
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, May 22, 1995                   TAG: 9505220084
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

UVA GRADUATES IMPLORED TO 'SAVE THE WORLD'

William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, begged the graduating class of the University of Virginia to save the world, which he said is becoming ``a mean, distrustful and very dangerous society.''

``I simply cannot pass up the opportunity to try to impress upon you, who will shortly be our leaders and policy-makers, the importance of deciding here and now to do your bit - and more - to make the world a little better, a little safer, a little more civil for all of us,'' Raspberry said to the 4,345 graduates in Charlottesville.

The only path to a safer world is passion tempered with humility, Raspberry said.

At Sweet Briar College, Katherine U. Takvorian addressed the 109 graduates. Takvorian, an alumna, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts medical school and associate chief of rheumatology at the Medical Center of Central Massachusetts.

She told the graduates they should lead ``real lives,'' defining success on their own terms.

by CNB