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Holy
Cross graduated 664 men and women during
the College’s 156th Commencement on May 24.
Billy Collins, the United States Poet Laureate, delivered
the principal address and received an honorary degree at
the exercises. Honorary degrees were also given to: Dennis
L. Budd, retired chief of the Worcester (Mass.) Fire Department,
and Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a clinical psychologist
and former member of the Human Rights Violations Committee
of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
The valedictory address was delivered by Marianne S. Bellino ’02,
of Washington, D.C., a visual arts history/architectural
studies double major and a member of the College Honors Program.
Holy Cross Magazine will carry full coverage of Commencement
in its summer issue.
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