Yesterday
New England School of Law
Citi Performing Arts Center, Boston
Speaker: Larry Lucchino, CEO of the Boston Red Sox
Honorary degrees: Lucchino; Stacey Lucchino, board of directors chairwoman for the YMCA of Greater Boston; Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, pediatrician for South End Community Health Center and antislavery activist
College of the Holy Cross
Fitton Field, Worcester
Degrees: bachelor of arts
Speaker: Dr. Kevin M. Cahill, a leading advocate for humanitarian assistance
Honorary degrees:Cahill; Rev. Robert Athickal, founder of Tarumitra (Hindi for "friends of the trees"); Donald P. Moriarty, former member of the Holy Cross board of trustees and longtime head of its investment committee; James A. Welu, scholar of 17th-century Dutch art
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
On campus
Graduates: 360 undergraduate and graduate students
Degrees: bachelor's and master's
Speakers: Artists Jun Kaneko and Edgar Heap of Birds, a multidisciplinary artists' group
Honorary degrees: Kaneko and Heap
