 standing for the National Association of Boys and Children, Chancellor Dixon, with your program for the 74th commencement, Chancellor Culley, please join me in with Caroline L. Humphill. Please bow your head, dear Heavenly Father, as we get here today. If we ask you anything, we will say thank Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for this. Thank you for this day. And thank you for this. Class 2022. Be good. And we thank you for blessing them to this day. Give you praise, Google and honor for the full of praise possible. We grace that you have bestowed upon us. And in the relations, God, we still present to this ceremony on today's with your Holy Spirit. Thank you for this amazing chance. So God, we no pressure that God for this event, although we just give you honor and we're thanking you. Season of these We thank you. We thank you. And we thank you right now. It's in your name that we. Greetings from UNC Board of Governor, Sanya P. Nimmels, member of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and Mr. Jimmy Chambers, president of the University of the University of the Government Association. Good morning. Governor, let's go over to Mr. Dickson, our speaker, the most lackluster I am always to like to join your presentation. On behalf of the Board of Governors, it's truly my great pleasure to bring greetings to today's graduates, their families, our student faculty, our outstanding staff, and staff that's alumni. Governor, let's go thank you for turning to the University of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Thank you. You certainly know how to read and sign that through speech, and we look forward to hearing from you today. We appreciate of all that you do for all the institutions in our system. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge and congratulate the four individuals who will be honored today. We are here to celebrate you and I hope like that you know that there the members of the ECS Board of Trustees appreciate and salute your unwavering efforts towards supporting and helping to advance the mission and the vision of this great institution. Graduates, this is your day. I'm here to celebrate you in your confidence level. You are graduating with an earned degree from the University of North Carolina's finest institutions. The Elizabeth City State University has provided you with knowledge and skills that will support your future endeavors. We know that continued success awaits you each of you. Graduates, if we haven't done this before, thank those teachers who are committed to helping you thrive and succeed. Hug those family members and friends who support you and provide you encouragement and remember Elizabeth City State University by staying connected to this university. Spring 2022 graduates of Elizabeth City State University, we are extremely proud of you. I challenge you to press on to be kind and to give back. God bless you and good luck to you. Now behind you! Bill Berger and my two new favorite twin senators, Senator Ford and Senator Snanker. My East ESU trustees Chancellor Fickson, Provost of the Federal War, distinguished faculty and staff and most of all amazing students. You and your families, I'm honored and delighted to be here with you to celebrate a major milestone in the company of your life. I bring exciting and joyful greetings of a happy new presidency system of Congress and that includes my chairman Ray Bransky and assistant president Greta Moss. Elizabeth City, as we always say is one of the most beautiful tools in our 17 university frame. We are so proud of all the new and all that you do. Chancellor Dixon, for you we shall help you. You definitely are the right leader at the right time for this institution, which has accomplished so much in 130 years. People of world leadership, easy as you, has a great future ahead. Welcome to the city of State. Chancellor Dixon and Elizabeth City State makes this campus the great place that it is today. We salute you and your friends. Shout out to all of you at who's in your first day. Elizabeth City State has provided you with and prepared you for the next chapters in your life. And we are enthusiastic and we wait to hear what great things do all that does. So we are asking you all, always to make a minute to DCSU. You have been great student ambassadors and now you have transformed that greatness into our new alumni association members. So make sure you get your names in your own numbers and email addresses because you want you to be those that give back all that Elizabeth State has done for you. So as your part I'm going to ask you to remember these things. Take responsibility for every area in your body. Put your future in your hands. Very good hands. Your own hands. Keep your promises. Cause y'all promise y'all can try to learn not to change your writing. And always do the very best. Finally remember that DCSU is your home model. It has contributed to building the foundation for which you will have the best part of your lives. So as the famous writer Norris Wright once said the future lies on for you like a field of good snow. Be careful how you tread for every step of the show. Or backwards from that other pocket, you may want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise. We are watching you. We are watching you on your journey. So if you all this is a great day for you to celebrate this epic journey that you're on. All of you, graduates put a bright smile on your faces. Who will show us back looking to make greatness that stands before you. Again I say I promise you guys I'm not too proud of you. I know that my greatest achievement is in my position as a writer. He's family and the most important person that you've ever met. I don't want to stress this though as I'm trying to be patient with this really great achievement. So I'm going to take 30 minutes. Sorry. I got three points by the pastor. He's the one that I'm going to be seeing today. Sorry. But we already were hitting that into the first place on this moment. Saying good-bye. I told myself I was going to do it. What we didn't know is that our lives were going to change. We're going to change. We're going to learn so much about ourselves. Each one of these things are meant to be feeling your degree amidst a world-wide agreement in self-teaching, remote learning all along enhancing your time management, critical thinking, skills and all the solving skills. And since you're all the employers that's wanting you to do it. Yes. You're more than qualified for the job that you are seeking. We've got to talk about past skills. But in that I've learned a whole lot about leadership. When I was advocating to the faculty staff stand for this option I waited to empower the learners. Alright. I want to talk about that. But the question was asked in private conversation. Why do you advocate for some part of the community? Should we be there advocating to be confident in the years of Robert Wood? And I'm thankful for trusting me for the last two years when talking about administrators that even though the university came out of that. I want you all to know once you surpass the expectation that so many of the years placed on you will be from the target, oftentimes the pain of enemies only comes from the outside. Sometimes the game will become a home back yard. It takes courage to be different. It takes courage to be the place that you've ever come. But remember they can take courage to be better graduates. But remember it also takes courage to be successful. Sometimes the result will decrease if it's actually increasing in value for the members of private. There's a saying that goes, good and better vets never let the risk but also never stop from less. Make sure you're striving to make sure that you're good because you're better and you're better because you're best. But last, I want you to know this. If my can promise you they'll always play a role in how you move and breathe in every notion of their heart. If I can promise in you, it's going to be you through and through. It's going to be more and everything you do. If I can promise in you, there's a special glow and something different that will be in you that will make the world better. Thank you. I want to give another hand to our outstanding people from our community who received this morning's award. Two times, the student body president, Mr. President as I call him, Jimmy Chambers. It is okay to shed some tears. This is your day when you earn. Thank you. I'm going to be thankered by a musical selection from the U.S. choir conducted by Jasmine Cooper. I promise I'll be there. Now, home of our speaker, David Perler, a few highlights about this Virginia and chief oatmeal officer of Gohots. His love for cooking inspired him to study culinary arts and hospitality management at the restaurant school at Walnut Hill College. It was his passion for breakfast that led him to create a program that innovated on the Goh icon that referred to as oatmeal in a ball. His conviction that this product could positively impact the lives of so many people motivated him to appear on season 12 of Shark Tank. And his brand of Gohots has become a household favorite, bringing a quick, convenient, best free option to busy gohots. Gohots is now open in over 2,000 retail stores nationwide. Please join me in welcoming our commencement speaker Mr. Nehon Genove. This is so amazing. Chancellor Dixon, Provost Lord, fellow honorees and today's graduates, thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here with you all again. I say it again because some of you may have been, I was here last month for entrepreneurship and I see a few of you students that I connected with in the audience and basically speaking to business majors or any of the other businesses and at the rate we're going on Chancellor Dixon if I'm thinking about that I might be an awful one here. Being here today it's exciting and it's also very vulnerable. It's exciting because I live around here and I'm not too far removed from 10 to 12 years ago I was sitting in these same chairs and speaking to the students last month listening to them talk listening to their ideas I see and I'm hearing their eyes and I'm like yeah that's where it's at because I remember that feeling because I was there and so I'm excited to be able to speak to those experiences and the same as I'm vulnerable because it's one thing to speak about things come up here and speak about things when you're looking back 25 years, 30 years when you're looking very familiar and speaking about your life process but here in the middle of it it just takes different and today I'm still in the middle of a lot of things but and so that's the tension during my time here we spoke about my story and various topics from work ethic to adversity and several other things in between we spoke about topics that I felt reputable for the students that contributed to getting me to where I am today and as I was preparing for today I realized that a lot of the principles that we discussed although we have spoken from a context of business these principles were interchangeable and applicable to life in general I had today's dimensions which I needed to know the unfortunate part is I wrote this speech seven different times before I made this realization so let that be a point of one don't reinvent the wheel if it ain't broken I'll fix it that first one wasn't free so again standing here today is why I love I want you to know it's this beautiful yet messy process which typically always starts with an idea and then it's followed by some action, a step some level of investigation and you never really know what the enter is almost going to be you never really know for sure it's usually just a hunch and you can take some steps and you kind of stumble and figure it out along the way but that's kind of how life is now for instance, you enroll in university and you have no idea what the next four years are going to look like I don't know if they tuition who you are going to be while you are here you have no idea how the endemic will break out and disrupt your norms but regardless of what is going on you keep moving forward as life obstacles and curve balls come you keep moving forward when things are coming great you don't get stagnant you keep moving forward it's a point to actually have this person do but we won't get into that right now and they do a chance to fix it but I was wondering I was wondering how what I was going to answer myself but you took care of that for me so back to this hope note creation that led me to where I am today I was working at this hotel and all they did was ask me to write a breakfast menu and I got to easily pick up and walk around the hotel I was just doing my job and I'll pause here for just one second be faithful over where you are and what we have in our hands right now, today you're given what you are supposed to be doing in this season and it seems to come always that way of finding it I was just doing my job I was working as a chef and they did this menu that I guess can easily pick up and walk around the hotel and I wanted to make more of that on the screen instead of using water and a package that you can use and spices and that's exactly what I did outside of the hotel I launched my little creation at this event and it was crazy over there and as a chef that's your job right to make food that people are going to come into your establishment and expose the taste to it but something called a different discretion person I thought something and that's when I realized I had a shared discretion outside these four walls I had no idea taking this step and starting with what is known today as go-go's would lead me to 20 plus million viewers described by the parents on Sharkton would lead me to speak with students across the country before we go to a brand that is now distributed nationally and soon to be globally and the utmost honor of meeting you all here today this is the power I'm stepping up what step are you nervous or hesitant about taking my goal here today is not to talk about oatmeal and I'm so sorry if I disappointed you my mindset going into this was what advice would I give my 21 year old self or better yet my 1 year old son 10 to 15 years from now what would I tell him and so my goal is to share with you a few points from my career and so far that I believe will help you as you are taking this step until you know I want you to get a glimpse if you work hard if you be patient and humble and push your faith in God it's not just about succeeding or waiting or losing it's about what you are becoming in the process so number one you have to do the work you guys are probably like you didn't start yet mentor would always say to me the proof is in the pudding basically you do the work my dad would always tell me nothing is free in this world if you have to work harder than and if people help you along the way that's great but it starts with you I think somehow that always stuck with me and today I have a better understanding of what you meant he told me how to work hard and to be building it in the early days of building my company I didn't have a ton of resources $100 about like $10,000 that's how tank cash was and so I had to do everything from waiting up at 4am to to make deliveries to then go into my 9 to 5 that's how I mentioned earlier then from 6pm to 1am we worked, that's the kitchen for renting to make my product rinse for me and do it all over again day after day and we've been working with party I was at store sampling I had to do that for 3 years now I stopped and I say I had because waiting up at 4am and just not spending 3 hours was no fun but that's what pursuing the dream looks like you go all in you leave it all on the team the reality is who else is going to do it no one else will work harder when you're dreaming than you will I haven't looked down in my mind that you all stay here day after day you have to have some level of work at it to make it through college class and new stage ideally college classes can be worn but for the red man I already have a dollar bill here on AT I'm not used to this not making a problem Dr. Smith and her staff and her crew, her team Dr. Scott, Dr. K I got to the chance to work with them and be with them last month and their team is amazing I know college work is tough, it's hard it's challenging but the reason why we're working at it is so critical is that it sets you apart it differentiates your community's trust and maturity this is one of the attributes outside of passion that will push you through when things get tough and you don't feel like working or you're losing motivation because we have the duty of responsibility because we say yes I think the question here is how bad do you want to collaborate if you are going after it whether it's a promotion whether you're going to disrupt our airplay for good or maybe you're going to open up businesses across Elizabeth City and invest in the E.C. community walking across this stage today the harder you will have to work what you put in is what you will get out and I know this sounds super simple but it's very important that you cash it because no one after their dreams isn't always sexy and glamorous and they can be ugly in spite of what you see on Instagram and TikTok and even LinkedIn don't get caught up in the highlight rounds I can make a post about how many years you landed a thousand stores and that's a beautiful accomplishment it's great but you don't know what happened behind the scenes to get there there are tears, there are scenes nights but again you have to do what others are not willing to do to get to where you want to be one thing leads to another I'm not making the open person these days or the deliveries these days but trust and believe I'm still hustling and it doesn't stop it's just packaged a little bit differently as you move up point number 2 process takes time you can't rush the process you have to be patient again I remember sitting in chairs like this about 12 years ago I'll never forget one of my first jobs as a sous chef right out of culinary school I was a hard worker I was confident 21 year old but I was 21 so I was probably not good as I should be confident in myself but I was really good at what I did I thought I knew that but I was creative I was smart but that's what we're going to establish it's like the four seasons best to you you learn a lot when you're working with the top talent and you leave it and think that you are the best this particular job out of college brought me in as a sous chef second in the main and I remember working for a boss whom I felt I knew more than him through the minds of anybody and I remember wanting to do things and make changes pretty much make up for his lack he had less culinary experience than me I was teaching him certain things where I should have been the other way around at times he was frustrating because I knew I was supposed to be number one I knew I was going to leave and that boss left me abruptly and so I was under the impression it was my turn I'm naive I ended up being passed up to the number one spot twice they brought in another chef after that and I'm no friend of him which was this hard worker and I don't know why or how but I stayed at the courts I'm explaining all of this now the truth is I was so angry I even tried to leave I was going to take the executive chef role that our sister brought me I interviewed and I thought I had the job my team was already congratulating me as they thought I was ringing again I was passed over I was happy with that so why only to find out later that our CEO walked the promotion and that's for the reason she wouldn't even keep me at the location where she was managing and when I said I was using like what did she think she was but I had to internalize it all and keep my head up like I said out there just keep moving forward and just like that after 2 and a half years of being passed over I finally got the opportunity I always thought so much and it's funny because when you're in a situation it feels like time stands still but once you get out of this situation it's like oh that wasn't that bad anyway I became the executive chef at 23 years old which is no easy feat and I say thank you to that CEO you see those years were some of the most challenging years of my young career that was in 2010 if I didn't learn how to humble myself and be a number 2 I could never be the number 1 that I had today at gaining this fast growing brain seeing those days where I helped me be the man providing what I got and making fancy dishes God knew what he had to store for me in 2022 if I could be trusted and if I could be trusted with someone else's organization I could be trusted I could surely be trusted with my own and now that I look back I don't think my skills were ever in question which is why the CEO might be keeping me there what I failed to realize is I was being pruned and pruning hurts and if it was up to me I was given but even then I stand here being pruned today and so remember I did a movie with Mr. Biongmy and the Banzai trees trimming the edges so that they can grow beautifully and so that they can be presentable that's what was happening to me and can happen to all of you that you allow those days were about the process of who I was becoming these next few years starting today will be about who you are and so some questions for us to all think about you respect and still honor the person that you know more than and still have to report to if I'm unable to serve how can I believe do you quit or have the first sign of adversity or do you stick it out and you don't know the way did I learn from the mistakes I got able to watch my prior bosses make which ultimately led them to create a space for me to learn what not to do when I made it to the top who we are becoming is more important than how much you know what you can't control is how you respond and adversity and a lot of that it just gets a bit more specific if I were to brush the process and let my ego get the best of me I would have learned a lot of lessons in life in the hard way and coincidentally I would have applied as a process of learning to honor the process of character the process of humility a blessing given too soon or before you were ready there was no blessing at all I believe that certain things are going to come from us for a reason either because we are younger or we can't handle it or because we need to push a little harder it's up to you to know the difference but if that statement is so true why are we in a rush why are we anxious to get there where are we going who are we trying to keep up with and most importantly who are you becoming what you meant to say be the person you want to work for be the person you want to work with be the person you would want to hire often times we want something so desperately that we become so jaded and we fail to recognize whatever it is we are building is a process and I would love to stand here and tell you that we made a million dollars in our first year of business but we made 27,000 and it took us four years of process to hit the southern figure mark and there's still so much more work to do but I'm here to tell you that the most beautiful and valuable things in life take time to process takes time you all are valuable so take your time trust the process and you will get there I could probably just stand right there because that was about like 10 points of 1 but I just have one more about who are you and I don't know who I am in every thing you do but God works and give you thanks the reason we are here and we have all the answers ways or not ways we will be there all day if I spend a year and tell you stories about how we spoke to you how you know how I had brought this whole process all the doors is open and closed for you you know what you need what you need and just because it's more close that doesn't mean that you're going to get that home everything I shared with you above was only possible because he was talking with me and probably with my own voice for you too even when I figured it off thinking about the whole thing and I was a people he was people and still is and surrounded me with great people I ain't going to get that job or lash out or get things added after Shark Tank because I know who's the one that's the same thing I know where this lesson comes from your gift and your favorite there's going to be room for you and so while you step in while you take a step into the unknown while you learn to hustle and work hard while you practice humility and patience while you are pursuing your dreams don't forget to make time to pray and so with that God I can ask right now that you have blessed each and every one of these graduates today I pray that today I'll be the beginning of what's to come generational generational and generational success only you know the sacrifices that they have made only you know the sacrifices their families have made to be here today and I ask that you would leave them I ask that you would give them wisdom I ask that you would keep your hand upon them protect them from harm's way close any door that they are not supposed to walk from that you wouldn't make yourself known to them in Jesus mighty name I pray I bless you guys I love you guys congratulations thank you thank you for being here for your presence for entrepreneurship we are coming back for giving us such an inspiring message and we want to present some of the very special to you some of the people that we wish you love you continued success and we wish you success continued success and everybody go out and find your hopes and store it close to you we forgot to mention that so each year we have representation from our stakeholders joining us as we graduate and celebrate our graduates I would like to acknowledge persons joining us today first I would like to thank the winner Sonia P. Nimmels and her husband Richard thank you so much and you will stand thank you for being here I would like to acknowledge ECSU Board of Trustees ECSU Trustee Maritime ECSU Foundation Board and ECSU Board of Visitor Members please stand at this time and be recognized our National Alumni Association officers and directors please stand to be recognized works of the ECSU Retiring Association please stand I would like to recognize Senator Phil Burger please stand and be recognized and at this great institution also Senator Carl Ford please stand thank you for being here I would like to recognize our very own our champion in the legislature Senator Bob Steinberg thank you for being here representatives of your present local state and national government please stand where you are from the branches of our military please stand wherever you are in this room and let us see you for your service to our country thank you so much and last but not least my fellow, my partners ECSU cabinet members will you please stand all for joining us today we are very thankful and for your continued support of the business and university at this time we will have Governor Sonic Lee Nichols member of the USC Board of Governors to present in 2021-22 Board of Governors award for teaching excellence I want to just take a moment to acknowledge my commencement speaker and all that you shared with me all today about that journey and I think it is difficult it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of prayer but the good thing is you're going to get to a point where you're going to get the prize you're going to win and you're going to get the prize so as you go through your journey and you are on your knees and you're praying and you're asking for guidance you're talking to those mentors all these people here and listen to City State University you all made it big like this teacher has been reading today the Board of Governors asking us to teach a board we are going to celebrate this one faculty their dedication and contributions to this university there are a number of faculty members on this campus who exemplify outstanding teaching and I want to recognize one it is my privilege to present this year's Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching to one of your most outstanding faculty members established by the Board of Governors 1994 to underscore the importance of teaching and to award great teachers across the university the awards limit annually to a tenured faculty member on each UNC campus recipients are nominated by special committees on their own campuses so remember they are nominated on your campus and selected by the Board of Governors Committee on Personnel and Training each winner receives a really amazing a valley the next recipient I am proud to announce is Elizabeth City State University Dr. Hal Wenger part of the EZSU family in January of 1994 you've been joining teaching and teaching courses at our Viking Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences her devotion to her students led to teaching eight courses each semester in the social and physicality physicality and psychology our students describe her classes as productive and challenging giving it a strong foundation of the knowledge, skills and editing of successful undergraduates in the Army with students as her number one priority Dr. Carl Walker actively serves on numerous committees and advises psychology student organizations she is known as a team player not just at the institutional level but also in the community developing collaborations with outreach programs and making passionate about surrounding community challenges Dr. Carl Walker is an excellent student and a salute or demonstrate commitment to the great teaching here and inspiring a new generation of learners congratulations and the new and supported governments for recognizing Dr. Carl Walker for her contributions towards teaching excellence at EZSU congratulations again in my honor to acknowledge a professor of a long years English career by the EZSU Dr. Troll D. Chair a professor of america for his distinguished service he contributions to a little bit of this state university Dr. Troll Sharon please join me at OBE Dr. Sharon a 1963 graduate from a little bit of this state university he served as the assistant superintendent for Beaufort County School and provided 20 years of service to the university Dr. Sharon is a senior professor of the School of Education and Psychology where he mentored undergraduate and graduate students increased the number of minority teachers and helped her turn students into the teacher education program during this time at EZSU he served in several administrative roles including chair of the department of industrial psychology chair of the department of education health and psychology and the family name of the former school of education and psychology and a second administrator Dr. Sharon acquired national accreditation for EZSU's early childhood laboratory school program established the first E.D. looking to be our chair and was instrumental in establishing the Berkeley, Cougar, Green and Overstaffed Immunization EZSU's first mainstream degree program in the education Dr. Sharon previously served as the EZSU National Alumni Association president and continues to support you on the market even after your retirement as an active member of the EZSU National Alumni Association Trans-Religion Dr. Sharon's candidacy for merit status was recommended by the Education Department endorsed by the Dean of Education of Business and Administration the Faculty and Personnel Committee the Administrative Council and ultimately approved by the Board of Trustees Dr. Sharon congratulations for your long-standing record of exceptional service to the Elizabeth State University after your significant contributions to your field Elizabeth State University has been transformed by your teaching and service to our students we honor you, we thank you and congratulations chance to meet you and this time is my pleasure to present to you Senator Phillip E. Berger for the conferring of this honorary degree Senator Phillip E. Berger please come forward and join me in introducing it is my privilege to report to you Senator Phillip E. Berger has come alive in all aspects for the honorary doctorate Doctor of Public Service Senator Berger was first elected to the State Senate in 2000 he became the minority in 2004 and President for 2014 in 2010 during his tenure as North Carolina Senate President Senator Berger's leadership has had a significant and positive impact on the only age to see you in college or university the old Mr. North Carolina Elizabeth State University his leadership was instrumental in the differentiation of the North Carolina from the tuition class with tuition of five hundred dollars and then for these 16 minutes and twenty-five hundred dollars for president of North Carolina State so played as a new people in historic state of death in the future of the PSU Chancellor Linsen based upon the nomination begging by the PSU honorary committee and approved by the PSU board of trustees it is my pleasure that I present to you Senator Phillip E. Berger for the conferment of an honorary doctorate degree Doctor of Public Service Thank you so much Senator Berger for all you have done for the State of North Carolina and for this great institution and the entirety of this district we appreciate you and he is a champion let's give him a round of applause my virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth State University Board of Trustees I do hereby confer upon Senator Phillip E. Berger the honorary doctorate degree Doctor of Public Service for which you have qualified with all honors privileges and responsibilities there on to Advertising Trustee Stephanie Johnson of the ECSU Board of Trustees will now put you up to the Biden family and the Biden family you Biden provide at this time it is my pleasure to present to you Doctor Jeanette H. Williams for the conferment of her honorary degree Doctor Jeanette please come forward to join me and continue as a candidate Doctor Jeanette H. Williams to qualify in all aspects for the honorary doctorate degree Doctor of Public Service Doctor Jeanette H. Williams is an accomplished retired deputy who has served in various teaching and leadership capacities during her 50th year tenure and has a secondary and higher education she has served skill and a faculty in several state and national women committees those made to live in the city state of emergency president of the ECSU natural classification for 30 times chairperson of the ECSU family chairman of the Biden varsity club chairmember of the ECSU family chairman of the ECSU family founder of the ECSU alumni wife founder of the ECSU Rosalyn Social Committee founder of the ECSU Rosalyn Social Committee for her distinguished leadership in service Doctor H. Williams has served in more than 100 awards and honors including mayor of Baltimore community service award for four consecutive years mayor of Baltimore beautiful educational award a leadership award from the National Association of People Opportunity Higher Education and as a professional recognition of any contribution in English the language was children living based upon the nomination that anybody in the ECSU honorary degree meeting and approved by the ECSU born trustee it is with a plan that I'm giving you Dr. Jeanette H. Williams for the program for all you have done from the time I stepped in on this canvas she was there helping me understand ECSU its needs and she is committed and dedicated for the alumni of this institution so it is our honor to honor you again for all that you have done so by virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth State University Board of Trustees I do hereby confer upon Dr. Jeanette H. Evans the honorary doctorate degree doctor of public service for which you have qualified all honors, privileges and responsibilities there on to Appertaining Trustee Stephanie Johnson of the ECSU Board of Trustees will now please congratulations to both Dr. today, Austin and you please come to the podium to deliver the vote with office for our newest ROTC offices I'm Captain Austin Hill the assistant professor of military science fighting the challenge but perhaps more importantly to you all I'm the last speaker standing between you and one of your special guests I'm on your special day because today I have the honor and privilege of reaffirming the oath of office of the United States Second Lieutenant Russ Brown and Jordan Hathaway Second Lieutenant Brown Hathaway received their commissions yesterday and a separate ceremony in front of the families friends, characters, university leadership, staff faculty and ECSU alumni who have supported them on this front of the journey they do again a chance that they support today for your kind of our supposed military encouragement all military members of the United States the oath of office the oath of office represents an officer's right of passage from cadet to a commission officer on behalf of the president of the United States the oath of firm is committed to defend the American people and our way of life against all enemies who are anti-U.S.A. it further represents the pledge to uphold and apply to seven Army values of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service honor, integrity and personal courage finally, the oath of office represents a special trust that a newly commissioned lieutenant will take care of America's sons and daughters and provide them with a confident and confident leadership this is the charge of Second Lieutenant Brown Hathaway Lieutenant Brown Hathaway please raise your right hand for the acting I would say to fully do so on this matter that I will support the that I will support the Fin the Constitution of the United States against all enemies who are anti-U.S.A. that I would bear true faith and allegiance to the same that I take this obligation freely not any dental transformations or purpose of occasion and that I would relatively faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter please raise your right hand as you heard me say yesterday in the Christian ceremony our Second Lieutenant Hathaway and Brown I want you to know that your life and family is leaving every step of the way and we thank you for your service in this country and know that you always have a hope right here with the findings so as you go off I have something handy for you elementary education school administration management and biology for the candidates for the management elementary education management school administration management science and mathematics and management science and biology please stay and remain candidates who have completed all of the requirements for regulation they have been certified and that is an affirmative vote of the faculty awarded for education school administration and management and biology I now recommend to you for the conferral of your degrees by the virtue of the authority vested in me by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabethan State University Board of Trustees I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all honors, privileges and responsibilities they are going to to our graduates who have successfully completed their master's master's master's science and biology please proceed to the stage to receive your congratulations we will also provide an active conferral of education and we will also recognize and recommend by the department chambers approved by an under-sumptom where I have a phone certified by a wrench car and have received an affirmative vote of the faculty to be awarded the degrees the Bachelor of Science in Education the Bachelor of Science the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Associate at this time I am pleased to be the conferment of undergraduate degrees of the Mays I am pleased to be the first time freshman and have the highest students in grade point average for the spring 22 community it is my pleasure and pleasure to speak with me to inform you that the official bearers of the Mays are Shamsi Hayward and Hibana B. Hayward please come forward I am pleased to present the bearer of the Mays Ashanti Hayward who is our grade point average of 4 Ms. Ashanti who is also my daughter and the Elizabeth 6th State University Board of Trustees I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all the honor and responsibilities there on to Appertaining Chair Stephanie Johnson of the ECSU Board of Trustees will now please I am the authority best spinning by the University of North Carolina Board of Veterans and the Elizabeth 6th State University Board of Trustees I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all the honors, privileges and responsibilities there on to Appertaining Chair Stephanie Johnson of the ECSU Board of Trustees Ms. Hibana who is proud of the shield represents the student who entered the ECSU as a trans person and has the highest students in grade point average with graduating class as friends in 2020 Chair Stephanie is my pleasure most to speak to me to inform you that the initial bearer of the shield is Stephanie Hayward who is proud of you your accomplishments by virtue of the authority best spinning by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and the Elizabeth 6th State University Board of Trustees I do hereby confer upon you the degree for which you have qualified with all the honors privileges and responsibilities there on to Appertaining Chair Stephanie Johnson of the ECSU Board of Trustees will now please I offer to the team to recognize those who are graduating with highest honors Summa Cum Laude and achieved by the the 4.0 with the graduates graduating Summa Cum Laude please stand and remain standing with a grade point average of 3.60 to 3.79 please stand and remain standing with a grade point average of 3.50 to 3.75 please stand and remain standing please do not need to grant a degree for their accomplishment and for the graduates and graduates of the University of Honors Curio I commend you for having achieved an excellent choir by highly rigorous curriculum I encourage you to continue to excel It is my pleasure to present the Cabinet for the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. I would like to present the Bachelor of Science in Education and Bachelor of Social Education. Thank you.