Remarks By Synthia Laura Molina

Distinguished Alumni Service Award Recipient

I feel privileged to welcome you into the CGU alumni community. As you know, it is a community filled with individuals who, as a great scholar once advised, seek to “think as people of action and act as people of thought.” In my view, your commitment to trans-disciplinary thinking and action—made evident by your alma mater—reveals rare insight and competencies.  

Clearly, you serve a higher set of principles through a commitment to truth and knowledge and effectiveness. You see the relationship between your wellbeing and that of the global community. You have chosen to advance both.  Yes, you have chosen to advance both! I sense that you have made great personal sacrifices to refine your understanding of the world in which you live.  In my view, you have honored your natural gifts by attending to their development and refinement. In doing so, you have gained competencies to improve the human condition.  Yes, you have competencies to improve the human condition!

We, who have turned the textbook pages and tassels before you, have been hoping.  We have been hoping for you. We have carried the torch for a time, and we do not want to walk on without you or continue in this life without your essential help. We have yearned for peers exactly like you, who seek to be of the greatest possible service to higher principles and to others. That is why we now applaud your achievements, and we celebrate your success.

On behalf of the entire alumni community, I say that we are fortunate to have you among us. We offer our gratitude and praise for your hard work, your capabilities and the honor you have already brought to us through completing your education. We have faith you will continue to bring to us, to the University, and to the global community such honor. We believe in your purposeful thinking and your inspired action. With great admiration, we offer our warm congratulations. We trust that your every principled pursuit will be blessed!