Sunday, May 09, 1999
College grads face millennium
BY SAUNDRA AMRHEIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Commencement season kicked off Saturday at the College of Mount St. Joseph, where the annual subject of beginnings took on the scope of a new millennium.
There will be plenty more chances for talk of the 21st century to assume center stage amid pomp and circumstance. Miami University and the University of Dayton hold their commencement ceremonies today, while Northern Kentucky University, Thomas More College and Xavier University hold theirs Saturday..
At the College of Mount St. Joseph, 419 undergraduate and graduate students received their degrees Saturday during two ceremonies on Delhi Road.
In her commencement speech during the morning ceremony, Sister Jean Miller from the Sisters of Charity implored graduate and adult students to make the next century “a better place for everyone,” and not just the rich.
The founder and coordinator of Tierra Madre Housing Project in a New Mexican border town, Sister Miller spoke about her work with the poor from Peru to Central America.
Graduates need to be students of the poor to gain the wisdom to carry this world into the next century and beyond, she said.
“Yours is the last class that will graduate in May of this millennium, but the first group to use your knowledge ... in the next millennium,” Sister Miller said.
Despite humankind soaring with new technology this century, she said, a fifth of the world's population still struggles to survive, and 841 million people are malnourished and underweight.
“Will we find a way to redistribute the goods of this world more equitably in the next century?” she asked.
Other Tristate institutions that held commencements Saturday included Wilmington College, Wilberforce University and Indiana University.
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