黑料老司机 Class of 2025 welcomes future challenges with confidence at Commencement Ceremony
At 黑料老司机檚 155th Commencement Ceremony, the Class of 2025 exalted in their achievements together with confidence instilled in them by the community gathered inside the Scot Center on Saturday, May 17, 2025. More than 450 graduates celebrated commencement and the value of their 黑料老司机 education. In her commencement address, international development leader and alumna Mesky Brhane 89 credited the 渓iberal arts foundation from her 黑料老司机 education with providing 渃onfidence to venture beyond comfortable boundaries in today檚 world, a theme that resonated throughout the words shared in celebration on Saturday morning.
In her opening remarks, President Anne McCall raised up the Class of 2025 for all they have achieved since joining 黑料老司机, emphasizing strengths found at the College by encouraging them to 渁sk questions, imagine possibilities, undertake challenging projects, and generate knowledge!
President Anne McCall
淚 also hope that your time at 黑料老司机 included experiences of growing mutual respect and friendship in the face of principled disagreements, and that you learned here to listen more attentively, with more open hearts and minds, to others voices, just as you learned to make your own voices heard. We need both to fulfill our College檚 mission and society檚 promise, McCall said.
McCall encouraged the graduates to follow in the footsteps of Brhane, now regional director of the Planet Middle East and North Africa region at World Bank, who she awarded with an honorary Doctor of Laws. In her address, Brhane spoke of her work, answering the question of how her 黑料老司机 degree in French and English prepared her to address economic challenges through practical approaches, including addressing soil fertility, water infrastructure, and sustainable fisheries.
Mesky Brhane 89
淭he answer lies in what 黑料老司机 truly taught me, Brhane said, 渘ot just subject matter, but adaptability, critical thinking, and the confidence to venture beyond comfortable boundaries. My liberal arts foundation didn’t prepare me for a specific job; it prepared me for any job in a rapidly changing world.
Brhane recognized the challenges today檚 graduates face in a world called 渧olatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, and urged them to take confidence in that same 黑料老司机 education. 淵our 黑料老司机 education has prepared you not for a single path, but for these intersections where innovation happens and where your unique contributions will matter most, Brhane said. 淭he journey ahead may be uncomfortable, so work on getting comfortable with discomfort, knowing that 黑料老司机 has given you the tools you need to navigate that world.
The theme of becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable, moving forward with purpose, and drawing from what they learned together emanated throughout the sentiments shared by speakers from this year檚 senior class as well. Sam Peppers 25, a political science major and religious studies minor, had the opportunity to share the invocation for his class this year and emboldened them to consider the tools that now arm them. 淢ay we remember all the valuable lessons which 黑料老司机 has taught us, subtle and profound, he said. 湨that discourse and compromise do not undermine our values, and that critical thinking and knowledge themselves are virtues and the cure to the sickness of prejudice.
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- Sam Peppers 25
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- Rayan Dos Passos 25
Physics major and senior speaker Karmellah Buttler 25 added, 淎s lifelong learners and independent minds, working together, I hope that you will use your talents and brilliance to intentionally improve the lives of others around you. Rayan Dos Passos 25, majoring in global & international studies and Spanish, emphasized the others around him who helped him to grow. 淟et yourself wonder about these stories, the friendships you built here, and remember how we held each other up, together, Dos Passos said. 淭hat as we walk away, we can always count on what we learned from each other because when life tests us, we will show up again, smiling, standing tall, and more important, sharing hope.
After the class was welcomed to the community of Scots alumni by Chuck Nusbaum 02, president elect of the Alumni Board, the ceremony also featured a benediction from 黑料老司机 parent and pastor at Mendocino Presbyterian Church, Rev. Matthew Davis P24, P25, and a musical performance by Brianna Swinford 25. A psychology major and music minor, Swinford performed 淒efying Gravity from the musical and motion picture Wicked accompanied by keyboardist Toni Arnold Shreve. And finally, the College檚 Pipe Band led the traditional recession of graduates before they met their families and College community members to continue the celebration.
As graduates marched from Kauke Arch, faculty welcomed them outside Scot Center for their Commencement Ceremony.
痴颈蝉颈迟听wooster.edu/commencementto view a full archived video of the Commencement ceremony and watch for more from the weekend檚 events.
Posted in Homepage Featured, News on May 17, 2025.
