{"id":145,"date":"2014-04-14T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2014\/04\/bill-clinton-on-my-alma-mater.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:43:32","slug":"bill-clinton-on-my-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2014\/04\/bill-clinton-on-my-alma-mater.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton on my Alma Mater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Last week President Bill Clinton spoke in Greenville, South Carolina at the Peace Center downtown. \u00a0During his speech where he spoke on a variety of topics he said the following about my Alma Mater, Furman University, located just north of Greenville:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could brand Furman if you will \u2026 as a place where problems are solved, potential is unleashed,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cPeople don\u2019t care about politics. They care about the purpose of developing the human potential\u201d in South Carolina and beyond.<\/p>\n

President Clinton hit the nail on the head.<\/p>\n

After attending Furman for two years, the university unleashed my potential to the extent that I was ready to take the next step in my life. \u00a0At the end of my sophomore year I was accepted as a seminarian for the Diocese of Savannah and transferred to Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio to begin studying philosophy.<\/p>\n

I believe that in two years Furman did in my life what it usually does for its students in four.<\/p>\n

My professors pushed me and challenged me to reach my human potential. \u00a0The challenges were not only academic, but they challenged my inmost convictions as a human person. \u00a0They instilled in me a desire to engage the world, to give of myself in service to others, and to think critically. \u00a0A history professor during my sophomore year stated that if we left Furman the same way we entered it, the university would have failed us. \u00a0This professor would be proud to know that I left Furman a very different person from when I arrived.<\/p>\n

Furman challenged my academic abilities, my leadership skills, my religious views and my political views, yet through the challenge came clarity and strength.<\/p>\n

I am grateful to the many people I met at Furman who helped me find my life\u2019s direction and vocation. \u00a0These are relationships and friendships I will treasure forever.<\/p>\n

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