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Post by Crucis#1 on May 21, 2021 11:15:01 GMT -5
Congratulations to Austin, Matt and Kyle in receiving their Holy Cross Degrees this morning.
Welcome as Alum!
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Post by timholycross on May 21, 2021 17:01:47 GMT -5
Who is Kyle, the manager? If so, happy you mentioned him.
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Post by Crucis#1 on May 21, 2021 17:14:52 GMT -5
Kyle Copeland. One of six basketball players who entered HC in 2017. He was injured, an could not play recently, but remained in school to graduate.
The three who did not remain....we all know their names.
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Post by longsuffering on May 21, 2021 18:07:36 GMT -5
Those are the three with two years of free graduate school ahead of them. Let's hope this is the last time the NCAA has to grant an extra year of eligibility across the board, even though it was fair to do so this time.
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Post by hchoops on May 21, 2021 18:07:55 GMT -5
Wasn’t graduation almost always the Friday of Memorial Day weekend ?
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Post by hchoops on May 21, 2021 18:09:14 GMT -5
Those are the three with two years of free graduate school ahead of them. 3 ? Did Kyle go in the portal and have an offer ?
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Post by longsuffering on May 21, 2021 18:16:36 GMT -5
Those are the three with two years of free graduate school ahead of them. 3 ? Did Kyle go in the portal and have an offer ? I meant the three that left and enrolled at Fairfield, Illinois and Lewis Universities. I would be happy for Kyle if he is healed and can use his one or two (medical redshirt?) years of eligibility somewhere as a graduate student. As a college graduate he probably could deal direct without needing the portal if he were to choose to.
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Post by HCFC45 on May 21, 2021 18:25:13 GMT -5
Austin was awarded his degree "in absentia"
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Post by hchoops on May 21, 2021 18:55:35 GMT -5
Austin was awarded his degree "in absentia" Unusual ?
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Post by Crucis#1 on May 21, 2021 19:08:38 GMT -5
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Post by thecrossisback on May 21, 2021 19:12:08 GMT -5
Austin got a degree in studio art according to HC mens basketball instagram.
Matt Faw was Chemistry
Patrick O'Keefe was history.
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Post by Crucis#1 on May 21, 2021 19:16:57 GMT -5
Wasn’t graduation almost always the Friday of Memorial Day weekend ? Yes. Compressed Academic Calendar this year. Also eliminates Cape Week, with its additional exposure for unvaccinated to bring back to Commencement. I prefer Graduation ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Less of a competitive travel issue for parents and relatives regarding hotels and planes. A number of schools begin their summer academic schedule on the Monday before Memorial Day. Probably the reason for a number of today’s honorees being in “absentia”.
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Post by trimster on May 22, 2021 9:22:52 GMT -5
Wasn’t graduation almost always the Friday of Memorial Day weekend ? Yes. Compressed Academic Calendar this year. Also eliminates Cape Week, with its additional exposure for unvaccinated to bring back to Commencement. I prefer Graduation ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Less of a competitive travel issue for parents and relatives regarding hotels and planes. A number of schools begin their summer academic schedule on the Monday before Memorial Day. Probably the reason for a number of today’s honorees being in “absentia”. Might we see the frosh on campus soon. Not sure how these summer sessions work, (I believe there are two), but I remember Ryan Wade’s dad texting about his son heading off to college not long after his high school graduation.
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Post by HCFC45 on May 22, 2021 11:45:48 GMT -5
Yes. Compressed Academic Calendar this year. Also eliminates Cape Week, with its additional exposure for unvaccinated to bring back to Commencement. I prefer Graduation ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Less of a competitive travel issue for parents and relatives regarding hotels and planes. A number of schools begin their summer academic schedule on the Monday before Memorial Day. Probably the reason for a number of today’s honorees being in “absentia”. Might we see the frosh on campus soon. Not sure how these summer sessions work, (I believe there are two), but I remember Ryan Wade’s dad texting about his son heading off to college not long after his high school graduation. Sometime in June....
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Post by sader1970 on May 22, 2021 15:07:09 GMT -5
Well, in 1970 it was a Wednesday, June 10th. Boy, my memory is so far off as I was sure it was a Friday but just looked it the calendar and it was a Wednesday. Of course, the 1969-1970 academic year was even more screwed up than 2020-21.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 23, 2021 0:20:44 GMT -5
I graduated 46 years ago today-May 23, 1975 was a Friday with Memorial Day on the 26th MONDAY
EDIT: corrected the Mem Day date as pointed out by long suffering
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Post by longsuffering on May 23, 2021 2:18:12 GMT -5
I graduated 46 years ago today-May 23, 1975 was a Friday with Memorial Day on the 25th Memorial Sunday?
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Post by HC13 on May 23, 2021 5:37:09 GMT -5
I graduated 46 years ago today-May 23, 1975 was a Friday with Memorial Day on the 25th And it was a brutally hot day - with a no name speaker - people in the stands were dropping like flies.
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Post by WorcesterGray on May 23, 2021 8:29:39 GMT -5
Kyle Copeland. One of six basketball players who entered HC in 2017. He was injured, an could not play recently, but remained in school to graduate. Unlike others who headed elsewhere, Kyle seems to have grasped the fact that Holy Cross was about more than the Princeton Offense. His Linked In page identifies him as the Chief Investment Officer at City Street Strategies, a start-up financial services firm in Boston composed largely of "new alums".
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Post by longsuffering on May 23, 2021 9:45:55 GMT -5
Kyle Copeland. One of six basketball players who entered HC in 2017. He was injured, an could not play recently, but remained in school to graduate. Unlike others who headed elsewhere, Kyle seems to have grasped the fact that Holy Cross was about more than the Princeton Offense. His Linked In page identifies him as the Chief Investment Officer at City Street Strategies, a start-up financial services firm in Boston composed largely of "new alums".
These guys know more than I've forgot.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 23, 2021 11:24:42 GMT -5
Very interesting--I have to wonder how much business such a young group can generate. It's odd that the founder used a photo from high school for his bio shot......
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 23, 2021 11:27:40 GMT -5
I graduated 46 years ago today-May 23, 1975 was a Friday with Memorial Day on the 25th And it was a brutally hot day - with a no name speaker - people in the stands were dropping like flies. Yes-- and in the middle of the prior night one of my idiot classmates lit ion fire the door of a room on Wheeler One, setting off the sprinklers and bringing the WFD to the dorm. A bit hung over, with no sleep, and having to listen to Mabel Lang diminished just a bit the joy of the day.
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Post by hceconhist on May 23, 2021 13:32:02 GMT -5
I graduated 46 years ago today-May 23, 1975 was a Friday with Memorial Day on the 25th And it was a brutally hot day - with a no name speaker - people in the stands were dropping like flies. An absolutely depressing speech too.
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Post by sader1970 on May 23, 2021 14:02:23 GMT -5
You should have come as a guest from high school or 8th grade or whatever grade you were for the 1970 commencement speech by outgoing president, Raymond Swords, S.J. Standing O by the Class of 1970 and many of the parents, family and friends in attendance. He presided over the most turbulent 10 years in Holy Cross history.
Fr. Brooks gets his deserved kudos for his 25 years as president far eclipsing the previous record of 10 years by Fr. Swords and his panning for the non-Big East and yanking athletic schollies but when there was the Kent State shootings, the assassinations, "Fraternity," the Black Student walkout, Fr. Brooks gets a lot of the credit but the guy who had to make the tough decisions was the guy at the top, Fr. Swords. When he finally retired as president, the dictionary should have had his picture under the definition of "burnout." He gave his all to Holy Cross and my Class recognized that and appreciated he left the hill the same time we did.
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Post by sader1970 on May 23, 2021 16:13:20 GMT -5
One last comment on Fr. Swords: in Campion (think that was the name of the old wooden building with Notis Pizza - “you’ll Notis the difference.”) in the basement was the campus laundromat. There were wooden bathroom stalls looking like they dated back to the Colonial era and one wag scratched into the wood “Some day I’ll own this place - Ray Swords ‘38.”
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