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Post by newfieguy74 on May 23, 2021 16:20:07 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. I graduated 47 years ago (I can't recall the date). The speaker was Art Buchwald; he was very funny.
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Post by rgs318 on May 23, 2021 18:04:08 GMT -5
Did HC have a spell of global disinterest by speakers...or was this the result of a bet someone lost? Did the governor have a relative at HC for those four years? Commencement speakers: 1965 – Governor John A. Volpe 1966 – Governor John A. Volpe 1967 – Governor John A. Volpe 1968 – Governor John A. Volpe Is that correct (on the HC site)? Could we really not do any better than that???
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Post by efg72 on May 23, 2021 19:48:06 GMT -5
We got stuck with Bill Moyers who gave it a shot but at best was bad
Not a fan of graduation speakers as their agenda is rarely anything I find meaningful to life or to which I can relate
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Post by rgs318 on May 23, 2021 20:10:59 GMT -5
Art Buchwald was outstanding. I haver heard that Dave Barry was also a great commencement speaker. It tends to work better when the speaker is someone who can actually speak and is more than just a name or credential.
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Post by timholycross on May 23, 2021 21:26:20 GMT -5
1973- we had one of the Berrigan brothers. He sucked, and it wasn't because I didn't agree at the time with what he believed.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 23, 2021 23:37:14 GMT -5
Buchwald was my brother's year and he was a very entertaining speaker. I remember one clever riff that went something like "People say I'm too tough on Richard Nixon, that I hate him. That's simply not true: I worship the very quicksand he walks on."
Mabel Lang in 1975 was a joke.
Teddy Kennedy was 1976
Sen Bob Casey spoke at my daughter's graduation in 2009 and he was excellent --certainly helped that he was an alum and the son of one--it was not just a canned generic speech.
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Post by Non Alum Dave on May 24, 2021 3:51:19 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".
Congrats to Kyle; wish him good luck with the new venture.
Find it just a tad ironic that the only non HC kid from the group is a student from the University of Illinois....
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 24, 2021 10:29:12 GMT -5
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".
Congrats to Kyle; wish him good luck with the new venture.
Find it just a tad ironic that the only non HC kid from the group is a student from the University of Illinois....
Well, when you make a trade you sometimes have to settle for your second or third choice,
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Post by longsuffering on May 24, 2021 20:33:18 GMT -5
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".
Congrats to Kyle; wish him good luck with the new venture.
Find it just a tad ironic that the only non HC kid from the group is a student from the University of Illinois....
That kid is the student to be named later in the Grandy trade.
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