Dean decelle. I am very honored to be here tonight. President huddleston, chairman riley and members of the unh board of trustees, senator faculty and staff, students, parents, family and friends, thank you for inviting me to celebrate this very special day with you. To the class of 2017, congratulations. You have worked very hard. You can finally relax. You turn all your assignments in. You have done your exams. And now is the time to recognize all you have achieved. Many of you have pursued your degree working fulltime or taking care of a family. Thats not easy, and we admire you. It takes special determination and grit to earn your degree while holding a fulltime job for taking care of a family. Because of what you have accomplished, you graduate today well prepared to pursue your dreams, because you already know that to be successful you have to be able to manage more than one responsibility. You are well positioned to find that balance between your profession, your family life, an
To thank you all for inviting me to be a part of this day of history in your lives, i want to thank you for allowing me to be a small part of this extraordinary community. I want to congratulate the graduates, and i want to thank everyone who helped to make this possible and when i say everyone, it took so many people to make this day possible. I want to thank the parents and the grandparents, and the family members. I want to thank everyone from the incredible president and astounding provost, all the way up to those people who cleaned floors and manicured lawns and served food to contribute to this community. And so i confessed to you, when i was graduating from college, i felt like i knew a lot and now that im about twice your age, im not as confident in what i know. In fact, i am a person who believes i am in struggle, as we all are. The beautiful thing that ive realized is that were all in this struggle together. We perceive that there are differences between us, gaps and gulfs, b
At 7 00 a. M. Wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Over the next two hours on cspan, commencement addresses from around the country with cory booker, mike pence, illinois senator Tammy Duckworth, former president till clinton, former senator kelly ayotte, and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff general just of dunford. We start with senator booker, who spoke to graduates at the Commencement Ceremony at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. Sen. Booker thank you very much. It is incredible to be here and i want to thank you all for inviting me to be a part of this day of history in your lives. Allowing thank you for me to be a small part of this extraordinary community. I want to congratulate the graduates and they want to thank everyone who helped to make this possible. So many helped to make this day possible. I want to thank the parents and the grandparents in the family members. I want to thank everyone, from the incredible president and the founding provost come all
Getting through as many as we can. Its a jampacked two hours. Why niles shorts amazon on the back of the deal, and former walmart ceo, bill simon, why walmart has more to worry about other than amazon. Bill miller, a bull on the stock, and talking to him about valeant, and alexander accosta reacting to President Trumps comments on cuban policy lets get to it we have details of the amazons deal to buy whole foods and what it means for rivals. Mike, this is a little bit of what it means because ramifications have many, many ripple effects, but the deal to buy whole foods makes it amazons biggest acquisition to date, and one thats royaling grocery and retail stocks. Amazon says it will maintain the whole foods brand with the ceo and cofounder somedaying at the helm, for now. The overlapping is high already, and the stores are are located close to many amazon distribution centers, which is an interesting point the partnership certainly arms whole foods with logistics and data expertise, an
Disabilities in the workplace was the focus of the forum hosted by respectability usa. Next a panel looks at how the Entertainment Industry could improve attitudes towards people with medical and physical disabilities. It [inaudible conversations] hello and welcome back. Im looking for the next guest speaker. Okay, perfect. First of all, welcome back. We are a Nonprofit Organization fighting stigma and advancing opportunities for people with disabilities. The next session is going to be moderated and im really quite delighted about this because hes such an extraordinary leader and has recognized as a National Expert on ability, aging and health care policies. Hes more than 20 years of experience to manage the policy issues for diversity and stability community and advocates for diversity and inclusion within the Entertainment Industry. He particularly enjoys bringing his expertise to the policy to the Entertainment Industry supported. It can be an incredible ally and he is proving that