{"id":398,"date":"2011-09-06T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=398"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:20:25","slug":"commencement-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/commencement-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/trower_2001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-400\" title=\"Alexandra Trower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/trower_2001.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandra Trower\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>Est\u00e9e Lauder executive Alexandra Trower Lindsey \u201986 told this year\u2019s graduates, \u201cYou will be fine. More than that: You will be great.\u201d She went on to reassure them that a liberal arts education continues to be relevant to the working world: \u201cIt might seem surprising that I spent twenty years of my career in financial services, given that I was an English and French major who never studied finance, accounting, or economics. But the key reason I kept getting promoted was because I could communicate clearly, be the devil\u2019s advocate, ask the difficult questions, and relate to other people\u2019s points of view\u2014skills I\u2019d been able to cultivate and practice on this campus every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Lindsey\u2019s address, Suzanne Smith Whitmore \u201960, chair of Hollins\u2019 Board of Trustees, awarded her with the degree of doctor of laws <em>honoris causa<\/em> in recognition of her more than twenty-five years of success in global communications, service as a Hollins trustee and a member of the Alumnae Association Board, and extensive volunteer work.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the <a title=\"Hollins Commencement 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/hollinsvideo#p\/u\/10\/mA75qADMkMs\" target=\"_blank\">Hollinsvideo channel<\/a> on YouTube to watch Trower\u2019s commencement address.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Est\u00e9e Lauder executive Alexandra Trower Lindsey \u201986 told this year\u2019s graduates, \u201cYou will be fine. More than that: You will be great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in_the_loop","tag-summer-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}