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Business major Daouda David Camara
Biology major
Laura Clymer
I appreciate how involved the professors
are. They invite us to their homes and
provide their personal phone numbers.
Dr. Kristin King served not just as my
advisor, but as my mentor and role
model. She has always pushed me to
be a better writer, better presenter, and
a better student. ...I also appreciate the
many friends I've made. As a commuter,
my original intention was to go to class,
do my work, go home, and not involve
myself with the student body. Instead,
I've spent most of my free time with
friends getting food, and talking politics
or chatting about nonsense. I love
talking with anyone from Bryn Athyn!
— Michael DiSalvia (BA '18)
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encourage them to look for purpose in their path, to re-
flect on the ways in which their steps are guided by Provi-
dence, to see how they are called to serve the neighbor. In
short, as graduate Dan Uber noted in his valedictory ad-
dress, these graduates engaged in a collegiate education
attended by the belief that “every smallest fraction of a
moment of a person’s life entails a chain of consequences
extending into eternity” (Arcana Caelestia §3854). Dan’s
address is excerpted below.
I
hope to change. What a beautiful concept change is.
That which sets the here and now apart from the then
and there summed up in a single syllable. To give you
an idea of just how vast change can be, I want you to con-
sider yourself, compared to your ancestors: Do you know
who your ancestors are? Do you know where your ances-
tors were 1,000 years ago? What were they doing, think-
ing, learning, becoming? What were their lives like? What