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