Commencement

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...and with that, I'd like to introduce our next commencement speaker, our "Dean of Defense" Bud Foster.

/applause
//Foster walks up to the podium
///more applause

Good evening.

/taps microphone, feedback
//adjusts microphone

I'm prouder than a peacock to be here this evening to speak to you all. It'll be short and sweet. Your college careers are over, and your lives as professionals are about to begin. It's a little bit easier out there today, beyond these nurturing and comforting walls of Hokie Stone, but make no mistake the real world can get after you. Shake the molasses out of your britches, put that degree to work, take it one step at a time, don't over commit, and you'll beat the bear.

Congratulations to you, the class of two thousand and eleven!

/applause