Dean Sharpe addresses the Class of 2017

May 24, 2017

Dean Norean R. Sharpe addressed the more than 200 graduates who assembled for The Peter J. Tobin College of Business Queens Graduate Commencement Exercises on May 18.

The ceremony's speaker and the recipient of the degree of Doctor of Commercial Science was William J. Janetschek, Jr. ’84CBA, member and chief financial officer of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P., and a member of the St. John's University Board of Trustees.

The entire ceremony can be viewed here. Dean Sharpe's address starts at 43:45.

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