05/11/2019President Barbara Altmann and the entire F&M community, thank you for this incredible honor. It is wonderful to be back at my first home in America. If you had asked me when I was a little girl growing up in Ethiopia whether I would be standing here in front of you today as your commencement speaker, I would have said , 'Yeah right.' Lam Alegn Be Semay, Wetetuanim Alay, which translates to, I have a cow in the sky, but cannot drink her milk.Staff