This is one of President Obama’s great orations to African-American and all young graduates of college in 2013. He is speaking at my alma mater, Morehouse College on May 20, 2013.
Earl Ernest Guile is the author of Antarctic Collapse (a novel about climate change), Secrets to a Richer Life (illuminating interviews with citizens from five continents) and Secrets from the Cradle to College Admission at MIT and the Ivy League (a parent student guide to college admissions). Born in Florence, S.C., he grew up during the civil rights struggle and successfully protested the segregation of the Florence Public Library. He is a former university professor who studied at Morehouse College, Bowdoin College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Berkeley, and at Harvard University with degrees in biology, dental medicine and public health epidemiology. He has pursued cell biology research at Oak Ridge National Laboratories and at the University of Helsinki. He later took the risk to pursue work in the Third World, first in Cameroon and subsequently in Hong Kong, Suriname, and Saudi Arabia. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health. The writer has a fervent belief that advances in science, technology, and universal educational access should be focused like a laser beam to eliminate world poverty, disease, and ignorance, as well as, solve critical problems of energy, clean water, food production, nutrition, and environmental stewardship. He has two sons, practices Tai Chi, has traveled to over 62 countries, and presently resides with his wife in Portland, Oregon.
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