Statistics prove it.
I hope you prosper, but if you don't make a million and still find joy and fulfillment in life, you will have gained the best thing Eastern has to offer, the most enduring and valuable reward of a college education. Amy Kearns, Richmond, a master's degree candidate in criminal justice, spoke on behalf of the graduating class. It is here that we learn how to disagree while still remaining friends. It is here that we learn how to embrace and be enriched by diversity, and how to grow through our differences rather than being limited by them. We take with us tonight the ability to not only expand our circle, but to reinvent its boundaries, to chart new connections.