Just like everything else official, commencement had its share of boringness. Actually, it was mostly boringness, that is until our special guest speaker took the stage. Our speaker was a representative for UNICEF and hailed from a village in India that wasn't considered rural. When he first came to Dartmouth to study (class of 81'), he couldn't imagine how Hanover was considered rural. After all there was a bus 15 min from the school. In India, in order to be considered rural, your town needs to be more than a seven day's walk to a bus stop! After graduating Dartmouth, he founded UNICEF and made sure that a new bus stop was built near his town. His story wasn't more than a ten minute break in the drone of officialism, but it certainly made everyone sing the alma mader with a bit more pride at the end.
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