<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/commencement/commencement-archive/commencement-2018/remarks-citations-2018/remarks-by-williamson-medalist-caroline-lawrence.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>05/12/2018</pubDate><title>Remarks by Williamson Medalist Caroline Lawrence</title><description>It is natural, on a morning like this, to reflect on our beginnings. One of my earliest memories from my first year at Franklin &amp; Marshall is of passing the bookstore coffee shop, which at this point was still unfamiliar and on its first of many different names, and feeling distinctly undeserving and overwhelmed. Why had this experience been given to me, as opposed to somebody else? Why had so many factors converged to situate me here in Lancaster, passing by Stager Hall on my way to my Connections seminar, rather than at some other college?</description><author/><image><img src="/uploads/files/342529921800633241-comm-caroline-lawrence-by-ef.456.0.1195.1195.full.jpg" alt="Caroline Lawrence"/></image><image-caption/></item>