{"id":8965,"date":"2011-05-30T08:28:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2011-05-30T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:29:57","slug":"david-hepburn-delivers-message-to-michigan-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/david-hepburn-delivers-message-to-michigan-grads","title":{"rendered":"David Hepburn Delivers Message To Michigan Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Davidson Hepburn (Obe)<br \/>\nHonoured With Doctor Of Letters From<br \/>\nAlma College Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Davidson L. Hepburn was invited by the President of Alma College, Alma Michigan to deliver the Commencement Address to the graduating class of 2011.\u00a0 the theme of his address was A REASON FOR BEING.\u00a0 His speech was divided into three parts:\u00a0 FEAR, SELF-CONFIDENCE AND DREAMS.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the graduates too look at FEAR in a positive light, develop self-confidence and not be afraid to dream.\u00a0 He cited Presidents Roosevelt,\u00a0 Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King as models of the three themes.\u00a0 He quoted Ella Fitzgerald&#8217;s famous song:<br \/>\nDream when you&#8217;re feeling blue<br \/>\nDream and it might come true<br \/>\nthings never are as bad as they seem<br \/>\nSo dream, dream, dream<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was held in the newly completed gymnasium which seats more than 3,000 persons.\u00a0 Some 300 graduates walked across the stage to receive their degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hepburn, who was accompanied by his wife, Dr. Ada Thompson, taught English Language and Literature\u00a0and was granted the Doctor of Laws Degree in 1983, when he was also the Commencement Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Dr, Hepburn stated that even though he was away from the campus for many years, it seemed that he had never left.\u00a0 He received a very warm welcome from friends in the community as well as the staff of the college.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of his visit to Alma was being invited to sing in the choir at the First Presbyterian Church where he was a member during his years at Alma.\u00a0 Further he was happy to be there on Easter Sunday\u00a0 to sing the HALLELUJAH CHORUS.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the College, Doctor Jeff Abernathy who took up the post only 9 months ago expressed a strong interest in developing partnership with the College of The Bahamas.\u00a0 He plans to discuss the matter with his colleagues and in due course make enquiries about student exchange in the first instance.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hepburn supports the idea as he feels that such an agreement would give both Colleges an international flavour.<\/p>\n<p>Bahamas Information Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davidson L. Hepburn was invited by the President of Alma College, Alma Michigan to deliver the Commencement Address to the graduating class of 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}