Today, the Class of 2018 graduated from Boston College. Degrees were presented to 4,287 undergraduates and graduate students.
Academic calendars being quite different in our day, along with most other things, commencement for us was just short of two weeks after May 21. “Senior Week” festivities didn’t even start until May 30. We’ll have much more detail on our Senior Week next week, but suffice it to say our commencement was significantly smaller in scale and it was not streamed live as today’s was.
Thirty members of our class, as Golden Eagles, formed the majority of alumni in the “honor guard” that accompanied this year’s graduates. Tom O’Neill served as the “Jubilarian” for the ceremonies. Below is a gallery of images from this morning. We’ll update with identifications as soon as possible.
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- Among the Honor Guard, l-r: Anne Wilayto Bishop, Jim Galiano, Sharon Silva Bartley, Dick Kearney, Mary McNulty Niles, Tom O’Neill, Dave Griffith, Lawrene Cormier Rafferty, (name to come), Doug Hajjar, Bob Brennan, Sheila Degnan Burke.
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- Among the Honor guard, l-r: (name to come), (name to come), Geraldine Driscoll Cameron, Jim Galiano, Maureen Kelley Janik, Peter Cooper, Steve Curran.
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- Awaiting the honorary degree candidates and official party
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- L-R: Sharon Silva Bartley, Anne Wilayto Bishop, Lawrene Cormier Rafferty
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- Larry Kenah (l) and Steve Curran
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- L-R: Sheila Degnan Burke, Leo Burke, Diane Corley Menzies.
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- Tom O’Neill (l) and Dave Griffith
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- Tom O’Neill, as Commencement Jubilarian, signs “the book.”
Classmates serving on the honor guard were: William Barrett, Education; Sharon Silva Bartley, Nursing; Barbara Beckerlegge, Evening; Anne Wilayto Bishop, Nursing; Bob Brennan, Education; Leo Burke, A&S; Sheila Degnan Burke, Education; Richard Burns, CBA; Geraldine Driscoll Cameron, Education; Peter Cooper, A&S; Steve Curran, A&S; Jim Galiano, Education; Alyce Boissonneau Galiano, Education; Gene Greene, CBA; David Griffith, CBA; Doug Hajjar, CBA; Maureen Kelley Janik, Education; Richard Kearney, A&S; Robert Kelley, CBA; Paul Kelsch, A&S; Larry Kenah, A&S; Mike Mastronardi, A&S; Diane Corley Menzies, Education; Richard Murray, CBA; Mary McNulty Niles, Education; Tom O’Neill, Education; Harry Petrucci, A&S; Lawrene Cormier Rafferty, Nursing; Kathleen Swerczek, Education; and, Peter Waystack, CBA.
Thanks to Tricia Woodward, BC director of alumni engagement, for most of the photos above.
Tom O’Neill is signing “the book” while holding “the mace”. Shortly after I got there, I remember when several folks walked into the room carrying a wooden case about three feet long. This is “the mace”. I did not realize until afterwards that connection to Tom.