On September 30, Wellesley College inaugurated its 14th president since the college was founded in 1875. The new president is Dr. Paula Johnson, a cardiologist with an MD and a Ph.D. in public health. She is a renowned scientist, researcher, physician, teacher, and expert on the subject of women’s health. I met Dr. Johnson when I went to Wellesley for Pasi Sahlberg’s performance/lecture. She is brilliant, unassuming, warm, and very impressive.
I was class of 1960 at Wellesley. Hillary was class of 1969. Obviously, we did not overlap.
But this is what you need to know about Wellesley. Its motto is “Non ministrari, sed ministrate,” which means “not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” Not to be served, but to serve.
Another motto is “Incipit vita nova: here begins new life.”
That’s what Wellesley was for me, coming from the public schools of Houston, from parents who never went to college, from a decidedly non-academic, non-bookish family. The beginning of a new life.
I think that’s what Wellesley meant for Hillary Rodham, coming from public schools in Illinois, from a family of modest means. The beginning of a new life.
Wellesley is where we began a new life. It is the educational environment that shaped us.
To understand that environment, I invite you to watch some or all of the inauguration of Dr. Paula A.Johnson. The video has a table of contents, and you can skip the 30-minute processional and go right to the speakers. Watch the brief speech of Senator Elizabeth Warren. Then watch Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard University, who delivers a fascinating overview of women’s higher education and the snobbishness it encountered. Then watch Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith College, who speaks with great wit about the sibling rivalry between Smith and Wellesley but assures Dr. Johnson that all her sisters are with her. Listen to Dr. Virginia W. Pinn, a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health and a medical pioneer, who knows Dr. Johnson’s role in her field.
And of course, please watch and listen to Dr. Johnson, who is simply fabulous. Dr. Johnson grew up in Brooklyn. She is a product of the New York City public schools, having completed her high school studies at Samuel J. Tilden High School, a comprehensive school where she met teachers who inspired and encouraged her. From Tilden, she went to Radcliffe and Harvard, where she began her brilliant career. [Tilden was declared a “failing school” by the Bloomberg administration in 2006 and converted to small schools.]
To understand the environment that shaped Hillary Rodham and me, watch this video. It made us strong, fearless, and prepared us to face the future armed with a strong liberal arts education and the belief that women can do anything. It taught us that we were fortunate to have such a wonderful education and were obliged to use it to make a difference for others.
It’s quite a stretch to say that Hillary’s family was “of modest means”. They lived in Park Ridge (current median household income is over $90,000), a very affluent suburb of Chicago. Her father was a successful textile merchant who was college educated. I believe it was assumed all her life that Hillary would go to college and her parents had the means to help her with that.
http://www.npr.org/2015/12/29/461352914/retracing-where-hillary-clinton-grew-up-1950s-park-ridge-ill
Dienne,
Half the students in my class came from fancy private schools. I thought I was poorly educated compared to them.
Whatever the median income is today in Park Ridge, I don’t think Hillary came from a wealthy, elite background. She went to public schools. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Howell_Rodham#Early_life
Diane, I work in an elite law office. Most of my lawyers live in ritzy suburbs like Park Ridge specifically so that they can send their kids to public schools and still have the elite private school type experience. I’m pretty sure that Hillary’s experience at Maine South was very little like my experience at Northridge High School in Middle of Nowhere Indiana, which itself was nothing like the experience of attending public schools in inner city Chicago. Going to public schools does not mean that someone does not come from a wealthy, elite background. Heck, Arne Duncan sent his own kids to public schools in Virginia.
Dienne, surprise me and find something positive to say about Hillary. There must be one thing.
Have you read about her mother’s background?
It’s not that there’s nothing positive to say about her, it’s that you’re making a goddess of her. You refuse to hear anything negative about her, and then you go throwing out blatantly false hagiography about her “modest” background. Saying Hillary is from a “modest” background reminds me of Joel Klein’s claim to growing up “poor”.
Joel Klein grew up lower-middle-income but that’s no excuse for his disdain for teachers, unions, and public schools. [Note the edit: I deleted and replaced “poor.”]
I didn’t say that Hillary grew up poor. Nor have I “made a goddess” of her. If she chooses a “reformer” as Secretary of Education or sticks to the reformer script, I will go after her with no mercy.
I admire her for maintaining her dignity while Trump, the least qualified nominee in history, keeps slinging mud at her. On issues like climate change, minimum wage, and civil rights, I’m with her.
Dienne,
Both Hillary and Bill came from average families. They were not rich or elite by any standards. They were smart and worked hard all their lives.
Joel Klein didn’t grow up “poor” – he grew up average. Hillary didn’t grow up “average” – she grew up elite. People have a tendency to underestimate their status relative to other people. Hillary’s socio-economic status as a child would have put her in about the 90th percentile for that time period – far better off than the majority of Americans. Klein would probably have been in the 30th or 40th percentile – in other words, middle of the pack of average Americans.
Dienne,
I don’t know whether or not she had a privileged background. I don’t recall anyone complaining that FDR or JFK had a privileged background, and her family was certainly not comparable to the Roosevelts or Kennedys. I just think you hate her.
Richard Rothstein conclusively demonstrated that, as with everything else that came out of his mouth, Joel Klein was lying when he spoke of growing up “in the projects” of Woodside, Queens.
Klein was implying that he grew up under conditions similar to those experienced by poor children, in the projects and elsewhere, and shared their experience. A complete falsehood, like everything else he tries putting over when it comes to education.
Michael,
I read Rothstein’s article. It was great. Apparently his father was a postal worker, which meant he did not grow up poor. That was a good civil service job.
Have some pity. The man’s ed tech company lost $500 million before Rupert Murdoch gave it to Laurene Powell Jobs. Now he works at an online healthcare company called Oscar which is in deep financial trouble.
Lucky for him, I recall that he filed papers to collect a pension for his eight years as chancellor, destroying the system that educated him and advancing privatization.
Dienne accuses Diane of putting HRC on a pedestal, treating her like a goddess. Dienne, on the other hand, has demonized, smeared and swift-boated HRC non stop, 24/7 all the time to the point of being an anti-Hillary propagandist. There is much to criticize about Hillary and she certainly was not my first choice or even my 2nd choice; she wasn’t my choice at all but I do not think she’s as horrible and demonic as Dienne seems to think. I am guessing that she will be more in the tradition of Bill Clinton and Obama who did not start WWIII and did not use nuclear weapons, to my knowledge. HRC is progressive on social issues like woman’s rights, gay rights and environmental issues.
All that being said, it’s not a bad thing to have Dienne spritzing and spewing non stop about the demon incarnate (Hillary), with blood and viscera dripping from her lips (Hillary’s). Dienne keeps us all on our toes.
Yes, Diane, I do hate Hillary. I hate her for the devastation she has visited on places like Iraq, Libya, Honduras and Haiti. I hate her for how she’s colluding with the big banks, Monsanto, private prison industry, etc. at the expense of ordinary Americans who are suffering (and how we’re being set up to suffer again and more as the big banks are set to collapse again). I hate her because of the future she is stealing from my children and their cohort. Yes, oppression makes me a bit angry, sorry if that offends you. But what really makes me angry is when someone who does those things gets hailed as being “of modest means”. My family of origin was far less affluent than Hillary’s, but I wouldn’t dream of saying we were “of modest means”. I’ve known far too many actual poor and struggling people to understand how offensive that is. And, funny thing is, I’m meeting more and more of such people every day.
Dienne,
I don’t hate Hillary. I admire her even when I disagree with her. Put yourself in her place (if that is possible) for just a minute and think about what she will face tonight. She is an intelligent, civil, well-educated woman who must “debate” a crude, loathsome, ignorant bully who is determined to destroy her. Not sure if I would submit myself to that ordeal, but I expect she will take his punches, duck the mud-slinging and do her best to respond to his taunts and jeers with dignity.
If she is elected and makes bad decisions about education, I will fight her as I have fought Obama. Having the support of the NAACP against privatization was an enormous victory for public education. Now, if the good people of Georgia and Massachusetts manage to repel the billionaires, I think we will have them on the run, and educators can get back to doing what they do best: education.
While it is fair to describe Park Ridge as middle to upper middle class, it is certainly not an elite community. Two established career teachers can easily top that $90,000 median income and remember that is a median, which means half of incomes are less. No, she did not grow up in a poor or lower middle class community. By your criteria, Dienne, anyone who grew up with anything more than a working class pedigree need not bother to think that they might be able to govern this country. It seems to me that we have had some presidents that managed to see beyond their own silver spoons just as we have had some presidents of humbler backgrounds that managed to make significant contributions in areas that might be considered the stamping grounds of the well heeled. Being an ignorant a!!-#@*e is not a state of being confined to the comfortably situated.
Dienne,
I agree, I too find it difficult to swallow when people sing the praises of Hillary. She was not and would never be my choice for a whole lot of reasons in a democratic primary. American foreign policy perused by both parties has served the interests of Multinational corporations at the expense of peoples all over the world not just Latin America. Triangulation with republicans is responsible for much of the economic pain we see at home.
But we must move past this now. The choice is stark always stark between the right-wing agenda and what corporatist Democrats have dished out. In this election the choice is a fascist who will pursue right wing objectives and Hillary.
I saved this piece from the Nation just for you. I doubt if Diane would object to substituting her name and Education for Bill McKibben and Climate change. They are rather in similar positions in their respective fields.
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-climate-movement-has-to-elect-hillary-clinton-and-then-give-her-hell/
pursued
Joel,
Exaxctly right.
Joel,
This election is about lost opportunities.
The Democrats had a chance to reinvigorate the party and reach out to all working people, including those dismissed by the Republican leaders – struggling middle class families, older white voters, suburban moms, young college students, educated white males. Everyone left behind in this economy. Instead, we get a party focused on race and gender politics, then choosing an uninspiring candidate reeking of establishment morals and already sold to Wall Street.
Republicans had the chance to actually listen to the legitimate concerns of Trump supporters. Those non-deplorables that are watching the good jobs disappear, industries collapse replaced with Walmart jobs, and their children worse off than they are. Instead, GOP leaders were so focused on the black guy in the oval office, they forgot they were supposed to govern. If they would have assumed personal responsibility to lead and gained insight that not everyone is a rich CEO, the Republicans would not be stuck with an un-electable narcissist ready to destroy America to save his ego.
So, we will have at least 4 more years of GOP obstructionism rooted in the alt-right against Hillary as Republican-lite.
I wish someone would explain why HRC is “worse” than Obama. Every accusation hurled at her could apply to him. If faced with a choice between Obama and Trump, would you vote third party? I think Hillary will surprise us. I hope so.
I suggest that public school supporters elect Hillary, and then fight to get her to support strong public schools. We need to prove to her that public education offers the best hope for our young people.
For starters, if you read the hardcover version of HARD CHOICES, you can read, in Hillary’s own words, how she had to “push” Obama on Libya. So at the very least, she is even more hawkish than he is, and that’s saying something.
And, yes, if I had to choose between Obama vs. Trump vs. third party, I’d still vote third party.
Oh, watch the video, for heaven’s sake. Warren is wonderful. So is Drew Gilpin Faust and McCartney and Johnson.
Vale Math
I am not disagreeing with you. But it is what it is. Read the 5 year old article “Goodbye to All That , Confessions of a Republican Who Left the Cult.” Mike Lofgren nailed it in 2011. Describes both parties to a tee. I am an economic populist, I am not certain how much of the Trump base really fit into the description we like to portray of economic hardship. If they did, they were voting in the wrong primary.
The Republicans have been using racial dog whistles to disguise there anti worker platform since Nixon plotted the Southern strategy. The NDC plays right into their hands. I have been disgusted since 92.
Yrs, I’ve read similar articles. Very interesting.
Many Trump supporters are single issue voters. It is all about abortion or guns as the top two.
But to people in the Rust Belt, the issues Trump exploits are very real. Jobs are going overseas. Heroin is a new problem due largely to immigration. Wages are stagnant. Everything seems to be eroding in Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia. The opposing dog whistle of “white privilege” from the left seems oddly out of place in many areas in decline. People don’t like Trump. But they feel there is no other choice. I do not think the coastal and beltway elites get it. The Democrats seem tone deaf or patronizing. Enter the showy opportunist Trump. He is dangerous and incompetent. But he says the right words that resonate with Rust Belt voters.
It is too easy and hubristic of Democrats to simply brush off Trump supporters as racists or deplorables. Democrats missed an opportunity and we’ll likely be here again in 4 years.
The things like about Hillary Clinton are the things a lot of people seem to hate- I like that she’s practical and doesn’t talk about herself constantly. I think those are generally solid qualities.
I also think she’s allowed to speak privately differently than she does publicly- everyone does to one or another extent and I would hope the Secretary of State wasn’t running around saying whatever popped into her head to whomever- and I don’t want to read all her emails. I agreed with Bernie Sanders on the emails.
She’s not going to be accountable to voters on “promises” because all I’ve heard for 24 months is emails. No one even knows what she plans to do or said she would do.
Tonight’s debate will be the same. It’ll be all emails all the time with periodic outbursts by Donald Trump. What a huge waste of time, effort and money this horrible thing has been, for all of us.
Wish this outlook was more prevalent. From the inaugural speech of Dr. Johnson
“The arts and humanities merit special attention here. It is through the study of art, literature, history, music, languages, philosophy, and religion that we explore what it means to be fully human. We find our place within traditions that ignite our imaginations. More than any other fields of study, the arts and the humanities fortify us to do the work that we are called to do. If the sciences tell us how, the humanities and arts remind us why.
Which is not to say that the arts and humanities do not also have their practical applications—and far more often than many assume.”
Laura,
Thank you for watching. I fell in love with Paula Johnson when I met her. The kids call her PJ.
Diane, You have done a lot of good the past few years exposing and documenting much of the corrupt practices behind current educational policies. But you lose a lot of credibility shilling for someone who is completely on board with virtually all of those practices. Why not put the pressure on her before she is elected, not after? What possible motivation would she have to change things once she is elected?
MAU,
I think Trump is the most ignorant, vicious, racist, sexist, vapid bully ever to run for president. Nothing in my blog will change the outcome of the election. I express what I sincerely believe. Hillary is no worse than Obama and possibly better. From my contacts with her in the past, I believe she will listen. Right now, the important thing is to defeat Trump, a danger to our democracy.
She may listen and understand and be sympathetic (professional politician), but in the end she’ll always do what she is told by big money. “No worse than Obama” on education isn’t much to recommend her considering what’s happened the past 8 years. Elizabeth Warren awhile back talked about how she felt that she had really gotten through to Hillary Clinton over some of the banking issues, then HRC turned around and did exactly what the banks wanted anyway. Anyway, I hope I’m wrong!
MAU,
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are campaigning for Hillary. If Dems capture the Senate, Bernie becomes chair of the Senate Budget Committee, a crucial post.
Hillary was fabulous at the Al Smith dinner last night. Trump was awful and bitter.
To answer the question of the post: NO!
No need to waste my time.
I’ve already wasted my time on Hillary, and I’m not inclined to fantasize about her based on which institution she attended for a few years. That’s a pretty bad way to understand someone: by looking at where they went to college. Not much better than blind faith, which is almost Diane’s (and others’) level of faith in Hillary.
Unfortunately Diane and others are in la la land thinking that Hillary is some kind of peoples’ servant. Her entire public persona as a “peoples’ servant” is a lie, a wishful fantasy, a delusion. A dream that people want to believe in.
I hate people who sell candy-coated illusions to the masses for their own personal gain.
You know what shaped Hillary Clinton more than anything else?
Money. Class. Power. The dirty game of the establishment.
(I know: BUT TRUMP????)
By the way – Class of 1969. That’s almost 50 years ago. People change a lot over 50 years. And not everything we learned stays with us.
Here’s from Hillary’s commencement speech in 1969:
And here’s from her presidential campaign:
The difference?
She went from “yes we can” to “no we can’t.”
She went from “left” (perhaps) to “center-left to center-right.”
Imagine that, Hillary was shaped over all those 50 years since Wellesley. Maybe she could have been a Bernie Sanders, but that’s not what she became. OK, she started as a dreamer and a fighter, and now she goes whichever way the political and corporate winds are blowing. And the political and corporate winds blow in a real bad direction. Who knows what would have happened without Bernie Sanders rising against the prevailing winds — well, basically we can make a good guess. Her entire campaign would have looked like the third debate with Donald Trump. Very little about the real issues that face us, like climate change, the rigged economy, the rigged healthcare system, and on and on.
Was it the Wellesley motto to have a public position and a private position? Was it the Wellesley motto to “know” that we can only make incremental change, rather than directly challenge unjust systems and build movements?
Image: Wellesley speech
Image: 2016 campaign
Ed,
All politicians say different things in public and in private. So do most people.
I don’t allow cursing on my blog. But I cuss in private.
I practice civility in public–or try to. But I rant against what bothers me, in private.
Are you different?
I think you are holding Hillary to a different standard than any other candidate.
You want a saint. She’s not one. Who is?
Diane, you should know that’s not what I’m talking about. Cursing in private but not in public is completely different than advocating for one policy in public and another in private, as the potentially most powerful person in the world.
I am not holding Hillary to a different standard. I do not want a saint. Stop with that. We need politicians to be accountable to us, not big money. We should want a government that represents us, not one that pretends to. Hillary may or may not be so much “worse” than any other establishment politician, but establishment politics is AWFUL and we should not accept it. I hope you’re ready to stop Hillary from taking us to war with Russia. Apparently she didn’t learn enough about peaceful solutions, or the value of human life, at Wellesley.
To Dienne and señor Swacker:
Trump’s supporters are like Dienne, and señor Swacker who have their mind made-up.
Joel, Vale Math, and et al are not “high level” politicians. People need to be in the situation in order to know how to play games in politics or business? (= Why don’t educators, superintendents, principals walk away from invalid common core? Why don’t workers walk away from jobs without safety protection? Why don’t all entertainment workers walk away from bad contracts?)
It is what it is in reality. We need the decency and intelligence in any leadership regarding experience, education, and background of public support.
People cannot live in dreamland and keep being wishy, washy of what should be or should not be for other countries.
I would love to rep[eat the main idea from Chief Editor, Mrs. Mi-Ai Parrish, president of Republic Media, which includes The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com.
Liberty and free speech WILL:
1) require compassion
2) require an open debate
3) require bravery
4) value hard work and equal opportunity.
5) hold the powerful accountable.
6) come at a cost or a sacrifice of the short term PAIN or comfort to have the long term GAIN
7) allow to exchange ideas freely, fairly, without fear.
Any LEADERS do not experience, offer or fulfill the above 7 critical conditions, their ideology about liberty and free speech is all about LIP-SERVICE.
All tactics gear to terrorize, to inspire hatred and divisiveness are enemy to humanity and try to bring down humanity to the level of being slavery and being beasts.
In short, in all 4 Presidential Candidates, who offers LIP-SERVICE platform? Who just goes for a short cut without any experience in both US domestic and foreign policies? Who has shown the strongest leadership? Please, be serious if people have a bit of thinking mindset. May
May,
Yes, I have my mind made up about for whom I will vote. I’ve had plenty of time to do so and the decision was made with many factors involved. I will vote for whom I believe has the platform that best fits my concerns. The Green Party and Jill Stein fulfill my requirements in that regard.
If that is a problem for you so be it.
Is there a difference between those who have already made up their mind and those who haven’t? Or is it just those who have decided not to vote for Clinton (yes, I’m being nice for once and not using an epitet for her) are just too #$%ing stupid for choosing someone else?
I don’t buy your logic on this one May! Nor on this:
“People need to be in the situation in order to know how to play games. . . ”
You see I do not need to feel the teeth of the tiger tearing into the back of my skull to know that the “game” of the tiger is not copacetic for me.
Hi señor Swacker:
Please do not misunderstood me. The word “no where” implies that Dr. Jill Stein did not run for local political position from Councillor, or Mayor, or Congresswoman.
Yes, I admit that I do not know Dr. Jill Stein from all her SOCIAL activities, except from her profile in Wiki-Biography which is not impressive enough to run a corrupted politics in a powerful country, like USA.
The bottom of matter is that I hope Dr. Jill Stein will build up her credential and confidence through all of her grassroots who will strongly support her Green Party from all 50 states.
Her platform will come true if she has her courage to follow through.
Again, the undergraduate will enhance the leader to continue on further study, or to explore more options = interconnection so that leader’s vision is limitless.
The other roughly 60% who never attend college will self-study to be leader on rough path of trials and errs in order to perfect the leadership at the expense of gullible and trusting people. The example is Mao in China. I hope that you have witnessed more other cases in your teaching career.
Respectfully yours,
May
Thank you Dr, Ravitch for all links. I could open links for pictures only. I do not know why I cannot listen to any video for all speakers. It keeps popping up “please play back again.” I have very tough time to post my words for unknown reason. Something just zaps my internet connection.
It is very privilege for all intelligent and compassionate females who are able to attend Wellesley University.
I am not bias. I would prefer any graduates from Wellesley University over Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton to work as leaders in Governmental Public Services because its motto of “to serve BUT not to be served” or “to minister, NOT to be ministered”, or “to lead, NOT to be manipulated or controlled” by media that owned by GREEDY tycoons.
Very respectfully yours,
May King
“I would prefer any graduates from Wellesley University over Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton to work as leaders in Governmental Public Services. . . ”
HRC got her law degree from Yale. So. . . .
Dearest señor Swacker:
Ay, ay, ay, ay, You got me. To be honest, I love all expressions in this forum. I sincerely respect people’s different experiences.
As I stated that “It is what it is in reality”. IMHO, the foundation of all education levels in higher education begins to shape learner’s ideology at the undergraduate level. All further degrees are to decorate and to strengthen learners their endurance and their critical mindset in their chosen the specific field.
I am glad that American future President Hillary Clinton has her undergraduate level from Wellesley University as her solid foundation of being “To serve, NOT to be served”. This motto reminds me about teacher Rafe Esquith who reinforced his grade 5th students for more than 30 years of his excellent teaching career “Be nice and work hard for your goal”.
It is funny that I would like to mention to you about my mother teaching method. She told all of her children that people’s promise (= platform) will be empty if they do not possess the credential, experience, and most of all, their daily morality toward others like family members, co-workers, subordinates, superiors, and inferiors.
In short, I am aware of the MASSIVE WEB of DECEIT from American Media which can TRASH the GOOD and polish the BAD. For instance, you know Michelle Rhee and her second husband, ex-Mayor of Sacramento. You acknowledge the reason why Senator E. Warren did not have support to run Presidential Election, BUT Dr. Jill Stein can run from no where?
IMHO, all strong female character politicians with morality background and with their conviction to social issues WILL BE a threat to all malicious puppet master. As a result, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson become puppet master favourite.
Respectfully yours,
May
“BUT Dr. Jill Stein can run from no where?
Perhaps it is from nowhere from where you stand/sit, May. Why might that be? Perhaps because the Green Party, and any other party besides the oligarchic duopoly are never given the light of day by the main stream media, 90% of whom are controlled by 6 mega-conglomerate companies that don’t wish to upset their ad revenues. Fools that they are for not realizing that more parties and candidates might actually enhance their political ad revenues.
Be that as it may, Jill Stein has not come out of nowhere. I voted for her four years ago. Did you know she was a candidate then?
Break away, May, break away! from the oligarchical duopoly promoted and supported by those six companies, that only give one about 5% of what one needs to know to be functionally knowledgeable/literate about the world today.
P.S. I agree that many times one’s fundamental world view gets shaped more in undergrad vs grad school. However where does that leave the roughly 60% who never attend college?
May King,
Please try this link. It contains a directory of speakers. The first 30 minutes is a procession. Skip that.
http://www.wellesley.edu/about/president/inauguration#live
Thank you Dr. Ravitch for your caring. My internet connection is being brand new for 2 days. The Fiber tower from Bell is brand new. My computer was working beautifully. Then, as soon as I tried open the link from this thread on early hour, my internet connection was disconnected magically at 3 am. I turned off my computer for half hour, and then turned on again to read on my Word file. Finally, by 4am, my internet connection was on again magically.
I was able to read the text file, but I cannot listen from video link that you provide because the link is frozen for unknown reason. This happens to me from some links which Susan Lee Schwartz had sent me as well with an explanation from the links: “not available to your area.”
I was really impressed from all texts. I love Dr. Paula Johnson’s conclusion. Also, I love Dr. Kathleen McCartney’s speech which is the best of all best speeches for its sincerity and its literature.
Wellesley University represents for the American dream for all intelligent and compassionate females in the world.
Yes, let’s to serve, NOT to be served.
Very respectfully yours,
May King.
Diane,
Sometimes some of your readers miss the point of yours posts, I think.
Thank you for sharing this. I enjoyed all of the speeches (Elizabeth Warren’s energy and passion always delight me!) but it was especially wonderful for me as a woman of color to see a fellow ‘sister’ speaking with power and standing in her strength.
You Wellesley Women are somethin’ else. 🙂
I hope no one missed the point of this post! Thanks for watching.