{"id":124985,"date":"2019-05-31T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=124985"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:44:13","slug":"video-franky-urueta-bates-baccalaureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/31\/video-franky-urueta-bates-baccalaureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Franky Urueta, famous for fist bumps and kind words, delivers 2019 Baccalaureate Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the graduating class at Bates elects a member of the faculty or staff to speak at Baccalaureate, held the day before graduation.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s speaker was Francisco &#8220;Franky&#8221; Urueta, a member of the college&#8217;s Facility Services staff.<\/p>\n<p>Well-known at Bates, Urueta is a custodian who works the late-evening shift in one of Bates&#8217; busiest academic buildings, Pettengill Hall, where he always makes time to greet students with a kind word and his signature fist bumps.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Video by Theophil Syslo<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Look for Good in Others&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXKBN1fXaOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Multifaith Chaplain Brittany Longsdorf said in her introduction at Baccalaureate, Urueta is &#8220;living proof that the smallest kind gesture can transform someone&#8217;s day, someone&#8217;s entire college experience, and someone&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An Apache Native American, Urueta used his address to talk about his path from California to Maine, and he urged the seniors &#8220;to give positive energy to people&#8221; so that &#8220;they give you positive energy back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Baccalaureate Address by Franky Urueta on May 25, 2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2019 Baccalaureate Address: Franky Urueta\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBKRklT-1ak?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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