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157th Commencement at Fordham U

Retired AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin told more than 10,000 graduates and their families at Fordham University's 157th Commencement that technology is important, but love and compassion create a better world.

Levin told graduates to strive to love not only their families, but also those who struggle daily to overcome hunger and poverty.

"Each of us has not only a mind that can conceive of a world better that we have and haven't,” said Levin, who received an honorary doctorate of humane letters, honoris causa. "We also have a heart that can show us how to seek that world. And we have a will, a will that can enable us to try.”

Levin explained to the graduates that although technology provides the world with the means to heal itself, it is not enough to make us see the common humanity that binds together all the people of the world.

"This sometimes cruel, often callous, always imperfect world of ours needs you very badly,” said Levin. "It needs the knowledge, the expertise that you have been getting here at Fordham. It needs your faith, your hope and hard work. Even more, it needs your love, your compassion and commitment to shine forth for all of us and show us how to live as well as survive.”

Levin recalled the example set by his late son John, who "chose to invest his life in a classroom not far from here in the South Bronx where he awoke the talent and dreams of students seeking to escape the nightmare cycle of discrimination, deprivation and despair.” Levin remembered that his son "loved in a way that causes ordinary men and women in every corner of the world to stop ignoring the injustice and start fighting.”

In presenting Levin's honorary doctorate, Paul B. Guenther, chair of Fordham's Board of Trustees, noted that "in the information age, a new kind of business leader is needed, one who can recognize the opportunities implicit in technological discoveries and at the same time appreciate the challenges that come with such opportunities. In a remarkable career that spans four decades, Gerald M. Levin has demonstrated both the strategic vision and the skills necessary to bring diverse interests and personalities together in the pursuit of a pioneer project.”

Also receiving an honorary degree was Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., who was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters. The Rev. Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J., dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill, noted "when Ted McCarrick left the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University at the end of his sophomore year to attend St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie, fellow members of the Fordham College Class of 1954 predicted that someday he would be an archbishop. Today, 50 years later, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, past Archbishop of Newark, founding bishop of the diocese of Metuchen, returns to Rose Hill, his classmates' expectations more than fulfilled.”

John D. Feerick, retiring dean of Fordham Law School, received an honorary doctorate of laws.

Sister Francesca Thompson, O.S.F., associate professor of African and African American studies and assistant dean/director for multicultural programs at Fordham, received an honorary doctorate of fine arts.#

 

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