Alvarez Encourages '08 Grads to 'Find Their True Pattern'

	President Fogel told graduates at UVM's 204th commencement ceremony: "It is now your time to build the life you have imagined, to go out into the world and make it a better place." (Photo: Sally McCay)

Celebrated novelist, poet and writer-in-residence at Middlebury College Julia Alvarez began her address to the Class of 2008 at UVM commencement activities on May 18 with a prayer. The prayer — borrowed from Mayan weavers — is one she recites every day of her writing life: "Grant me the intelligence and patience to find the true pattern."

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At the Speed of Green The bleachers at the New Hampshire International Speedway stood as empty as a Roman ruin. The UVM team sat in the infield eating sandwiches and watching a perky red car from McGill University weave deftly around orange cones. Their own sat motionless in a nearby garage. They had nothing left to do but go home.