<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2015/10/all-star-convocation-speaker-darwin-shaw-recalls-how-famed-exum-kept-him-on-track.php" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>10/31/2015</pubDate><title>All-Star Convocation speaker Darwin Shaw recalls how famed Exum kept him on track</title><author/><summary/><image><img src="https://kysu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/FullSizeRender3.jpg" alt="All-Star Convocation speaker Darwin Shaw recalls how famed Exum kept him on track"/></image><caption/><description>If you were to look up the word hardship in the dictionary several years ago, there might have been a reference to Darwin F. Shaw’s life. At 7, his childhood home burned down. At 9, his mother died and Shaw grew up without father, so it’s not hard to believe that triumph wasn’t following too far behind him. “I could have given up on life when my mother died …  Didn’t have a father figure in my household, but my drive comes fro...</description></item>