{"id":87391,"date":"2017-05-13T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T21:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=87391"},"modified":"2017-05-19T08:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T12:21:19","slug":"former-university-richmond-president-addresses-umw-class-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/13\/former-university-richmond-president-addresses-umw-class-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Former University of Richmond President Addresses UMW Class of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Richmond President Emeritus Edward Ayers encouraged University of Mary Washington graduates to capitalize on an uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about tumultuous times in American history, where the country\u2019s residents could never have predicted events such as the devastation caused by the Civil War.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87402\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"87402\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/13\/former-university-richmond-president-addresses-umw-class-2017\/ayers_ed\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,2006\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1494669129&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;166.9&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ayers_ed\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;University of Richmond President Emeritus Edward Ayers&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;University of Richmond President Emeritus Edward Ayers&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-300x201.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-1024x685.jpg\" id=\"longdesc-return-87402\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"University of Richmond President Emeritus Edward Ayers\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news?longdesc=87402&amp;referrer=87391\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-300x201.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-768x514.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-1024x685.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-680x453.jpg 680w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-1140x762.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/05\/ayers_ed-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Richmond President Emeritus Edward Ayers congratulates graduates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmericans could not have foreseen a war that over the next four years killed the equivalent of 8 million people today,\u201d said Ayers, who addressed more than 5,000 students, family and friends on Ball Circle during the University\u2019s 106th undergraduate commencement ceremony Saturday, May 13.\u00a0Neither could they have realized that the largest and most powerful system of slavery in the modern world would come to an end, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He reflected on UMW\u2019s Fredericksburg campus, where history played such a vital role. \u201cConfederate cannons occupied the very ground on which we are gathered,\u201d said Ayers, a historian of the American South. On the same site on which the University was founded, more than 12,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or captured trying to take the ridge overlooking the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t look out across at all of you and be at this place without thinking that sometimes history brings redemption,\u201d said Ayers, \u201cto see this very piece of land that people fought about so desperately is now the scene of such a wonderful ceremony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are surprised by the unpredictable events of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we measure those years by political events, economic events, international events, or cultural events, things seem chaotic,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s hard for everyone, including young people, to get their bearings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, we always live in unusual times, said Ayers. While some years are better than others financially or politically, the future always moves in unforeseen ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only law of history I\u2019ve been able to discover is that the unexpected, good and bad, always happens,\u201d said Ayers, who served as University of Richmond\u2019s ninth president from 2007 to 2015. \u201cThe unexpected always happens, so get used to it \u2013 or, even better, bring it about yourself.\u00a0That\u2019s a reason for anxiety, but it\u2019s also reason for hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>History lives within us as much as we live within history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are woven into the time and space that you share with the people with whom you sit. That\u2019s why you are the class of 2017,\u201d said Ayers, who currently serves as University of Richmond\u2019s Tucker-Boatwright professor of the humanities.\u00a0\u201cIt matters when you were here. You always will be a part of this moment because you live in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Mary Washington, he said, graduates have learned to deal with complexity in all its forms, knowing solutions are not often simple. They\u2019ve learned how to deal with the ambiguity that justice and wisdom aren\u2019t always clearly defined. They\u2019ve learned how to deal with people whose beliefs are different from their own, and they\u2019ve learned that people are as complex and as full of surprise as they are.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s graduates also have learned that the world is full of possibilities, Ayers said. The future can be better than the past.<br \/>\n\u201cThe world responds to effort, goodwill and knowledge,\u201d he said, all attributes graduates have gained during their academic careers at the University of Mary Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He congratulated the Class of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel better about the world knowing that you are going out to make your own history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To view the ceremony please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/218044521#t=205s\">UMW&#8217;s 2017 Commencement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Richmond President Emeritus Edward Ayers encouraged University of Mary Washington graduates to capitalize on an uncertain future. 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