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Post by hchoops on Feb 18, 2019 10:41:46 GMT -5
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 18, 2019 11:10:16 GMT -5
"Holy Cross College"
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Post by hc87 on Feb 25, 2019 10:55:24 GMT -5
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Post by matunuck on Mar 1, 2019 17:09:04 GMT -5
Been quite a while since HC had a high-profile commencement speaker.
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Post by sader1970 on Mar 1, 2019 20:46:04 GMT -5
Hey, TR at Holy Cross is old news, hoops! Literally. We call it "history."  BTW, when I attended, I never called it the "College of the Holy Cross" - it was Holy Cross College. Or just Holy Cross. Yeah, I know what the official name was/is. |
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Post by sader1970 on Mar 1, 2019 20:52:54 GMT -5
You bring up a good point, mat. Holy Cross seems to go out of its way to get people hardly anyone has ever heard of but who have led exemplary lives. I wonder if this is a factor in the decline of our reputation? During commencement season, you will often get at least a short blurb about one school or another when someone of great fame speaks. Our speakers are literally talking to the wind in Fitton or, more recently, the PA system at the DCU.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 1, 2019 21:01:15 GMT -5
With high profile commencement speakers, there is a need for high profile security. Maybe one of the reason to keep commencement at the DCU center instead of Fitton Field. Also ADA compliance,is another reason, as elderly parents and grandparents find Fitton a difficult venue on graduation day.
Does anyone remember the commencement with W. Wilson Goode, who was mayor of Philadelphia?
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TR at HC
Mar 1, 2019 22:11:47 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 1, 2019 22:11:47 GMT -5
Listen—-my class had Mabel Lang as our commencement speaker so it’s hard for me to feel sympathy for other classes and their suboptimal speakers.....
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 1, 2019 22:48:34 GMT -5
With high profile commencement speakers, there is a need for high profile security. Maybe one of the reason to keep commencement at the DCU center instead of Fitton Field. Also ADA compliance,is another reason, as elderly parents and grandparents find Fitton a difficult venue on graduation day. Does anyone remember the commencement with W. Wilson Goode, who was mayor of Philadelphia? I do! I do! It was my commencement. Goode was only an honorary degree recipient, though. Speaker was Paul Nitze - at the time arms negotiator for President Reagan The week or so before commencement Goode, then mayor of Philadelphia authorized the use of an incendiary "bomb" on a row house where a radical group was holed up. The bomb worked and took out the house, but it also burned down an entire city block and 10 people or so died. Remember a pacifict group was there protesting Nitze and had a banner made that said "Don't Build Bombs!" and they were holding it at the top of the stands at Fitton. They apparently had that sign made well in advance and when they realized that Goode would be there too, they hastily added in a ^ between the word Build & Bomb so the revised sign read Don't Build (or Drop) Bombs. Far more memorable than anything Nitze said that day! . |
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Post by sader1970 on Mar 1, 2019 23:03:18 GMT -5
Outgoing HC president, Raymond Swords, S.J. '38 was ours in 1970. Outstanding. Look it up in Fr. K's book. 1998 speaker was Maria Shriver, still married to Arnold at the time. Spoke a lot about her family connections to Holy Cross (brother is HC alum and parents were honorary alums as I recall, she being a Georgetown grad I believe). She turned her speech into a mini-book.
Mostly our commencement speakers have been invisible. TR, LBJ and the like don't look like they will be coming any time soon. Believe that years ago it was traditional for the governor of Massachusetts be the speaker. We'd prefer to have a missionary back from Africa or the Amazon. Did (Saint) Mother Teresa of Calcutta speak at a commencement? That would have been a "get!" Did we have Fauci one year?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 1, 2019 23:31:07 GMT -5
Three others I saw at HC
1974-- Art Buchwald gave a very funny commencement speech at my brother's graduation. I recall a key line, paraphrasing,: "some people say that I hate President Nixon--that's simply not true: I worship the quicksand he walks on"
1976-- Senator Teddy Kennedy
2009--Senator Bob Casey did a very good job at daughter #1's graduation
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 2, 2019 0:02:24 GMT -5
CHC8485, Can you confirm there was an airplane flying over Fitton Field with a banner reading “please don’t bomb our campus”.
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Post by sader1970 on Mar 2, 2019 0:05:30 GMT -5
Interesting that I cannot immediately find the list of all commencement speakers (will look further tomorrow) but these are the ones that there are apparent links to their commencement speeches: 2018 - Michele Norris, longtime NPR host, founder of The Race Card Project and executive director of The Bridge 2017 - Dr. James J. O’Connell, president and founding physician of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School 2016 - The Honorable Harry K. Thomas, Jr. ’78, the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe 2015 - Bryan A. Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama 2014 - Jon Favreau '03, former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama and co-founder of Fenway Strategies 2013 - Anne Fadiman, acclaimed author, essayist, and teacher 2012 - Paul Farmer, healthcare pioneer 2011 - Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned author 2010 - Mark Shriver ’86, vice president of Save the Children 2009 - Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. ’82, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 2008 - Kevin M. Cahill M.D., renowned humanitarian, president of the Center for International Health and Cooperation, and university professor at Fordham University 2007 - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States 2006 - Bob Wright '65, chairman and CEO of NBC Universal, and vice chairman and executive officer of the General Electric Company 2005 - Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of NBC's Meet The Press 2003 - Chris Matthews '67, host of NBC's The Chris Matthews Show and MSNBC's Hardball 2002 - Billy Collins '63, U.S. Poet Laureate 2000 - G. Timothy Johnson, M.D., medical editor, ABC News 1989 - Bryant Gumbel, host, NBC's "The Today Show" 1987 - Senator Bill Bradley, New Jersey 1984 - Governor Mario M. Cuomo, New York 1977 - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts View some of Holy Cross' past honorary degree recipients. www.holycross.edu/commencement/commencement-archives |
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Post by Crucis#1 on Mar 2, 2019 0:13:38 GMT -5
Mother Teresa received an honorary degree in 1976, however she was not the commencement speaker.
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 2, 2019 7:51:28 GMT -5
CHC8485, Can you confirm there was an airplane flying over Fitton Field with a banner reading “please don’t bomb our campus”. I do not recall that at all. |
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Post by matunuck on Mar 2, 2019 8:26:40 GMT -5
Politics aside, always wondered whether we tried to land Obama or Biden when they were in office. Favreau was the Obama connection and Biden’s brother-in-law is an alum. Many years back, the school had an opportunity to possibly land McCain but there wasn’t much interest to pursue.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 2, 2019 8:35:18 GMT -5
Outgoing HC president, Raymond Swords, S.J. '38 was ours in 1970. Outstanding. Look it up in Fr. K's book. 1998 speaker was Maria Shriver, still married to Arnold at the time. Spoke a lot about her family connections to Holy Cross (brother is HC alum and parents were honorary alums as I recall, she being a Georgetown grad I believe). She turned her speech into a mini-book. Mostly our commencement speakers have been invisible. TR, LBJ and the like don't look like they will be coming any time soon. Believe that years ago it was traditional for the governor of Massachusetts be the speaker. We'd prefer to have a missionary back from Africa or the Amazon. Well, in ‘67 we had Gov Volpi of Massachusetts and any missionary would have been far better. Volpi was a joke. |
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Post by Tom on Mar 2, 2019 8:36:37 GMT -5
With high profile commencement speakers, there is a need for high profile security. Maybe one of the reason to keep commencement at the DCU center instead of Fitton Field. Also ADA compliance,is another reason, as elderly parents and grandparents find Fitton a difficult venue on graduation day. Does anyone remember the commencement with W. Wilson Goode, who was mayor of Philadelphia? My year - although he was not the speaker. He got an honorary degree We had some SALT II negotiator. The year before me got NY governor and presidential hopeful Mario Cuomo. The year after me got baseball commissioner Peter Uberroth. He was also fresh off of organizing the most financially successful Olympic games that had ever been. Somehow I thought my year got the short end of the stick |
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Post by hchoops on Mar 2, 2019 8:37:48 GMT -5
Interesting that I cannot immediately find the list of all commencement speakers (will look further tomorrow) but these are the ones that there are apparent links to their commencement speeches: 2018 - Michele Norris, longtime NPR host, founder of The Race Card Project and executive director of The Bridge 2017 - Dr. James J. O’Connell, president and founding physician of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School 2016 - The Honorable Harry K. Thomas, Jr. ’78, the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe 2015 - Bryan A. Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama 2014 - Jon Favreau '03, former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama and co-founder of Fenway Strategies 2013 - Anne Fadiman, acclaimed author, essayist, and teacher 2012 - Paul Farmer, healthcare pioneer 2011 - Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned author 2010 - Mark Shriver ’86, vice president of Save the Children 2009 - Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. ’82, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 2008 - Kevin M. Cahill M.D., renowned humanitarian, president of the Center for International Health and Cooperation, and university professor at Fordham University 2007 - John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States 2006 - Bob Wright '65, chairman and CEO of NBC Universal, and vice chairman and executive officer of the General Electric Company 2005 - Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of NBC's Meet The Press 2003 - Chris Matthews '67, host of NBC's The Chris Matthews Show and MSNBC's Hardball 2002 - Billy Collins '63, U.S. Poet Laureate 2000 - G. Timothy Johnson, M.D., medical editor, ABC News 1989 - Bryant Gumbel, host, NBC's "The Today Show" 1987 - Senator Bill Bradley, New Jersey 1984 - Governor Mario M. Cuomo, New York 1977 - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts View some of Holy Cross' past honorary degree recipients. www.holycross.edu/commencement/commencement-archivesChris M and Bob W were good, Mark S was excellent. One alum who had been at most over 20 years said Mark was the best since his mother. |
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Post by Tom on Mar 2, 2019 8:41:09 GMT -5
Mark's dad got an honorary degree at Mark's graduation in 86 |
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Post by Tom on Mar 2, 2019 8:43:01 GMT -5
CHC8485, Can you confirm there was an airplane flying over Fitton Field with a banner reading “please don’t bomb our campus”. There was a plane with a banner protesting Mayor Goode. I don't remember what it said. |
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