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2 GRADUATION con’t LIOS First Graduating Class continued from the previous page The LIOS students then received their master’s degrees and red-and-white hoods at the hands of LIOS faculty member and Fall Program Lead, Diane Schachter, MA.; LIOS Dean, Dr. Judy Heinrich; LIOS President, Dr. Sheldon Drogin; and Dr. Vincent Pellegrino, Saybrook University’s Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs. “Gratitude Remarks” were then made in unison by the graduating class, which presented a monetary gift to LIOS Graduate School’s Scholarship Fund. After President Drogin’s closing remarks, the enthusiastic graduates recessed singing a song together as they were applauded appreciatively by their, families, friends, LIOS staff, and visiting Saybrook University dignitaries. Bastyr’s colorful fountain-centered garden was soon swirling with laughter and chatter as well as with sunlight scented with floral perfume as graduates and guests filled themselves with the delicious confections and beverages provided for their enjoyment. At last, those enjoying the delightful celebration gathered the good times and memories about them and departed to share their blessings with the wider world, having been reminded to stay in touch! President’s message President’s Message - August 2010 Excerpt from President Drogin’s Graduation Speech “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.” –Barbara Kingsolver While both LIOS and Saybrook have been around for some forty years, this marks the first graduation as a result of our affiliation. Saybrook and LIOS were both established to prepare leaders to meet the challenges of the 21st century. These challenges include the emergence of globalization, conflicts between cultures and religions, environmental disasters, terrorism and economic chaos. While we face new fears and new threats, this is a time of great promise, opportunity, and extraordinary possibility. At Saybrook University, we are committed to educating scholarpractitioners and leaders who can respond to these challenges by bringing the humanistic vision to life in new and innovative ways. LIOS Graduate College Class of 2010: Our world needs you, hungers for you, and I firmly believe that, as a result of your time at LIOS, you have been uniquely trained to meet that deep hunger in the world. Your work, your job, and hopefully for all our sake, your calling, is to be a true human being on this earth. Warmest regards, Shelley Drogin, EdD, President Doreen Cato receives an honary doctorate Following Dr. Harden-Cato’s keynote speech, an honorary doctorate was conferred upon her by Interim Saybrook President and CEO, Robert Schmitt, Ph.D. LIOS Graduate College president, Dr. Sheldon Drogin, congratulates Dr. Doreen Cato.
3 GRADUATION con’t Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968) Keynote speech delivered to LIOS Graduate College of Saybrook University graduates on June 21, 2010 by Dr. Doreen Cato. It is with the deepest honor and appreciation for this opportunity that I stand here to speak before you all today. I remember standing in the same position where you stand now –wondering how this new college degree would help me move forward or at least enhance the work I was already doing. Even though I had always volunteered in some capacity in the community, thoughts of that important work escaped my mind. Yet, ironically, it was in the capacity of volunteer service that my new hard-won degree from Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) had best prepared me. Both my formal education and my life’s journey have taught me the meaning of service above self. My journey began on June 23, 1963, at the event that was considered the largest freedom march before the march on Washington D.C….and I was there. There were over 100,000 people marching that day, eager to show their courage and determination to bring meaningful change to Detroit. I was fourteen at the time and it was with trepidation that I ventured into that crowd alone. A woman asked me who was there with me, and I told her that I had come alone. She grabbed my hand and stated, “Child –no one is alone today,” and placed me in line next to her. When the horn blew we all moved like a wave coming to shore, eager to hear the words of inspiration from the legendary speakers. Although I was unable to actually see Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Franklin, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, or Mayor Cavanaugh, I could picture them in my mind’s eye and just knowing they were there made all the difference. The long walk down Woodard Avenue ended in front of City Hall with Dr. King looking over the crowd. When he began to speak, the crowd around me fell silent. At some point during his speech I heard him say: “It is up to us to bring about change, but we must first stand up.” This statement had little meaning to me at the time, but his powerful words resonated inside of me at a subconscious level. I remember wanting to keep the feelings of joy I had experienced that day, finally witnessing people walking together rather than fighting one another. Joy—something I thought I had lost. Although I was unconscious of it at the time, this was the beginning of my journey toward service above self. The original version of the motto “Service above Self” was “Service, not Self” a statement first made by Mr. Pinkham, a Rotary member in Seattle. Then, in 1989 at the Council on Legislation, “Service above Self” was established as the principal motto of Rotary, because these words best convey the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service. In 1970, Robert K. Greenleaf, in his widely acclaimed book, The Servant as Leader, stated: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.” “The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?” Greenleaf’s statements ring true. The greatest example of his description that I see today is the recent signing of the Healthcare Reform Act. Regardless of where you stand on this issue—listen to my story: It begins at First Place, a pre-K to sixth-grade school and social service agency that works with families at risk or facing the reality of homelessness. At this school, all of the fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade students are taught to become advocates for issues that are important to them. The entire educational philosophy at this special school is framed around social justice and the elimination of oppression. It is my belief that, by finding one’s voice, an individual can begin the process of eliminating oppression from one’s life. My students learn that the process of voicing their positions on important issues to those who can make change happen will transform them from victims to survivors. One such student was eleven-year-old Marcelas Owens who recently stood proudly by President Obama. With his grandmother, Gina, standing by his side, Marcelas’ voice was heard before Congress as he related the story of his mother, who had taught him to speak his truth. Congress and the entire world heard Marcelas. After he spoke he was bombarded with accusatory and slanderous statements from individuals in the media who took opposition to his story. Yet Marcelas held his head high because he had spoken the truth. His courage and determination to make sure that other children (continued on next page)
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