![Black and white photograph of Ernest L. Boyer receiving an honorary degree from Fordham University. - BCA](https://blogs.messiah.edu/boyerarchives/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/01/1000-0002-3015.jpg)
Black and white photograph of Ernest L. Boyer receiving an honorary degree from Fordham University. – BCA
Last week’s Photo Friday showcased Ernie Boyer’s many, many honorary degrees — and the decorative quilt creatively constructed from them!
This week’s post zeroes in on one of those honorary degrees — a doctorate conferred by Fordham University in New York City in 1973 — and the speech Boyer gave at its acceptance.