Morehouse College’s valedictorian for the 2013 class, Betegesaw Tadele, is a native of Ethiopia and graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.99. A computer science major with a minor in mathematics, he won all of the departmental awards in every math class that he took. He also won the Computer Science Leadership and Scholarship award. He is member of Phi Beta Kappa, Morehouse Honors Program and The International Students Organization.
He served the college with distinction as president and vice president of the Computer Science Club. After graduation he is headed to Seattle to pursue a career at Microsoft Corporation as a software engineer.
“Today as graduating seniors we came into this place, again marching in together brother to brother but this time to leave to go our separate ways to blaze new trails, to ford new streams, to chisel new stones into masterpieces that will leave the place better than we found them…
To live lives that are not for our own glorification but of are a service to others. For we are world changers because we do not hesitate to recognize that though the world has come along way, we still dare to imagine a better world.
We will remember this day because they made it possible for us to excel in arenas that we never thought was possible before.
We can never forget on this day, we the men of the 2013 graduating class of Morehouse College were privileged and honored to hear words of indescribable inspiration from one who demonstrates everyday that there is no impossible, there is no unbelievable, there is no unachievable if you have the audacity to hope! Words lived out every day by President Barack Obama.” – Betegesaw Tadele
