On behalf of New Hampshire Community Technical College's graduating class of 1998, I welcome you as we honor those who have worked so hard to earn their degrees.For many of us, the first time we entered the halls of this institution most likely we came through the front door. Since then, in the time it has taken us to earn our degrees, we have passed through most of them. We have had them held open for us, and we have opened them for others. But regardless of how we passed through them, we always found ourselves in a new place from which we came.
To me, these doors have served as a token for all the education we have gained which we could not have achieved from the other side. They represent the doors of opportunity that have been opened to us as we embark on a journey that leads us to the room where all our dreams and goals are stored. The world of business, the world of success, and the world where we can look back and remember all those who have walked along beside us and where we will never forget the doors that got us here and where we came from.
Charles Young, May 1998
"...my very soul thirsted for an education...I wanted to know every strange stone, flower, insect, bird or beast." -George Washington Carver
"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters." Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (from "Epistle 106") French Theologian (1091-1153)
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