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Viola Davis Addresses the Students at Her Alma Mater, Which is Going Through Hard Times
Viola Davis addressed graduating seniors Thursday at the high school in the struggling Rhode Island city where she grew up, urging them to treasure “hard times and joyous moments” and telling them that the “privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
The Oscar-nominated actress from the film “The Help” spoke toCentral Falls High School’s class of 2012, student actors and members of student government and other alumni nearly 30 years after receiving her own diploma there. She was also inducted into the school’s Alumni Hall of Fame.
A member of the class of 1983, Davis has continued to support the 1.3-square-mile city of 19,000 just north of Providence.
Central Falls has found itself the subject of national headlines over its floundering finances — a state receiver filed for bankruptcy on its behalf last year — and for the mass firing in 2010 of all the high school’s teachers. They were later rehired.
