'Great Leaders Lead from a Better Vision of a Possible Future'

[dweller]

by Doris “Granny D” Haddock
Commencement Address
Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Thanks to the staff and members of faculty and to President Prince, and to all of you graduates who chose me to be
your speaker. I hope my message will be up to the occasion.

I am sure there were times in your years here at Hampshire when you doubted you would ever see this day. But you
kept going, one step at a time, and here you are. Sometimes all you can do in life, in the harder moments, is to put
one foot in front of the other. You will always come to some new victory, despite your darkest worries and despair.

We--all of us--sincerely congratulate you.

Today will stay in your memory as a reminder that you have the power to shape your own life. That is not small
change in your pocket; it is a great and golden treasure.

For it is the loss of faith in our personal power that drives the woes of the world.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0614-26.htm

dp

[Karenina]

1. Granny is GREAT!

:loveya: