Voghens Larrieux
  • Business Management
  • Class of 2017
  • New London, CT

Voghens Larrieux earns degree from Coastal Carolina University

2016 May 9

Voghens Larrieux, of New London, CT, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in management during commencement exercises May 6 and 7, 2016, at Coastal Carolina University.

Larrieux was among 1,100 candidates for graduation at CCU's commencement ceremonies at the University's HTC Center. Grand Strand businessman and civic leader Dennis L. Wade was the speaker for the event.

Wade, president and CEO of the Jackson Companies, a family-owned Myrtle Beach recreational and real estate firm, encouraged the graduates to cultivate good attitudes, to pursue their personal passions, to embrace change, to set high standards, to have empathy for others, and to maintain a healthy balance between work and family life.

"When it comes to your family, the phrase 'I don't have time' is not an excuse. Make time or you'll regret it?. The standards to which you hold yourself are your choice and your choice alone. Only you can measure your success and happiness and no one else. Don't compare your success and happiness with others. That's a waste of time. Focus all your efforts on reaching your own success and you will find that failure is not an option."

Wade closed his remarks with a quote by evangelist John Wesley: "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."