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of this mission will become more relevant to
you as you progress through your life’s journey.
Life is filled with a series of major milestones
such as the day you got accepted into college,
the day you graduated from college, the day
you started your first job after college.
These events will mark significant
changes in your life. And you will continue
to experience an onslaught of life changes
as you experience your first raise, your first
promotion and hopefully many more to
follow. However, you like everyone else, will
also experience failure or setbacks which will
discourage you at times.
Experiences of success and failure are
really part of life’s lessons which will make
you a better, stronger person. Given that today
is your graduation day, I would like to talk
about how the success of achieving a college
education is cause for a day of celebration. I
also want to speak to you about other types of
days that will follow a day of celebration that are so important to future success
and development.
Let me start by saying congratulations to all of the graduates! It is a day
of celebration! You made it! This is a day you have longed for, your parents
have longed for, and other friends and family have longed for. Today is filled
with so many words to describe how you must feel, such as joy, happiness,
elation and perhaps a little sadness as you say goodbye to classmates, friends,
teachers, coaches. All these people have been part of making your time at BAC
a wonderful experience. Celebration today is the opportunity for both you
and your classmates to honor your achievement and pass another important
milestone in your life.
Celebration is very important. You are all achievers; you have met your
goal of obtaining a college education. An important lesson today is to learn
that acknowledging achievement and celebrating is a good thing. You will
find that setting time aside for life’s celebrations is useful and a form of love
between you and those who have helped you to obtain a college education.
Celebration also allows one to demonstrate enthusiasm for an
accomplishment. Too often many people think celebration is unnecessary or
a self-centered attention on one’s achievement. Celebration that is conducted
with grace, thankfulness and sincere love is worth sharing with others who can
You will be able
to perform sound
decision-making
with the help of
your education
while embracing
the sound moral
compass that has
been introduced
to you through
your Bryn Athyn
College education.
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