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8 • BENNETT BANNER • MAY 9, 1994 CONGRATULATIONS!!! from the On Senior Day, March 17, Cynthia Williams, senior English ma jor, presented the following eloquent speech to her graduating class. Look to your left. Now look to your right. One of these women will pioneer history whUe the other will change history. 1994 has proven to be anything but lackluster. New policies are being written and ex ecuted as women take the forefront of major political, social, economic and religious affairs. The women in the class of 1994 have been preparing for this moment for four years. We have read the newspapers and looked in our own homes and communities and saw changes that needed to be made, im provements for bettering the lives of aU people especially African Ameri can. We knew we could make an impact because we were nurtured. Nurtured by administrators who cared and by professors who went beyond their collegiate obligations to ensure our success. Ms. Whidbee, Mr. Maclean, Dr. Lewis, Dr. Wentowski, Mr. Gaspeny, Ms. Ayers-Lynch, Ms. McKissick-Kemp, and Ms. Bell. Though they are absent in the physi cal, their presence is stiU felt. The first year was tough. No one wanted to stay at this small black women’s coUege in Greensboro, North Carolina. These professors and many other were her in the Fall of 1990 with the heat, crumbling cam pus and sinking morale, fear and in timidation. We saw some of our close friends leave for various reasons: fi nancial, social, academic, immaturity and some left for the “so called” more “established” colleges and universi ties. We though for sure that this was it, but we weathered through the storm and something happened. Dr. Scott caught the vision of excellence, perseverance, determination, andthe will to succeed from us. You and me. Dr. Mosby, Dean Gravely, Dr. Alston, and Dean Scarlette caught on fire as they saw us demand some thing better, to be something better. The professors from. Dr. Ageyman- Douah, Dr. Figgins, Dr. Cobb, Mr. Clark, Dr. Treadway, Dr. Adams, Dr. Kay, Dr. Reid, Dr. Brogdon-Wyatt, Dr. Pinnix, Dr. Mangum, Mrs. Ms. Oliver, Ms. Cooper, to Mr.jiJSok-..; son even the maintenance and food- service workers felt the energyilas we exploded. As we, the class of 1^4," said yes, Bennett, yes. Unlimited opportunities awaitedus as we studied inNew York, Virginia and Washington, D.C. We interned at television and radio sta tions, newspapers, law firms, hospi tals, re search labs, and even the Whi|| House. We were Goodwill Ambassa dors and lobbyists. And these are jusfe s afew ofthe accomplishments achieved:-* by us. the phenomenal class of 1994. i We have overcome adver*;: sity to be a part of a generation thai : voices our opinion and moves for w, 11 d We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, class of 1994 treading our papjijil; through the blood of the slaughtered I say to the entire Bennett Colle^gei:-' community,lookforusbecaui I snnin'r than you think will be: diagnosing, rapping, writing, acting, presidi^f; defending, prosecuting, counselinif, advising, praying, singing, teachIn^. financing, representing, nursing, o im puting, anchoring, directing, design- ing and engineering. Yes my Bennett sisters, we have arrived. I remember when I was at New York University last spring and I saw Amma Brown’s video, “Walk a little closer this way,” on t.v. I was screaming to anyone that would hsten to come and watch. She and all of her friends were wearing Bennett sweatshirts and posing on Bennett’s csimpus. I was so proud to say that I went to Bennett. Yes, Bennett. And as four years of hard labour, a labour of love I believe has come down to this shining moment, We the class of 1994 would like to say, “thank you” and “God Bless” to every one who has made these four years more than special and more than memorable. They will forever be etched in our hearts and in our minds as we proudly say: “Alma mater now we sing. Hail the light that thou dost bring. True we’ve been throughout the past, true to thee while life shall last.” Cynthia Williams Tlie BAnriER / . .V, X-X-I-X To Graduating Class of 1994
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