:07.000 ALEISHA DOUTHITT AND THE 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:11.000 JENNIFER KEPKA. 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.000 THANK YOU TO PRESIDENT FULLER, 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.000 DISTINGUISHED FACULTY, FRIENDS 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:26.000 AND FAMILY AND FELLOW MEMBERS OF 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:27.000 THE WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:29.000 GRADUATING CLASS OF 2017. 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:33.000 LET'S REFLECT ON HIGH SCHOOL 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.000 GRADUATION FOR A SECOND. 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:35.000 WE ALL REMEMBER THAT DAY. 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.000 AFTER SPENDING FOUR YEARS WITH 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:39.000 YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS, 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:40.000 EVERYTHING CHANGED ONE DAY. 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:42.000 SOME OF OUR CLASSMATES MOVED ON 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:45.000 AND WE NEVER HEARD FROM THEM 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:46.000 AGAIN AND OTHER FRIENDSHIPS 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:48.000 CONTINUE TO THIS DAY. 00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:50.000 THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:51.000 PATHS PEOPLE CHOOSE AFTER HIGH 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:54.000 SCHOOL YET EVERYONE GRADUATING 00:45:55.000 --> 00:45:56.000 TODAY MADE THE SAME DECISION, TO 00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:58.000 PURSUE A FOUR-YEAR DEGREE. 00:45:59.000 --> 00:45:60.000 TODAY WE FINALLY COMPLETE THAT 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:02.000 GOAL AND ARE AGAIN CONFRONTED 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:04.000 WITH ANOTHER DECISION. 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:05.000 AGAIN WE HAVE MANY OPTIONS FROM 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.000 WHICH TO CHOOSE. 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:09.000 SOME OF US MAY MOVE BACK TO OUR 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:10.000 HOMETOWN AND BEGIN WORKING, SOME 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:12.000 MAY PURSUE A PROFESSIONAL 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:14.000 DEGREE, SOME MAY TAKE TIME OFF 00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.000 AND TRAVEL, SOME MAY GO INTO THE 00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.000 MILITARY, AND SOME MAY PURSUE A 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:20.000 GRADUATE DEGREE. 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:21.000 THERE ARE SO MANY UNIQUE 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:23.000 OPTIONS. 00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:24.000 THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG PATH, 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:27.000 THERE IS NO BETTER BATH. 00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:29.000 THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT. 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:30.000 BUT WHATEVER PATH WE CHOOSE WE 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:32.000 MUST FOLLOW WITH PASSION AND 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:33.000 DETERMINATION. 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:36.000 AGAIN, THERE WILL BE 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:37.000 RELATIONSHIPS WITH FRIENDS, 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:39.000 FACULTY AND OTHERS THAT WILL NOT 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:41.000 CONTINUE AND THAT IS OKAY. 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.000 NO MATTER WHAT WE CHOOSE, I 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.000 THINK THAT WE ALL HAVE BEEN 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.000 TRULY LUCKY TO HAVE SPENT TIME 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:51.000 AT WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY. 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:53.000 SOME OF US MAY HAVE ONLY BEEN 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:54.000 HERE A BRIEF PERIOD AND OTHERS 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:56.000 MAY HAVE BEEN HERE FOR WHAT 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:58.000 FEELS LIKE FOREVER. 00:46:58.000 --> 00:46:59.000 BUT NO MATTER THE LENGTH, I'M 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:01.000 SURE THE TIME WE HAVE SPENT AT 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:03.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY HAS 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:04.000 HELPED TO BETTER PREPARE US FOR 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:06.000 SUCCESS IN WHICHEVER PATH WE 00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:11.000 PURSUE AFTER THIS. 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:12.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY IS 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:13.000 SUCCESSFUL IN FOSTERING, 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:16.000 INVITING AND UPLIFTS LEARNING 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:18.000 ENVIRONMENT WHICH WE WILL ALL 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:20.000 CARRY FOR US. 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:21.000 TO CONCLUDE, I WOULD LIKE TO 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:23.000 WISH EVERYONE GRADUATING TODAY 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:25.000 THE BEST OF LUCK IN WHATEVER IS 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.000 THE NEXT STEP. 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:27.000 AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:29.000 PRESIDENT FULLER, WESTERN OREGON 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:31.000 UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND ALL 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:32.000 FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOR THEIR 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.000 SUPPORT AND EVERYTHING ELSE THEY 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.000 HAVE PROVIDED TO HELP US GET TO 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:37.000 WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:51.000 I WOULD LIKE TO START BY 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:52.000 THANKING ALL THE FAMILIES, 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:54.000 FRIENDS, FACULTY AND STAFF WHO 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:56.000 HAVE COME TO SUPPORT ALL OF US 00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:58.000 GRADUATING. 00:47:58.000 --> 00:47:59.000 ARE WE NOT THE BEST LOOKING 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:01.000 GRADUATING CLASS YOU HAVE EVER 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:02.000 SEEN? 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:05.000 IT IS A SINCERE HONOR TO BE HERE 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:07.000 TODAY AND GRADUATING FROM SUCH 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:09.000 AN AMAZING PLACE. 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:12.000 THERE ARE MANY ASPECTS THAT SET 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:14.000 US APART FROM OTHER 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:17.000 WESTERN IS UNIQUE BECAUSE OF OUR 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:18.000 BELIEF IN COMMUNITY. 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:19.000 IT IS NOT JUST AMONGST STUDENTS 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:21.000 THIS COMMUNITY EXISTS. 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:22.000 IT EXISTS IN THE SUPPORT WE 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:24.000 RECEIVE FROM THE FAK UL THETY 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:25.000 AND OUR STAFF. 00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:26.000 AND THIS COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:29.000 AND ADVOCACY WILL HELP US MAKE A 00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:32.000 DIFFERENCE. 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:33.000 AS A EDUCATION MAJOR I'M OFTEN 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.000 ASKED WHY DID YOU CHOOSE 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.000 FOR ME THE ANSWER HAS ALWAYS 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:39.000 BEEN CLEAR. 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:40.000 WE LIVE IN A WORLD FULL OF 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:41.000 HURTING PEOPLE, THAT INCLUDES 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:43.000 KIDS. 00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:44.000 OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM WILL OFTEN 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.000 TELL US EVERYBODY LEARNS IN ONE 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:48.000 WAY AND WE GET IN A MINDSET THAT 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:50.000 CHILDREN ALL LEARN THE SAME AND 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:51.000 THROUGH STANDARDIZED TESTS AND 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.000 STANDARDS WE ARE PROVIDING SOME 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:55.000 SORT OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN OUR 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:58.000 BUT THAT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. 00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:59.000 EVERY PERSON IS AN INDIVIDUAL 00:48:59.000 --> 00:48:61.000 WHO NEEDS LOVE AND SUPPORT IN 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:02.000 THEIR OWN WAY. 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:03.000 I CHOOSE EDUCATION BECAUSE 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:05.000 CHILDREN NEED SOMEBODY TO 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:08.000 THEY NEED SOMEONE TO LOVE AND 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.000 CARE FOR THEM ENOUGH TO LEARN 00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:11.000 THEIR NEEDS AND TO UNDERSTAND 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:12.000 WHO THEY REALLY ARE. 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:14.000 THEY NEED SOMEONE TO SIMPLY 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:16.000 BELIEVE IN THEM, SEE THEIR VALUE 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:17.000 AND TELL THEM THEY WERE CREATED 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:20.000 TO DO AMAZING THINGS EVEN IF 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.000 THEY DON'T YET SEE IT. 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.000 IT IS NOT JUST CHILDREN TO WHOM 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:26.000 THIS APPLIES. 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:27.000 WHETHER YOUR MAJOR IS EDUCATION, 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:29.000 NURSES, PSYCHOLOGY, CRIMINAL 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:31.000 JUSTICE, BUSINESS, ASL, DANCE, 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:34.000 LINGUISTICS, THE LIST GOES ON 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:35.000 AND ON. 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:36.000 WHATEVER IT MAY BE, YOU CAN BE 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:37.000 THAT PERSON FOR SOMEONE ELSE. 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.000 THERE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:41.000 SOMEONE WHO NEEDED TO BE 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:42.000 REMINDED THEY ARE VALUED, THEY 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:44.000 ARE IMPORTANT, AND THEY HAVE A 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.000 PURPOSE. 00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:47.000 DOESN'T MATTER IF THE PERSON YOU 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:49.000 ENCOUNTER IS 2 OR 92. 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:51.000 IT FEELS GOOD TO HAVE SOMEONE 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:53.000 BELIEVE IN YOU. 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:54.000 I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS NOT A 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:56.000 NORMAL GRADUATING CLASS, BUT 00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:58.000 THIS IS A CLASS FULL OF WORLD 00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:59.000 CHANGERS. 00:49:59.000 --> 00:49:61.000 A CLASS FULL OF PEOPLE AND NOW 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:03.000 REAL ADULTS WHO WILL GO OUT AND 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:05.000 LOVE PEOPLE WITH THE LOVE THAT 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:07.000 WILL ALWAYS PROTECT, TRUST, HOPE 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:09.000 AND PERSEVERE. 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:12.000 I'D LIKE TO CLOSE WITH ONE OF MY 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.000 LOVE MUST BE SINCERE, HATE WHAT 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:19.000 IS EVIL, CLING TO WHAT IS GOOD. 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:21.000 BE DEVOTED TO ONE ANOTHER IN 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.000 LOVE. 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:24.000 HONOR ONE ANOTHER ABOVE 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.000 YOURSELF, BE JOYFUL IN HOPE, 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:29.000 FAITHFUL IN PRAYER. 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.000 I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF ALL 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:32.000 WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED AND ALL 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:34.000 THAT WE ARE YET TO DO. 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:35.000 CLASS OF 2017, WE DID IT! 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:49.000 I'LL JOIN MY COLLEAGUES IN 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:52.000 FACULTY AND GUESTS. 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:53.000 OUR NEWLY DISTINGUISHED AND 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:56.000 PROBABLY SUN BURNED FELLOW 00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:58.000 GRADUATES AND VERY PATIENT AND 00:50:58.000 --> 00:50:59.000 ENCOURAGING FAMILY AND FRIENDS. 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:02.000 AS AN EDUCATION STUDENT AND AN 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.000 EDUCATOR, I HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.000 SEE COLLEGE TEACHING FROM BOTH 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.000 SIDES OF THE PODIUM. 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:10.000 THIS MEANS I HAVE LEARNED TWO 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:12.000 THINGS. 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:13.000 FIRST, THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF 00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:14.000 COFFEE THAT IS ENOUGH DURING 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:16.000 FINALS WEEK. 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:17.000 SECOND, THE BEST WAY TO USE YOUR 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:19.000 EDUCATION IS TO SHARE IT. 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.000 ALL OF US WILL WALK ACROSS THIS 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:24.000 STAGE ALONE TODAY, BUT NONE OF 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:26.000 US GOT HERE WITHOUT HELP ALONG 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:28.000 THE WAY. 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.000 MAYBE IT WAS A FRIEND OR 00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:31.000 RELATIVE WHO URGED YOU TO APPLY 00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:32.000 TO COLLEGE. 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:34.000 MAYBE IT WAS AN ACADEMIC ADVISER 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:37.000 WHO HELPED YOU NAVIGATE ONCE YOU 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.000 MAYBE IT WAS A ROOMMATE, A 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:41.000 CO-WORKER, A CLASSMATE, A NEW 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:44.000 FRIEND OR AN OLD ONE WHO HELPED 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:46.000 YOU SURVIVE ONE TERRIBLE WEEK IN 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:47.000 THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL. 00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:53.000 MAYBE, AS IT WAS FOR ME, IT WAS 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:55.000 A TEACHER WHO TOOK THE MOMENT TO 00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:58.000 SAY, YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK 00:51:58.000 --> 00:51:59.000 OR ANSWERED A MIDDLE OF THE 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.000 NIGHT E-MAIL WITH UNDERSTANDING 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:02.000 AND COMPASSION. 00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:04.000 MAYBE IT WAS ALL OF THESE PEOPLE 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:06.000 AND MORE. 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:07.000 BUT I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:09.000 EVERY EDUCATED PERSON LEARNED 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:11.000 WITH AND FROM SOMEONE ELSE. 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:15.000 SOMEONE MAY TELL YOU TODAY THAT 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:17.000 EDUCATION CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:19.000 AND AS A STUDENT AND EDUCATOR, I 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:21.000 DO TRULY BELIEVE THAT ACCESS TO 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:23.000 QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION HAS THE 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:25.000 POWER TO CHANGE EVERYTHING. 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:28.000 I HAVE BEEN IN SCHOOL FOR 25 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.000 YEARS OF MY LIFE SO I HAVE TO 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:32.000 BELIEVE THAT. 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:34.000 BUT THE WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION WE 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:36.000 HAVE ALL RECEIVED HERE CAN'T 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:38.000 THRIVE WITHOUT AMBASSADORS. 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:41.000 HAVING AN EDUCATION IS 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.000 MEANINGLESS UNLESS YOU ARE 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:44.000 WILLING TO SHARE WHAT YOU HAVE 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:46.000 LEARNED AND HOW YOU HAVE LEARNED 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:49.000 WHETHER YOU ARE AN EDUCATION 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:51.000 MAJOR, A BUSINESS MAJOR, A FINE 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:53.000 ARTS MAJOR OR ANYTHING IN 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:55.000 BETWEEN. 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:57.000 SO MY HOPE FOR ALL OF US TODAY, 00:52:59.000 --> 00:52:60.000 THE GRADUATES, THE TEACHERS, THE 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:02.000 STAFF AND FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:03.000 VISITORS IS THAT WE LEAVE HERE 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:06.000 AND REMEMBER THAT THE VALUE OF 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:08.000 AN EDUCATION COMES IN PART FROM 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:09.000 REMINDING OURSELVES THAT WE 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:13.000 WE VALUE EDUCATION. 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:16.000 THANK YOU FOR CELEBRATING THAT 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:18.000 HERE WITH ME TODAY AND 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.000 CONGRATULATIONS, FELLOW 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:21.000 GRADUATES. 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:39.000 OUTSTANDING NURSING STUDENTS WHO 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:41.000 SHARES SOME THOUGHTS WITH US. 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:50.000 BASED ON THE AMERICAN 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:53.000 ASSOCIATION CODE FOR 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:54.000 PROFESSIONAL AND THE FLORENCE 00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:57.000 NIGHTINGALE PLEDGE. 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:58.000 AND IS GIVEN IN RECOGNITION OF 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:06.000 SCHOLARSHIP, LEADERSHIP, 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:08.000 PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT, 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:10.000 INNOVATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS AND 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:12.000 HUMANITARIAN IDEALS. 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:13.000 THE MONMOUTH CAMPUS RECIPIENT OF 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:17.000 THIS AWARD IS STACY CHANCE. 00:54:29.000 --> 00:54:30.000 I AM HUMBLED BY THIS INVITATION 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:32.000 TO SPEAK AT COMMENCEMENT. 00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:36.000 THE CLASS OF 2017! 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:42.000 WE ARE FINALLY HERE. 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:46.000 WE HAVE SHARED TIMES OF LAUGHTER 00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:48.000 AND JOY AND WE HAVE SHED TEARS. 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:50.000 THIS IS THE MOMENT THAT WE HAVE 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.000 LOOKED FORWARD TO AND WE CAN 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:53.000 HOLD OUR HEADS HIGH. 00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:55.000 IT IS TRULY A TIME TO CELEBRATE. 00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.000 BUT WE ARE ALL AWARE THAT WE 00:54:59.000 --> 00:54:60.000 COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS ALONE. 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.000 THANK YOU TO OUR FACULTY, TO OUR 00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:04.000 FAMILIES, TO OUR FRIENDS AND TO 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:07.000 EVERYONE WHO HAS SUPPORTED US ON 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:10.000 I AM HONORED TO BE THE RECIPIENT 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:11.000 OF THE GOLDEN LAMP AWARD. 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:15.000 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:18.000 KNOW, FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE WAS 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.000 NICKNAMED IN THE CRIMEAN WAR THE 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:24.000 LADY WITH THE LAMP. 00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:25.000 THEY KNEW AID WAS COMING WHEN 00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:27.000 THEY SAW THE LAMP. 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:29.000 IT IS A SYMBOL OF CARING, OF 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:31.000 HOPE, AND ILLUMINATING THE PATH 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:34.000 FORWARD. 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:35.000 SHE WAS THE FIRST VOICE OF 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.000 NURSING AND IT IS OUR CHARGE TO 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:39.000 PICK UP THE LAMP AND CARRY IT 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:40.000 FORWARD. 00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:43.000 WE HAVE COME TO THIS PLACE 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:44.000 THROUGH MANY DIFFERENT PATHS. 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:47.000 EACH OF US HAS ENTERED NURSING 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:50.000 AS A CALLING, A CALLING TO 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:52.000 SERVE, A CALLING TO CARE, A 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:53.000 CALLING TO BE A VOICE. 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:56.000 I REALIZE THAT SOMETIMES WE 00:55:57.000 --> 00:55:58.000 WONDERED IF ONE VOICE COULD 00:55:59.000 --> 00:55:60.000 TRULY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:05.000 HAS SHOWN US AS NURSES WE HAVE 00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:06.000 VALUE TO CONTRIBUTE ON MANY 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:08.000 LEVELS. 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:09.000 TO OUR PATIENTS, TO FAMILIES, 00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:12.000 AND TO OUR COMMUNITIES. 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:14.000 WE MUST BELIEVE IN OUR OWN POWER 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:16.000 AND INFLUENCE AND BRING IT 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:18.000 FORWARD INTO OUR NURSING 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:19.000 PRACTICE. 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:21.000 LUCKILY, WE DO NOT HAVE TO DO 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:22.000 THIS ALONE. 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:24.000 EVEN THOUGH TODAY MARKS A 00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:27.000 TRANSITION TO NEW PATHS FOR EACH 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:29.000 OF US, WE SHALL FOREVER BE ONE 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:31.000 COHORT. 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:32.000 WE ARE THE OHSU SCHOOL OF 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:38.000 NURSING MONMOUTH CLASS OF 2017. 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:48.000 AND AS WE HAVE SUPPORTED EACH 00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:49.000 OTHER IN THE PAST, WE NEED TO 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.000 CONTINUE FORWARD BECAUSE 00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:53.000 SUPPORTING OTHER NURSES IS KEY 00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:56.000 TO EVERYONE'S SUCCESS. 00:56:57.000 --> 00:56:58.000 EVEN THOUGH THE NURSING PREP IS 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:01.000 DIVERSE, PROVIDING DIRECT 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:04.000 PATIENT CARE TO EDUCATING, AN 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:06.000 ADMINISTRATOR, RESEARCHER OR 00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:09.000 POLICY DEVELOPER, WE ARE ALL ON 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:11.000 THE SAME TEAM STRIVING TOWARD 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:12.000 ONE UNIFIED VOICE. 00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:14.000 POWERFUL OBLIGATIONS CALL TO US 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:16.000 TODAY AND WE REACH THIS 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:18.000 PROFESSIONAL GOAL. 00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:19.000 THEY CALL US TO FIERCELY 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:23.000 CLIENTS. 00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:24.000 STEADFASTLY BELIEVE IN 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:26.000 OURSELVES, AND PRACTICE THE ART 00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:28.000 OF CELEBRATION FOR EACH OTHER 00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:30.000 AND OUR PROFESSION. 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:33.000 AND EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:34.000 BE THE LOUDEST VOICE, LET'S NOT 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:37.000 BE AFRAID TO BE THE FIRST 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:40.000 BE THE CATALYST ADVANCE CARE FOR 00:57:43.000 --> 00:57:44.000 PATIENTS PROPEL THE MOVEMENT. 00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:46.000 FROM BEDSIDES TO COMMUNITIES TO 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:48.000 SERVING ON BOARDS, TO MARCHING 00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:50.000 THE MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:52.000 THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO WHAT WE 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:54.000 CAN ACCOMPLISH WHEN WE USE OUR 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:56.000 VOICES. 00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:57.000 LET'S BE FEARLESS, LET'S BE 00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:59.000 BOLD. 00:57:59.000 --> 00:57:61.000 LET'S PICK UP THAT LAMP AND 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:03.000 ILLUMINATE THE FUTURE OF 00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:04.000 NURSING. 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:05.000 WE GOT THIS. 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:16.000 ALL OF OUR GUEST SPEAKERS. 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:26.000 AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO ASK 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:28.000 ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT MR. TONY 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:30.000 CRAWFORD TO PLEASE COME TO THE 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:43.000 FAMILIES, FACULTY, STAFF AND 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:45.000 GUESTS. 00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:46.000 MY NAME IS TONY CRAWFORD. 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:47.000 AS PRESIDENT OF THE WESTERN 00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:50.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:51.000 ASSOCIATION I CONGRATULATE YOU, 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:54.000 THE CLASS OF 2017, ON YOUR 00:58:56.000 --> 00:58:58.000 AS A GRADUATE OF WESTERN OREGON 00:58:58.000 --> 00:58:59.000 UNIVERSITY, YOU ARE NOW A MEMBER 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:02.000 OF WHAT I LIKE TO CALL THE 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:08.000 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:13.000 LET ME BE THE FIRST TO WELCOME 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.000 YOU TO THE PROUD FAMILY OF WOU 00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:17.000 ALUMNI AND REMEMBER FOREVER WE 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:20.000 ARE WOLVES! 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:25.000 THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IS PROUD 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:27.000 OF YOU. 00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:28.000 YOU HAVE ALREADY FOUND YOUR 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:29.000 FIRST ALUMNI GIFT WAITING FOR 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.000 YOU IN YOUR SEAT TODAY. 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:34.000 BE SURE TO LOOK INSIDE THE BAG 00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:35.000 TO FIND A WATER BOTTLE, 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:37.000 COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM, YOUR 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:39.000 ALUMNI MEMBERSHIP CARD AND OTHER 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:41.000 IMPORTANT ITEMS. 00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:44.000 AFTER COMMENCEMENT, BE SURE TO 00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:45.000 STOP BY THE ALUMNI TENT LOCATED 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:48.000 IN THE GROVE TO MEET MEMBERS OF 00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:49.000 THE ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:52.000 WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU 00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.000 AND TO WELCOME YOU TO THE ALUMNI 00:59:57.000 --> 00:59:58.000 NOW, EACH YEAR AT GRADUATION THE 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI 01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:03.000 ASSOCIATION PRESENTS OUR MOST 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:06.000 NOTABLE AWARD. 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:08.000 THE ALUMNI AWARD OF EXCELLENCE. 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:11.000 THIS AWARD IS PRESENTED TO AN 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:13.000 ALUM NITS WHO HAS ACHIEVED 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:16.000 DISTINCTION ON A PROFESSIONAL 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.000 LEVEL, WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN 01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:21.000 INTEGRITY AND STATURE ARE SUCH 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:23.000 THAT FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENTS 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:26.000 AND ALUMNI OF WESTERN OREGON 01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:28.000 UNIVERSITY CAN ALL RIGHTFULLY 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:30.000 TAKE PRIDE. 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:32.000 THE WINNER OF THIS YEAR'S ALUMNI 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:35.000 AWORD OF EXCELLENCE IS BETTY 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:37.000 KOMP. 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:39.000 BETTY CAME TO WESTERN OREGON AS 01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:41.000 A MOTHER IN HER MID 30s RAISING 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:43.000 HER FAMILY AND SEEKING A CAREER 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:45.000 IN EDUCATION. 01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:47.000 BETTY EARNED HER BACHELOR'S 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:49.000 DEGREE IN 1990 AND LATER 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:52.000 RETURNED FOR HER MASTER'S 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:54.000 DEGREE. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:55.000 BETTY KOMP DISTINGUISHED HERSELF 01:00:58.000 --> 01:00:59.000 AS A TEACHER AND SCHOOL 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:02.000 PRINCIPAL IN THE WOODBURN SCHOOL 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:05.000 FRUSTRATED BY EDUCATION MANDATES 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:08.000 BETTY DECIDED TO RUN FOR PUBLIC 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:10.000 OFFICE AND WON A SEAT IN 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:11.000 OREGON'S HOUSE OF 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:12.000 REPRESENTATIVES. 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:13.000 AS A MEMBER OF THE OREGON 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:16.000 LEGISLATURE, BETTY KOMP EARNED A 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:18.000 REPUTATION AS A CHAMPION FOR 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:22.000 AS CHAIR OF THE HOUSE EDUCATION 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:24.000 COMMITTEE, REPRESENTATIVE BETTY 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:26.000 KOMP NEVER MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:28.000 TO WELCOME IDEAS, TO SUPPORT OUR 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:31.000 EDUCATION SYSTEM, EVEN IDEAS 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:33.000 FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:37.000 BETTY RETIRED FROM THE 01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:39.000 LEGISLATURE, BUT THAT DID NOT 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:41.000 STOP HER SELFLESS SERVICE. 01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:44.000 APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR KATE BROWN 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:45.000 TO THE WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.000 BOARD OF TRUSTEES, BETTY KOMP 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:49.000 NOW PROUDLY SERVES THE 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:51.000 UNIVERSITY WHERE HER CAREER PATH 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.000 BEGAN. 01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:55.000 BETTY KOMP'S PASSION FOR 01:01:58.000 --> 01:01:59.000 TO OTHERS PROVIDES A POSITIVE 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:01.000 ROLE MODEL FOR ALL WESTERN 01:02:03.000 --> 01:02:04.000 OREGON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AND 01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:13.000 PRESTIGIOUS AWARD. 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:15.000 IT IS MY HONOR TO PRESENT THE 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:19.000 TO REPRESENTATIVE BETTY KOMP. 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:36.000 I HAVE FOUR DAUGHTERS, NONE OF 01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:39.000 THEM ARE HERE TODAY BECAUSE THEY 01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:41.000 STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH 01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:42.000 ME. 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:45.000 BUT I WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:47.000 ONLY ONE MESSAGE AND ONE OF MY 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:50.000 HEROES THAT I ALWAYS LOOK TO FOR 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:56.000 HE STATES, R BE THE CHANGE THAT 01:02:57.000 --> 01:02:59.000 YOU WANT THE WORLD TO BE. 01:02:59.000 --> 01:02:60.000 THAT IS MY CHALLENGE TO YOU. 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:03.000 THANK YOU. 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:16.000 IT IS NOW BOTH A PRIVILEGE AND 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:18.000 HONOR TO HAVE MATTHEW UTTERBACK, 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:19.000 OUR COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER TODAY. 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:21.000 MATT WAS SELECTED LAST FALL AS 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:23.000 OREGON'S SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:24.000 YEAR AND WAS RECENTLY NAMED THE 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:28.000 YEAR FROM THE AMERICAN 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:30.000 ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:32.000 HE HAS BEEN THE SUPERINTENDENT 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:33.000 AT NORTH CLACKAMAS SCHOOL 01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:37.000 DURING THAT TIME THE DISTRICT 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:38.000 HAS MADE MAJOR GAINS IN 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:42.000 SCORES. 01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:43.000 PARTICULARLY FOR LOW-INCOME, 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:44.000 MINORITY AND SPECIAL EDUCATION 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:46.000 STUDENTS. 01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:47.000 MATT AND HIS WIFE NANCY ARE 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:49.000 WESTERN ALUMS. 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:50.000 MATT EARNED HIS BACHELOR'S 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:51.000 DEGREE IN EDUCATION IN 1989, AS 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:55.000 WELL AS A TEACHING CERTIFICATE 01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:58.000 IN SOCIAL STUDIES. 01:03:59.000 --> 01:03:60.000 HE WAS THE DELMER DEWEY 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:01.000 RECIPIENT IN 1989 WHICH AFFORDED 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:06.000 HIM TO BE A SPEAKER AT HIS GRAGS 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:11.000 HE RETURNS 28 YEARS LATER TO 01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:14.000 CONGRATULATE YOU, OUR CLASS OF 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.000 IT IS AN HONOR TO BE HERE TODAY 01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:31.000 AND SPEAK WITH YOU ON MY 28th 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:33.000 ANNIVERSARY FROM THE 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:34.000 COMMENCEMENT FROM WESTERN 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:35.000 OREGON. 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.000 YOU ARE ALL HERE TODAY EMBARKING 01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:38.000 UPON THE NEXT PHASE OF YOUR LIFE 01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:40.000 AND I WISH YOU EVERY SUCCESS. 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:43.000 THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE ENTERING 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:44.000 IS RICH WITH POSSIBILITIES. 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:47.000 OUR WORLD, YOUR WORLD, IS 01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:52.000 INTERDEPENDENT AND FILLED WITH 01:04:58.000 --> 01:04:59.000 YOUR SUCCESS WILL DEPEND UPON 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:01.000 YOUR ABILITY TO AUTHENTICALLY 01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:04.000 RECOGNIZE EACH PERSON'S 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:05.000 HUMANITY, HONOR THEIR HISTORY, 01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:08.000 AND RESPECT THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS. 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:12.000 SINCE 2012, I HAVE HAD THE 01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:14.000 PLEASURE OF SERVING AS THE 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:16.000 SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NORTH 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:17.000 CLACKAMAS SCHOOL DISTRICT. 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:19.000 AND IN MY CARE ARE OVER 17,000 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.000 STUDENTS, 2,000 EMPLOYEES IN 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:26.000 WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED MANY 01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:28.000 ACHIEVEMENTS I'M PARTICULARLY 01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:30.000 PROUD OF THE WORK WE HAVE DONE 01:05:32.000 --> 01:05:33.000 TO EMBRACE EQUITY AND INCLUDE 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:37.000 INCLUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:39.000 FOR OUR STUDENTS. 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:41.000 EQUITY IS NOT TREATING EVERYONE 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:43.000 THE SAME. 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:44.000 THAT IS EQUALITY. 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:46.000 EQUITY HAS US LOOK AT EACH 01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:48.000 PERSON AS AN INDIVIDUAL, AFFIRM 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:51.000 THE IDENTITY AND BUILD UPON THE 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:53.000 GIFTS AND STRENGTHS EACH OF US 01:05:56.000 --> 01:05:57.000 POSSESS. 01:05:57.000 --> 01:05:58.000 BRINGING EQUITY INTO OUR 01:05:58.000 --> 01:05:59.000 COMMUNITIES AND WORK PLACES 01:05:59.000 --> 01:05:61.000 REQUIRES EACH OF US TO LOOK AT 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:02.000 OUR OWN IDENTITY AND HISTORY. 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:03.000 PERHAPS SHARING MY BACKGROUND 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:05.000 WITH YOU WILL EXPLAIN WHY THE 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:08.000 ISSUES OF EQUITY ARE CENTRAL TO 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:11.000 I GREW UP IN A SMALL TOWN ON THE 01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:13.000 OREGON COAST, IN A FAMILY OF 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:14.000 EDUCATORS. 01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:15.000 MY GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER CAME 01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:18.000 TO OREGON ON THE OREGON TRAIL IN 01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:21.000 THE 1840s AND HE SETTLED NOT TOO 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:23.000 FAR FROM HERE. 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.000 HE HAD A SON WHO BECAME A 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:26.000 TEACHER WHO WAS CERTIFIED TO 01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:28.000 TEACH ALL SUBJECTS IN THE OREGON 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:30.000 TERRITORIES. 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:31.000 MY GRANDFATHER WAS A HIGH SCHOOL 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:32.000 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, MY FATHER 01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:34.000 WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR. 01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:37.000 I WAS RAISED MIDDLE CLASS WITH 01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:39.000 THE PRIVILEGE THAT COMES FROM 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:41.000 BEING A MALE, WHITE, AND THE SON 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:43.000 OF WELL-EDUCATED PARENTS. 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:45.000 I KNEW THE DOMINANT COMMUNITY 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:48.000 NORMS AND I USED THEM TO MY 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:49.000 ADVANTAGE. 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:50.000 BUT UNLIKE MANY IN OUR 01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:52.000 COMMUNITIES TODAY, COLLEGE WAS 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:55.000 ALWAYS AN OPTION FOR ME. 01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:57.000 AND OBVIOUSLY, LIKE OTHERS IN MY 01:06:58.000 --> 01:06:59.000 FAMILY, I FELL INTO THE FAMILY 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:03.000 BUT 18 MONTHS INTO MY TEACHING 01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:06.000 CAREER AT THE AGE OF 22, I WAS 01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:08.000 APPROACHED BY MY WHITE, MALE, 01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:11.000 ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND TOLD I 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:13.000 SHOULD CONSIDER A CAREER IN 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:15.000 SCHOOL LEADERSHIP. 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:16.000 I WAS FLATTERED BECAUSE HE TOLD 01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:17.000 ME I HAD THE CHARACTERISTICS OF 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:19.000 BEING A GOOD SCHOOL LEADER. 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:21.000 AS I REFLECT UPON THAT 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:23.000 CONVERSATION NOW, R I REALIZE 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:24.000 THAT ENCOURAGEMENT WAS BASED ON 01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:27.000 THE FACT I MATCHED THE 01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:30.000 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TYPICAL 01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:31.000 SCHOOL LEADER AT THE TIME. 01:07:31.000 --> 01:07:32.000 I WAS WHITE. 01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:33.000 I WAS MALE. 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:34.000 I WAS FAMILIAR. 01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:39.000 AND PERHAPS COMFORTABLE. 01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:42.000 MANY DID NOT KNOW IN 1978 WHEN I 01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:45.000 WAS 9 YEARS OLD, MY PARENTS 01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:47.000 ADOPTED MY 7-YEAR-OLD BROTHER 01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:49.000 FROM A KOREAN ORPHANAGE. 01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:53.000 MY BROTHER JON WAS ONE OF THE 01:07:54.000 --> 01:07:55.000 FEW PEOPLE OF COLOR IN OUR 01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:56.000 COMMUNITY. 01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:57.000 FROM MY BROTHER'S PERSPECTIVE, 01:07:58.000 --> 01:07:59.000 NO ONE LOOKED LIKE HIM, NO ONE 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:01.000 SOUNDED LIKE HIM AND IT WAS 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:03.000 LIKELY NO ONE IN OUR COMMUNITY 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:05.000 HAD SHARED MANY OF HIS 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:06.000 EXPERIENCES. 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:09.000 NEIGHBORHOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:10.000 AND QUICKLY LEARNED ENGLISH. 01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:12.000 HOWEVER, AS MY BROTHER 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:15.000 APPROACHED HIS EARLY ADOLESCENT 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:17.000 YEARS STRUGGLES BEGAN TO EMERGE. 01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:19.000 HE BEGAN MAKING STATEMENTS LIKE 01:08:20.000 --> 01:08:22.000 NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME AND NO ONE 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:23.000 LOOKS LIKE ME. 01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:25.000 THESE WERE THE FIRST SIGNS THAT 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:26.000 WE WERE LOSING HIM. 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:29.000 THESE STRUGGLES OF IDENTITY WERE 01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:31.000 FOLLOWED BY BEHAVIORAL 01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:34.000 STRUGGLES, POOR ACADEMIC 01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:37.000 ACHIEVEMENT. 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:38.000 MY PARENTS SOUGHT HELP, TRIED 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:41.000 WAS SUCCESSFUL. 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:42.000 WE CONTINUED TO LOSE HIM. 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:45.000 WHEN MY BROTHER WAS 18, HE ASKED 01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:48.000 MY PARENTS IF HE COULD RETURN TO 01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:49.000 KOREA. 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:51.000 HOWEVER BECAUSE JON DID NOT HAVE 01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:52.000 AN EDUCATION OR ANY CAREER 01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:54.000 TRAINING HE WAS NOT WELCOMED 01:08:55.000 --> 01:08:56.000 BACK INTO HIS NATIVE COUNTRY. 01:08:58.000 --> 01:08:59.000 AFTER BEING REJECTED BY BOTH HIS 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:01.000 ADOPTED AND NATIVE COUNTRIES, MY 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:04.000 BROTHER REQUESTED IF HE COULD 01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:07.000 MOVE TO HAWAII WHERE THERE WAS A 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:09.000 LARGER ASIAN POPULATION. 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:12.000 MY BROTHER MADE THIS MOVE, BUT 01:09:13.000 --> 01:09:14.000 AFTER YEARS OF ENDURING 01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:16.000 SIGNIFICANT MARGINALIZATION AND 01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:19.000 REJECTION IN HIS YOUNG LIFE THAT 01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:21.000 HAD TAKEN A TOLL AND MY BROTHER 01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:25.000 WE HAD LOST HIM. 01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:28.000 WHAT I KNOW TODAY THAT I DIDN'T 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.000 KNOW 30, 20 OR EVEN 10 YEARS AGO 01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:34.000 IS THAT WHILE MANY WOULD SAY 01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:36.000 THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAD THE BEST 01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:39.000 INTENTIONS OF SUPPORTING MY 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:40.000 BROTHER, THE COMMUNITY, THE 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:43.000 SCHOOL SYSTEM, AND EVEN I, AS 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:46.000 HIS BROTHER, DID A VERY POOR JOB 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:48.000 OF AFFIRMING HIS IDENTITY AND 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:50.000 DEEPLY HONORING HIS HISTORY AND 01:09:53.000 --> 01:09:54.000 INSTEAD, THE SYSTEM WORKED 01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:57.000 TIRELESSLY TO TRY TO GET HIM TO 01:09:58.000 --> 01:09:59.000 CONFORM TO THE WHITE, MAJORITY 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:03.000 AND CLEARLY THE RESULT OF THOSE 01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:05.000 EFFORTS WAS DEVASTATING. 01:10:07.000 --> 01:10:09.000 IT TOOK ME NEARLY 20 YEARS AFTER 01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:11.000 MY BROTHER'S PASSING TO BEGIN TO 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:14.000 UNPACK HIS STRUGGLES AND HIS 01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:16.000 HISTORY. 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:17.000 I WOULD ALWAYS VIEW MY BROTHER'S 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:18.000 ACTIONS THROUGH MY WHITE LENS. 01:10:20.000 --> 01:10:22.000 AND WHEN I WOULD DO THIS, I WAS 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:24.000 INCAPABLE OF SEEING THE TRUE 01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:26.000 REALITY OF HIS EXPERIENCES. 01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:28.000 STEPPING OUTSIDE OF MY REALITY 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:32.000 AND EXPECTED NORMS WASN'T ALWAYS 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:34.000 EASY OR COMFORTABLE, BUT IT WAS 01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:36.000 ESSENTIAL. 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:37.000 IT WAS ESSENTIAL IN MY 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:39.000 RECOGNITION THAT A PERSON'S LIFE 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:41.000 IS MEANT TO BE LIVED 01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:43.000 AUTHENTICALLY, WITHOUT HAVING TO 01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:45.000 WEAR MASKS OR COSTUMES TO HIDE 01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:48.000 ONE'S TRUE SELF. 01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:51.000 WHILE I HAD EXPERIENCED THE 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:54.000 STARK REALITY OF MY BROTHER'S 01:10:55.000 --> 01:10:56.000 PASSING ON A DEEPLY PERSONAL 01:10:57.000 --> 01:10:58.000 LEVEL, I HAD NOT RECOGNIZED THE 01:10:58.000 --> 01:10:59.000 IMPACT THAT RACISM AND IGNORANCE 01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:02.000 HAD ON MY BROTHER'S LIFE. 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.000 AND I HUMBLY ADMIT TO YOU IT 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:06.000 WASN'T UNTIL 2009 WHEN I BEGAN 01:11:07.000 --> 01:11:08.000 TO UNDERSTAND HIS REALITY. 01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:11.000 IT WAS IN THAT YEAR THAT I BEGAN 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.000 TO UNDERSTAND AND LOOK AT MY OWN 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:14.000 WHITE RACIAL IDENTITY. 01:11:15.000 --> 01:11:16.000 AND I LEARNED THAT MY WHITENESS 01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:19.000 MATTERS. 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:20.000 AND I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND THE 01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:22.000 POWER AND THE PRIVILEGE AND THE 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:24.000 RESPONSIBILITY THAT COMES FROM 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:25.000 BEING A MALE WITH RANK. 01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:30.000 THE PURPOSE OF ME SHARING THIS 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:32.000 STORY WITH ME THAT WHILE IT IS 01:11:33.000 --> 01:11:34.000 TRAGIC, I DON'T THINK MY 01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:35.000 BROTHER'S STORY IS ALL THAT 01:11:35.000 --> 01:11:36.000 DIFFERENT FROM MANY INDIVIDUALS 01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:38.000 IN OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY. 01:11:39.000 --> 01:11:40.000 IN FACT, MY BROTHER'S STORY MAY 01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:42.000 NOT BE ALL THAT DIFFERENT FROM 01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:43.000 SOME OF YOUR OWN STORIES. 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.000 THE HARDER WE TRY TO MAKE JON 01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:48.000 FIT INTO THE WHITE DOMINANT 01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:49.000 COMMUNITY, THE HARDER HE 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:51.000 RESISTED AND SUFFERED. 01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:53.000 AND JON'S STORY ISN'T UNIQUE. 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:55.000 THE ISOLATION AND THE 01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:57.000 MARGINALIZATION AND THE STIGMA 01:11:58.000 --> 01:11:59.000 HE ENDURED TOOK A TOLL ON HIM 01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:02.000 AND CONFORMING TO MAJORITY 01:12:03.000 --> 01:12:04.000 STANDARDS AND CUSTOMS THAT ARE 01:12:05.000 --> 01:12:06.000 NOT OUR OWN HAS A DETRIMENTAL 01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:13.000 IMPACT ON TOO MANY OF US, AS 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:15.000 WELL AS OUR FRIENDS, FAMILY 01:12:15.000 --> 01:12:16.000 MEMBERS, NEIGHBORS AN 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:17.000 COLLEAGUES. 01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:18.000 RECENTLY I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY 01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:19.000 TO MEET WITH A GROUP OF 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:23.000 TO HEAR THEIR EXPERIENCES AND TO 01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:25.000 LISTEN TO WHAT THEIR LIVES WERE 01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:26.000 LIKE AS STUDENTS IN OUR SCHOOL 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:27.000 SYSTEM. 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:29.000 AND WHAT I HEARD WAS RAW 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:31.000 EMOTION, PAIN, AND HURT. 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:34.000 OUR STUDENTS SAID THAT THE ONLY 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:37.000 CURRICULUM ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE IS 01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:39.000 WHEN WE TEACH ABOUT SLAVERY. 01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:41.000 INSTEAD, OUR BLACK STUDENTS NEED 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:43.000 TO HEAR ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTIONS 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:45.000 OF BLACKS MADE THROUGHOUT OUR 01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:48.000 HISTORY AND THEY NEED TO SEE 01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:50.000 THEMSELVES POSITIVELY REFLECTED 01:12:50.000 --> 01:12:51.000 IN THE CURRICULUM. 01:12:52.000 --> 01:12:53.000 ONE STUDENT SAID, WE WANT TO 01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:55.000 HEAR AND LEARN ABOUT THE BLACK 01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:57.000 EXPERIENCE FROM BLACK WRITERS, 01:12:58.000 --> 01:12:59.000 NOT FROM A WHITE PERSON WRITING 01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:01.000 ABOUT THE BLACK EXPERIENCE. 01:13:03.000 --> 01:13:04.000 STUDENTS DESCRIBED IN VIVID 01:13:06.000 --> 01:13:08.000 DETAIL WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A 01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:09.000 STUDENT OF COLOR. 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:10.000 ONE STUDENT SAID IT IS LIKE AIR 01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:12.000 IN A COMPRESSED CAN UNDER 01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:14.000 TREMENDOUS PRESSURE. 01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:16.000 ANOTHER STUDENT SAID, I HAVE TO 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:17.000 BE CAREFUL AROUND WHITE PEOPLE. 01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:20.000 THEY ARE AFRAID OF ME. 01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:21.000 THE BIG, SCARY BLACK GUY. 01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:24.000 THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER 01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:26.000 STUDENT WHO SAID, IT IS HARD 01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:28.000 GOING TO SCHOOL WHERE PEOPLE 01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:29.000 DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU. 01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:30.000 IT IS UNCOMFORTABLE FOR 01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:32.000 EVERYONE. 01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:33.000 AND FINALLY, A YOUNG WOMAN SAID, 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:36.000 I JUST KEEP MY HEAD DOWN SO I 01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:38.000 CAN GRADUATE. 01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:41.000 I WAS LEFT WITH A TROUBLING 01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:43.000 REALITY. 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:45.000 FOR ALL OF OUR SUCCESSES, OUR 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:47.000 COMMUNITIES, AND OUR SCHOOL 01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:49.000 SYSTEMS CONTINUE PERPETUATING 01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:51.000 FEELINGS OF HURT AND ANGER. 01:13:52.000 --> 01:13:53.000 SADLY, TOO MANY STUDENTS AND 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:55.000 PEOPLE IN GENERAL FEEL THE 01:13:56.000 --> 01:13:57.000 SYSTEM WORKS AGAINST THEM AND 01:13:58.000 --> 01:13:59.000 THEY LACK THE POWER TO BRING 01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:02.000 ABOUT SIGNIFICANT CHANGE. 01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:03.000 OUR STUDENTS NEED AND WANT 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:06.000 ALLIES WHO POSSESSION THE 01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:08.000 POSITIONAL POWER AND HAVE THE 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:09.000 ABILITY TO BRING ABOUT 01:14:10.000 --> 01:14:11.000 MEANINGFUL CHANGE. 01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:13.000 I NEED TO BE AN ALLY AND YOU 01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:15.000 NEED TO BE AN ALLY. 01:14:17.000 --> 01:14:18.000 WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO ARE AFRAID 01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:20.000 COMING TO SCHOOL. 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:21.000 PEOPLE ARE AFRAID IN THEIR OWN 01:14:22.000 --> 01:14:23.000 NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES. 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:25.000 WE'VE WITNESSED HARASSMENT, 01:14:27.000 --> 01:14:28.000 DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE 01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:29.000 BASED ON RACE, RELIGION, GENDER, 01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:35.000 SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER 01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:39.000 IDENTITY ON A DAILY BASIS. 01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:42.000 SUCH ACTS ARE DISMAYING, BUT NOT 01:14:43.000 --> 01:14:44.000 ENTIRELY SURPRISING. 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:45.000 THE DAILY HURTFUL RHETORIC IN 01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:47.000 OUR SOCIETY IS PRODUCING 01:14:49.000 --> 01:14:50.000 ALARMING LEVELS OF ANXIETY AND 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:52.000 INFLAMING SOCIAL TENSIONS 01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:54.000 THROUGHOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND 01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:56.000 COMMUNITIES AND THIS ANXIETY IS 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:01.000 UNFORTUNATELY, ONE PERSON CANNOT 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:03.000 REMEDY ALL OF THE SYSTEMIC 01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:06.000 FACTORS THAT DIVIDE OUR SOCIETY 01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:08.000 AND MAKE IT CHALLENGING TO SEE 01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:09.000 BEYOND OUR OFTEN MYOPIC FRAMES 01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:12.000 OF REFERENCE, YET SUCH WORK IS 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:15.000 REQUIRED. 01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:17.000 IT IS REQUIRED OF US IF WE AIM 01:15:17.000 --> 01:15:18.000 TO BE COMPASSIONATE, THOUGHTFUL 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:21.000 AND CONTRIBUTING HUMANS. 01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:23.000 SO WHAT DO WE DO? 01:15:25.000 --> 01:15:26.000 MARGARET WHEATLEY RECENTLY 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:28.000 WROTE, FOR TOO LONG TOO MANY OF 01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:30.000 US HAVE BEEN ENTRANCED BY 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:32.000 HEROES. 01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:34.000 PERHAPS IT IS OUR DESIRE TO BE 01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:36.000 SAVED, TO NOT HAVE TO DO THE 01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:40.000 HARD WORK OR OUR PREFERENCE FOR 01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:42.000 SOMEONE ELSE TO FIGURE THINGS 01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:44.000 OUT. 01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:45.000 OUR YEARNING FOR HEROES ISN'T 01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:47.000 HELPED BY THE CONSTANT BARRAGE 01:15:48.000 --> 01:15:49.000 OF POLITICIANS PRESENTING 01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:51.000 THEMSELVES AS THE ONES WHO WILL 01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:53.000 FIX EVERYTHING AND MAKE OUR 01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:55.000 PROBLEMS GO AWAY IF WE SIMPLY 01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:57.000 FOLLOW THEM. 01:15:57.000 --> 01:15:58.000 IT IS A SEDUCTIVE NOTION. 01:15:58.000 --> 01:15:60.000 IT IS AN ENTICING PROMISE AND IT 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:02.000 IS COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC. 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:05.000 INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR HEROES, I 01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:07.000 ADVOCATE ABANDONING THE NOTION 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:10.000 ALTOGETHER. 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:11.000 LET'S BANISH THE NOTION OF 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:13.000 HEROES AND IN DOING THAT ALSO 01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:15.000 BANISH THE HOPES AND 01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:16.000 EXPECTATIONS THAT ONLY BREED 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:18.000 DEPENDENCY AND PASSIVITY AND 01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:21.000 THAT DO NOT LEAD US TO SOLUTIONS 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:22.000 TO THE CHALLENGES WE FACE. 01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:24.000 INSTEAD, WE MUST FACE THE TRUTH 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:28.000 WHICH IS THAT WE'RE ALL IN THIS 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:31.000 THAT WE ALL HAVE A VOICE AND 01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:33.000 THAT WE ALL MUST FIGURE OUT HOW 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:35.000 TO MOBILIZE THE HEARTS AND MINDS 01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:40.000 OF EVERYONE IN OUR SCHOOLS, WORK 01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:42.000 PLACES AND COMMUNITIES. 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:43.000 I KNOW IT SEEMS OVERWHELMING AND 01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:45.000 PERHAPS IMPOSSIBLE TO COUNTER 01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:46.000 THE CURRENT CLIMATE WHERE THE 01:16:47.000 --> 01:16:48.000 RULES OF CIVILITY AND RESPECT 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:52.000 DISSIPATED IN DRAMATIC WAYS. 01:16:53.000 --> 01:16:55.000 I KNOW IT IS FRIGHTENING AND 01:16:55.000 --> 01:16:56.000 PERHAPS UNFAMILIAR TO UNPACK THE 01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:03.000 DOMINANT NORMS AND SYSTEMS THAT 01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:05.000 LEAVE TOO MANY OF US LEAVING 01:17:07.000 --> 01:17:08.000 VULNERABLE AND FEARFUL TO SIMPLY 01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:10.000 LIVE LIFE AUTHENTICALLY. 01:17:11.000 --> 01:17:12.000 AT OUR WORK IN NORTH CLACKAMAS 01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:14.000 HAS LEFT ME WITH OPTIMISM. 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:17.000 THIS WORK HAS REINFORCED THAT AS 01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:20.000 INDIVIDUALS WE CAN AND WE MUST 01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:22.000 CREATE THE TYPE OF SOCIETY WHERE 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:25.000 SAFETY, RESPECT, AND LOVE FORM 01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:29.000 THE BASIS OF OUR ACTIONS. 01:17:30.000 --> 01:17:32.000 TO BE CLEAR, IN NO WAY AM I 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:35.000 ESPOUSING A SPECIFIC POLITICAL 01:17:36.000 --> 01:17:37.000 AGENDA. 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:39.000 IT IS NOT A POLITICAL ACT TO 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:41.000 SUPPORT THE SAFETY AND WELL 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:43.000 BEING OF OUR FRIENDS, FAMILY 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:45.000 MEMBERS AND NEIGHBORS WHO ARE 01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:47.000 VULNERABLE. 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:48.000 IT IS A HUMAN ACT. 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:01.000 RATHER, WHAT I'M STATING IS THAT 01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:03.000 EACH OF US, NO MATTER WHAT WE 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:06.000 BELIEVE, HOW WE LOOK, WHERE WE 01:18:07.000 --> 01:18:09.000 WERE BORN, OR WHOM WE LOVE IS 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:12.000 ENTITLED TO MOVE THROUGH THE 01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:13.000 WORLD FEELING SAFE AND 01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:18.000 LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER CAN MAKE 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:21.000 YES, I USE THE WORD LOVE. 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:23.000 UNLIKE TOLERANCE, WHICH WOULD 01:18:24.000 --> 01:18:25.000 HAVE US ACKNOWLEDGE OUR 01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:27.000 DIFFERENCES, LOVE KNOWS THAT 01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:29.000 EACH OF US HAS WORTH AND VALUE. 01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:32.000 AND LOVE COMPELS US TO DEFEND 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:35.000 EACH OTHER FROM HURT AND HARM. 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:39.000 WHEN WE DEFEND EACH OTHER FROM 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:41.000 HURT AND HARM WE COMMIT TO 01:18:43.000 --> 01:18:44.000 INTERRUPTING WHEN WE HEAR OR SEE 01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:45.000 OFFENSIVE WORDS AND ACTS. 01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:47.000 WHEN WE COMMIT TO CREATING 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:49.000 COMMUNITIES THAT ARE PROTECTED 01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:51.000 FROM DISCRIMINATION. 01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:52.000 WHEN WE COMMIT TO COMMUNICATE 01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:55.000 DAILY TO OUR FRIENDS, OUR 01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:57.000 NEIGHBORS AND COLLEAGUES THAT WE 01:18:58.000 --> 01:18:59.000 WILL PROTECT, ADVOCATE FOR, AND 01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:02.000 VALUE THEM EQUALLY NO MATTER 01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:04.000 THEIR RACE, THEIR GENDER, THEIR 01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:08.000 GENDER IDENTITY, THEIR RELIGION, 01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:10.000 SEXUAL ORIENTATION, LANGUAGE OR 01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:13.000 WHEN WE UNDERTAKE THESE ACTIONS 01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:15.000 WE MODEL FOR OTHERS WHAT WE WANT 01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:17.000 TO HEAR AND SEE FROM THEM. 01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:19.000 ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL ACTIONS 01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:22.000 WE CAN TAKE IS ENGAGE IN 01:19:22.000 --> 01:19:23.000 RESPECTFUL CONVERSATIONS. 01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:25.000 THIS IS THE FOUNDATION OF CIVIL 01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:26.000 DISCOURSE. 01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:27.000 WHEN WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO 01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:29.000 LISTEN TO ONE ANOTHER AND WHEN 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:30.000 WE CREATE SPACE FOR MULTIPLE AND 01:19:32.000 --> 01:19:33.000 DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON VARIOUS 01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:36.000 ISSUES WE FURTHER DEVELOP OUR 01:19:36.000 --> 01:19:37.000 OWN CRITICAL CAPACITY TO THINK 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:40.000 AND POSITIVELY INFLUENCE OTHERS. 01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:45.000 EARLIER THIS YEAR I WROTE TO 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:47.000 EACH OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS AND IN 01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:49.000 THAT LETTER I SPOKE HOW 01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:51.000 IMPORTANT IT IS EACH OF US 01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:52.000 CREATE AND MAINTAIN A LEARNING 01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:54.000 AND WORK ENVIRONMENT THAT HOLDS 01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:56.000 AT ITS CENTER A SENSE OF SINCERE 01:19:57.000 --> 01:19:58.000 CARING, SAFETY AND RESPECT. 01:19:58.000 --> 01:19:60.000 I SPOKE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:02.000 REFLECTING ON OUR PRACTICES, OUR 01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:04.000 BEHAVIORS, AND ACTIONS AS A 01:20:06.000 --> 01:20:07.000 MEANS TO GO BACK AND ASK 01:20:08.000 --> 01:20:09.000 OURSELVES WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE 01:20:09.000 --> 01:20:10.000 DO? 01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:11.000 WHEN WE UNDERTAKE THIS, IT 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:13.000 ALLOWS US TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT 01:20:13.000 --> 01:20:14.000 OUR ACTIONS HAVE ON OTHERS. 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:17.000 IT ALLOWS US TO CONSIDER IF WE 01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:18.000 ARE MOVING TOWARDS A STANCE OF 01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:25.000 INADVERTENTLY EXCLUDING OTHERS. 01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:26.000 I RECOGNIZE IN OUR FAST-PACE 01:20:27.000 --> 01:20:29.000 SOCIETY, IT CAN BE EASY TO GET 01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:31.000 CAUGHT UP IN SIMPLY COMPLETING 01:20:31.000 --> 01:20:32.000 OUR DAILY TASKS. 01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:34.000 HOWEVER, I HOPE THAT YOU SEE 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:35.000 BEYOND MERE TASK COMPLETION AND 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:41.000 EMPLOY SOME OF THE STRATEGIES I 01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:44.000 OUTLINED IN THAT STAFF LETTER 01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:46.000 THAT BUILD CARE, SAFETY AND 01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:48.000 RESPECT IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND I 01:20:48.000 --> 01:20:50.000 WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THOSE WITH 01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:51.000 FIRST, PRONOUNCE EVERY 01:20:53.000 --> 01:20:54.000 INDIVIDUAL'S FULL NAME 01:20:57.000 --> 01:20:58.000 NO ONE SHOULD FEEL THE NEED TO 01:20:59.000 --> 01:20:60.000 SHORTEN OR CHANGE HER OR HIS 01:21:01.000 --> 01:21:02.000 NAME TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR 01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:04.000 OTHERS TO PRONOUNCE. 01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:06.000 EXPLORE HOW YOUR OWN IDENTITY 01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:08.000 IMPACTS THE WAY YOU SEE AND 01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:10.000 EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:13.000 GROW, LEARN, AND CHANGE AT THE 01:21:14.000 --> 01:21:16.000 SAME RATE THE WORLD AROUND US IS 01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:19.000 CHANGING. 01:21:19.000 --> 01:21:21.000 BY DOING SO YOU WON'T LOSE TOUCH 01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:22.000 WITH THE LIVES AND IN CONTEXT 01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:24.000 WITH THOSE WITH WHOM YOU WILL 01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:25.000 INTERACT. 01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:26.000 CONTINUE EDUCATING YOURSELF, BE 01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:28.000 OPEN TO LEARNING FROM THE 01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:31.000 EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS AND TO BE 01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:32.000 CHALLENGED BY DIVERSE 01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:34.000 PERSPECTIVES. 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:35.000 BE OPEN TO CRITIQUE. 01:21:35.000 --> 01:21:36.000 BE DEDICATED TO LISTENING 01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:39.000 ACTIVELY AND MODELING A 01:21:40.000 --> 01:21:41.000 WILLINGNESS TO BE CHANGED BY THE 01:21:42.000 --> 01:21:43.000 PRESENCE OF OTHERS TO THE SAME 01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:46.000 CHANGED BY YOU. 01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:49.000 AND FINALLY, DON'T WAIT FOR THE 01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:51.000 HERO. 01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:52.000 BE THE ACTION. 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:55.000 NOTICE WHAT IS GOING RIGHT AND 01:21:55.000 --> 01:21:56.000 DO MORE OF IT. 01:21:57.000 --> 01:21:58.000 NOTICE THOSE WHO ARE TAKING 01:21:58.000 --> 01:21:59.000 ACTION AND JOIN IN. 01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:03.000 RIGHT HERE IN WESTERN OREGON, 01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:05.000 THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT PRACTICE 01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:07.000 SELFLESS CARE OF OTHERS WITH 01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:09.000 DEVOTION AND PATIENCE. 01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:12.000 AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE 01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:16.000 CREATING AND NURTURING A SENSE 01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:19.000 OF CARING OF OTHERS IS GRADUATE 01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:23.000 JUAN NAVARRO. 01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:29.000 MOTIVATED BY A PROFOUND CONCERN 01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:31.000 FOR THE OFTEN OVERLOOKED NEEDS 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:33.000 OF UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS, JUAN 01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:35.000 WAS PART OF THE CADRE OF 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:39.000 STUDENTS WHO CREATED THE ALMA'S 01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:42.000 PROJECT WEBSITE, COMPREHENSIVE 01:22:47.000 --> 01:22:48.000 DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD 01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:49.000 ARRIVALS. 01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:52.000 JUAN HEADED THE IMMIGRATION 01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:54.000 POLICY GROUP AND SERVED AS THE 01:22:54.000 --> 01:22:55.000 VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR. 01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:56.000 WORKING TO ASSIST A POPULATION 01:22:57.000 --> 01:22:58.000 THAT IS OFTEN MARGINALIZATION, 01:23:01.000 --> 01:23:02.000 IRRATIONALLY FEARED AND 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:03.000 STIGMATIZED, JUAN AND OTHERS 01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:05.000 INVOLVED IN THE ALMA'S PROJECT 01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:07.000 FOUND AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACT FROM 01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:09.000 LOVE. 01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:10.000 IF WE FOLLOWED THEIR LEAD, WE 01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:11.000 WOULD CREATE A SOCIETY WHERE 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:13.000 EVERYONE BELONGS AND FEELS 01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:15.000 APPRECIATED FOR THEIR HUMANITY. 01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:17.000 JUAN COULD HAVE WAITED FOR A 01:23:17.000 --> 01:23:18.000 HERO. 01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:19.000 HE COULD HAVE WAITED FOR SOMEONE 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:21.000 ELSE TO ACT. 01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:22.000 HE DID NOT. 01:23:23.000 --> 01:23:24.000 HE TOOK ACTION. 01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:27.000 GRADUATES, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO 01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:30.000 CONSIDER WHO HAS SHOWN YOU LOVE, 01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:31.000 WHO HAS HELPED YOU STAND TALL IN 01:23:33.000 --> 01:23:34.000 ADVERSITY AND WHO HAS BEEN YOUR 01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:35.000 ALLY. 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:36.000 FROM OUR ALLIES, WE GAIN 01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:38.000 STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF 01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:40.000 CHALLENGES, COMPASSION AND 01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:42.000 EMPATHY TO PLACE OURSELVES IN 01:23:43.000 --> 01:23:44.000 SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOES, AND 01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:47.000 COURAGE TO BE OUR AUTHENTIC 01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:49.000 SELF. 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:51.000 IT ONLY TAKES A HEAD NOD, A 01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:52.000 SMILE, A FLEETING MEMORY FROM 01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:55.000 ONE OF THEM AND OUR STRENGTH, 01:23:56.000 --> 01:23:57.000 OUR CONFIDENCE, AND OUR 01:23:59.000 --> 01:23:60.000 HOPEFULNESS IS RENEWED. 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:04.000 AND WE ALL NEED TO BE AN ALLY TO 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:06.000 OTHERS. 01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:08.000 OUR FUTURE AS A COMMUNITY AND AS 01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:11.000 A SOCIETY RESTS UPON OUR ACTIONS 01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:13.000 AS ALLIES AND ADVOCATES. 01:24:14.000 --> 01:24:15.000 IF WE WANT A FUTURE THAT IS 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:17.000 DIFFERENT, WE WILL CONSIDER THIS 01:24:18.000 --> 01:24:19.000 FROM MARGARET WHEATLEY. 01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:21.000 THE FUTURE DOESN'T TAKE FORM 01:24:22.000 --> 01:24:23.000 IRRATIONALLY, EVEN THOUGH IT 01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:26.000 THE FUTURE COMES FROM WHERE WE 01:24:26.000 --> 01:24:27.000 ARE NOW. 01:24:27.000 --> 01:24:28.000 IT MATERIALIZES FROM THE ACTIONS 01:24:29.000 --> 01:24:30.000 AND VALUES AND BELIEFS WE'RE 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:34.000 WE'RE CREATING THE FUTURE EVERY 01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:36.000 DAY. 01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:38.000 BY WHAT WE CHOOSE TO DO AND BY 01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:40.000 WHAT WE CHOOSE NOT TO DO. 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:42.000 IF WE WANT A DIFFERENT FUTURE, 01:24:42.000 --> 01:24:43.000 WE HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY 01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:46.000 FOR WHAT WE ARE DOING IN THE 01:24:46.000 --> 01:24:47.000 PRESENT. 01:24:47.000 --> 01:24:48.000 WE HAVE SUFFICIENT HUMAN 01:24:51.000 --> 01:24:52.000 CAPACITIES TO THINK AND REFLECT 01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:54.000 TOGETHER, TO CARE ABOUT ONE 01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:55.000 ANOTHER, TO ACT COURAGEOUSLY, TO 01:24:58.000 --> 01:24:59.000 RECLAIM THE FUTURE. 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:01.000 CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO THE 01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:03.000 CLASS OF 2017. 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:05.000 GO FORWARD WITH THE KNOWLEDGE 01:25:05.000 --> 01:25:06.000 AND SKILLS YOU'VE LEARNED HERE, 01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:09.000 TAKE ACTION, AND MAKE A POSITIVE 01:25:10.000 --> 01:25:11.000 DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF 01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:13.000 THANK YOU. 01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:30.000 WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, UNITY 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:33.000 AND COMMUNITY. 01:25:33.000 --> 01:25:34.000 THANKS AGAIN. 01:25:38.000 --> 01:25:39.000 WHEN ADMITTED TO WESTERN, SOME 01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:42.000 PARTICIPATE IN CHALLENGING 01:25:42.000 --> 01:25:43.000 HONORS PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES 01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:45.000 CURRICULUM AND ADDITIONAL 01:25:48.000 --> 01:25:49.000 A THESIS. 01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:50.000 WE COMMEND THOSE STUDENTS WHO 01:25:51.000 --> 01:25:52.000 MET THE EXTRA DEMANDS OF OUR 01:25:53.000 --> 01:25:54.000 HONORS PROGRAM. 01:25:54.000 --> 01:25:55.000 INCLUDED IN YOUR PRINTED PROGRAM 01:25:56.000 --> 01:25:57.000 YOU FIND THE TOPICS OF THE 01:25:58.000 --> 01:25:59.000 HONORS THESES. 01:26:02.000 --> 01:26:03.000 HONORS PROGRAM GRADUATES, PLEASE 01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:05.000 STAND AND LET US CONGRATULATE 01:26:06.000 --> 01:26:07.000 YOU. 01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:17.000 THANK YOU. 01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:19.000 THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 2017 01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:22.000 TOTALS 1, 668 INDIVIDUALS THAT 01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:26.000 HAVE EARNED 1,680 DEGREE, JUST 01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:30.000 OVER 1,000 OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE 01:26:31.000 --> 01:26:32.000 HERE TODAY. 01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:36.000 ARE RECEIVING MASTER'S DEGREE. 01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:41.000 OUR YOUNGEST STUDENT RECEIVING A 01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:43.000 DEGREE IS 19 YEARS OLD. 01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:47.000 OUR YOUNGEST STUDENT RECEIVING A 01:26:49.000 --> 01:26:50.000 MASTER'S DEGREE IS 21. 01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:54.000 THE MOST EXPERIENCED GRADUATE 01:26:59.000 --> 01:26:60.000 RECEIVING A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IS 01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:04.000 THE MOST EXPERIENCED GRADUATE 01:27:05.000 --> 01:27:06.000 RECEIVING THEIR MASTER'S DEGREE 01:27:06.000 --> 01:27:07.000 IS 61 YEARS YOUNG. 01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:10.000 GO BOOMERS. 01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:14.000 ADDITIONAL OUR GRADUATES 01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:16.000 REPRESENT 33 OF 36 COUNTIES IN 01:27:16.000 --> 01:27:17.000 OREGON, THE STATES OF ALASKA, 01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:21.000 FLORIDA, HAWAII, IDAHO, IOWA, 01:27:24.000 --> 01:27:25.000 LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, 01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:28.000 MISSISSIPPI, MONTANA, NEVADA, 01:27:29.000 --> 01:27:30.000 NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NORTH 01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:32.000 CAROLINA, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS, 01:27:33.000 --> 01:27:34.000 UTAH, VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON, AND 01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:37.000 THE U.S. TERRITORY OF PUERTO 01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:40.000 RICO. 01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:47.000 FINALLY WE HAVE OVER 300 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:49.000 STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD IN 01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:50.000 EIGHT COUNTRIES REPRESENTED ARE 01:27:52.000 --> 01:27:53.000 CHINA, INDIA, JAPAN, LIBYA, 01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:55.000 MEXICO, SAUDI ARABIA, SINGAPORE 01:27:58.000 --> 01:27:59.000 AND TANZANIA. 01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:07.000 WE HAVE 11 STUDENTS COMPLETING 01:28:08.000 --> 01:28:09.000 TWO DEGREES AND ONE STUDENT 01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:11.000 COMPLETING TWO MASTER'S DEGREES. 01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:16.000 AND FINALLY, WE HAVE 14 STUDENTS 01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:18.000 AT THE BACHELOR'S LEVEL THAT 01:28:21.000 --> 01:28:22.000 HAVE A 4.0G.P.A. 01:28:25.000 --> 01:28:26.000 AT THE MASTER'S LEVEL 63 01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:29.000 STUDENTS WITH A 4.0. 01:28:33.000 --> 01:28:34.000 CONTINUING ON WE HAVE 166 01:28:35.000 --> 01:28:36.000 STUDENTS WHO ARE GRADUATING 01:28:37.000 --> 01:28:38.000 SUMMA CUM LAUDE, G.P.A. ABOVE 01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:48.000 CUM LAUDE WHICH IS G.P.A. OF 01:28:48.000 --> 01:28:49.000 TO 3.79. 01:28:53.000 --> 01:28:54.000 AND FINALLY 135 STUDENTS WHO ARE 01:28:56.000 --> 01:28:57.000 GRADUATED CUM LAUDE 3.5 TO 3.64. 01:29:00.000 --> 01:29:01.000 IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE HONORS, 01:29:03.000 --> 01:29:04.000 GRADUATES, CUM LAUDE, MAGNNA CUM 01:29:05.000 --> 01:29:06.000 LAUDE, SUMMA CUM LAUDE, STAND 01:29:07.000 --> 01:29:08.000 QUICKLY AND WAVE TO YOUR 01:29:10.000 --> 01:29:11.000 FAMILIES, PLEASE. 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:17.000 AMAZING WORK. 01:29:18.000 --> 01:29:19.000 THE TIME HAS NOW COME TO 01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:21.000 RECOGNIZE STUDENTS WHO ARE 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:22.000 GRADUATING WITH ACADEMIC HONORS 01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:28.000 I WILL ASK PROVOST SCHECK TO 01:29:30.000 --> 01:29:31.000 DESCRIBE THE ATTAINMENT OF THOSE 01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:32.000 STUDENTS WHO ARE GRADUATING AND 01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:39.000 STUDENTS WHO ACHIEVE A GRADE 01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:41.000 POINT AVERAGE OF 3.5 BETTER 01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:44.000 GRADUATE WITH HONORS. 01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:45.000 AS NOTED IN YOUR PROGRAM, 01:29:46.000 --> 01:29:47.000 STUDENTS WITH 3.5 TO 3.64 01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:51.000 GRADUATE CUM LAUDE, THOSE WITH 01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:52.000 TO 3.79 GRADUATE 01:29:57.000 --> 01:29:58.000 MAGNNA CUM LAUDE, THOSE 3.8 TO 01:30:01.000 --> 01:30:02.000 WITH THOSE DESIGNATIONS 01:30:07.000 --> 01:30:08.000 REPRESENT IMPRESSIVE ACADEMIC 01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:13.000 ACHIEVEMENT. 01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:14.000 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK ALL STUDENTS 01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:16.000 GRADUATING WITH HONORS TO PLEASE 01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:17.000 STAND. 01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:24.000 NOW, CUM LAUDE GRADUATES ONLY, 01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:26.000 PLEASE BE SEATED. 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:31.000 MAGNNA CUM LAUDE GRADUATES ONLY 01:30:33.000 --> 01:30:34.000 PLEASE BE SEATED. 01:30:35.000 --> 01:30:36.000 THOSE GRADUATES STILL STANDING 01:30:37.000 --> 01:30:38.000 ARE WESTERN'S 2017 SUMMA CUM 01:30:40.000 --> 01:30:41.000 LAUDE GRADUATES, THOSE WITH A 01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:43.000 GRADE POINT AVERAGE OF AT LEAST 01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:53.000 THANK YOU. 01:30:54.000 --> 01:30:55.000 AND NOW WILL CANDIDATES FOR THE 01:30:55.000 --> 01:30:56.000 MASTER'S DEGREE PLEASE STAND. 01:31:10.000 --> 01:31:12.000 AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME BY THE 01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:13.000 WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY BOARD 01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:15.000 OF TRUSTEES AND RECOMMENDATION 01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:16.000 OF THE FACULTY OF WESTERN OREGON 01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:18.000 UNIVERSITY, HEREBY CONFER UPON 01:31:19.000 --> 01:31:21.000 EACH OF YOU THE MASTER'S DEGREE 01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:23.000 TO WHICH YOU ARE ENTITLED, WITH 01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:26.000 ALL THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES AND 01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:28.000 RESPONSIBILITIES PERTAINING 01:31:28.000 --> 01:31:29.000 THERETO. 01:31:31.000 --> 01:31:32.000 PROVOST SCHECK, PLEASE PROCEED. 01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:39.000 PLEASE BE SEATED. 01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:41.000 I NOW INVITE THE FIRST ROW TO 01:31:42.000 --> 01:31:43.000 COME FORWARD. 01:32:25.000 --> 01:32:26.000 SCIENCE IN EDUCATION -- 01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:44.000 IN INTERPRETING STUDIES -- 01:33:04.000 --> 01:33:05.000 IN TEACHING -- 01:35:13.000 --> 01:35:15.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF MUSIC IN 01:35:18.000 --> 01:35:19.000 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC -- 01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:24.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF SCIENCE 01:35:24.000 --> 01:35:25.000 IN EDUCATION. 01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:21.000 CHELSEA IS RECEIVING A SECOND 01:36:27.000 --> 01:36:28.000 DEGREE IN MASTER OF EDUCATION. 01:36:56.000 --> 01:36:57.000 AMANDA IS RECEIVING A SECOND 01:36:58.000 --> 01:36:59.000 DEGREE IN EDUCATION. 01:38:07.000 --> 01:38:08.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF SCIENCE 01:38:08.000 --> 01:38:09.000 IN EDUCATION -- 01:38:12.000 --> 01:38:13.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF SCIENCE 01:38:21.000 --> 01:38:22.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF SCIENCE 01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:27.000 IN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION 01:38:29.000 --> 01:38:30.000 SYSTEMS -- 01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:47.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF SCIENCE 01:38:48.000 --> 01:38:49.000 IN REHABILITATION COUNSELING -- 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:33.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF SCIENCE 01:39:33.000 --> 01:39:34.000 IN EDUCATION -- 01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:37.000 RECEIVING THE MASTER OF SCIENCE 01:39:39.000 --> 01:39:40.000 IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- RECEIVING 01:39:42.000 --> 01:39:43.000 THE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN 01:39:57.000 --> 01:39:58.000 SCIENCE WITH AN EMPHASIS IN 01:39:59.000 --> 01:39:60.000 NURSING FROM THE OREGON HIPS 01:40:02.000 --> 01:40:03.000 SCHOOL OF NURSING MONMOUTH 01:40:05.000 --> 01:40:06.000 CAMPUS -- 01:41:25.000 --> 01:41:26.000 BACHELOR'S DEGREE PLEASE STAND. 01:41:58.000 --> 01:41:59.000 BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY 01:42:00.000 --> 01:42:01.000 VESTED IN ME BY THE WESTERN 01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:03.000 OREGON BOARD OF TRUST TEES AND 01:42:04.000 --> 01:42:05.000 UPON RECOMMENDATION OF THE 01:42:06.000 --> 01:42:07.000 FACULTY ON WESTERN OREGON 01:42:08.000 --> 01:42:09.000 UNIVERSITY AND THE OREGON HEALTH 01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:12.000 AND SCIENCES SCHOOL OF NURSING I 01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:14.000 CONFER UPON EACH OF YOU THE 01:42:14.000 --> 01:42:15.000 BACHELOR'S DEGREE TO WHICH YOU 01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:16.000 ARE TITLED, WITH THE RIGHTS, 01:42:21.000 --> 01:42:22.000 PERTAINING THERETO. 01:42:23.000 --> 01:42:24.000 PROVOST SCHECK, PLEASE PROCEED. 01:42:29.000 --> 01:42:30.000 BE SEATED. 01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:32.000 NOW INVITE THE FIRST ROW TO COME 01:42:33.000 --> 01:42:34.000 FORWARD. 01:42:43.000 --> 01:42:44.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:42:46.000 --> 01:42:47.000 SCIENCE IN EDUCATION -- 01:42:50.000 --> 01:42:51.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:43:02.000 --> 01:43:03.000 EMILY IS RECEIVING THE BACHELOR 01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:05.000 OF SCIENCE IN PSYCHOLOGY. 01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:11.000 SARAH IS RECEIVING THE BACHELOR 01:43:13.000 --> 01:43:14.000 OF ARTS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:47.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:43:48.000 --> 01:43:49.000 IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE, 01:43:50.000 --> 01:43:51.000 ENGLISH INTERPRETING -- 01:44:25.000 --> 01:44:26.000 ALYSSA IS ALSO RECEIVING THE 01:44:27.000 --> 01:44:28.000 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN AMERICAN 01:44:37.000 --> 01:44:38.000 SCIENCE IN AMERICAN SIGN 01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:39.000 LANGUAGE, ENGLISH 01:44:40.000 --> 01:44:41.000 INTERPRETING -- 01:44:50.000 --> 01:44:51.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:44:51.000 --> 01:44:52.000 IN COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION -- 01:45:05.000 --> 01:45:06.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:07.000 SCIENCE IN COMMUNITY HEALTH 01:45:07.000 --> 01:45:08.000 EDUCATION -- 01:47:48.000 --> 01:47:49.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:47:50.000 --> 01:47:51.000 IN EDUCATION -- 01:48:43.000 --> 01:48:44.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:45.000 SCIENCE IN EDUCATION -- 01:52:31.000 --> 01:52:32.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:52:32.000 --> 01:52:33.000 IN EDUCATION STUDIES -- 01:52:38.000 --> 01:52:39.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:52:39.000 --> 01:52:40.000 IN EXERCISE SCIENCE -- 01:52:52.000 --> 01:52:53.000 SCIENCE IN EXERCISE SCIENCE -- 01:54:58.000 --> 01:54:59.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:54:59.000 --> 01:54:60.000 IN EDUCATION -- 01:55:01.000 --> 01:55:02.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:55:02.000 --> 01:55:03.000 SCIENCE IN COMMUNITY HEALTH 01:55:04.000 --> 01:55:05.000 EDUCATION -- 01:55:06.000 --> 01:55:07.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:55:08.000 --> 01:55:09.000 SCIENCE IN EDUCATION -- 01:55:18.000 --> 01:55:19.000 SCIENCE IN EXERCISE SCIENCE -- 01:55:25.000 --> 01:55:26.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:27.000 SCIENCE IN CHEMISTRY -- 01:55:31.000 --> 01:55:32.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:55:39.000 --> 01:55:40.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:55:56.000 --> 01:55:57.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:56:02.000 --> 01:56:03.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:56:04.000 --> 01:56:05.000 IN ART -- 01:56:13.000 --> 01:56:14.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF FINE 01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:16.000 ARTS IN ART -- 01:56:19.000 --> 01:56:20.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:56:40.000 --> 01:56:41.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 01:57:38.000 --> 01:57:39.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 01:57:40.000 --> 01:57:41.000 IN BUSINESS -- 02:04:07.000 --> 02:04:08.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:04:10.000 --> 02:04:11.000 SCIENCE IN CHEMISTRY -- 02:04:46.000 --> 02:04:47.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:06:32.000 --> 02:06:33.000 RECEIVING THE APPLIED 02:06:38.000 --> 02:06:39.000 BACCALAUREATE IN COMPUTER SPINS. 02:06:41.000 --> 02:06:42.000 THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:45.000 COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 02:07:00.000 --> 02:07:01.000 SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND 02:07:02.000 --> 02:07:03.000 MATHEMATICS -- 02:07:10.000 --> 02:07:11.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF MUSIC 02:07:39.000 --> 02:07:40.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:07:40.000 --> 02:07:41.000 IN MUSIC -- 02:07:46.000 --> 02:07:47.000 SCIENCE IN MUSIC -- 02:07:53.000 --> 02:07:54.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:07:54.000 --> 02:07:55.000 IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 02:08:10.000 --> 02:08:11.000 ANNA IS ALSO RECEIVING THE 02:08:12.000 --> 02:08:13.000 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN SPANISH. 02:11:28.000 --> 02:11:29.000 JESSIE IS ALSO RECEIVING A 02:11:30.000 --> 02:11:31.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:11:32.000 --> 02:11:33.000 PSYCHOLOGY. 02:12:53.000 --> 02:12:54.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:13:03.000 --> 02:13:04.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:13:04.000 --> 02:13:05.000 SCIENCE IN DANCE -- 02:13:18.000 --> 02:13:19.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:13:19.000 --> 02:13:20.000 SCIENCE IN EARTH SCIENCE -- 02:13:48.000 --> 02:13:49.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:13:51.000 --> 02:13:52.000 SCIENCE IN ECONOMICS -- 02:14:14.000 --> 02:14:15.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:14:16.000 --> 02:14:17.000 IN ENGLISH -- 02:14:29.000 --> 02:14:30.000 CAITLIN CAMPBELL IS ALSO 02:14:31.000 --> 02:14:32.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:14:32.000 --> 02:14:33.000 IN SOCIAL SCIENCE. 02:14:44.000 --> 02:14:45.000 ERIKA IS ALSO RECEIVING THE 02:14:46.000 --> 02:14:47.000 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:14:47.000 --> 02:14:48.000 PSYCHOLOGY. 02:14:52.000 --> 02:14:53.000 JOCELYN IS ALSO RECEIVING THE 02:14:55.000 --> 02:14:56.000 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 02:15:14.000 --> 02:15:15.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:15:15.000 --> 02:15:16.000 IN FIRE SERVICES 02:15:22.000 --> 02:15:23.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:15:25.000 --> 02:15:26.000 ADMINISTRATION -- 02:15:30.000 --> 02:15:31.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:15:31.000 --> 02:15:32.000 IN GEOGRAPHY -- 02:15:36.000 --> 02:15:37.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:15:37.000 --> 02:15:38.000 SCIENCE IN GEOGRAPHY -- 02:15:57.000 --> 02:15:58.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:15:58.000 --> 02:15:59.000 IN GERONTOLOGY -- 02:16:02.000 --> 02:16:03.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:16:04.000 --> 02:16:05.000 SCIENCE IN GERONTOLOGY -- 02:16:32.000 --> 02:16:33.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:16:34.000 --> 02:16:35.000 IN HISTORY -- 02:16:50.000 --> 02:16:51.000 SCIENCE IN HISTORY -- 02:17:12.000 --> 02:17:13.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:17:13.000 --> 02:17:14.000 IN HUMANITIES -- 02:17:34.000 --> 02:17:35.000 SCIENCE IN INFORMATION 02:17:35.000 --> 02:17:36.000 SYSTEMS -- 02:18:16.000 --> 02:18:17.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:19:37.000 --> 02:19:38.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:19:38.000 --> 02:19:39.000 SCIENCE IN 02:19:40.000 --> 02:19:41.000 INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES -- 02:22:05.000 --> 02:22:06.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:08.000 IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES -- 02:22:15.000 --> 02:22:16.000 SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS -- 02:22:26.000 --> 02:22:27.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:22:27.000 --> 02:22:28.000 IN POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 02:22:35.000 --> 02:22:36.000 SCIENCE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE -- 02:22:59.000 --> 02:22:60.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:23:01.000 --> 02:23:02.000 IN PSYCHOLOGY -- 02:24:01.000 --> 02:24:02.000 SCIENCE IN PSYCHOLOGY -- 02:25:15.000 --> 02:25:16.000 KAUIONALANI IS ALSO RECEIVING 02:25:19.000 --> 02:25:20.000 THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN 02:25:22.000 --> 02:25:23.000 GERONTOLOGY. 02:26:49.000 --> 02:26:50.000 CYNTHIA IS ALSO RECEIVING THE 02:26:51.000 --> 02:26:52.000 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN SPANISH. 02:27:35.000 --> 02:27:36.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:27:37.000 --> 02:27:38.000 IN PUBLIC POLICY AND 02:27:38.000 --> 02:27:39.000 ADMINISTRATION -- 02:27:55.000 --> 02:27:56.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:27:57.000 --> 02:27:58.000 SCIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY AND 02:27:59.000 --> 02:27:60.000 ADMINISTRATION -- 02:28:35.000 --> 02:28:36.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:28:56.000 --> 02:28:57.000 BRENDA IS RECEIVING THE BACHELOR 02:28:59.000 --> 02:28:60.000 OF ARTS IN SPANISH. 02:29:23.000 --> 02:29:24.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:29:58.000 --> 02:29:59.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:30:17.000 --> 02:30:18.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:30:18.000 --> 02:30:19.000 IN SPANISH -- 02:30:34.000 --> 02:30:35.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF FINE 02:30:36.000 --> 02:30:37.000 ARTS IN THEATER -- 02:30:53.000 --> 02:30:54.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:30:55.000 --> 02:30:56.000 IN THEATER -- 02:30:59.000 --> 02:30:60.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:01.000 --> 02:31:02.000 SCIENCE IN THEATER ARTS -- 02:31:07.000 --> 02:31:08.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:31:09.000 --> 02:31:10.000 IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION 02:31:11.000 --> 02:31:12.000 DESIGN -- 02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:17.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:18.000 --> 02:31:19.000 SCIENCE IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION 02:31:20.000 --> 02:31:21.000 DESIGN -- 02:31:26.000 --> 02:31:27.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:28.000 --> 02:31:29.000 SCIENCE IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION 02:31:29.000 --> 02:31:30.000 DESIGN -- 02:31:56.000 --> 02:31:57.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:31:58.000 --> 02:31:59.000 SCIENCE IN APPLIED 02:32:00.000 --> 02:32:01.000 MATHEMATICS -- 02:32:03.000 --> 02:32:04.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:32:05.000 --> 02:32:06.000 IN ART -- 02:32:07.000 --> 02:32:08.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:11.000 --> 02:32:12.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:12.000 --> 02:32:13.000 SCIENCE IN SOCIOLOGY -- 02:32:15.000 --> 02:32:16.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:16.000 --> 02:32:17.000 SCIENCE IN INFORMATION 02:32:18.000 --> 02:32:19.000 SYSTEMS -- 02:32:21.000 --> 02:32:22.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:22.000 --> 02:32:23.000 SCIENCE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE -- 02:32:26.000 --> 02:32:27.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:27.000 --> 02:32:28.000 SCIENCE IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION 02:32:29.000 --> 02:32:30.000 DESIGN -- 02:32:31.000 --> 02:32:32.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:33.000 --> 02:32:34.000 SCIENCE IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION 02:32:35.000 --> 02:32:36.000 DESIGN -- 02:32:38.000 --> 02:32:39.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:39.000 --> 02:32:40.000 SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS -- 02:32:44.000 --> 02:32:45.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:45.000 --> 02:32:46.000 SCIENCE IN BUSINESS -- 02:32:48.000 --> 02:32:49.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:32:49.000 --> 02:32:50.000 SCIENCE IN BUSINESS -- 02:32:55.000 --> 02:32:56.000 SCIENCE IN INFORMATION 02:32:56.000 --> 02:32:57.000 SYSTEMS -- 02:32:58.000 --> 02:32:59.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF 02:33:00.000 --> 02:33:01.000 SCIENCE IN CHEMISTRY -- 02:33:04.000 --> 02:33:05.000 RECEIVING THE BACHELOR OF ARTS 02:33:05.000 --> 02:33:06.000 IN MUSIC -- 02:33:38.000 --> 02:33:39.000 PRESENT THE 2017 GRADUATES OF 02:33:44.000 --> 02:33:45.000 THE GRADUATES OF OREGON HEALTH 02:33:49.000 --> 02:33:50.000 AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITY. 02:33:51.000 --> 02:33:52.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 02:33:57.000 --> 02:33:58.000 GREAT THINGS ARE IN STORE FOR 02:33:59.000 --> 02:33:60.000 YOU AND WE AT WESTERN ARE 02:34:00.000 --> 02:34:01.000 PLEASED TO BE YOUR PARTNERS. 02:34:06.000 --> 02:34:07.000 YOU MAY BE LEAVING US AS 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