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THE GRADUATION CEREMONY at WaldenUniversity is a moving experience. It is not atall unusual to hear some child cry out, “Wayto go grandma!”At one such ceremony, Lovely Thorton, ablack woman married to an Air Force Chaplinin Germany, was selected to give the commencementaddress. She had earned the rightby having the best Ph.D. dissertation that year.A hush fell over the crowd as LovelyThorton approached the podium.She began with a poem.No child, ain’t no time for school or play,Got to pick some cotton today.No child, ain’t no time for school or play,Got to pick some peas today.As Lovely Thorton told the story of herrise from being the daughter of a sharecropperin Louisiana, Bernie and Rita Turner’shearts swelled with pride. It was for just thismoment that they had built Walden University.Each graduate was a pebble cast in the vastpond of society, creating ripples of positivesocietal change.MOST BOOKS OF THIS NATURE are either autobiographicalor biographical. This book is ahybrid. The author and the subjects both havea speaking voice.Bernie and Rita Turner are highly accomplishedindividuals. Before joining forces to buildWalden they were each standout individuals intheir professions. Once they joined forces thedynamic was unstoppable. There were actuallytwo points at which that dynamic joining tookplace. The first was the spring evening in 1954when they first met. Ordinary couples meet andsparks fly. In the case of Bernie and Rita it was afull-scale lightning storm, the intensity of whichonly time can abate. The second dynamic joiningoccurred in 1970 when Bernie proposed WaldenUniversity. Their fateful drive down the TamiamiTrail to the Cove Inn is the stuff of legends.Now I invite you to delve into one of the mostamazing stories of true Americana. Considertwo caricatures of the noble, idealisticdreamer and the hardnosed, unrelenting businessentrepreneur. One can see terrible wrongsin society and strive for social justice. The othercan see unmet economic needs and, oftenagainst bitter obstacles, create solutions andmake a profit. What happens when the two meshto form one dream and one enterprise? This bookis the answer.—Wade Keller
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