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Law School Commencement
Victoria Reggie Kennedy, co-founder and president of the board of trustees of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, addressed the graduating class at the 2012 Boston College Law School Commencement on May 25.
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Commencement 2012
Award-winning network journalist Bob Woodruff, who recovered from near-fatal injuries sustained while reporting on American forces in Iraq, told members of the Class of 2012 to let passion, faith, service and love guide their lives as he delivered the main address at BC's 136th Commencement Exercises. BC News | Commencement Video | Boston Globe, Globe Photos | Boston Herald Photos, Herald Video
In Memoriam: Thomas H. O'Connor 1922 - 2012
University Historian and long-popular History Professor Emeritus Thomas O'Connor—widely considered 'the dean of Boston's historians' for his authorship of such critically acclaimed books as Boston Catholics, Civil War Boston and The Boston Irish—has died at age 89. BC News obituary | Boston Globe editorial | WBUR-FM: O'Connor's Legacy | Boston Globe, AP, Boston Herald, Patriot Ledger
Award winner, future Jesuit
The devotion of Daniel J. Kennedy '12 to faith as a vehicle for service to others, combined with his strong academic record, has earned him the Edward H. Finnegan, S.J., Award — the University’s most prestigious graduation honor, given to the student who best exemplifies the spirit of BC’s motto, 'Ever to Excel.' He will enter the Jesuit novitiate this summer. Boston Globe | America Magazine | BC Chronicle
Seniors to remember
Academic excellence, dedication to service, involvement in campus life—characteristics that abound in the five members of the Class of 2012 profiled in the annual 'Seniors to Remember' series in the Boston College Chronicle
Critical Language Scholars
Rising junior Brooke Loughrin and graduate students Bennett Comerford and Gary Winslett have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships for intensive foreign language study abroad, part of a U.S. government effort to dramatically increase the number of Americans mastering critical foreign languages. BC News
'Prepped for the big league'
Public schools can prepare students for the rigors of an elite university, writes Graciela Esquivel upon completion of her first year in the College of Arts and Sciences, in an op-ed for her hometown paper, the Albuquerque Journal
Strike out ALS
Eagles Director of Baseball Operations and former team captain Pete Frates '07, who drew a record 2,200-plus fans to BC's recent ALS Awareness game in his honor, is facing the disease with the same positive energy that made him a leader on the field. Salem News
New head for Lynch Academy
Thaly Germain, a former school principal who has been developing school leaders with the national non-profit New Leaders, has been named the director of the Lynch Leadership Academy. BC Chronicle | Read a Q&A with her in Education Week