Katie Couric 2012 Commencement, 第二部分

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But finally, this year, the call came from Terry Sullivan. I guess it took the first woman to lead the University in 193 years to get the job done. Girl power sister! Given that Val Ackerman, class of ’81, was the Baccalaureate speaker yesterday and all the presenters at the center podium today are women, it’s so refreshing that more than half of the country’s population is finally being represented here today by a 100 percent female line up!

It seems like yesterday that I was walking down the Lawn towards Cabell Hall, thrilled and, yes, a bit melancholy that my four years at the University were over. It was quite a weekend. Right before my parents arrived, I had so many dirty dishes stacked up in the sink of my Lawn room, I put them in the trunk of my Toyota Corolla which was then towed because I kept parking in President Hereford’s parking space behind Pavilion VI ! Then I thought I wasn’t graduating at all because I couldn’t find my name in the program and was shocked that it was under the heading "with honors.” In other words, I was a hot mess. So if you don’t quite have your act together yet, don’t worry. At 55, I’m still a work in progress.

To be back here in Charlottesville, facing all of you, to see the faces, the Rotunda glistening in front of me in the late morning sun… well, this is pretty sweet.

You don’t need me to tell you that UVA is a very special place. I have such wonderful memories of my college experience. Great professors, great friends, great hikes along Skyline Drive, great parties, and great football games I can’t really remember thanks to a great guy I got to know named Jack Daniels. (We are not encouraging alcohol consumptions here. That was just a joke.)

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