For Skip Hebert ’72 and his wife, Katherine, higher education is an inseparable part of their family heritage. “Education is very important in both of our families,” explains Hebert. “Both my grandparents and my wife’s grandparents created trust funds for each of their grandchildren’s college education as they were born,” he adds, recognizing what a significant gift that was. That’s why the Heberts have made a $10,000 pledge to Bryant’s Partners in Scholarship Fund, in support of Expanding the World of Opportunity: The Campaign for Bryant’s Bold Future. Increasing access to a Bryant education through student scholarships is one of the pillars of the campaign.
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Bryant University commencement speaker urges students to develop their ‘emotional quotient’
SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Reaching past the standard maxims that are a fixture of so many graduations, prominent banker Richard W. Fisher quoted his mother Saturday at Bryant University’s 151st commencement, during which 754 undergraduates received their degrees:
“Never let your brains go to your head,” is what Magnhild Andersen Fisher told her children, Fisher said.
Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets national monetary policy, spoke of “the exquisite pearls of wisdom” his mother bestowed on him and his brother, Michael E. Fisher, a 1967 Bryant graduate and outgoing chairman of the school’s board of trustees.