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Candid Commencement Address For Beloved Class of 2023

It’s a Sunday morning in May 2023 and I’m thinking about all the young adults graduating from college around this time. I graduated from college 38 years ago. Thinking about that day and this one right now, I would like to summon a few ideas I wish someone had told me then that would have […]

By Sammy Sportface

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

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At Long-Awaited Graduation, Middlebury Class of 2020 Says Hello and Goodbye

In March 2020, which in a time-warped way feels like 20 years ago, the senior class of Middlebury College received the shocking news. They would all have to leave the campus and head home within a couple of days. The awful Covid-19 pandemic had reached a point where university leaders could no longer feel the […]

By Sammy Sportface

June 2, 2022June 2, 2022

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Two Years Later, Class of 2020 Graduates on Campus

Two years ago I sat watching TV when my son walked downstairs. He had just finished his four years of college and his diploma arrived. “I’m not sure what this means,” he said. He wasn’t going to wear a cap and gown and be on his beautiful college campus doing the usual graduation ritual. He […]

By Sammy Sportface

May 12, 2022May 14, 2022