Here’s something you don’t see often: three valedictorians at one college.
Morehouse College held its 132nd commencement in Atlanta on May 15, with a total of 379 graduates, as well as a historic first: three valedictorians.
Many media have since focused on one of the students being white—in the traditionally black school—and overshadowing the impressive academic achievements of all three valedictorians: a perfect 4.0 grade point average (GPA).
Epoch Times spoke with the three young men and delved into the making of a valedictorian. Here are their stories:
Liam R. Davis
Liam R. Davis, 22, is a native of Nassau, Bahamas, who majored in business administration with a concentration in accounting. For Davis, earning a degree in business administration wasn’t anything new; from his youth he was always entrepreneurial. He recalled the time he sold brownies to classmates—and was very successful.
He brought his entrepreneurial skills to Morehouse, where he was surrounded by upperclassmen with 4.0 GPAs. These examples motivated him to do the same. By his spring semester in 2014, during his junior year, he realized that achieving that GPA was possible. “I wanted to maintain it for my parents and family—make my parents proud,” he said.
And he did.
