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>> Today Amelia Earhart's great connection
to our University becomes memorialized in a personal way.
We're here to dedicate a bronze statue in her likeness in front
of the residence hall that bears her name.
Most people know Amelia Earhart as the famous aviatrix.
At Purdue, we were privileged to know her as a counselor,
a mentor, and a friend.
From 1935 through 1937, she was employed by Purdue
as both a technical advisor to the Department of Aeronautics
and as a career consultant to women.
She and Purdue were truly ahead of the times.
She inspired young women of her time.
>> She remains an inspiration for me and my friends today.
I am now applying to medical school to pursue my dream
of becoming a physician.
Had it not been for leaders, like Amelia Earhart and others
like Susan Butler and President Cordova
my future would not have been charted by my dreams,
but by the fact that I am a woman.
The doors to most careers would have been closed to me.
I am grateful to Amelia Earhart
that today, I am living my dream.
>> Well, we do need to bring Amelia home
and to hear her stories about what she did and to --
I mean, my hat goes off to President Elliot for thinking
about the few women that were here and the importance
of them having a mentor and a role model.
She had a room there were she stayed,
and she would do lectures and talk to them about things
about they could be all they could be,
to aspire to do great things, to make things happen
for themselves rather than let things happen to them.
That's my motto.
Make things happen for you rather
than let things happen to you.
She did that for them.