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-14 posts tagged "2015 Commencement"
Stephanie Snyder and Nicole Caratas | Friday, May 15, 2015
Four Saint Mary’s graduates from the class of 2015 were honored with unique C.S.C.awards for service in a variety of disciplines. The C.S.C. awards are given by the Office of Civic and Social Engagement (OCSE) to students who are devoted to community-based learning and volunteering. The mission of the College is to discern needs and
Kayla Mullen | Friday, May 15, 2015
After an Aug. 28 email announced Commencement would be held in the Purcell Pavilion of the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center (JACC) due to Campus Crossroads construction, students were dismayed to learn each graduate would be limited to three tickets each. However, University President Fr. Jenkins announced in a town hall meeting Feb. 17 that
Margaret Hynds | Friday, May 15, 2015
Senior Anna Kottkamp — the class of 2015 valedictorian — learned early on in her college career that success would require a careful balancing act. A member of the Glynn Family Honors Program hailing from Wenatchee, Washington, Kottkamp has immersed herself in a wide array of extracurricular activities ranging from varsity rowing to the Voices
Kelly Konya | Friday, May 15, 2015
I’ll admit, it took me a while to appreciate the “all-women’s school” eccentricities, which first appeared to me mostly as foibles. Everyone always talked about the “sisterhood” and the value of being a “Belle,” though I saw these things as abstractions for much of my first two years as an undergraduate. But sometime in the
Keri O'Mara | Friday, May 15, 2015
While studying in Dublin during the fall of junior year, I received an e-mail from the Graphics Editor at The Observer, expressing her interest in my joining the graphics team for the paper. I knew people that had worked at the paper, in that mysterious room in the underbelly of South Dining Hall, but still
Ann Marie Jakubowski | Friday, May 15, 2015
Which is a better indicator of how much you love someone: tears and the ache of absence when you leave them, or the ability to pack up and leave joyfully knowing that a perfectly happy and all-around satisfactory reunion will come eventually? That question has popped up several times during my years at Notre Dame
Allie Tollaksen | Friday, May 15, 2015
When I started at Notre Dame, I was convinced I was going to be a doctor. If not a doctor, I told myself, then a public health specialist. If not a public health specialist, I insisted, I’d be a success story in some other noble health-related profession. This was how I got through two years
Brian Hartnett | Friday, May 15, 2015
What is it about Notre Dame that makes this place so special and so beloved? This is a question I have grappled with for years. It started when I was applying to colleges, and deep down, I knew Notre Dame was the place I wanted to go, even though I hardly mentioned it to others,
Samantha Zuba | Friday, May 15, 2015
I like to distance myself from the high school version of me. She knew a lot less, balanced her life a lot less, was a lot less confident. And I don’t like that. My fiancé wrote a column the other day though, “Four years and one lifetime ago” (April 22), that got me thinking maybe
Isaac Lorton | Friday, May 15, 2015
I didn’t want to write this column. It felt too much like I was writing an obituary of my time here at Notre Dame. How do I want to be remembered? Isaac Lorton was a 22-year-old man (child), from Prescott Valley, Arizona, who attended the University of Notre Dame. He majored in the Program of