Biography | Jim Farley — Back on the Holy Lawn as Commencement Speaker
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Biography | Jim Farley — Back on the Holy Lawn as Commencement Speaker
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People treat an alma-mater speech as decoration on a finished career.
On 25 May 2025 Farley stood on the Holy Lawn at Portsmouth Abbey and addressed the Class of 2025.
The school had named him weeks earlier as commencement speaker and as a graduate of 1981.
Coverage in East Bay RI and the Newport Daily News recorded the faculty and seniors coming down from the Church of St. Gregory the Great onto the lawn.
He handed each graduate a Bronco cap after the diplomas.
The campus is the same 525-acre Benedictine ground where he boarded four decades earlier.
The public moment and the student years share an address and not a story.
This pin is the return.
By then he had been Ford's president and chief executive since 1 October 2020.
The speech asked the class to face themselves before trying to know themselves.
The church and lawn remain the parts a visitor can enter without crossing into dormitories or the monastery enclosure.
A stop here is a school ceremony ground, not a house.
Photo: Portsmouth Abbey Church, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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