5月21日, 2024 — Marist’s riverfront campus buzzed with energy this weekend as the 78th 毕业典礼 ceremonies celebrated 1,600名2024届毕业生. 在周六, traditional undergraduates received their Bachelor’s degrees, 而周五晚上 adult undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students.
This year’s graduates entered Marist under circumstances like no other class before them, as the global pandemic of 2020 marked the beginning of their academic experience. 然而,, 面对这个挑战, optimism prevailed as students persevered, making their mark on the Marist community and the wider world around them.
向毕业生致辞, President Kevin Weinman said: “You’ve shown you can be engaged with the world around you while still showing care and concern for each other and for the Marist community as a whole.
“为 all you’ve been through, I say ‘live it up’ today! You, more than anyone, have earned it.”
President Weinman addresses graduates at the 78th 毕业典礼 ceremonies. Photo by Nelson Echeverria/bet亚洲365欢迎投注.
Award-winning sports columnist and author Christine Brennan addressed the graduating class and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. She passed along life lessons she received from her parents to the graduating class.
“Working harder than the person next to you will never go out of style,布伦南说. 努力工作, 对任务的奉献, 合作, 善良, and respect for others—what worked in 1964 worked in 1994 works in 2024 and will work in 2054.”
Brennan’s trailblazing career has spanned over four decades and included authorship of seven books, 包括全国畅销书 Inside Edge: A Revealing Journey into the Secret World of Figure Skating，由 《bet亚洲365欢迎投注》 as one of the 100 best sports books of all time.
Sports writer Christine Brennan addresses graduates at 78th 毕业典礼 ceremonies. Photo by Nelson Echeverria/bet亚洲365欢迎投注.
Brennan began her career as the first woman sportswriter for the 迈阿密先驱报，不久就加入了 华盛顿邮报》, where she covered the National Football League, again the first woman to hold that position. 的 美联社 has named her one of the nation’s top 10 sports columnists three times.
“的re will always be naysayers out there, always someone telling you that someone who looks like you can’t do this, someone from your hometown or your native country can’t do that,布伦南说. “忽略、阻止、静音. Don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t do. You’re in control of your wonderful life, not them.”
毕业生代表艾玛·斯皮罗, who earned her degree in psychology with a minor in social work, delivered an inspiring speech highlighting the unique nature of the journey she and her classmates went through over the last four years.
“这太酷了, 虽然, that we were able to adjust our lives in such dramatic ways—even as new pandemic-related restrictions were put in place,”她说。. “Our college story might have begun in an unconventional way but now that story is ours—only ours—and I think we turned out alright.”
Valedictorian Emma Spiro addresses graduates at the 78th 毕业典礼 ceremonies.
的 Academic Achievement Award Ceremony took place on Friday, honoring student recipients of Baccalaureate Awards and Honors Medals. Dr. 凯瑟琳·冈瑟·柯达, 教务长和院长, led the ceremony where students from each school as well as the Office for Academic Affairs, 学生事务, 及校友会, 是公认的.
教师 and staff were also awarded for excellence in research, 教育学, 学术浓缩, 和建议.
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每个学年的入住日, incoming first-year students take a class photo, showing their excitement about becoming the newest Red Foxes. 的 Class of 2024 was unable to have this moment in 2020 due to the pandemic. It’s rare for the entire class to be in one place, so we took advantage of the opportunity, taking a photo of the Class of 2024 from a drone above. 鲍比·奥利弗/bet亚洲365欢迎投注摄.
