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Blue Mountain College President Dr. Bettye Rogers Coward
addresses 129 graduates of this year’s class on Saturday. (BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE)
“As you leave these hallowed halls of learning, your responsibility is not to tear down or to be critical – anyone can do that,” Coward said. “Rather, your calling is to build up, which is the higher calling – to build lives and to build a better world.”
Coward, who at the end of June will step down after 11 years as BMC president, told the 129 graduates, “None of us inherited a perfect world. Our task is to make the world into which we were born a better one.
“The capacity to create and do good things is unlimited. You have received a fine education and now it is your responsibility to find your place in making the world you inherited a better one for the next generation.”