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August 27, 2003 was the day that convocation was supposed to get everyone pumped and inspired for the beginning of the school year. To me the convocation was another assembly. It was held in the Thomas Field House Gymnasium, and almost all of the space was filled. Going into this assembly my expectations were high. I sort of imagined it as a pep rally or graduation speech, where it would get us ready for the first semester. In the convocation there was a speaker that went by the name Dr. Guin “Guy” Bluford. Dr. Guin “ Guy” Bluford was selected in the first class of space shuttle astronauts in 1978, and was the first Africans American to fly in space in 1983 aboard the space shuttle challenger.
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