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Commencement speaker surprises UMass Boston graduates with $1,000 at graduation ceremony
Graduates from the University of Massachusetts Boston left their graduation ceremony with more than just diplomas thanks to a generous billionaire. Before walking the stage Thursday, 2,000 undergraduate students learned they’d be receiving two envelopes containing a total of $1,000, according to the university. Commencement speaker Robert Hale, a billionaire CEO of a Massachusetts-based communications company, interrupted chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco as he began announcing the distribution of diplomas, the ceremony’s livestream shows. “You guys have survived, you’ve prospered, you are to be ... (full story)