Marjorie Wagner talks about leadership being a shared responsibility of both men and women, support for public education, the unending resource in our people, the graduating class representing the leaders of the future, the question of leadership, the importance of a higher education and stressed the characteristic of authenticity, and not ignoring the majority of the population - the female population. Karen Cedzo said Dr. Wagner was the first female since 1956 to address a University of Alaska Fairbanks graduating class. Emily Ivanoff Brown and Claire Fejes received honorary doctorates.
