At 射精视频 Leadership Series, Caroline Kennedy Speaks of the Importance of Participating in History
It might seem static, but history is never far away, said former U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
Kennedy, the featured guest of the sixth 射精视频 Leadership Series luncheon, presented with CommunityAmerica Credit Union, on Thursday, April 5, said in her keynote address to a sold-out audience of more than 1,000 in the Muehlebach Tower of the Marriott Downtown that the past has something to teach every era about leadership.
Kennedy鈥檚 own father, President John F. Kennedy, was a freshman senator from Massachusetts when he made his first visit to Missouri in 1956 and delivered a similar message as the guest of what was then known as Rockhurst College. He received an honorary degree from the University鈥檚 then-president, Rev. Maurice Van Ackeren, S.J., and delivered an address during the annual Rockhurst Day banquet in the Muehlebach Hotel.
鈥淭hat night he talked about the need for courageous leadership on both a personal level and a national one,鈥 she said. 鈥淪o nothing鈥檚 changed at Rockhurst.鈥
That message, she said, still resonates. Societies become better by grappling and reconciling with sometimes painful history. That can past can help shape the future. But it can take courage, and a steadfast commitment to fundamental values.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 the kind of leadership my father called for here at Rockhurst,鈥 she said.
Kennedy has also exemplified that kind of leadership听鈥 as an attorney, as a New York Times best-selling author and editor, as an advocate for education, and, from 2013 to 2017, as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, the first woman to hold the position. During that time, she helped realize both the U.S. transfer of land in Okinawa to the Japanese government (the largest such transfer since 1972), but also the visit of the first sitting president to Hiroshima since the United States dropped its first atomic bomb there in 1945. 听
In a morning question and answer session with student leaders from 射精视频 and in her address that afternoon, Kennedy encouraged everyone to find a way to make their world better, saying that changes in the course of history are not the domain of elected leaders alone.
鈥淎t the end of the day, we are part of a long running story, we just try to get our paragraph right,鈥 she said. 鈥淕etting our paragraph right involves soul searching, but it also involves action. We all must take responsibility for writing the chapter of our time.鈥
See more photos from the 2018 射精视频 Leadership Series luncheon听. Also during the luncheon, the University honored Patricia Cleary Miller, Ph.D., professor emerita of English, with the 2018 .
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