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TSU grads hear former UN ambassador A former Ambassador to the United Nations told Troy University graduates recently that having a positive outlook and adapting in the face of adversity are the keys to success. The speaker, Sichan Siv, served as the 28th ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. But Siv spent his early years in his native Cambodia, where he was confined to forced labor camps by the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in 1975. Siv said one of the keys to his salvation during those dark days was remembering the advice of his mother. "My mother told me 'Never give up, no matter what happens,'" Siv said, speaking to almost 500 graduates at Sartain Hall on the Troy Campus. Clarke Countians receiving bachelor degrees were:
Amy Christine Baugh, Grove Hill; Kristin Elizabeth Strickland (Magna Cum Laude), Jackson; and James Wilbur McLean, Thomasville.
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