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Before Your September Cohort Meeting

Complete Eulogy First Draft (bring to meeting)
Eulogy Creation Tool

Complete Pre-Reading
Read and annotate pp. 22-26 in your Sycamore Manual
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Before Your October Cohort Meeting

Read and reflect

• Read Matthew 20:20–28, Luke 10:17–24, and Acts 8:9–25.
• Read and annotate the October Pre-Reading on pages 33–37.
• Revise your master eulogy based on your notes on page 28.

Watch and take notes

Choose and watch at least two of the following commencement speeches, taking notes as you go:

• Steve Jobs – 2005, Stanford University
• David Foster Wallace – 2005, Kenyon College
• Chadwick Boseman – 2018, Howard University
• J.K. Rowling – 2008, Harvard University
• Conan O’Brien – 2011, Dartmouth College
• Roger Federer – 2024, Dartmouth College

View the written transcripts for all six speeches

OPTIONAL RECOMMENDED READING

These titles are also listed in the “Next Up” section on page 30:

• Henry Cloud, Boundaries for Leaders
• Miroslav Volf, The Cost of Ambition
• Marilyn Gist, The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility

SAVE THE DATES

Full details are available in your Sycamore Manual.

• December 8, 6:00–9:45 p.m. – Christmas Dinner with Spouses
• February 9, 6:00–9:45 p.m. – Guest Dinner with Friends You Invite
• May 4, 6:00–9:45 p.m. – All-Sycamore Testimony Dinner