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inspirational words about the future for my fellow graduates. After
all, to many of vou, life has already presented you many obstacles,
such as unemployed parents, a lack of full or part-time employment
or financial aid, and yet you have not lost sight of your goals to
better yourself and be a contributing member of this society. This
has clearly illustrated the fundamental difference between iy
roneration, who had everything handed to us on a silver platter,
end were unable to cope with hard times when they arrived, and this
seneration who by your very attendance here have proven you are full
of optimistic faith in the future, and thus this generation will
doubtless be better equipped and vrobably more successful in con-

fronting future dilemmas.

 

Yowever, I am not really a part of that group. I am, as I Oo
atnted earlier, a mature student, which is a very diplonatic way of
saying, older. fBeing a mature student presents its own special
challenges, such as not allowing your embarrassment to show when
you discover that only two people in your classroom remember the
assassination of John F. Kennedy or Canada's centennial celebrations
in 1967, and you are one and the other is the professor. And for
one ‘in my position a very special challenge has been the juggling
of home and school, and trying to explain toa three-year-old what
payeholory is or why liommy, as a woman, is taking HIStory, instead
of Hitstory. But I am only for whom this college has provided its
most valuable service. Every day the not-so-typical students wander

throurh this institution, whether they are primarily homemakers,

 

like myself, old age pensioners, otherwise employed persons exploring
a new interest or upgrading existing knowledge and skills, or some,

ware