he tipping community center between two and five pm so we just wanted to make sure that all the graduates were invited and their parents and family members as well the biggest thing as a graduate we want to ask you to do right now is get in community website and register yourself that's a very basic registration it just asks for your name and where you're graduating from and you know what are you going to do now that you've graduated so you really want to you can register parents i want to encourage you to make sure that your kids are registering in you know other people around you that you know are registered and so we just really want to make sure that all the people that are graduating on i'm in mention you want to celebrate she was part of the event a swell and it's really great you know you have really kind of important you have been people in our community who achieved really amazing things and they are there to inspire us to  the graduates and so it's always really great to listen to their story and their struggle and have lived you know kind of kept up with their education and been able to accomplish a lot of things so that's really great to hear from parents and families as well so i really encourage you to we'll also have some entertainment at the day of the event swellest some light refreshments so it's going to be a really fun thing to do inspiring us well so we really want to make sure all out there come out so that we can celebrate you for those of you guys who don't know where the location of the to bank u b s center is just want to remind you guys it's on eight three two three rainier avenue south seattle washington nine  one one eight and also to register and to find out more about the graduation you can go to our website as well it's e c s seattle dot org so that e c s seattle dot org that's where you mathematics as a morehouse student he won the department awards and every math class he took he is the he won the computer science department leadership and scholarship award as well he's a member of five beta kappa morehouse honors program and the international student organization he has served the college with distinction as vice president and president of the consumer computer science club after graduation he will be moving to seattle washington where he has accepted a position with microsoft corporation as a software development engineer or thank you president wilson mr president a less three years leader of these united states other distinguished members of the platform faculty staff parents guardian and especially to my fellow classmates men of the morehouse college graduating class of twenty thirteen ladies and gentlemen we shall remember this straightening our caps circling our necks with various representations of the excellence of our four year journey marching proudly across the campus we have come to know and to love so well we shall remember this day we came in as freshman marching together to be welcomed to the house marching together to orientation sessions marching together to divisional meetings and  men today as graduating seniors we came into this place again marching together brother to brother but this time to leave to go our separate own glorification but for service to all others for we are world changers because we do not hesitate to recognize that goal the world has come a long way we still dare  brotherhood and sisterhood characterized all human relationships we will remember this day because all parents and guardians are teachers and mentors are role models trailblazers made it possible for us to achieve encourage just to excel in their arenas never engaged before today we must say thank you we will remember years from now who was their commencement speak inspiration for one who demonstrates everyday that there is no impossible no there is no unbelievable and there is no unachievable if you have the because we came to a place that enabled us to grow develop achieve believe and excel and for this our hearts were saying holy spirit will on graduations to you on a job well done you are an outstanding example of a morehouse man and will the members of his family please stand and be recognized  organized by the breakfast group and the key member of the breakfast group responsible for this thing is mr paul this to him he's a very significant member of our community in specially in mentoring young kids  in their school so here is paul i'm paul mitchell and i always i'm always proud to be here this is one of my favorite events you know because we've we've been doing this for a number of years fact we had tons of dignitaries but the main thing we had record group of kids we had eighty seven students from twelve different schools in the city here which is which is good for us and most of these kids them and sponsor these guys to be successful because one of the things that we that i'm finding out and i knew us people and i said people people of color is especially black is a dying breed of young youth they're not to succeed in life and they need a lot of mentors and a lot of help and so while that's one of the things that we're trying to do offer them that positive reinforcement on life in the south you know i'm sitting here talking to rambling on and on but actually i'm just proud you know that we have so many supporters and we have some students who's trying to do better well we started we had bought flowers who was a vice president for washington mutual but we had young brothers all over the place that was in these different corporations and we needed support because we were the only one in  these different organizations and so we decided to have breakfast one day and talk about you know our experiences in the corporate world because we were you know isolated and and we were trying to found some companions so that's a good start as we had started having breakfast so then we decided late on a year or two later to organize and that's how it all got started and most of the guys now has gone through the whole process and successful in our in our in our corporate world and we're tired you know we try to give it back and we try to give back to like the kid who got up and talk today from leg side you know we always wanted to give back to our community because somebody gave it to us somebody stepped place and still a great place to live my name is gary melanson i'm a member of the breakfast group i've been a member for over twenty years i am the emcee or master ceremony for the taiwan on the british group has been around for over forty years and were a group of professional african american males working with mostly challenge and young african american males in need of assistance to taiwan an event is just recently had as the second anniversary and been held at the fairmont olympic otel all those years it's an excellent event this year we had attendance from the governing united states and the mayor seattle as well as a new share king county share this event as this great opportunity for young men to first learn to tie a tie an opportunity for them to meet a number of other professionals an opportunity as well to find jobs to further their opportunities in our community so we just look for continued support of this program and just happy to be able to provide a service  community in seattle good morning i'm dr john german former principal in seattle public schools and a member of the breakfast group for the last  we go for some students as they come out of high school as they finish high school we celebrate their achievement of thirteen years of education and then for some students they're trying to go to further education either through there is a degree business school some go to the military and some go into a four year institution and finish up and hopefully go into higher education from that point on over the past and think this is our eighteenth year  we have had this all achievers ceremony presentation in which we do celebrate students from graduating from high school and moving on to for their education we've topped over a quarter million dollars in scholarships over those years and we have had close to five hundred students  be celebrated with scholarships one way or another just celebrating the students graduation we are closer to a thousand plus and we feel as a group of volunteers celebrating students graduating is almost as important as celebrating winning a scholarship all students don't learn at the same pace at the same time at the same level so we are very very cognizant of that and we want to make sure that they do get recognition for their hard work for the their  group is always looking for men or looking for folks who would like to work in a voluntary group voluntary group work with our community has been around breakfast group itself it's been around over thirty three years but always bringing in new folks who just say i would like to give back to our community and would like to volunteer to talking with students or helping or helping teach and helping us get the word out throughout our seattle community indicate that i'm one of the founding members of the reference group i came to the first meeting that we established back in nineteen eighty three so i've been a member of the whole time i think i'm really inspired and motivated by the fact that we have ongoing really been very committed not only to the development and support of our members individual a and collectively but that all of us i'm very committed and decisions as they are going on and i'm glad that our basically we're all very committed to know tom and just doing what's best for our people very proud there where it's truly committed to the economic development of the african american community and that personally we're committed to working with our youth who are struggling and what is still a pretty institutionally racist environment but we're helping ou