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Monmouth College Sends More Students Into the Real World
Alex Holt is a motivator.

Holt made a small form of history yesterday as a student giving a commencement address at Monmouth College's annual graduation. Holt is one of several hundred who receive Bachelor's Degrees Sunday, and the ceremony marked the first time students mostly ran the show -- something college president Mauri Ditzler approved of.

Holt told the students yes, there are problems in the world, but it's his class that will help to solve them.

"What is more valuable in today's market than the ability to solve complex problems and make important connections between disciplines that might not seem connected," Holt said. "These are the things that we've done everyday for four years at Monmouth, and they'll make us successful in the future."

"So if the economy is in shambles, we are the ones who will go out and revitalize it. The government is deadlocked in a bitter bipartisan system and can't keep the promises that have been made to the people, but we are the ones who will keep these promises and set things right."

Holt says he stepped on to the Monmouth College unsure of what he would want to do after graduating from a military academy. But the Chicago native says the school ended up changing his life.











(Alex Holt, Student Laureate, Lincoln Academy of Illinois, delivers one of two commencement addresses).



(Samantha Michelle Albrecht receiving her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics Sunday).

(WGIL Photos and News Story by Will Stevenson).
05 21 12 by Newsroom
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