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Some 3,000 alumni, guests and family members came to Mount
St. James for the College's annual reunion weekend June 5-7.
Events included class dinners, a picnic, and the General
Alumni Association
banquet on Saturday evening.
The festivities began on Thursday
evening with the Purple Knights' dinner and the induction
of the newest Knights, the alumni of the class of 1948. Other
reunion classes held their individual dinners on Friday evening.
Also on Friday evening, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle
spoke to the Purple Knights and the class of '48.
The GAA board of directors met
on Saturday morning, while returning alums held class meetings
and Masses, went on campus tours and competed in the annual
Andy Kelly Memorial Road Race.
The annual picnic began at noon and a General Alumni Mass
was held at 4 p.m. in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel followed
at 5 p.m. by cocktails under tents on
Fenwick lawn.
At Saturday night's GAA banquet,
Fr. Reedy presented the In Hoc Signo award to John F. Becker '48,
William B. McManus '58, and George J. White '39.
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