will be teachers that will educate the next generation of san franciscans i see the men in uniform including the excessively you'll keep the city safe we have leaders from the business and nonprofit community and among you will be future leaders of the same organizations and at some point mayor ed lee and i are going to be out of a job is he the braefgs will move on so on behalf of the board of supervisors i want to say anyhow men and womenly proud i am and our elected officials you're our future hope san francisco rests on your shoulders we look forward to seeing i succeed have a wonderful, wonderful wonderful graduation. congratulation

(clapping.) i told you the city folks are next supervisor from my district supervisor malia cowen clb. good morning, everyone how are you and congratulations to the graduates i want to thank all the parent and grandparents and siblings that are here to congratulating doubt celebrate it's a pleasure to be here and close the middle stone chapter in your life i'm supervisor malia cowen i was elected to represent the southeast part of san francisco like health department and indicating trespasser hill i think my most

significant produce i'm a graduate from lakeshore and the local high school it's not two along these i was sitting in our seats with anticipation of what lies ahead i'm going to say hourlong i love graduations it's a light of celebration for families to get together and to celebrate the hard work you've demonstrated over the last several years. it's for some graduation is starts the lives of the working folk maybe 2 or 4, 6, 78, 8 of more education and schooling for you that's a special day to take a moment to reflect and thank the friends and families and

mentor and coaches everyone tha that thas has brought to this point and assisted you in 4th of july what i want to do in our life so if you haven't had a moment to recognition our aunt and uncles and family members we have to put our hands together for all the family members that made this possible. and tomorrow is interesting tomorrow you'll begin to face we rae life decisions are going to have real life consequences b think about that before you possess that post that convertible photo because here you'll have to present yours for the opportunity coming your way and some will be easy to identify and others not so much.

some opportunities will come from people you know and some from complete strangers the key is to be able to see a solution to a problem before everyone else does it means being prepared and being in the right place. but the tricky thing no opportunities is going to come but if you sit passively by so be retina ready for the next opportunity be prepared and thoughtful and engaged because in the end we need you, your city needs you. and if the vision of our future is to leave an unassuming life or not contribute to our community be a great dad or work for local government or small business passion and will

persistence live your life with passion and with purpose so no matter what you choose or no matter or no matter what you grew up to become you're a younger generation it is looking at up to you and lift them up out of the subsequence. think about all the important people we've got judging luke and nancy pelosi and others those are really a fine example of unregistering leaders i want to close by saying congratulations on your continued success and offer a word of encouragement that as san francisco continues to grow

this change can only happen a that with you and it accepts and recognized that san francisco is a exemplifies and incorporating body do not building the hype when people say that san francisco is pushing you out this has room for everyone in this audience and remember you are able to rise above all the circumstances >> thank you. i admire you and god bless (clapping). >> you know, in my former life not that i'm gone but for years i was working for the school district i was a teacher and an administrator i taught at the ab

it's today know where that is, i taught at the making take care, i taught at katrero middle school it is now i s a and the principle as jane lick so the best thing for me was to graduate number one it's important to see people graduate i include the young people came from there recent certain plays there's sorta stricken ma attached if you say the names of the neighborhood oh, no there ain't no way that's why it's so fitting to celebrate the young people who have come out of people that thought people couldn't make it from people

that live in human being u public housing we highlighted them on the radio show sunday night and got to hear they're great stories. i'm going to introduce a couple of student speakers that represent the group first is marcus. he lives in the alderman property and a graduate of city arts and will be going to cosmo technical in case in susan vail >> all that education count. >> (clapping) >> hello, i titled my speak any beautiful struggle since day one i've been blessed with the gift of life i was born in 1975 into

a protecting householder i gthd if nicaragua at the age of 2 seeking a better life my experience i replacement the first die mom and i move forward to alaghany while i was out busing i didn't tricking treating someone was breaking into my home searching into bags breaking through our bathroom and leaving clothes around our living room i hadn't experienced this this is a new sanctioning no place like home i spent a lot of sleepless nights when i

moved. the noise was arguable it resembled the domino effect it caused me to perform poorly in school beginning high school i believed half of the things were not even worth paying attention because it didn't apply for real life i was mistaken. i wanted to become an artist in the future and school taught me not only 0 how to put together a portal i started focusing in my school in my senior year because reality i was off to college with full responsibility left up to me and professors won't have the same amount of time like

high school from waking myself up to managing my time wisely i was focused to determine that any senior year to get accepted two at least two colleges and graduate high school. staying after school working on college applications and constantly bugging my teachers for help paid off in the end. i'm proud to mention i was accepted to the california college of the arts and cal poly. i'll be walking across the stage this saturday for my hard work my next step is to start off the beginning of a new chapter in my life i want to end by saying you've got to keep our head up if i can make a come back anyone in this room can 0 do this no

matter the situation you've got to keep our head up. thank you, mayor and barbara thank you for the opportunity and audience for your undifferent attention i now understand the power of education (clapping) >> our next speaker a angela martinez she lives in class e as a graduate she'll be attending where is angela she'll be tending ucla yeah. (clapping). >> good morning, everyone. thank you, everybody for being here and celebrating the class of 2014 our success.

to begin i'm originally in los angeles i was born over there when i was about 2 my mother and i moved to the bay area and would go in the s r o in the hotels in the tenderloin we 3w0u7bd around and then a couple of years leader we get evicted from our home due to financial strunlz. thankfully the san francisco housing authority gave us a place and our first apartment and home in katrero hill. having a stable home meant one last thing to worry about. i loved walking to school i want went to staggering it was close i walked to school a and had

friends in my community and enjoyed living there. i was in school like every other student elementary the only difference was at home, i held many responsibilities. i helped my mom what with cooking and cleaning and getting any siblings ready for school and picking up them up sometimes. once i hit high school i saw the world different i went to school for associate justice it meant they taught me concepts like opposition and librarytion those are things other schools that won't have taught me i started questioning religion to the way that people served food at the parts women are unusual first in

high school i looked at college it wasn't a topic to discuss when you younger because we never really it was just nothing we really talked about we just want went to school i don't know what the a through g you requirement i did not know why they were important. throughout any high school experience there were many people dropping out my switching schools and people dying because the violation in the neighborhood. although those things are going on around me i didn't give up i didn't have much academic support because that my mom didn't know how to help me. but thankful will i i learned how to reach out i took every

opportunity given to me and now 12 years later - >> (clapping) >> i'd be able to overcome obstacles and challenges and become a role model for my 3 siblings i'm also one less statistic and in the fall i mean, i'll be tending ucla (clapping.) thank you. >> wow.

well, that was really what it is all about but you're the star. because you did that. you did it thank you very much thank you very much. we have i believe the presentation of the certificates by superintendant guadalupe gerrero >> just him (clapping) okay. >> good morning, everyone as depth superintendant i'm filed with pride anytime we get to recognize our students and today, we get to recognize and celebrate our graduates congratulations on meeting this millstone on behalf of our superintendant our befgs and

sandy draw fewer and commissioner mendosa mcdonald will help me to hand out certificates you've shown not only hard work and dedication i've heard a couple of examples but shown incredible persistence and many counterparts are calling grit you've living and relied on it you'll needing need to continue to rely on it as. >> pursue our next steps i too want to thank families and friends who have supported you yourself our students are going to rely open you, you're not stopping here marcus is correct your future is bright do not give up that sense of hope and obama open tim frye we have as

prirsz for you so we're so absolutely proud to recognize you here today (clapping) i'd like to start by calling up angela martinez (clapping) marcus (clapping) marcus i wanted to get the last name correct. esmeralda rodriguez

(clapping) delay roses (clapping) next please come up

(clapping) june may chin (clapping) and our last graduate james please come up

(clapping.) congratulations >> all right. congratulations to our graduates. (clapping.) see everybody is happy everyone's happy the parents and the chief he didn't have to worry about you everyone is happy i tell young people when

you are willing to do right people are willing to help you and your oversewed this right here we have a representative i believe from dianne feinstein's office to present a letter to you (clapping). >> hello. thank you for inviting us the senator expresses her sympathy for not coming. dear graduates it's with great privilege i i did not think mayor ed lee as well as our families and friends today it honors our academic achievements and community members the opportunity to celebrate those accomplishments you've distinguished you yourself with the goals achieved.

at the united states senator representing the people of california congratulations for best wishes and success in the years to medical cannabis. congratulations again and thank you for having us i have this for ms. smith. congratulations thank you (clapping) >> scott is scott adams here from coming cast you didn't come for me my bill is paid. >> thank you so much. wow. what on amazing event i was going to read some prepared remarks but i've been inspired and moved by your stories and accomplishments and really on behavior of coming cast we congratulate you, you you know

the previous speakers talked about in you've stepped over a major hurdle in life and need to take time to reflect how important that is you've had our struggler and use what you've learned here the blue print for the future phases and remember what it feels like to accomplish and to challenge those. you know, our company the mayor said it takes a village and our companies has been incredibly honored to be part of this village and the community of san francisco and just as many of the speakers said we have to do our part we'll continue to do that on behalf of you and your families and the residents of this city to invest in community groups around education and diversity and economic development so there coming cast or cable in the classroom

partners implementing our interject essential the most expensive and home affordable computer and training. the technology and skills training is so important and no where in san francisco i know here the center the technical world it's that important so again on behalf of coming cast congratulations and thank our family we're honored to be in your presence and rooting for you and looking forward to you being out in the workforce congratulations (clapping.) okay. we've just about reached the conclusion we have when it is over we have a resource fair back there and maybe more

importantly we have refreshments over there. but she's not going to like me doing that don't say nothing to put those things on there's a lot of people behind the scenes that are is engine christen and the mayor's office of neighborhood services christen she probably wants to acknowledge all the other people see i told you. thank you, dr. marshall and congratulations to the graduates yes wanted to say thank you to the extraordinarily partners all the city dwp's departments and community associations or organizations and dpw and h s a europe and oewd office of economic workforce development the former department i came

from david and randy thank you, thank you. it's just been oh, dpw and depth of environment it's been a great experience to put on this event this is any second year to cooperate that thank you for the community support to show the graduates how much we care about their success again, thank you enjoy all the retirement thank you supervisor cowen and supervisor chiu and a dr. marshall huge shout out to both of you for the great work and hydra mendez and thank you, thank you everyone for all the great support. have a great event (clapping) >> okay. it's over you can run and jump in line.

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