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News:
May 8, 2004
Wesleyan leader urges students: ‘know who you are’
CENTRAL,
S.C. – Understanding oneself is as important as
understanding the world around us, Dr. Earle Wilson told
Southern Wesleyan University graduates.
“God
formed us out of the Earth, but we are more than that.
We are part of a higher existence,” he said.
Wilson
is a Wesleyan author, professor, college president and
is a general superintendent of the South Central Administrative
Area of The Wesleyan Church. He is completing his twentieth
year in this assignment and holds the highest elective
office in the denomination.
“Most
of our trouble comes not from thinking too highly of ourselves,
but from thinking too cheaply of ourselves,” he
said. “We have forgotten what it means to be a person.”
Wilson
urged the students to understand themselves.
“A
person who knows who he is will know what to do,”
he said. “Remember who you are. You are sons and
daughters of God.”
More
than 330 Southern Wesleyan University students received
associate’s, bachelor’s or master’s
degrees at the university’s graduation ceremonies
May 8, according to Registrar Rock McCaskill. The average
age of the graduates was 36, he said.
The
university held two separate graduation ceremonies at Walden
Tysinger Gymnasium. The 10:30 a.m. ceremony was for graduating
students from the Central and Greenville locations earning
associate’s, bachelor’s, Master of Education
or Master of Ministry degrees. The 3 p.m. ceremony was for
students from the Charleston, Columbia and North Augusta
locations earning associate’s and bachelor’s
degrees, as well as for students from all locations earning
Masters of Science or Master of Business Administration
degrees.
These ceremonies marked the graduation
of Southern Wesleyan University’s first group of
Master of Business Administration students. Also, Jamar
Rashad Eubanks received the university’s first bachelor’s
degree in sports management. And Rupal Ramesh Shah was
the university’s first Honors Program graduate,
majoring in biology and chemistry.
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