Graduation!

It’s mid-May and the April showers, true to the old saying, have brought May flowers.  And like lilacs, daisies, and daffodils that blossom throughout the county, so too are many of Westchester’s college seniors as they start their journey into adulthood (or, more likely, graduate school).  If you want to help send off some of the county’s best and brightest, or if you’re just interested in checking out some pretty cool commencement speeches, here’s the skinny on graduation celebrations around the area:

 

The College of Westchester

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Speaker: Harry Phillips III

Date: May 10th

 

The College of New Rochelle

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Speaker: Brother Rick Curry, founder and artistic director of the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped

Date: Thursday, May 24th 

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Location: Radio City Music Hall

Phone Number: (914) 654-5364

 

Concordia College

Speaker: Tommy John, former Major League Baseball pitcher

Date: Saturday, May 12th

 

Fordham University

Speaker: Willy Randolph, Manager of the New York Mets

Date: Saturday, May 19th

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Location: O’Keefe Commons at Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus

Phone Number: (718) 817-1000

 

Hudson Valley Community College

Speaker: Roberto M. Chiusano, former executive vice president and special assistant to the chief executive officer of the aviation and aeronautics company Rockwell Collins

Date: Saturday, May 19th

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Location: Inside the college’s McDonough Sports Complex

Phone Number: (518) 629-HVCC

 

Iona College

Speaker: Bernie Williams, former outfielder for the New York Yankees

Date: Sunday, May 20th

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Location: The Theatre at Madison Square Garden

Phone Number: (914) 633-2005

 

Manhattan College

Speaker: Jan Crawford Greenburg, legal correspondent for ABC News

Date: Sunday, May 20th

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Location: Inside the school’s Draddy Gymnasium

Phone Number: (718) 862-7232

 

Manhattanville College

Speaker: Ted Turner

Date: May 12th

 

Marist College

Speaker: Kevin Klose

Date: Saturday, May 19th

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Location: On the campus green

Phone Number: (845) 575-3250

 

Mercy College

Speaker: Francis Townsend, assistant to the President for Homeland Security and counter terrorism

Date: Wednesday, May 30th

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Location: The Westchester County Center

Phone Number: 1-800-MERCY-NY

 

Monroe College

Speaker: New York State Assemblyman Ruben Diaz Jr.

Date: Friday, June 8th

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Location: The Westchester County Center

Phone Number: 1-800-55-MONROE

 

New York Medical College

Speaker: Jo Ivey Boufford, President of the New York Academy of Medicine

Date: Thursday, May 24th

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Location: Carnegie Hall

Phone Number: (914) 594-4000

 

Pace University at Westchester

Speaker: Deirdre Imus, wife of Don Imus

Date: Monday, May 21st

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Location:  The Ann and Alfred Goldstein Health, Fitness, and Recreation Center on the Pleasantville campus

Phone Number: (914) 773-3111

 

Purchase College

Speaker: Joyce Randolph

Date: Friday, May 18th

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Location: On campus on the West Lawn by the Performing Arts Center

Phone Number: (914) 251-6030

 

Sarah Lawrence College

Speaker: Alice M. Greenwald, director of the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum

Date: Friday, May 18th

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Location: On the campus’s south lawn

Phone Number: (914) 337-0700

 

Westchester Community College

Speaker: Joyce Randolph

Date: Thursday, May 17th

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Location: On the Westchester Community College Student Center Lawn.  In the event of Rain Westchester County Center at

Phone Number: (914) 606-6600

 

Vassar College

Speaker: Terry Gross, host of NPR’s weekday magazine program Fresh Air

Date: Sunday, May 27th

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Location: On campus in the outdoor atrium

Phone Number: (845) 437-5370

Our CEOs & Business Leaders Golf Outing is August 5!

Our Best of Westchester Party is July 24!

Our Westchester Home Design Awards event is June 26!

Our Wine & Food Festival returns June 4-9!

Our Wunderkinds event takes place on May 23!

Our Best of Business Ballot is open through May 15!

Our Healthcare Heroes Awards event takes place on May 9!

Our Westchester Home Builders Awards take place on April 4!

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