oh means that i got but what is but not the you know and i got a  a 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 to go to that you 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 encourage all the graduates to go ahead go to the web site that in community website you can even just google you tube in community in seattle and the first thing that pops up is the web site for the community center so just go in there and there's the link right there where 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 want to me and mention you want to graduating and 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 inspire the graduates and so it's always really great to listen to their story and their struggle and have lived 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 to come we will also have some entertainment the day of the event us well us 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 graduates specially they to be graduates 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 be a community center is just want to remind you that it's on eight three two three rainier avenue south seattle washington nine hundred 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's e 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 feist 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 and especially to my fellow classmates men of the morehouse college graduating class of twenty thirteen ladies and gentlemen we shall remember this day 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 and sisterhood characterized all human relationships we will remember this day because all parents and guardians are teachers and mentors are role models and trailblazers inspiration from one who demonstrates everyday that there is no impossible oh 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 will forever saying holy spirit 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 for the ok you 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 good and look at the turnout that we had today was exceptionally good we had the governor we had the mayor we had 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 will offer scholarships next month and all the banquet but again it always does my heart well to see that we have some students and we got people who support 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 that's one of the things that we're trying to do offer them that positive reinforcement don't live in the south you know i'm sitting here talking and 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 thirty seven years ago bunch of us were young black guys were going into the  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 been most of the been very 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 up our parents were very hard and the story this kid told the day was parallel what our story was you know my mom we lived in california my mom didn't like the environment down there and she packed up seven of us and hired to meyer to drive us up here to c l and she by herself and we live in the center area there are seven kids and one bathroom years i am the mc 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 the thai when an event is just recently had us twenty 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 this program and just happy to be able to provide a service to our 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 fifteen to twenty years i have the unique responsibility of chairing the all the both scholarships and recognition we go for some students as they come out of high school as a finished high school we celebrate the 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 a that 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 breakfast 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  who just say i would like to give back to our community and would like to volunteer either talking with students or helping or helping teach and helping us get the word out throughout indicate that i'm one of the founding members of the breakfast 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 and 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 some very committed and demonstrated they have worked in the african american community with patrick this young man and we didn't had a significant impact over these thirty years and i'm glad th so that i thought