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Oglethorpe’s commencement

I’m always sad on these occasions, for reasons John Seery describes so eloquently in his book. One of my favorite of this year’s seniors is Catherine "Cat" Lawler, only daughter of Peter and Rita Lawler. Cat won (and deserved to win) the James Edward Oglethorpe Cup as the female graduate who best exemplified the ideals of Oglethorpe University. Demonstrating the old adage that the acorn doesn’t fall far from the oak, as President of the Senior Class, Cat gave one of the best speeches ever given from the podium in our quad. Is anyone surprised that the central figure in her speech was Alexis de Tocqueville? Great job, Cat! And thanks, Peter and Rita, for sharing your daughter with us for four years.

Among the other graduating seniors I’ll miss are Ashish Bohringer, a Jesuit-educated Indian who’s off to law school; Carlissa Carson, who will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant after she completes law school; Lisa Pettee, who I’m sure will be reading Plato to the baby she delivers later this summer; Philip Jones, who will take his upper Midwestern political street smarts into a public policy program somewhere; Linda Dreilinger, the most deserving Jack Kent Cooke nominee I’ve assisted; and Amy Lester, known to my son and many of her friends as "Snake," who wants to be a filmmaker or screenwriter.

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Dear Joe, Thanks for the report. Wish I could have been there. Let’s see if we can get Cat to release the text - and you can post it. I think I’ll give the proud dad and mom a call and let them crow a bit.

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