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‘The world needs you to be bold’

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12 May 2025
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I have had the privilege to work in WashU’s Marketing & Communications office for almost 18 years now, a job that is amazing beyond words. The place is filled with stories, and I’ve told a few over the years. This one though, might be the G.O.A.T. On May 12, 2025, Olympic champion Simone Biles, the real Greatest of All Time, stood tall and delivered the Commencement address to the Class of 2025: https://source.washu.edu/2025/05/the-world-needs-you-to-be-bold/

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Leslie Gibson McCarthy has 30-plus-years in journalism, communications and higher education, in a career that has taken her everywhere from the press room of the White House to the locker room of the St. Louis Cardinals; from a cornfield movie set in Iowa to the mountains of the Canadian Rockies. Her best stories are yet to come.

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In the late 1980s, I began my journalism career in Evanston, Ill., pounding out newspaper stories on a typewriter. Now I write, edit, blog, pitch and post. But in all my years as a journalist, I’ve learned that even though the methods and mediums of storytelling have changed, the basics haven’t: A few good words and a whole lot of heart. Thanks for stopping by.