George Mason University | Spring 2021 Graduation | School of Business | May 13, 2021 - 4pm EST
sometimes i get a good feeling i get a good yeah speaking of this gun woke up on the side of the bed like the winner sometimes 100 we live so it might seem crazy by the way feel is that's what you want to do here come back to george mason university we are thrilled to be able to celebrate this outstanding achievement with all of you here today please be sure to follow all health recommendations to avoid the spread of covet 19. all attendees are required to comply with the following policies maintain a safe social distance of six feet from other parties at all times keep a facial covering on at all times hand sanitizer is readily available in various locations we ask that you remain in your seats throughout the duration of the ceremony graduates may process to the stage when signaled by a university marshal masks may be removed for photographs once the photograph is taken please put your mask back on for more information on mason's coveted protocols please visit gmu.edu if is is with apologies to pharaoh williams a very good afternoon to you welcome everyone to our george mason university school of business graduation for the master's programs class of 2021 and 2020. to each of you your families your friends and everybody that helped you to get to this stage today congratulations well done and i would like us all to stand join me in standing in attention for our national anthem oh bright stars on the rocket red glare the bombs bursting in air they proved free thank you to mason's green machine and company and please be seated it's absolutely wonderful to see all of you here with us today this is a great achievement i'm pleased and proud to be celebrating with you particularly as this year marks 35 years since my own master's graduation so it's wonderful to relive it all thank you for your dedication for your hard work and for working to find a way through particularly in this very challenging time our faculty and staff including the associate deans and colleagues here on stage and those in the audience our alumni our friends join me in offering our warm congratulations to you and to your loved ones who have supported you on this journey and who really deserve their own round of applause well done guys i am really enjoying the ceremony outdoors yes particularly because it's a nice day but but just to be out here in one of mason's many open spaces i think is great i love being outside in part because i just enjoy being able to look around and to think especially to think big and this is something that i very much wish for all of you as you embark on the next stage of your lives and careers life and career can be difficult of course and the past year in particular has been really record setting in its heaviness in the setbacks it has dealt us as individuals as families as a region and a world and indeed of course as a nation but i have to say it does feel to me like we're turning a corner we remain aware of our many challenges but we're also beginning to look at the bigger picture we're engaging to create a better future whether it's fighting disease advancing equity and inclusion supporting working individuals and families rebuilding our infrastructure or re-establishing viable global systems and our leadership within them it feels like progress and it could not be coming i think you'll agree at a better time one of the things we learn from a good education is to absorb the lessons of the past but to live in the present and to focus on building that better future and most of us in higher education feel that's a key part of why we're here and for my part i have hope in large measure because of you mason business graduates look for opportunity they look for contribution they learn how to build new connections connections across disciplines across markets across different fields of knowledge across countries and across cultures by bridging and then integrating across diverse sets of stakeholders they create wider opportunities for value creation for contribution for partnership and for impact it's for these reasons i'm proud to recognize all of you and also in particular to recognize our outstanding students who are the masters graduates who are nominated by our faculty and area chairs for their contribution and their impact within the particular program as i call your name if you're able and if you're here please stand and remain standing till all of our outstanding students have been recognized and i ask that you please hold your applause until i finish reading the names so we can congratulate all of our outstanding students with one large round of applause and you'll hear in case you don't already know the variety of master's programs that we offer here at the mason school of business first of all from our masters in real estate development program catherine jacobs is catherine here wonderful please stay standing from our masters of science in management don lee sun here we are from our masters of science in accounting elizabeth farley and karen chipman there you are right from the federation of schools of accountancy special award to thomas shaffer from our mba boston cohort that doesn't mean that they live in boston that's the name of one of the two cohorts we have joshua ratchford and from our mba denver cohort benjamin zemeck from our nba sacramento cohort juliana de damio and from our mba online craig swaner from our masters of science and technology management christopher murphy and danwin fantastic congratulations let's have a warm round of applause for all of our outstanding students and thank you for joining us wonderful well done i would also like to acknowledge the students who are being inducted into the beta gamma sigma business honor society these are the individuals who are graduating in the top twenty percent of their program if you are being inducted into beta gamma sigma i ask you all pleased to stand together and be acknowledged well done great work all now given the amount of change that we've recently been through i also think there is so much opportunity for all of you especially now so my advice is go for it think big make something new and better happen whether it's in technology food fashion ai housing education energy government all of these sectors and others are more open now to change than they've been at any time in recent memory and i have to say the old adage truly does apply here if not you who and if not now when and do forgive yourself and forgive others when you don't manage to do it all or get it all right particularly the first time you try because it's true what they say the best way to learn is to fail so many cultures though including sometimes our own have such a fear of failure that we often don't accept it and therefore we don't learn from it so i advise you learn to fail or fail to learn i know i have and one more important point i want to offer to you there are two kinds of people in the world oh my god you're saying what's he going to say now people who divide the world into two kinds of people and people who know better and mason graduates know better probably the most important thing you can learn to do is to see the world the way the other person sees it because only then are you able to find the common ground that will allow you to connect and therefore to make progress so you're on the way to being business leaders indeed leaders of all kinds who see that bigger picture who build that trust who do the right thing not because it's good for you personally but because it's right for the future you and other leaders are stepping forward to bring us together and to create a common safe and equitable future for all and that's why i and all of us at the george mason university school of business are so pleased to celebrate with all of you today warm congratulations graduates i'm going to ask the marshals to help stream our students up to the stage and introduce them i don't know if i guess we're going by program but you'll tell me it is my great pleasure to greet you up here on the stage be photographed with you if you want to bump elbows that's fine if you want to bow that's fine you want to jump up and down you're welcome to i'm not sure i'm going to be able to match you but i look forward to greeting you and congratulating you and because we are not a big crowd this afternoon we should have time to bring everybody through get the pictures uh and simply enjoy the moment so dean piper it is now my pleasure to present the graduate of the school of business claudia lewis juan mo yang elizabeth farley vietnam taylor mulbin francis missy tejada maximilian simkins ahmed darwish eileen voss charlie natarine hillary marshick thomas kremen daisy taja hi jt candice de pass then when angus robertson lucia tutsi catherine jacobs derrick smith john lauren sketch us amy siegel shiny zhang hannah chung kwan pham maria musa jen liana dundo mia christopher murphy kaelyn tricon benjamin ej emanuela serwa karen chipman so jala tijuana altaf patel joshua ratchford mackenzie matthews emma anderson muhammad hasik khan eisen al-risha cindy quinn craig swanner tassina khan kevin chao janita arshad sergio fernandez hanan duale deborah curry bass oh bass benjamin zemeck brandy fletcher ambria harris chang eco donnelly soon mike tatum costa dala georges kevin sundin thomas jennings song lawrence hails barricat hell ashley roberts ciao we he yun yung song john young park once again i'd like to congratulate all of our graduates and also all of your classmates who couldn't be with you here today i know that you know that it means a lot to be a master's classmate and i will tell you that my own are still some of my very best friends even after four decades we love the fact that you're here with us that you have decided to make mason a part of your life we hope that you will keep us a part of your life going forward including letting us know what we can do better but we're today like your friends and family especially proud of you and your achievement and we wish you all the best we have well you have already received little gifts on the side table and uh i you know being as as we are not short on time i welcome you if you want to greet one another of course according to health protocols it's a pleasure to have you here this afternoon i would like to thank especially my faculty and staff colleagues all that have been involved in putting this program together and more than anyone else really the faculty the directors and the staff assistant directors and associate directors and supporters in each one of your programs every one of them is of course managed uh as its own its own uh little venture and it it's a lot of support we are particularly pleased that you have stuck with it and come this far congratulations all of you all the very very best come back and see us stay well congratulations graduates please remain seated until your row is dismissed by an usher or university marshall we want to ensure everyone's health and safety please maintain six feet of social distance from other parties when exiting standing if you want to stand for the alma mater this is the mason alma mater you today his truth is we're with us true oh and and by way of celebrating if you haven't done so and you'd like to join me in doing so you move your tassel from the left to the right and that symbolizes your graduation well done guys all the best uh mm-hmm hey
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