Ƶ Commencement /commencement/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:49:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Ella Lehavi ’24 /commencement/speeches/ella-lehavi-24 Mon, 20 May 2024 22:47:23 +0000 /commencement/?p=1167 Can you guys believe that 4 years of my life and thousands of dollars in tuition lead up to this moment, and all we got out of it was a […]

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]]> 1167 Kelly McCreary 2023 /commencement/speeches/kelly-mccreary Mon, 15 May 2023 23:24:14 +0000 /commencement/?p=1014 Thank you to President Marcus-Newhall, Trustees, faculty, and distinguished guests. First and foremost, I’d like to add my voice to the chorus of congratulations to the Class of 2023! It […]

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]]> 1014 Ishi Gupta ’23 and Elaine Yang ’23 /commencement/speeches/ishi-gupta-23-and-elaine-yang-23 Mon, 15 May 2023 22:44:24 +0000 /commencement/?p=1164 “Forging a New Path in Community” Good afternoon family, friends, faculty, and loved ones. My name is Ishi, and my name is Elaine. And welcome to Commencement for the Class […]

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]]> 1164 Salle Yoo ’92 /commencement/speeches/salle-yoo-92 Tue, 24 May 2022 17:38:37 +0000 /commencement/?p=944 A video of the Commencement ceremonies for the Classes of 2020 and 2021, including Salle Yoo’s speech, is available here. Good Morning. I’d like to thank President Amy Marcus-Newhall, the […]

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]]> 944 Clare Cannon ’08 /commencement/speeches/clare-cannon-08 Tue, 24 May 2022 16:46:51 +0000 /commencement/?p=947 I am so excited to be with you today. I am honored and grateful to be a guest on the lands of the Tongva people. I am honored and humbled […]

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]]> 947 Andrea Ritchie /commencement/speeches/andrea-ritchie Wed, 18 May 2022 16:31:17 +0000 /commencement/?p=940 “Which Future(s) Will You Create”  Andrea J. Ritchie  Ƶ Commencement: May 14, 2022  Thank you President Marcus-Newhall, esteemed Trustees, Deans, Faculty, staff, Class Presidents, and students of Ƶ.   […]

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]]> 940 Poppy MacDonald ’97 /commencement/speeches/poppy-macdonald-97 Sat, 18 May 2019 21:09:42 +0000 /commencement/?p=865 Good afternoon. These speeches generally open with a long list of acknowledgments–and for good reason, because there’s something very special happening today, and no one here had less to do […]

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]]> 865 President Lara Tiedens /commencement/speeches/president-lara-tiedens Sat, 18 May 2019 20:17:13 +0000 /commencement/?p=868 Seek Friends, not Enemies. Yep, seek Friends.  Don’t seek enemies. This may seem obvious, or even odd advice. After all, who would have told you to seek enemies? Many years […]

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]]> 868 Charlayne Hunter-Gault /commencement/speeches/charlayne-hunter-gault Tue, 29 May 2018 16:14:03 +0000 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/?p=344 Greetings Class of 2018 and to all who help you be that!  Or as they say in South Africa: All Protocols observed! I am so very honored to be here […]

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]]> 344 Leslie Moreno /commencement/speeches/leslie-moreno Tue, 29 May 2018 16:07:05 +0000 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/?p=340 Bienvenidos familiares, compañeras, y amigos,   First, I would like to recognize that we are on sacred Tongva land, and on this land today, we are celebrating a moment in […]

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]]> 340 Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code /commencement/speeches/reshma-saujani-founder-of-girls-who-code Tue, 09 May 2017 19:17:40 +0000 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/?p=219 Graduates, deans, parents, and guests: thank you so much for inviting me to share this day with you. I know it’s traditional for a commencement speaker to start off with […]

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]]> 219 Vivian Wei-Zhou Zhang /commencement/speeches/vivian-zhang Tue, 09 May 2017 19:05:44 +0000 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/?p=211 Dear friends, family, and family of friends: Today, we’re celebrating this moment in our journeys, and we’re celebrating the journeys that have brought us to this moment. It’s my honor […]

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]]> 211 Madeleine Albright, 64th U.S. Secretary of State /commencement/speeches/former-secretary-of-state-madeleine-albright Sun, 15 May 2016 01:20:48 +0000 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/?p=159 ...You will embark on a new stage in your lives – meeting different people, traveling far and wide, and experiencing life as you never have before.You will be able to face the future with confidence because the skills and values you developed here at Ƶwill go along with you.This means you are as well-equipped as any young people could be to continue your search for truth in an uncertain and often confusing world.

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]]> 159 Catherine Chiang /commencement/speeches/catherine-chiang Sun, 15 May 2016 00:23:36 +0000 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/?p=155 Hello and good evening. I am incredibly honored to be here, with the class of 2016 and many of the people who have supported us along our journey. I always […]

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]]> 155 Sarah Kay /commencement/speeches/sarah-kay Wed, 20 May 2015 19:00:24 +0000 http://www.scrippscollege.edu/commencement/?p=64 Sometimes it is hard to believe that we can be working on the same thing. Sometimes the way you build is so different from the way someone else does. You want to be big and visible and radical and loud, someone else wants to work quietly, under the radar, out of the public eye. It is possible to have many front lines in the same war. It is possible that the people you disagree with are really trying to do the same work, trying to build the same future, even if we see it different ways. You can lay bricks until walls are constructed, until a temple is built. Or you can dream towards a temple until you figure out which walls to build and which bricks to lay. You can shape behavior until it changes minds. Or you change minds until it shapes behavior. You create options by choice and example.

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