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shoes, to be just setting out on the Grand Tour that is interior decoration, a discipline and vocation that, beginning with the simplest nucleus of a room, stretches out the tentacles of art into the infinite world of artifacts, traditions, inventions, even industries: in a word creation, creation writ tangibly and large upon all of human history. As Christopher Hyland remarked to the audience during his acceptance of the Honorary Doctorate, "design drives the economy!" Commencement speaker architect Arthur Gensler exhorted graduates to use well whatever fortuitous opportunities life presents, a lesson Gensler learned well on his path to becoming head of the largest international architecture firm in the world. By the end of the ceremony, marked by NYSID President David Sprouls' inspiring observations on his institution and the field, I felt like enrolling at NYSID myself, for a second Grand Tour of that greatest of gis: a superlative education. H HYLAND NYSID prepares students for design excellence and to lead in an industry that promotes commerce, therefore jobs, as well as aesthetic well-being— Christopher Hyland