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Commencement speech from New York Times reporter to air Tuesday on C-SPAN2

By Lisa Gulya '07
July 5, 2005

"The Secrets of Your Success," the May 29 commencement address by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Gretchen Morgenson '76, will be re-broadcast on C-SPAN2 on Tuesday, July 5 at 8:45 p.m. (EST), or 7:45 p.m. (CST).

"The world is ferociously indifferent to the drums of almost every young person's destiny when they first set out," Morgenson told St. Olaf students, quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. "It's your job to grab the world's attention, to force it to see you as the contender you are. I am here as living proof that you can make the world, or some part of it, stop and listen to the drums of your destiny."

Morgenson, who covers Wall Street for The New York Times, received the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for her "trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage" throughout 2001. A former Forbes investigative business writer and editor, Morgenson also has received the American University School of Communication Journalism Award for excellence in personal finance reporting and was a member of The New York Times team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for deadline/beat reporting in 1998.

American Perspectives is a weekly show featuring national speeches of political and cultural interest.

Contact Carole Engblom at 507-786-3271 or leigh@stolaf.edu.